Operator

Hello, and welcome to the Annual Shareholders Meeting of East West Bancorp. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. [Operator Instructions]

It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Doug Krause, Vice Chairman and Chief Corporate Officer of East West Bancorp. Mr. Krause, the floor is yours.

Douglas Krause
Vice Chairman & Chief Corporate Officer

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Annual Shareholders Meeting of East West Bancorp. I am Doug Krause, Vice Chairman and Chief Corporate Officer of East West Bancorp. And today, I am also the Inspector of Elections.

We will first conduct the formal agenda items for the annual meeting, which I anticipate will be brief. Following these items, Dominic Ng, Chairman and CEO of East West Bancorp will give a brief presentation on our company. We will then answer any questions from shareholders.

If any shareholders have questions of general interest relating to the business before this meeting, please submit them now via the virtual meeting website before voting begins so that they can be compiled and answered. I would like to thank you in advance for your attendance today. A quorum is present, so I will now officially call the meeting to order.

Let me start by introducing our directors who are in attendance at this virtual meeting. Manuel Alvarez, Peter Babej, Molly Campbell, Archana Deskus, Serge Dumont, Mark Hutchins, Paul Irving; Sabrina Kay, Jack Liu, Lester Sussman; and Dominic Ng, our Chairman. Members of East West's management team and representatives of KPMG, our independent auditors, are also in attendance.

First order of business is the