WILSHIRE BANCORP INC (Form: 10-Q, Received: 11/09/2007 15:08:41)

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

x Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2007.

o Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the transition period from to

Commission File Number 000-50923

WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

California	20-0711133
State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization	I.R.S. Employer Identification Number

3200 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, California	90010
Address of principal executive offices	Zip Code

(213) 387-3200
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Common Stock, no par value

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes x No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer o Accelerated filer x Non-accelerated filer o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o No x

The number of shares of Common Stock of the registrant outstanding as of October 31, 2007 was 29,332,071.

FORM 10-Q

INDEX

WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION		1

Item 1.	Financial Statements	1

Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	12

Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk	38

Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	40

Part II. OTHER INFORMATION		41

Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	41

Item 1A.	Risk Factors	41

Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds	41

Item 3.	Defaults Upon Senior Securities	41

Item 4.	Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders	41

Item 5.	Other Information	41

Item 6.	Exhibits	42

SIGNATURES		43

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1.

Financial Statements

WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION

(UNAUDITED)

	September 30, 2007			December 31, 2006

ASSETS
Cash and due from banks	$	83,417,954		$	75,243,346
Federal funds sold and other cash equivalents		20,003,546			130,003,268
Cash and cash equivalents		103,421,500			205,246,614

Securities available for sale, at fair value (amortized cost of $195,608,502 and $168,662,357 at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively)		195,332,732			167,837,734
Securities held to maturity, at amortized cost (fair value of $11,345,085 and $14,445,714 at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively)		11,390,115			14,620,870
Interest-only strips, at fair value (amortized cost of $549,267 and $1,008,064 at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively)		834,669			1,130,006
Loans held for sale—at the lower of cost or market		11,137,138			5,496,421
Loans receivable, net of allowance for loan losses of $20,902,052 and $18,654,082 at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively		1,692,586,055			1,536,388,815
Bank premises and equipment—net		10,541,834			10,464,600
Federal Home Loan Bank stock, at cost		8,582,100			7,541,700
Accrued interest receivable		10,393,880			10,049,265
Other real estate owned—net		611,800			138,000
Deferred income taxes—net		9,446,455			9,722,008
Servicing assets		5,060,048			5,080,466
Due from customers on acceptances		4,002,635			2,385,134
Cash surrender value of life insurance		16,079,335			15,635,773
Goodwill		6,674,772			6,674,772
Core deposit intangible		1,402,237			1,532,485
Favorable lease intangible		259,324			352,231
Other assets		13,050,239			8,186,927
TOTAL	$	2,100,806,868		$	2,008,483,821

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
LIABILITIES:
Deposits:
Noninterest bearing	$	308,446,209		$	319,310,552
Interest bearing:
Savings		30,647,089			29,019,943
Time deposits of $100,000 or more		755,159,319			812,105,950
Other time deposits		139,073,697			160,933,032
Money market accounts and other		514,831,293			430,603,175
Total deposits		1,748,157,607			1,751,972,652

Federal Home Loan Bank borrowings		70,000,000			20,000,000
Junior subordinated debentures		87,321,000			61,547,000
Accrued interest payable		11,534,538			12,006,124
Acceptances outstanding		4,002,635			2,385,134
Other liabilities		11,643,424			10,937,886
Total liabilities		1,932,659,204			1,858,848,796

COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Note 7)

SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY:
Preferred stock, no par value—authorized, 5,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding, none
Common stock, no par value—authorized, 80,000,000 shares; issued, 29,371,696 shares and 29,197,420 shares at September 30, 2007 and December 31,2006; and outstanding, 29,332,071 shares and 29,197,420 shares at at September 30, 2007and December 31, 2006, respectively (Note 3)	$	50,811,069		$	49,122,536
Accumulated other comprehensive income(loss), net of tax expense(benefit)		5,449			(407,612	)
Retained earnings		117,741,541			100,920,101
Less Treasury Stock, at Cost; 39,625 shares and 0 share at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively		(410,395	)		-
Total shareholders’ equity		168,147,664			149,635,025
TOTAL	$	2,100,806,868		$	2,008,483,821

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(UNAUDITED)

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2007		2006		2007		2006
INTEREST INCOME:
Interest and fees on loans	$	37,092,819	$	33,995,238	$	107,578,144	$	93,270,573
Interest on investment securities and deposits in other financial institutions		2,697,882		2,361,562		7,333,776		6,375,372
Interest on federal funds sold and other cash equivalents		678,546		1,107,452		2,765,812		3,496,369
Total interest income		40,469,247		37,464,252		117,677,732		103,142,314

INTEREST EXPENSE:
Deposits		17,763,505		15,845,581		52,368,924		41,743,221
Interest on other borrowings		1,767,922		1,515,500		4,426,953		4,579,447
Total interest expense		19,531,427		17,361,081		56,795,877		46,322,668

NET INTEREST INCOME BEFORE PROVISION FOR LOAN LOSSES AND LOAN COMMITMENTS		20,937,820		20,103,171		60,881,855		56,819,646

PROVISION FOR LOSSES ON LOANS AND LOAN COMMITMENTS		4,100,000		2,800,000		10,230,000		5,060,000

NET INTEREST INCOME AFTER PROVISION FOR LOAN LOSSES AND LOAN COMMITMENTS		16,837,820		17,303,171		50,651,855		51,759,646

NONINTEREST INCOME:
Service charges on deposit accounts		2,397,629		2,544,642		7,189,145		7,140,893
Gain on sale of loans		1,583,588		3,454,753		5,727,341		8,859,768
Loan-related servicing fees		478,294		538,349		1,169,251		1,431,185
Loan referral fees		-		22,470		-		70,117
Loan packaging fees		29,270		111,943		64,820		346,177
Income from other earning assets		293,355		267,946		845,613		764,583
Other income		445,550		367,639		1,697,629		1,039,471
Total noninterest income		5,227,686		7,307,742		16,693,799		19,652,194

NONINTEREST EXPENSES:
Salaries and employee benefits		5,827,429		6,326,931		17,227,765		17,547,717
Occupancy and equipment		1,316,950		1,257,473		3,886,947		3,225,312
Data processing		816,871		674,870		2,326,713		1,829,751
Loan referral fees		370,742		326,935		1,220,838		1,269,861
Outsourced service for customers		491,964		301,177		1,315,324		932,272
Advertising and promotional		255,157		400,972		652,933		958,830
Professional fees		390,997		343,328		969,822		835,481
Office supplies		150,183		171,440		470,392		482,129
Directors’ fees		146,000		147,900		419,550		394,368
Communications		119,318		107,002		353,725		339,754
Investor relations		55,050		60,011		239,105		170,454
Deposit insurance premiums		275,591		47,874		647,831		137,740
Amortization of core deposit intangible		43,416		43,416		130,248		64,159
Amortization of favorable lease intangible		31,309		31,309		92,907		45,943
Other operating		755,894		294,137		2,201,342		1,781,907
Total noninterest expenses		11,046,871		10,534,775		32,155,442		30,015,678

INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX PROVISION		11,018,635		14,076,138		35,190,212		41,396,162

INCOME TAX PROVISION		4,374,732		5,257,761		13,883,172		16,339,793

NET INCOME	$	6,643,903	$	8,818,377	$	21,307,040	$	25,056,369
EARNINGS PER SHARE:
Basic	$	0.23	$	0.30	$	0.73	$	0.87
Diluted	$	0.23	$	0.30	$	0.72	$	0.86

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(UNAUDITED)

	Common Stock								Accumulated
	Gross Shares								Other						Treasury		Total
	Issued and		Treasury		Shares				Comprehensive			Retained			Stock,		Shareholders’
	Outstanding		Shares		Outstanding		Amount		Income (Loss)			Earnings			at Cost		Equity

BALANCE—January 1, 2006		28,630,600				28,630,600	$	41,340,448	$	(1,026,202	)	$	72,789,622		$	-	$	113,103,868
Stock options exercised		207,340				207,340		359,832										359,832
Cash dividend declared													(4,351,309	)				(4,351,309	)
Stock compensation expense								345,424										345,424
Tax benefit from stock options exercised								899,249										899,249
Shares issued for acquisition of Liberty Bank of New York		328,110				328,110		5,936,593										5,936,593
Comprehensive income:
Net income													25,056,369					25,056,369
Other comprehensive income:
Change in unrealized gain on interest-only strips										70,762								70,762
Change in unrealized gain on securities available for sale										332,673								332,673
Comprehensive income																	$	25,459,804
BALANCE—September 30, 2006		29,166,050		-		29,166,050	$	48,881,546	$	(622,767	)	$	93,494,682		$	-	$	141,753,461

	Common Stock										Accumulated
	Gross Shares										Other						Treasury			Total
	Issued and		Treasury			Shares					Comprehensive			Retained			Stock,			Shareholders’
	Outstanding		Shares			Outstanding			Amount		Income (Loss)			Earnings			at Cost			Equity

BALANCE—January 1, 2007		29,197,420					29,197,420		$	49,122,536	$	(407,612	)	$	100,920,101		$	-		$	149,635,025
Stock options exercised		174,276					174,276			115,187											115,187
Cash dividend declared															(4,403,634	)					(4,403,634	)
Stock compensation expense										286,899											286,899
Tax benefit from stock options exercised										1,286,447											1,286,447
Stock repurchase				(39,625	)		(39,625	)										(410,395	)		(410,395	)
Cumulative impact of change in accounting for uncertainties in income taxes (FIN 48 - see Note 9)															(161,583	)					(161,583	)
Cumulative impact of chage in accounting for fair valuation method adoption (FAS 156 - see Note 9)															79,617						79,617
Comprehensive income:
Net income															21,307,040						21,307,040
Other comprehensive income:
Change in unrealized gain on interest-only strips												94,731									94,731
Change in unrealized gain on securities available for sale												318,330									318,330
Comprehensive income																				$	21,720,101
BALANCE—September 30, 2007		29,371,696		(39,625	)		29,332,071		$	50,811,069	$	5,449		$	117,741,541		$	(410,395	)	$	168,147,664

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2007		2006
DISCLOSURE OF RECLASSIFICATION AMOUNTS WITHIN ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME:
Net unrealized gains on securities available for sale arising during period	$	548,853	$	573,573
Less income tax expense		230,523		240,900
Net unrealized gains on securities available for sale	$	318,330	$	332,673

Net unrealized gains on interest-only strips arising during period	$	163,459	$	34,087
Less reclassification adjustment for impairment		-		(88,020	)
Less income tax expense		68,728		51,345
Net unrealized gains on interest-only strips	$	94,731	$	70,762

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(UNAUDITED)

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2007			2006
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income	$	21,307,040		$	25,056,369
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Accretion and amortization of investment securities		(114,469	)		(25,417	)
Depreciation of premises & equipment		1,204,514			964,901
Amortization of core deposit intangible		130,248			64,159
Amortization of favorable lease intangible		92,907			45,943
Provision for losses on loans and loan commitments		10,230,000			5,060,000
Deferred tax benefit provision		(23,699	)		(1,672,984	)
Loss on disposition of bank premises and equipment		9,268			9,766
Net gain on sale of loans		(5,727,341	)		(8,859,768	)
Origination of loans held for sale		(115,684,929	)		(135,128,236	)
Proceeds from sale of loans held for sale		115,171,162			161,111,088
Increase in servicing assets per fair valuation		(392,120	)		-
Recovery of valuation allowance of servicing asset		-			(172,462	)
Increase in servicing liability per fair valuation		59,217			-
Impairment on interest-only strips		-			88,020
Loss on sale of repossessed vehicles		32,463			-
Loss on sale of other real estate owned		(125,109	)		(9,326	)
Tax benefit from exercise of stock options		(1,286,447	)		(899,249	)
Stock-based compensation cost		286,899			345,424
Change in cash surrender value of life insurance		(443,562	)		(437,381	)
Servicing assets capitalized		(1,350,558	)		(1,835,065	)
Servicing assets amortization		1,900,476			1,453,338
Decrease in interest-only strips		458,794			274,192
Decrease in accrued interest receivable		(344,615	)		(2,820,784	)
Increase in other assets		(5,087,079	)		(827,177	)
Dividends of Federal Home Loan Bank stock		(308,100	)		(241,300	)
(Decrease) increase in accrued interest payable		(471,586	)		4,630,914
Increase (decrease) in other liabilities		532,750			(892,027	)
Net cash provided by operating activities		20,056,124			45,282,938

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Purchase of securities available for sale		(83,109,596	)		(48,934,543	)
Proceeds from principal repayment, matured or called securities held to maturity		3,230,701			2,236,771
Proceeds from matured securities available for sale		56,277,975			20,868,151
Net increase in loans receivable		(171,295,558	)		(249,571,090	)
Proceeds from sale of loans		5,384,851			10,490,470
Proceeds from sale of repossessed vehicles		89,631			-
Proceeds from sale of other real estate owned		871,282			108,145
Purchases of Bank premises and equipment		(1,317,764	)		(1,455,526	)
Proceeds from disposition of bank equipment		166,248			250
Purchase of Federal Home Loan Bank stock		(732,300	)		(1,015,300	)
Acquisition of Liberty Bank, net of cash and cash equivalents acquired		-			5,906,249
Net cash used in investing activities		(190,434,530	)		(261,366,423	)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

(continued)

WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(UNAUDITED)

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2007			2006
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from exercise of stock options	$	115,187		$	359,832
Payment of cash dividend		(4,396,902	)		(4,038,231	)
Increase (decrease) in Federal Home Loan Bank borrowings		50,000,000			(41,000,000	)
Proceeds from issuance of junior subordinated debentures		25,774,000			-
Purchase of treasury stock		(410,395	)		-
Tax benefit from exercise of stock options		1,286,447			899,249
Net increase in deposits		(3,815,045	)		201,489,295
Net cash provided by financing activities		68,553,292			157,710,145

NET DECREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS		(101,825,114	)		(58,373,340	)

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS—Beginning of period		205,246,614			194,208,056
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS—End of period	$	103,421,500		$	135,834,716

SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
Interest paid	$	57,267,463		$	43,635,781
Income taxes paid	$	14,509,837		$	17,202,211

SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE OF NONCASH OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Other assets transferred to Bank premises and equipment	$	139,500		$	-
Transfer of loans to other real estate owned	$	1,257,800		$	-

SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE OF NONCASH FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Cash dividend declared, but not paid	$	1,466,604		$	1,458,303

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

Note 1. Business of Wilshire Bancorp, Inc.

Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. (hereafter, the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) succeeded to the business and operations of Wilshire State Bank, a California state-chartered commercial bank (the “Bank”), upon consummation of the reorganization of the Bank into a holding company structure, effective as of August 25, 2004. The Bank was incorporated under the laws of the State of California on May 20, 1980 and commenced operations on December 30, 1980. The Company was incorporated in December 2003 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bank for the purpose of facilitating the issuance of trust preferred securities for the Bank and eventually serving as the holding company of the Bank. The Bank’s shareholders approved a reorganization into a holding company structure at a meeting held on August 25, 2004. As a result of the reorganization, shareholders of the Bank are now shareholders of the Company, and the Bank is a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.

Our corporate headquarters and primary banking facilities are located at 3200 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90010. In addition , we have 19 full-service Bank branch offices in Southern California, Texas, New York, and New Jersey. We also have 8 loan production offices utilized primarily for the origination of loans under our Small Business Administration (“SBA”) lending program in Georgia, Washington, Texas, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, New Jersey, and California.

Note 2. Basis of Presentation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and regulations for interim financial reporting and therefore do not necessarily include all information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). The information provided by these interim financial statements reflects all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of the Company’s consolidated statements of financial condition as of September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, the related statements of operations and shareholders’ equity for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, and the consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006. Such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature unless otherwise disclosed in the Form 10-Q. Operating results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of operating results for an entire fiscal year.

The unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006. The accounting policies used in the preparation of these interim financial statements were consistent with those used in the preparation of the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2006, unless otherwise noted.

Note 3. Shareholders’ Equity

Earnings per Share

Basic earnings per share (“EPS”) excludes dilution and is computed by dividing income available to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock or resulted in the issuance of common stock that would then share in the earnings of the entity.

The following table provides the basic and diluted EPS computations for the periods indicated below:

	Three months ended September 30,				Nine months ended September 30,
	2007		2006		2007		2006
Numerator:
Net income - numerator for basic earnings per share and diluted earnings per share-income available to common stockholders	$	6,643,903	$	8,818,377	$	21,307,040	$	25,056,369
Denominator:
Denominator for basic earnings per share: Weighted-average shares		29,350,499		29,137,027		29,355,694		28,922,416
Effect of dilutive securities:
Stock option dilution		104,271		321,565		114,023		351,045
Denominator for diluted earnings per share:
Adjusted weighted-average shares and assumed conversions		29,454,770		29,458,592		29,469,717		29,273,461
Basic earnings per share	$	0.23	$	0.30	$	0.73	$	0.87
Diluted earnings per share	$	0.23	$	0.30	$	0.72	$	0.86

Stock Repurchase Program

Stock Based Compensation

During 1997, the Bank established the 1997 stock option plan (“1997 Plan”) that provides for the issuance of options to purchase up to 6,499,800 shares of its authorized but unissued common stock to managerial employees and directors. In connection with the holding company reorganization, the options granted under the 1997 Plan are exercisable into shares of the Company’s common stock. Exercise prices may not be less than the fair market value at the date of grant. This 1997 Plan completed its ten-year term and expired in May 2007, with 542,116 previously granted options outstanding as of September 30, 2007. Options granted through 2005 under this stock option plan expire not more than 10 years after the date of grant, but options granted after 2005 expire not more than 5 years after the date of grant.

On January 1, 2006, the Company adopted the statement of financial accounting standards (“SFAS”) No. 123R, using the prospective method. The adoption of SFAS No. 123R resulted in incremental stock-based compensation expense of $78,000 and $195,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, the incremental stock-based compensation expense was $287,000 and $345,000, respectively, and accordingly decreased the periodic income before income taxes by the respective amounts and their effects on basic or diluted earnings per share was negligible. For the nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, cash provided by operating activities decreased by $1,286,000 and $900,000, respectively, and cash provided by financing activities increased by identical amounts related to excess tax benefits from stock-based payment arrangements.

The Company has issued stock options to employees under stock-based compensation plans. Stock options are issued at the current market price on the date of grant. The vesting period and contractual term are determined at the time of grant, but the contractual term may not exceed 10 years from the date of grant. The grant date fair value of each option award is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model that uses the assumptions noted below. The expected life (estimated period of time outstanding) of options was estimated using the simple method in accordance with SFAS No. 123R. The expected volatility was based on historical volatility for a period equal to the stock option’s expected life. The risk-free rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2007, there were no stock options granted, but 112,000 and 187,000 options were granted during the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2006. The weighted average fair value of options granted for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2006 was $5.36 and $5.26, respectively. The fair value of each option grant is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following assumptions:

	Three Months Ended					Nine Months Ended
	September 30,					September 30,
	2007		2006			2007		2006
Expected life ¹		-		3.5 years			-		3.5 years
Expected volatility ²		-		32.61	%		-		32.89	%
Expected dividend yield		-		1.04	%		-		1.06	%
Risk-free interest rate ³		-		4.70	%		-		4.70	%

A summary of activity for the Company’s stock options as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 is presented below:

	Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual term (in years)		Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding at January 1, 2007		737,892		$	9.48
Granted		-			-		[Do
Exercised		(174,276	)		0.66
Forfeited		(21,500	)		15.11
Outstanding at September 30, 2007		542,116			12.09		5.27	$	1,490,550
Options exercisable at September 30, 2007		367,976			9.64		5.33	$	1,490,550

The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding as of September 30, 2007:

	Options Outstanding						Options Exercisable
					Weighted
			Weighted		Average				Weighted
	Number of		Average		Remaining		Number of		Average
	Outstanding		Exercise		Contractual		Exercisable		Exercise
Range of Exercise Prices		Options		Price		Life		Options		Price
$1.00 to $1.99		40,000	$	1.39		3.22 years		40,000	$	1.39
$2.00 to $2.99		91,966		2.57		4.65 years		91,966		2.57
$3.00 to $4.99		52,000		4.53		5.84 years		52,000		4.53
$13.00 to $14.99		52,000		13.73		7.52 years		30,400		13.74
$15.00 to $16.99		123,250		15.21		7.46 years		80,210		15.22
$17.00 to $19.99		182,900		18.79		3.75 years		73,400		18.79
$1.00 to $19.99		542,116		12.09		5.27 years		367,976		9.64

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, information related to stock options is presented as follows:

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	September 30,				September 30,
	2007		2006		2007		2006

Total intrinsic value of options exercised	$	-	$	686,304	$	3,100,522	$	3,287,642
Total fair value of options vested		132,459		158,914		329,903		300,496
Weighted average fair value of options granted during the period		-		5.36		-		5.26

As of September 30, 2007, total unrecognized compensation cost related to stock options amounted to $312,000, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.33 years.

¹ The expected life (estimated period of time outstanding) of stock options granted was estimated using the historical exercise behavior of employees.

² The expected volatility was based on historical volatility for a period equal to the stock option’s expected life.

³ The risk-free rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant.

A summary of the status and changes of the Company’s nonvested shares related to the Company’s stock plans as of and during the nine months ended September 30, 2007 is presented below:

	Shares			Weighted Average Grant date Fair value
Nonvested at January 1, 2007		274,360		$	3.99
Granted		-			-
Vested		(85,020	)		3.88
Forfeited on unvested shares		(15,200	)		2.92
Nonvested at September 30, 2007		174,140		$	4.13

Note 4. Junior Subordinated Debentures; Trust Preferred Securities

In July 2007, the Company organized its wholly owned subsidiary, Wilshire Statutory Trust IV, which issued $25 million in trust preferred securities. The Company then purchased all of the common interest in the Wilshire Statutory Trust IV ($774,000) and issued the Junior Subordinated Debenture in the amount of $25.8 million to the Wilshire Statutory Trust IV with terms substantially similar to the trust preferred securities in exchange for the proceeds from the issuance of the Wilshire Statutory Trust IV’s trust preferred securities and common securities. The securities issued by Wilshire Statutory Trust IV will mature on July 10, 2037 and the rate of interest on these securities was 7.07% at September 30, 2007, which adjusts quarterly based on the three-month Libor plus 138 basis points. The interests on the securities are payable on a quarterly basis, and no scheduled payments of principal are due prior to maturity. The junior subordinated debentures issued qualify as Tier I capital for regulatory reporting purposes subject a certain limitation of Federal Reserve Board.

Note 5. Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

In July 2001, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued SFAS No. 141, Business Combinations , and SFAS No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. Under these standards, goodwill and other intangible assets deemed to have indefinite lives are no longer amortized but are subject to annual impairment tests. Other intangible assets will continue to be amortized over their useful lives.

Prior to our acquisition of Liberty Bank of New York in May 2006, the Company did not have any material intangible assets other than loan servicing rights. The loan servicing rights are subject to amortization and were $5,060,000 and $5,237,000 (net of $2,017,000 and $1,756,000 accumulated amortization, respectively) as of September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. Amortization expenses for servicing rights were $543,000 and $467,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively, and 1,900,000 and $1,453,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. In connection with the acquisition of Liberty Bank of New York, the Company recorded core deposit intangibles and favorable lease intangibles. As of September 30, 2007, those intangible assets were $1,402,000 and $259,000, respectively, net of $238,000 and $170,000 accumulated amortizations, respectively. Amortization expenses for those intangible assets were $75,000 and $75,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, and $223,000 and $110,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. We estimate the combined amortization expenses, excluding the effect of unexpected reversal of servicing rights, to be approximately $1.2 million annually for the next five fiscal years.

The acquisition also caused the Company to record goodwill valued at approximately $6.7 million, which is subject to annual impairment testing. The Company has selected December 31 as the annual testing date, and there was no indication of impairment as of September 30, 2007.

Note 6. Business Segment Information

The following disclosure about segments of the Company is made in accordance with the requirements of SFAS No. 131, Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information . The Company segregates its operations into three primary segments: banking operations, trade finance services (“TFS”) and Small Business Administration lending services. The Company determines the operating results of each segment based on an internal management system that allocates certain expenses to each segment.

Banking Operations - The Company provides lending products, including commercial, consumer and real estate loans to its customers.

Trade Finance Services - The trade finance department allows the Company’s import/export customers to handle their international transactions. Trade finance products include, among others, the issuance and collection of letters of credit, international collection, and import/export financing.

Small Business Administration Lending Services - The SBA department mainly provides customers with access to the U.S. SBA guaranteed lending program.

The following are the results of operations of the Company’s segments for the periods indicated below:

(Dollars in Thousands)	Three Months Ended September 30, 2007									Three Months Ended September 30, 2006
Business Segment	Banking Operations		TFS			SBA		Total		Banking Operations		TFS			SBA		Total
Net interest income	$	16,020	$	758		$	4,160	$	20,938	$	16,260	$	716		$	3,127	$	20,103
Less provision for loan losses		1,693		1,549			858		4,100		1,582		1,111			107		2,800
Other operating income		3,165		275			1,788		5,228		3,205		368			3,735		7,308
Net revenue		17,492		(516	)		5,090		22,066		17,883		(27	)		6,755		24,611
Other operating expenses		9,390		287			1,370		11,047		9,316		240			979		10,535
Income before taxes	$	8,102	$	(803	)	$	3,720	$	11,019	$	8,567	$	(267	)	$	5,776	$	14,076
Business segment assets	$	1,882,810	$	46,871		$	171,126	$	2,100,807	$	1,709,789	$	52,270		$	147,854	$	1,909,913

(Dollars in Thousands)	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2007									Nine Months Ended September 30, 2006
Business Segment	Banking Operations		TFS			SBA		Total		Banking Operations		TFS		SBA		Total
Net interest income	$	45,839	$	2,460		$	12,583	$	60,882	$	46,566	$	2,213	$	8,041	$	56,820
Less provision for loan losses		5,822		3,135			1,273		10,230		2,805		1,345		910		5,060
Other operating income		9,626		987			6,080		16,693		8,933		1,190		9,529		19,652
Net revenue		49,643		312			17,390		67,345		52,694		2,058		16,660		71,412
Other operating expenses		27,694		760			3,701		32,155		25,255		729		4,032		30,016
Income before taxes	$	21,949	$	(448	)	$	13,689	$	35,190	$	27,439	$	1,329	$	12,628	$	41,396
Business segment assets	$	1,882,810	$	46,871		$	171,126	$	2,100,807	$	1,709,789	$	52,270	$	147,854	$	1,909,913

Note 7. Commitments and Contingencies

We are a party to financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of our customers. These financial instruments include commitments to extend credit, standby letters of credit, and commercial letters of credit. These instruments involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit and interest rate risk in excess of the amount recognized in the consolidated statements of financial condition. Our exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance on commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit is represented by the contractual notional amount of those instruments. We use the same credit policies in making commitments and conditional obligations as we do for extending loan facilities to customers. We evaluate each customer’s creditworthiness on a case-by-case basis. The amount of collateral obtained, if deemed necessary upon extension of credit, is based on our credit evaluation of the counterparty. Collateral held varies but may include accounts receivable, inventory, property, plant, and equipment and income-producing properties. Commitments at September 30, 2007 are summarized as follows:

Commitments to extend credit	$	293,741,469
Standby letters of credit	$	9,547,452
Commercial letters of credit	$	12,990,462

As part of our asset and liability management strategy, we may engage in derivative financial instruments, such as interest rate swaps, with the overall goal of minimizing the impact of interest rate fluctuations on our net interest margin. Interest rate swaps involve the exchange of fixed-rate and variable-rate interest payment obligations without the exchange of the underlying notional amounts.

In the normal course of business, we are involved in various legal claims. We have reviewed all legal claims against us with counsel and have taken into consideration the views of such counsel as to the outcome of the claims. In our opinion, the final disposition of all such claims will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations.

Note 8. Acquisition of a Branch

In July 2007, the Bank acquired a branch of Royal Bank America (“Seller”) in Fort Lee, New Jersey in exchange for the Bank’s branch at Flushing, New York. In this transaction, the Bank purchased selected fixed assets and assumed selected liabilities, including a portion of Seller’s time deposits. As consideration, the Bank gave to the Seller the selected intangible and fixed assets, and selected liabilities, including a portion of time deposits, intangible liabilities, and lease obligation. The amounts involved in this transaction were insignificant except the time deposits exchanged both in the amount of approximately $6 million and the transaction were accounted for as an exchange of assets and liabilities.

Note 9. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In March 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 156, Accounting for Servicing of Financial Assets , which amends the guidance in SFAS No. 140. SFAS No. 156 requires that an entity separately recognize a servicing asset or a servicing liability when it undertakes an obligation to service a financial asset under a servicing contract in certain situations. Such servicing assets or servicing liabilities are required to be measured initially at fair value, if practicable. SFAS No. 156 also allows an entity to measure its servicing assets and servicing liabilities subsequently using either the amortization method, which existed under SFAS No. 140, or the fair value measurement method. SFAS No. 156 is effective for the Company in the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2007. On January 1, 2007, we adopted SFAS No. 156. Upon this adoption, the Company selected a fair value measurement method to subsequently measure its servicing assets and liabilities and recognized the net increase in their fair value of $80,000, net of tax effects, as an adjustment to the beginning balance of retained earnings.

In June 2006, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (“FIN 48”) which supplements SFAS No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes , by defining the confidence level that a tax position must meet in order to be recognized in the financial statements. The interpretation requires that the tax effects of a position be recognized only if it is “more-likely-than-not” to be sustained based solely on its technical merits as of the reporting date. The more-likely-than-not threshold represents a positive assertion by management that a company is entitled to the economic benefits of a tax position. If a tax position is not considered more-likely-than-not to be sustained based solely on its technical merits, no benefits of the position are to be recognized. Moreover, the more-likely-than-not threshold must continue to be met in each reporting period to support continued recognition of a benefit. At adoption, companies must adjust their financial statements to reflect only those tax positions that are more-likely-than-not to be sustained as of the adoption date. Any necessary adjustment would be recorded directly to retained earnings in the period of adoption and reported as a change in accounting principle. On January 1, 2007, we adopted FIN 48. Upon this adoption, the Company recognized an increase in the liability for unrecognized tax benefit of $162,000, which was accounted for as a decrease to the beginning balance of retained earnings.

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements , which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in accordance with GAAP, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. The Company will adopt SFAS No. 157 for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and interim periods with those fiscal years. The transition adjustment, measured as the difference between the carrying amounts and the fair values of those financial instruments at the date SFAS No. 157 is initially applied, should be recognized as a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings for the fiscal year in which this Statement is initially applied. We are in the process of evaluating the impact of this adoption on the consolidated financial statements.

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 158, Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans , which requires employers to fully recognize obligations associated with single-employer defined benefit pension, retiree healthcare and other postretirement plans in their financial statements. The provisions of SFAS No. 158 require employers to (a) recognize in their statement of financial position an asset for a plan's overfunded status or a liability for a plan’s underfunded status; (b) measure a plan’s assets and its obligations that determine its funded status as of the end of the employer's fiscal year (with limited exceptions); and (c) recognize changes in the funded status of a defined benefit postretirement plan in the year in which the changes occur. These changes will be reported in comprehensive income in the statement of changes in stockholders’ equity. Statement No. 158 applies to plan sponsors that are public and private companies and nongovernmental not-for-profit organizations. The requirement to recognize the funded status of a benefit plan and the disclosure requirements are effective as of the end of the fiscal year ending after December 15, 2006 for entities with publicly traded equity securities, and at the end of the fiscal year ending after June 15, 2007 for all other entities. The requirement to measure plan assets and benefit obligations as of the date of the employer's fiscal year-end statement of financial position is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2008. On January 1, 2007, we adopted SFAS No. 158. The adoption of SFAS 158 did not have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In September 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) No. 108, Quantifying Financial Misstatements , which expresses the Staff’s views regarding the process of quantifying financial statement misstatements. Registrants are required to quantify the impact of correcting all misstatements, including both the carryover and reversing effects of prior year misstatements, on the current year financial statements. The techniques most commonly used in practice to accumulate and quantify misstatements are generally referred to as the “rollover” (current year income statement perspective) and “iron curtain” (year-end balance perspective) approaches. The financial statements would require adjustment when either approach results in quantifying a misstatement that is material, after considering all relevant quantitative and qualitative factors. This guidance is effective for annual financial statements covering the first fiscal year ending after November 15, 2006. The adoption of SAB No. 108 did not have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements.

In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities , which permits all entities to choose to measure eligible items at fair value at specified election dates. A business entity shall report unrealized gains and losses on items for which the fair value option has been elected in earnings at each subsequent reporting date. This statement shall be effective as of the beginning of each reporting entity’s first fiscal year after November 15, 2007. We are in the process of evaluating the impact of this adoption on the consolidated financial statements.

Note 10. Reclassifications

A reclassification, related to tax benefit from exercise of stock options in the statement of cash flows, was made to the prior periods’ presentation to conform to the current year’s presentation.

Item 2.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

This discussion presents management’s analysis of our results of operations and financial condition as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively, and includes the statistical disclosures required by the Securities and Exchange Commission Guide 3 (“Statistical Disclosure by Bank Holding Companies”). The discussion should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and the notes related thereto which appear elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Statements contained in this report that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including our expectations, intentions, beliefs, or strategies regarding the future. Any statements in this document about expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance are not historical facts and are forward-looking statements. These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as “may,” “should,” “could,” “predict,” “potential,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “seek,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “projection,” and “outlook,” and similar expressions. Accordingly, these statements involve estimates, assumptions and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in them. Any forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the factors discussed throughout this document. All forward-looking statements concerning economic conditions, rates of growth, rates of income or values as may be included in this document are based on information available to us on the dates noted, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. It is important to note that our actual results may differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements due to fluctuations in interest rates, inflation, government regulations, economic conditions, customer disintermediation and competitive product and pricing pressures in the geographic and business areas in which we conduct operations, including our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other factors discussed under the section entitled “Risk Factors,” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, including the following:

If a significant number of clients fail to perform under their loans, our business, profitability, and financial condition would be adversely affected.

Our current level of interest rate spread may decline in the future.

The holders of recently issued debentures have rights that are senior to those of our shareholders.

Adverse changes in domestic or global economic conditions, especially in California, could have a material adverse effect on our business, growth, and profitability.

Maintaining or increasing our market share depends on market acceptance and regulatory approval of new products and services.

Significant reliance on loans secured by real estate may increase our vulnerability to downturns in the California real estate market and other variables impacting the value of real estate.

If we fail to retain our key employees, our growth and profitability could be adversely affected.

We may be unable to manage future growth.

Increases in our allowance for loan losses could materially adversely affect our earnings .

We could be liable for breaches of security in our online banking services. Fear of security breaches could limit the growth of our online services.

Our directors and executive officers beneficially own a significant portion of our outstanding common stock.

The market for our common stock is limited, and potentially subject to volatile changes in price.

Additional shares of our common stock issued in the future could have a dilutive effect.

Shares of our preferred stock issued in the future could have dilutive and other effects.

We face substantial competition in our primary market area.

The profitability of Wilshire Bancorp will be dependent on the profitability of the Bank.

Wilshire Bancorp relies heavily on the payment of dividends from the Bank.

Anti-takeover provisions of our charter documents may have the effect of delaying or preventing changes in control or management.

We are subject to significant government regulation and legislation that increase the cost of doing business and inhibits our ability to compete.

We could be negatively impacted by downturns in the South Korean economy.

These factors and the risk factors referred to in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by us, and you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made and we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement or statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict which will arise. In addition, we cannot assess the impact of each factor on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.

Selected Financial Data

The following table presents selected historical financial information (unaudited) as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006. In the opinion of our management, the information presented reflects all adjustments considered necessary for a fair presentation of the results of such periods. The operating results for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of our future operating results.

	Three months ended September 30,						Nine months ended September 30,
	(Dollars in thousands, except per share data)
	2007			2006			2007			2006
Net income	$	6,644		$	8,818		$	21,307		$	25,056
Net income per share, basic		0.23			0.30			0.73			0.87
Net income per share, diluted		0.23			0.30			0.72			0.86
Net interest income		20,938			20,103			60,882			56,820
Average balances:
Assets		2,075,790			1,893,185			2,021,416			1,790,659
Cash and cash equivalents		116,849			146,381			132,561			157,854
Investment debt securities		206,974			207,553			193,982			193,576
Net loans		1,667,899			1,460,959			1,613,867			1,369,249
Total deposits		1,772,434			1,633,097			1,742,712			1,530,630
Shareholders’ equity		167,015			138,454			161,367			128,346
Performance Ratios:
Annualized return on average assets		1.28	%		1.86	%		1.41	%		1.87	%
Annualized return on average equity		15.91	%		25.48	%		17.61	%		26.03	%
Net interest margin		4.35	%		4.59	%		4.32	%		4.57	%
Efficiency ratio ¹		42.22	%		38.43	%		41.45	%		39.25	%
Capital Ratios:
Tier 1 capital to adjusted total assets		10.41	%		9.59	%
Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets		12.18	%		11.60	%
Total capital to risk-weighted assets		15.06	%		13.66	%

Period-end balances as of:	September 30, 2007			December 31, 2006			September 30, 2006
Total assets	$	2,100,807		$	2,008,484		$	1,909,913
Investment securities		206,723			182,459			203,049
Total loans, net of unearned income		1,724,625			1,560,539			1,509,883
Total deposits		1,748,158			1,751,973			1,661,451
Junior subordinated debentures		87,321			61,547			61,547
FHLB borrowings		70,000			20,000			20,000
Shareholders’ equity		168,148			149,635			141,753
Asset Quality Ratios:
Net charge-off (recoveries) to average total loans for the quarter		0.14	%		0.06	%		0.05	%
Non-performing loans to total loans		0.48	%		0.44	%		0.47	%
Non-performing assets to total loans and other real estate owned		0.52	%		0.45	%		0.49	%
Allowance for loan losses to total loans		1.21	%		1.20	%		1.22	%
Allowance for loan losses to non-performing loans		251.48	%		272.38	%		259.50	%

Executive Overview

Introduction

Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. succeeded to the business and operations of Wilshire State Bank upon consummation of the reorganization of the Bank into a holding company structure, effective as of August 25, 2004. Prior to the completion of the reorganization, the Bank was subject to the information, reporting and proxy statement requirements of the Exchange Act pursuant to the regulations of its primary regulator, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC. Accordingly, the Bank filed annual and quarterly reports, proxy statements and other information with the FDIC. Pursuant to Rule 12g-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or Exchange Act, the Company has succeeded to the reporting obligations of the Bank and the reporting obligations of the Bank to the FDIC have terminated. Filings by the Company under the Exchange Act, like this Form 10-Q, are to be made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. Note that while we refer generally to the “Company” throughout this filing, all references to the Company prior to August 25, 2004, except where otherwise indicated, are to the Bank.

¹ Represents the ratio of non-interest expense to the sum of net interest income before provision for loan losses and non-interest income .

We operate community banks in the general commercial banking business, with our primary market encompassing the multi-ethnic population of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Our full-service offices are located primarily in areas where a majority of the businesses are owned by Korean-speaking immigrants, with many of the remaining businesses owned by Hispanic and other minority groups.

At September 30, 2007, we had approximately $2.10 billion in assets, $1.72 billion in total loans, and $1.75 billion in deposits.

We have also expanded and diversified our business with the focus on our commercial and consumer lending divisions. Over the past several years, our network of branches and loan production offices has been expanded geographically. We currently maintain 19 full-service branch banking offices in Southern California, Texas, New York, and New Jersey and 8 separate loan production offices in Seattle, Washington; Milpitas, California (the San Jose area); Annandale, Virginia; Las Vegas, Nevada; Aurora, Colorado (the Denver area); Atlanta, Georgia; Houston, Texas; and Fort Lee, New Jersey.

In December 2002, the Bank issued $10 million of its 2002 Junior Subordinated Debentures. Subsequently, the Company, as a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2003 and as a parent company of the Bank in 2005 and 2007, issued a total of $77,321,000 of Junior Subordinated Debentures in connection with $75,000,000 of trust preferred securities issued by statutory trusts wholly-owned by the Company. We believe that the supplemental capital raised in connection with the issuance of these debentures allowed us to achieve and maintain status as a well-capitalized institution and sustained our continued growth.

In July 2007, the Company implemented a stock repurchase program whereby the Company may repurchase up to an aggregate of $10 million worth of shares of its common stock from time to time until July 31, 2008. Thus far, 39,625 shares have been repurchased under this program amounting to $410,000. We believe this program represents an efficient way to manage capital as well as affirming our optimism for the long term value for shareholders.

We have experienced significant balance sheet growth in the past several years. In the fourth quarter of 2006, we implemented new strategy to focus on loan credit quality and to develop a stronger core-deposit foundation, which resulted in more moderate balance sheet growth during 2007. Our management believes that this strategy will continue to improve our cost of funds, decrease non-performing loans, and enhance shareholder value.

Third Quarter 2007 Key Performance Indicators

We believe the following were key indicators of our performance for operations during the third quarter of 2007:

With our continuing core-deposit campaign, time deposits declined by 3.6% year-to-year from the end of third quarter of 2006 through the end of third quarter of 2007 while non-time deposits grew 16.4% over the same period.

Under our new strategy of disciplined loan growth, our total loans grew in a more controlled way by 10.5% to $1.72 billion at the end of the third quarter of 2007, as compared with $1.56 billion at the end of 2006.

Although our cost of funds stabilized this quarter, our net interest margin decreased to 4.35% from 4.52% in the preceding quarter, mainly due to the absence of additional interest income we had in the preceding quarter by collecting interest on some loans previously placed on a non-accrual status.

Our non-performing assets, net of the portion guaranteed by the U.S. government, increased to $9.0 million at the end of the third quarter of 2007 from $8.5 million three months ago and is still higher than $7.1 million at the end of 2006. However, our credit quality continued to improve with $14.4 million in total delinquent loans, net of the portion guaranteed by the U.S. government, which represented 0.84% of total loans at the end of the third quarter of 2007 as compared with 2.1% at the end of 2006.

Total non-interest income decreased by 28.5% to $5.2 million in the third quarter of 2007, as compared with $7.3 million in the third quarter of 2006, mainly due to the reduction of gains on loan sales.

Although operating expenses were up slightly due to our New York/New Jersey expansion and the efficiency ratio was slightly up from 38.4% in the third quarter of 2006, our efficiency ratio was well managed at 42.2% in the third quarter of 2007, which is around our targeted range of 40.0%.

Primarily due to a substantial rise in our provision for loan losses caused by the increased loan charge-offs and the reduction of the gains on sales of SBA loans, our net income decreased to $6.6 million, or $0.23 per diluted common share, for the third quarter of 2007, from $8.8 million, or $0.30 per diluted common share, in the third quarter of 2006.

200 7 Outlook

As we look ahead to the remainder of 2007, the economies and real estate markets in our primary market areas will continue to be significant determinants of the quality of our assets in future periods and thus our results of operations, liquidity and financial condition. We continue to anticipate that the weakened national economy will remain throughout the next quarters, largely created by the housing market fallout and credit quality problems. Responding to this difficult environment, we have enhanced our loan underwriting standards to be more stringent and made it more difficult to allow exceptions from our loan policy. We expect loan quality to continually improve through the end of 2007, although loan growth will be moderate, having shifted our focus from growth to asset quality management.

Our focus on net interest margin management will continue. It is our expectation that the strategic change toward more moderate loan growth will make our funding needs subside and our reliance on high-cost deposits to decline. With the Federal Reserve Board’s rate cut of 0.5% in September of 2007, our margins may initially decrease in the fourth quarter of 2007 since our GAP model indicates that we are in a slightly asset-sensitive position for the first three-month timeframe where deposit costs reprice somewhat slower than our earning assets. However, the extent of margin compression, if any, seems negligible beyond the fourth quarter of 2007 as we are in a liability-sensitive position over a twelve-month timeframe. See “Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” below for further discussion. We also believe that our expansion into the East Coast market of the United States, together with our core deposit campaign that already brought some positive results in the first three quarters of 2007, will benefit our net interest margin going forward.

Notwithstanding the overall slower national economy, we believe that there will be continued growth in our primary market areas, which includes the Korean-American business sectors located in Southern California, Texas, and the greater New York metropolitan area, due mainly to the anticipated capital influx from the Republic of Korea. Therefore, we believe that we will continue to grow, but at a more controlled pace than we had experienced in the past few years.

We opened a new branch in July of 2007 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which will allow us to offer greater convenience to both new and existing customers in the East Coast market of the United States . We believe that this New Jersey branch, together with the existing New York branches, will be a critical part of our expansion strategy, especially in the East Coast market due to its high level of small business activity and diverse population. We plan to open a second branch early next year in Palisades Park, New Jersey, which is another key location to our geographic expansion in that area, and we will continue to pursue opportunities for growth through de novo branching and regional loan production offices.

In addition, we will continue to focus on streamlining our operations so that our expenses grow more slowly than the overall growth of our business. Unfortunately, the increase in our loan loss provision as well as the decrease in gain on sale of loans resulted in lower profit levels in the third quarter compared to our historically higher profit levels in the last few years, despite our overall improvements . Although our profit recovery has been delayed, we expect profit levels to improve to be back on track in the near future as our correction processes and our modified growth strategy both continue to materialize .

Critical Accounting Policies

The discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires management to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of our financial statements. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

Various elements of our accounting policies, by their nature, are inherently subject to estimation techniques, valuation assumptions and other subjective assessments. In particular, we have identified six accounting policies that, due to judgments, estimates and assumptions inherent in those policies are critical to an understanding of our consolidated financial statements. These policies relate to the classification and valuation of investment securities, the methodologies that determine our allowance for loan losses, the treatment of non-accrual loans, the valuation of properties acquired through foreclosure, the valuation of retained interests and servicing assets related to the sales of SBA loans, and the treatment and valuation of stock-based compensation. In each area, we have identified the variables most important in the estimation process. We have used the best information available to make the estimates necessary to value the related assets and liabilities. Actual performance that differs from our estimates and future changes in the key variables could change future valuation and impact net income.

Our significant accounting policies are described in greater detail in our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K in the “Critical Accounting Policies” section of “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Result of Operations” and in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements-“Significant Accounting Policies” which are essential to understanding Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition. There has been no material modification to these policies during the quarter ended September 30, 2007.

Results of Operations

Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin

Our primary source of revenue is net interest income, which is the difference between interest and fees derived from earning assets and interest paid on liabilities obtained to fund those assets. Our net interest income is affected by changes in the level and mix of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, referred to as volume changes. Our net interest income is also affected by changes in the yields earned on assets and rates paid on liabilities, referred to as rate changes. Interest rates charged on our loans are affected principally by the demand for such loans, the supply of money available for lending purposes and competitive factors. Those factors are, in turn, affected by general economic conditions and other factors beyond our control, such as federal economic policies, the general supply of money in the economy, legislative tax policies, governmental budgetary matters and the actions of the Federal Reserve Board.

Average interest-earning assets increased by 10.1% to $1.93 billion in the third quarter of 2007, as compared with $1.75 billion in the same quarter of 2006 and average net loans increased by 14.2% to $1.67 billion in the third quarter of 2007, as compared with $1.46 billion in the same quarter of 2006. Our average interest-bearing deposits also increased by 10.6% to $1.45 billion in the third quarter of 2007, as compared with $1.31 billion in the same quarter of 2006. Average other borrowings increased by 12.6% to $109.0 million in the third quarter of 2007 from $96.8 million in the prior year’s same quarter. (see “Financial Condition-Deposits and Other Sources of Funds” below).

The strong competition in our local market decreased our earning-asset yields and pushed up our cost of funds. The average yields on our interest-earning assets decreased to 8.40% for the third quarter of 2007 from 8.56% for the third quarter of the prior year and increased our cost of funds to 5.01% in the third quarter of 2007 from 4.94% for the prior year’s same quarter. Although interest income grew 8.0% to $40.5 million for the third quarter of 2007, as compared with $37.5 million for the prior year’s same period, it was outpaced by a 12.5% increase in interest expense. Interest expense increased to $19.5 million for the third quarter of 2007, as compared with $17.4 million for the prior year’s same period. Our net interest margin and spread decreased to 4.35% and 3.39%, respectively, in the third quarter of 2007, as compared with 4.59% and 3.62 %, respectively, for the prior year’s same quarter.

For the first nine months of 2007, average interest-earning assets and average net loans increased to $1.88 billion and $1.61 billion, respectively, as compared with $1.66 billion and $1.37 billion for the prior year’s same period. For the first nine months of 2007, average interest-bearing liabilities and the average interest-bearing deposit portfolio also increased to $1.52 billion and $1.43 billion, respectively, as compared with $1.33 billion and $1.22 billion for the prior year’s same period. The Federal Reserve Board’s rate increase in 2006 increased the average yields on interest-earning assets slightly to 8.36% for the first nine months of 2007 from 8.29% for the prior year’s same period. Such actions however increased our cost of funds to a greater extent to 4.99% for the first nine months of 2007 from 4.64% for the prior year’s same period. Our normal business growth resulted in an increase in net interest income by $4.1 million, or 7.2%, to $60.9 million in the first nine months of 2007 as compared with $56.8 million for the prior year’s same period. With the increase in the cost of funds greater than the increase of earning-asset yields over the above periods in comparison, our net interest margin and spread were under some pressure and decreased to 4.32% and 3.36%, respectively, in the first nine months of 2007, as compared with 4.57% and 3.65%, respectively, for the prior year’s same period.

In 2007, our continuing deposit campaign for transactional accounts brought some positive results and lowered the ratio of time deposits over total deposits to 51.2% at the end of the third quarter from 55.5% at the end of 2006. As a result, despite continuing stiff competition for deposits in our local market, we were able to stabilize our fund cost in 2007 which has risen each quarter of 2006. Management believes that our expansion into the East Coast market of the United States together with the Federal Reserve Board’s recent rate-cut will help improve our fund costs further and eventually our margins.

The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, our average balances of assets, liabilities and shareholders’ equity, in addition to the major components of net interest income and net interest margin (all yields were calculated without the consideration of tax effects, if any):

Distribution, Yield and Rate Analysis of Net Interest Income

	For the Quarter Ended September 30,
	2007							2006
	( Dollars in Thousands)
	Average Balance		Interest Income/ Expense		Annualized Average Rate/Yield			Average Balance		Interest Income/ Expense		Annualized Average Rate/Yield
Assets :
Interest-earning assets:
Net loans ¹	$	1,667,899	$	37,093		8.90	%	$	1,460,959	$	33,995		9.31	%
Securities of U.S. government agencies		181,787		2,353		5.18	%		184,688		2,086		4.52	%
Other investment securities		27,433		344		5.02	%		22,865		271		4.73	%
Overnight investments		49,601		679		5.47	%		81,626		1,107		5.43	%
Interest-earning deposits		-		-		-			500		5		4.29	%
Total interest-earning assets		1,926,720		40,469		8.40	%		1,750,638		37,464		8.56	%
Cash and due from banks		67,248							64,755
Other assets		81,822							77,792
Total assets	$	2,075,790						$	1,893,185
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity:
Interest-bearing liabilities:
Money market deposits	$	474,122	$	5,475		4.62	%	$	375,030	$	4,078		4.35	%
Super NOW deposits		22,317		70		1.26	%		20,550		65		1.26	%
Savings deposits		29,790		186		2.50	%		25,856		95		1.47	%
Time certificates of deposit in denominations of $100,000 or more		780,463		10,276		5.27	%		726,287		9,652		5.32	%
Other time deposits		142,877		1,756		4.92	%		162,464		1,955		4.81	%
Total interest-bearing deposits		1,449,569		17,763		4.90	%		1,310,187		15,845		4.84	%
Other borrowings		109,049		1,768		6.48	%		96,824		1,516		6.26	%
Total interest-bearing liabilities		1,558,618		19,531		5.01	%		1,407,011		17,361		4.94	%
Non-interest-bearing deposits		322,865							322,911
Total deposits and other borrowings		1,881,483				1,729,922
Other liabilities		27,292							24,809
Shareholders’ equity		167,015							138,454
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity	$	2,075,790						$	1,893,185
Net interest income			$	20,938						$	20,103
Net interest spread ²						3.39	%						3.62	%
Net interest margin ³						4.35	%						4.59	%

¹ Net loan fees have been included in the calculation of interest income. Loan fees were approximately $1,757,000 and $1,561,000 for the quarters ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively, and approximately $5,281,000 and $4,663,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. Net loans are net of the allowance for loan losses, deferred fees, unearned income and related direct costs, but include those loans placed on non-accrual status.

² Represents the average rate earned on interest-earning assets less the average rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities.

³ Represents net interest income as a percentage of average interest-earning assets.

Distribution, Yield and Rate Analysis of Net Interest Income

	For the Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2007							2006
	(Dollars in Thousands)
	Average Balance		Interest Income/ Expense		Annualized Average Rate/Yield			Average Balance		Interest Income/ Expense		Annualized Average Rate/Yield
Assets :
Interest-earning assets:
Net loans ¹	$	1,613,867	$	107,578		8.89	%	$	1,369,249	$	93,271		9.08	%
Securities of U.S. government agencies		168,580		6,320		5.00	%		173,633		5,653		4.34	%
Other investment securities		27,184		1,014		4.97	%		19,942		706		4.72	%
Overnight investments		68,190		2,766		5.41	%		95,250		3,496		4.89	%
Interest-earning deposits		-		-		-			500		16		4.25	%
Total interest-earning assets		1,877,821		117,678		8.36	%		1,658,574		103,142		8.29	%
Cash and due from banks		64,371							62,605
Other assets		79,224							69,480
Total assets	$	2,021,416						$	1,790,659
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity:
Interest-bearing liabilities:
Money market deposits	$	434,001	$	14,796		4.55	%		346,755		10,808		4.16	%
Super NOW deposits		21,803		195		1.19	%		21,235		188		1.18	%
Savings deposits		29,368		492		2.23	%		23,773		211		1.19	%
Time certificates of deposit in denominations of $100,000 or more		789,478		31,284		5.28	%		678,061		25,399		4.99	%
Other time deposits		151,310		5,602		4.94	%		153,336		5,137		4.47	%
Total interest-bearing deposits		1,425,960		52,369		4.90	%		1,223,160		41,743		4.55	%
Other borrowings		91,334		4,427		6.46	%		107,937		4,579		5.66	%
Total interest-bearing liabilities		1,517,294		56,796		4.99	%		1,331,097		46,322		4.64	%
Non-interest-bearing deposits		316,752							307,470
Total deposits and other borrowings		1,834,046							1,638,567
Other liabilities		26,003							23,746
Shareholders’ equity		161,367							128,346
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity	$	2,021,416						$	1,790,659
Net interest income			$	60,882						$	56,820
Net interest spread ²						3.36	%						3.65	%
Net interest margin ³						4.32	%						4.57	%

¹ Net loan fees have been included in the calculation of interest income. Loan fees were approximately $1,757,000 and $1,561,000 for the quarters ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively, and approximately $5,281,000 and $4,663,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. Net loans are net of the allowance for loan losses, deferred fees, unearned income, and related direct costs, but include those loans placed on non-accrual status.

² Represents the average rate earned on interest-earning assets less the average rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities.

³ Represents net interest income as a percentage of average interest-earning assets.

The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the dollar amount of changes in interest earned and paid for interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, respectively, and the amount of change attributable to changes in average daily balances (volume) or changes in average daily interest rates (rate). All yields were calculated without the consideration of tax effects, if any, and the variances attributable to both the volume and rate changes have been allocated to volume and rate changes in proportion to the relationship of the absolute dollar amount of the changes in each:

Rate/Volume Analysis of Net Interest Income

(Dollars in Thousands)

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2007 vs. 2006 Increase (Decrease) Due to Change In									Nine Months Ended September 30, 2007 vs. 2006 Increase (Decrease) Due to Change In
	Volume			Rate			Total			Volume			Rate			Total
Interest income:
Net loans ¹	$	4,653		$	(1,555	)	$	3,098		$	16,344		$	(2,037	)	$	14,307
Securities of U.S. government agencies		(33	)		300			267			(168	)		835			667
Other investment securities		56			17			73			268			40			308
Overnight Investments		(437	)		9			(428	)		(1,069	)		339			(730	)
Interest-earning deposits		(5	)		-			(5	)		(16	)		-			(16	)
Total interest income		4,234			(1,229	)		3,005			15,359			(823	)		14,536

Interest expense:
Money market deposits	$	1,131		$	266		$	1,397		$	2,905		$	1,083		$	3,988
Super NOW deposits		5			-			5			5			2			7
Savings deposits		16			75			91			59			222			281
Time certificates of deposit in d enominations of $100,000 or more		715			(91	)		624			4,352			1,533			5,885
Other time deposits		(240	)		41			(199	)		(69	)		534			465
Other borrowings		196			56			252			(756	)		604			(152	)
Total interest expense		1,823			347			2,170			6,496			3,978			10,474
Change in net interest income	$	2,411		$	(1,576	)	$	835		$	8,863		$	(4,801	)	$	4,062

P rovision for Loan Losses

Due to the credit risk inherent in our lending business, we set aside allowances through charges to earnings. Such charges are made not only for our outstanding loan portfolio, but also for off-balance sheet items, such as commitments to extend credits or letters of credit. The charges made for our outstanding loan portfolio were credited to allowance for loan losses, whereas charges for off-balance sheet items were credited to reserve for off-balance sheet items, which is presented as a component of other liabilities.

Prior to 2007, our stringent loan underwriting standard and proactive credit follow-up procedures had helped us to successfully curb an increase of the provision for loan losses despite our rapid loan growth. However, our clean-up process of the credit portfolio has increased loan charge-offs in 2007 and we increased and recorded a provision for loan losses of $4.1 million in the third quarter of 2007 as compared to a provision of $2.8 million for the prior year’s same quarter. The provision for loan losses in the first nine months of 2007 was $10.2 million, as compared to $5.1 million in the first nine months of 2006. See “Financial Condition - Allowance for Loan Losses” below for further discussion. Included in such provision was $220,000 and $35,000 provision to the reserve for off-balance-sheet items in the third quarter of 2007 and 2006, respectively, and $1,174,000 and $351,000 provision to the reserve for off-balance-sheet items for the first nine months of 2007 and 2006, respectively. The procedures for monitoring the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses, as well as detailed information concerning the allowance itself, are described in the section entitled “Allowance for Loan Losses” below.

Non-interest Income

Total non-interest income decreased by 28.5% to $5.2 million in the third quarter of 2007 as compared with $7.3 million for the prior year’s same quarter, due mainly to the decrease of gain on sale of loans. Non-interest income as a percentage of average assets also decreased to 0.25% for the third quarter of 2007 from 0.40% for the prior year’s same period. For the first nine months of 2007, total non-interest income decreased by 15.1% to $16.7 million as compared with $19.7 million in the same period of 2006, and such nine-month non-interest income of 2007 and 2006 represent 0.83% and 1.11% of average assets, respectively. We currently earn non-interest income from various sources, including an income stream provided by bank-owned life insurance (“BOLI”) in the form of an increase in cash surrender value.

The following table sets forth the various components of our non-interest income for the periods indicated:

Non-interest Income

(Dollars in thousands)

For Three Months Ended September 30,	2007					2006
	(Amount)		(%)			(Amount)		(%)
Service charges on deposit accounts	$	2,398		45.9	%	$	2,545		34.8	%
Gain on sale of loans		1,584		30.3	%		3,455		47.3	%
Loan-related servicing income		478		9.1	%		538		7.4	%
Loan referral fee income		-		0.0	%		22		0.3	%
SBA loan packaging fee		29		0.6	%		112		1.5	%
Income from other earning assets		293		5.6	%		268		3.7	%
Other income		446		8.5	%		368		5.0	%
Total	$	5,228		100.0	%	$	7,308		100.0	%
Average assets	$	2,075,790				$	1,893,185
Non-interest income as a % of average assets				0.25	%				0.39	%

For Nine Months Ended September 30,	2007					2006
	(Amount)		(%)			(Amount)		(%)
Service charges on deposit accounts	$	7,189		43.0	%	$	7,141		36.3	%
Gain on sale of loans		5,727		34.3	%		8,860		45.1	%
Loan-related servicing income		1,169		7.0	%		1,431		7.3	%
Loan referral fee income		-		0.0	%		70		0.4	%
SBA loan packaging fee		65		0.4	%		346		1.8	%
Income from other earning assets		846		5.1	%		765		3.9	%
Other income		1,698		10.2	%		1,039		5.2	%
Total	$	16,694		100.0	%	$	19,652		100.0	%
Average assets	$	2,021,416				$	1,790,659
Non-interest income as a % of average assets				0.83	%				1.10	%

Our largest source of non-interest income in 2007 has been the service charge income on deposit accounts, which generally increases as our number of transactional accounts increases. However, they decreased to $2.4 million in the third quarter of 2007 as compared to $2.5 million in the third quarter of 2006 due mainly to the increase in waiving of service charges resulting from higher competition for deposit customers. In the first nine months of 2007, this income source increased slightly to $7.2 million as compared to $7.1 million for the prior year’s same period which was mainly caused by an increase in the number of transactional accounts. We constantly review service charge rates and the managers’ authority to waive them to maximize service charge income while maintaining a competitive position.

Our second largest source of non-interest income for the third quarter of 2007 was the gain on the sale of loans, which decreased to $1.6 million and $5.7 million in the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007 from $3.5 million and $8.9 million, respectively, for the prior year’s same periods. This non-interest income is derived primarily from the sale of the guaranteed portion of SBA loans. We sell the portion of SBA loans guaranteed under the SBA 7(a) program in government securities secondary markets and retain servicing rights. Although our expanded SBA marketing network continues to increase our overall SBA loan production levels, the gain on sale of the guaranteed SBA loans decreased to $1.6 million and $5.0 million in the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007, as compared with $2.1 million and $7.4 million, respectively, for the prior year’s same periods. This decrease was mainly due to the lowered sales premium on SBA loans caused by the faster prepayments of SBA loans. The average sales premium we received in the first nine months of 2007 was 7.04%, as compared with 8.12% for the prior year’s same period. We also recognize gains from the sale of residential mortgage loans and such sales gain decreased in 2007 due to the slow-down of the residential mortgage market. Mainly for credit risk management purposes, we sometimes sell the unguaranteed portion of SBA loans, but the resulting gains are not considered a stable source of non-interest income. These gains were none and $601,000, respectively, in the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007 as compared with $1.3 million and $1.3 million, respectively, in the prior year’s same periods.

The third largest source of non-interest income was loan-related servicing income. This fee income consists of trade-financing fees and servicing fees on SBA loans sold. With the expansion of our trade-financing activities and the growth of our servicing loan portfolio, this fee income has generally increased in the past. However, in the third quarter and first nine months of 2007, it decreased to $478,000 and $1.2 million, respectively, as compared with $538,000 and $1.4 million for the prior year’s same periods. Such decrease was mainly caused by the significant reduction in servicing rights on sold SBA loans which were paid off before their maturities in 2007. The servicing fee income on sold loans is credited when we collect the monthly payments on the sold loans we are servicing and charged by the monthly amortization of servicing rights that we capitalize upon sale of the related loans. Such servicing rights are also charged against the fee income account when the sold loans are paid off before the related servicing rights are fully amortized. For the first nine months of 2007, $1.4 million of servicing assets were charged back to this income account by the early pay-offs as compared to $1.1 million for the prior year’s same period.

Income from other earning assets represents income from earning assets other than interest-earning assets, such as dividend income on FHLB stock ownership and increases in cash surrender value of BOLI. For the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007, it increased to $293,000 and $846,000, respectively, as compared with $268,000 and $765,000, respectively, for the prior year’s same periods. These increases were primarily attributable to the increased acquisition of FHLB stock as required by the new Capital Plan of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco that went into effect on April 1, 2004.

Non-interest income, other than the categories specifically addressed above, represents income from miscellaneous sources, such as SBA loan packaging fees and checkbook sales income, and generally increases as our business activities grow. For the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007, this miscellaneous income amounted to $475,000 and $1.8 million, respectively, as compared with $502,000 and $1.5 million, respectively, for the prior year’s same periods, due mainly to the appreciation of intangible assets. We recognized $333,000 as other income for the net increase of fair value on servicing assets/liabilities, which are recorded at fair value in accordance with SFAS No. 156, which became effective on January 1, 2007.

Non-interest Expense

Total non-interest expense was $11.0 million in the third quarter of 2007 as compared with $10.5 million in the third quarter of 2006, and increased by 4.9% to $32.2 million in the first nine months of 2007 from $30.0 million in the prior year’s same period. Our continuing efforts to optimize our operating expenses, however, have decreased the ratio of non-interest expense as a percentage of average assets to 0.53% and 1.59% for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007 as compared with 0.56% and 1.68%, respectively, for the prior year’s same periods. We believe that our efforts in cost-cutting and revenue diversification have improved our operational efficiency. We maintained our efficiency ratio (the ratio of non-interest expense to the sum of net interest income before provision for loan losses and total non-interest income) at relatively low levels of 42.2% and 41.5% in the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007, respectively, as compared with 38.4% and 39.3%, respectively, in the prior year’s same periods.

The following table sets forth a summary of non-interest expenses for the periods indicated:

Non-interest Expense s

(Dollars in thousands)

For the Quarter Ended September 30,	2007					2006
	(Amount)		(%)			(Amount)		(%)
Salaries and employee benefits	$	5,827		52.7	%	$	6,327		60.1	%
Occupancy and equipment		1,317		11.9	%		1,257		11.9	%
Data processing		817		7.4	%		675		6.4	%
Loan referral fee		371		3.4	%		327		3.1	%
Professional fees		391		3.5	%		343		3.3	%
Directors’ fees		146		1.3	%		148		1.4	%
Office supplies		150		1.4	%		171		1.6	%
Other real estate owned		-		0.0	%		1		0.0	%
Advertising		255		2.3	%		401		3.8	%
Communications		119		1.1	%		107		1.0	%
Deposit insurance premium		276		2.5	%		48		0.4	%
Outsourced service for customer		492		4.5	%		301		2.9	%
Amortization of intangibles		75		0.7	%		75		0.7	%
Investor relation expenses		55		0.5	%		60		0.6	%
Other operating		756		6.8	%		293		2.8	%
Total	$	11,047		100.0	%	$	10,535		100.0	%
Average assets	$	2,075,790				$	1,893,185
Non-interest expenses as a % of average assets				0.53	%				0.56	%

For the Nine Months Ended September 30,	2007				2006
		(Amount )	( %)			(Amount )	( %)
Salaries and employee benefits	$	17,228	53.6	%	$	17,548	58.5	%
Occupancy and equipment		3,887	12.1	%		3,225	10.7	%
Data processing		2,327	7.2	%		1,830	6.1	%
Loan referral fee		1,221	3.8	%		1,270	4.2	%
Professional fees		970	3.0	%		835	2.8	%
Directors’ fees		419	1.3	%		394	1.3	%
Office supplies		470	1.5	%		482	1.6	%
Other real estate owned		-	0.0	%		13	0.0	%
Advertising and promotional expenses		653	2.0	%		959	3.2	%
Communications		354	1.1	%		340	1.1	%
Deposit insurance premium		648	2.0	%		138	0.5	%
Outsourced service for customer		1,315	4.1	%		932	3.1	%
Amortization of intangibles		223	0.7	%		110	0.4	%
Investor relation expenses		239	0.7	%		170	0.6	%
Other operating		2,201	6.9	%		1,769	5.9	%
Total	$	32,155	100.0	%	$	30,016	100.0	%
Average assets	$	2,021,416			$	1,790,659
Non-interest expenses as a % of average assets			1.59	%			1.68	%

Salaries and employee benefits usually represent more than half of our total non-interest expenses. For the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2007, salaries and employee benefits totaled $5.8 million and $17.2 million, respectively, as compared with $6.3 million and $17.5 million for the prior year’s same periods, representing a decrease of 7.9% and 1.8%, respectively, from the prior year’s comparable periods. Such decreases were the result of lower profit sharing in the form of bonuses normally paid out to employees based on the Company’s overall performance. With the growth of our business, especially the opening of the new Fort Lee, New Jersey branch in July, the number of full-time equivalent employees increased to 358 as of September 30, 2007 from 326 as of September 30, 2006. Our efforts to promote efficient operations maintained assets per employee of $5.9 million at both September 30, 2007 and 2006.

Primarily due to the expansion of our branch network, including the Fort Lee branch opening, occupancy and equipment expenses as a percentage of total non-interest expenses increased to approximately 12.0% in the first nine months of 2007 from approximately 10.7% in the prior year’s same period. Such expenses totaled $1.3 million and $3.9 million, respectively, for the third quarter and first nine months of 2007, as compared with $1.3 million and $3.2 million for the prior year’s same periods.

Data processing expenses increased to $817,000 and $2.3 million, respectively, for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007, as compared with $675,000 and $1.8 million for the prior year’s same periods. These increases correspond to the overall growth of our business.

Loan referral fees are paid to brokers who refer loans to us, mostly SBA loans. Although we also pay referral fees for some qualified commercial loans, referral fee expenses generally correspond to our SBA loan production level since most SBA loans are referred by brokers. These referral fees increased to $371,000 in the third quarter of 2007 from $327,000 from the prior year’s same quarter, but decreased slightly to $1.2 million in the first nine months of 2007 from $1.3 million from the prior year’s same period.

Professional fees generally increase as we grow. Professional fees increased to $391,000 and $970,000, respectively, in the third quarter and first nine months of 2007 as compared with $343,000 and $835,000, respectively, for the prior year’s same periods. We expect these expenditures will continue to be significant as we address the enhanced SEC and NASDAQ corporate governance requirements and the local regulation of the states in which we recently commenced business operations.

Advertising and promotional expenses decreased somewhat to $255,000 and $653,000 in the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007, respectively, as compared with $401,000 and $959,000 for the prior year’s same periods. These decreases can be attributed to the reduction of initial marketing activities incurred upon the initiation of our New York area operations in the first nine months of 2006.

Deposit insurance premium expense increased to $276,000 and $648,000 in the third quarter and first nine months of 2007, respectively, as compared with $48,000 and $138,000 from the prior year’s same periods. Such increases was caused by the assessment related changes implemented as a result of the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act of 2005, beginning January 1, 2007.

Outsourced service costs for customers are payments made to third parties who provide services that were traditionally provided by banks to their customers, such as armored car services or bookkeeping services, and are recouped from the earnings credits earned by the respective depositors on their balances maintained with us. Due mainly to the increase in service activities and the increase in depositors demanding such services, such as escrow accounts and brokerage accounts, these expenses increased to $492,000 and $1,315,000 in the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007, respectively, as compared with $301,000 and $932,000, respectively, for the prior year’s same periods.

Investor relations expenses represent costs for providing services to our existing and prospective shareholders, such as NASDAQ listing fees, fees for an outside investor relations company and various promotional material costs. Mainly due to our expanded activities, these expenses amounted to $55,000 and $239,000, respectively, in the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007, as compared with $60,000 and $170,000, respectively, for the prior year’s same periods.

Non-interest expenses other than the categories specifically addressed above, such as office supplies and FDIC assessments, generally increase as our overall business grows. These miscellaneous expenses increased to $1.2 million and $3.7 million, respectively, in the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007, as compared with $795,000 million and $3.1 million, respectively, for the prior year’s same periods. These increase were mainly caused by the fact that we recognized more operational losses and more amortization expenses of intangibles acquired in the second quarter of 2006 upon the acquisition of Liberty Bank of New York.

Generally, non-interest expenses have increased in recent years as a result of rapid asset growth and expansion of our office network and products, all requiring substantial increases in staff, as well as additional occupancy and data processing costs. We anticipate that non-interest expense will continue to increase as we continue to grow. However, we remain committed to cost-control and operational efficiency, and we expect to keep these increases to a minimum relative to our growth.

Provision for Income Taxes

For the quarter ended September 30, 2007, we made a provision for income taxes of $4.4 million on pretax net income of $11.0 million, representing an effective tax rate of 39.7%, as compared with a provision for income taxes of $5.3 million on pretax net income of $14.1 million, representing an effective tax rate of 37.4%, for the same quarter of 2006. The effective tax rates in the third quarter of 2006 were slightly lower, due mainly to the change in estimate of the 2005 tax liability. We filed our 2005 income tax returns in the third quarter of 2006 and the actual income tax liability on the 2005 return decreased by approximately $400,000 from the provision we recognized in 2005. For the first nine months of 2007, we made a provision for income taxes of $13.9 million on pretax net income of $35.2 million, representing an effective tax rate of 39.5%, as compared with a provision for income taxes of $16.3 million on pretax net income of $41.4 million, representing an effective tax rate of 39.5%, for the same period of 2006.

Our effective tax rates were one to two percentage points lower than statutory rates due to state tax benefits derived from doing business in an Enterprise Zone and our ownership of BOLI and Low Income Housing Tax Credit Funds (see “Financial Condition -- Other Earning Assets” for further discussion). Generally, income tax expense is the sum of two components: current tax expense and deferred tax expense (benefit). Current tax expense is calculated by applying the current tax rate to taxable income. Deferred tax expense accounts for the change in deferred tax assets (liabilities) from year to year. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities represent the tax effects, based on current tax law, of future deductible or taxable amounts attributable to events that have been recognized in the financial statements. Because we traditionally recognize substantially more expenses in our financial statements than we have been allowed to deduct for taxes, we generally have a net deferred tax asset. At September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, we had net deferred tax assets of $9.4 million and $9.7 million, respectively.

We believe that we have adequately provided or paid for income tax issues not yet resolved with federal, state and foreign tax authorities. Based upon consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, we do not believe the ultimate resolution of tax issues for all open tax periods will have a materially adverse effect upon our results of operations or financial condition.

Financial Condition

Loan Portfolio

Total loans are the sum of loans receivable and loans held for sale reported at their outstanding principal balances, net of any unearned income which is unamortized deferred fees, costs, premiums, and discounts. Total loans net of unearned income increased by $164.1 million, or 10.5%, to $1.72 billion at September 30, 2007, as compared with $1.56 billion at December 31, 2006. Total loans net of unearned income as a percentage of total assets as of September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006 were 82.1% and 77.7%, respectively.

The following table sets forth the amount of total loans outstanding and the percentage distributions in each category, as of the dates indicated:

Distribution of Loans and Percentage Composition of Loan Portfolio

	Amount Outstanding
	(Dollars in Thousands)
	September 30, 2007			December 31, 2006
Construction	$	61,167		$	46,285
Real estate secured		1,322,371			1,183,030
Commercial and industrial		302,679			278,165
Consumer		38,408			53,059
Total loans	$	1,724,625		$	1,560,539
Participation loans sold and serviced by the Company	$	333,964		$	336,652
Construction		3.50	%		3.00	%
Real estate secured		76.70	%		75.80	%
Commercial and industrial		17.60	%		17.80	%
Consumer		2.20	%		3.40	%
Total loans		100.00	%		100.00	%

Real estate secured loans consist primarily of commercial real estate loans and are extended to finance the purchase or improvement of commercial real estate or businesses thereon. The properties may be either user owned or for investment purposes. Our loan policy adheres to the real estate loan guidelines set forth by the FDIC. The policy provides guidelines including, among other things, fair review of appraisal value, limitation on loan-to-value ratio and minimum cash flow requirements to service debt. Loans secured by real estate equaled $1.32 billion and $1.18 billion as of September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively. The real estate secured loans as a percentage of total loans were 76.7% and 75.8% at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively. Since 2003, we have been actively involved in residential mortgage lending. We offer a wide selection of residential mortgage programs, including non-traditional mortgages such as interest only and payment option adjustable rate mortgages. Most of our salable loans are transferred to the secondary market while we retain a portion on our books as portfolio loans. Our total home mortgage loan portfolio outstanding was $40.6 million at December 31, 2006 and $37.0 million at September 30, 2007, and we have deemed its effect on our credit risk profile to be immaterial. The residential mortgage loans with unconventional terms such as interest-only mortgages and option adjustable rate mortgages at September 30, 2007 were $3.8 million and $1.1 million, respectively, inclusive of loans held temporarily for sale or refinancing, as compared with $4.6 million and $1.1 million, respectively, at December 31, 2006.

Commercial and industrial loans include revolving lines of credit as well as term business loans. Commercial and industrial loans at September 30, 2007 increased to $302.7 million, as compared with $278.2 million at December 31, 2006. However, commercial and industrial loans as a percentage of total loans decreased slightly to 17.6% at September 30, 2007, from 17.8% at December 31, 2006. Increasing commercial and industrial loans is a part of our marketing strategy to target relationship-based accounts, such as unsecured business and commercial loans.

Consumer loans have historically represented less than 5% of our total loan portfolio. The majority of consumer loans are concentrated in automobile loans, which we formerly provided as a service only to existing customers. With our target marketing since 2003, consumer loans continued to increase to $53.1 million at December 31, 2006, but we subsequently slowed down the auto loan financing for credit risk management purposes. As a result, this portfolio decreased to $38.4 million at September 30, 2007. Management anticipates further increases in other types of consumer loans going forward, although no assurance can be given that this increase will occur.

Construction loans generally have represented 5% or less of our total loan portfolio and are extended as a temporary financing vehicle only. In the third quarter of 2004, we formed a construction loan department by appointing a construction loan specialist as its manager. Since then, construction loans increased to $46.3 million at the end of 2006, and increased to $61.2 million at the end of the third quarter of 2007, representing 3.5% of total loans. We expect to expand our construction lending activities with this specialized capacity.

Our loan terms vary according to loan type. Commercial term loans have typical maturities of three to five years and are extended to finance the purchase of business entities, business equipment, leasehold improvements or to provide permanent working capital. SBA guaranteed loans usually have longer maturities of 8 to 25 years. We generally limit real estate loan maturities to five to eight years. Lines of credit, in general, are extended on an annual basis to businesses that need temporary working capital and/or import/export financing. We generally seek diversification in our loan portfolio, and our borrowers are diverse as to industry, location, and their current and target markets.

The following table shows the contractual maturity distribution and repricing intervals of the outstanding loans in our portfolio, as of September 30, 2007. In addition, the table shows the distribution of such loans between those with variable or floating interest rates and those with fixed or predetermined interest rates. The table excludes the gross amount of non-accrual loans of $15.9 million, and includes unearned income and deferred fees totaling $7.4 million at September 30, 2007:

Loan Maturities and Repricing Schedule

	At September 30, 2007
	Within One Year		After One But Within Five Years		After Five Years		Total
	(Dollars in Thousands)
Construction	$	61,167	$	-	$	-	$	61,167
Real estate secured		832,039		419,842		60,905		1,312,786
Commercial and industrial		289,723		10,415		3,738		303,876
Consumer		22,882		15,400		-		38,282
Total loans, net of non-accrual loans	$	1,205,811	$	445,657	$	64,643	$	1,716,111
Loans with variable (floating) interest rates	$	1,145,521	$	24,610	$	-	$	1,170,131
Loans with predetermined (fixed) interest rates	$	60,290	$	421,047	$	64,643	$	545,980

The majority of the properties taken as collateral are located in Southern California. The loans generated by our loan production offices, which are located outside of our main geographical market, are generally collateralized by properties in close proximity to those offices. We employ stricter guidelines regarding the use of collateral located in less familiar market areas.

Non-performing Assets

Non-performing assets, or NPAs, consist of non-performing loans, or NPLs, and other non-performing assets, or other NPAs. NPLs are reported at their outstanding principal balances, net of any portion guaranteed by U.S. government and consist of loans on non-accrual status, loans 90 days or more past due and still accruing interest, loans restructured, where the terms of repayment have been renegotiated resulting in a reduction or deferral of interest or principal, Other NPAs consist of properties, mainly other real estate owned (OREO) and repossessed vehicles, acquired by foreclosure or similar means that management intends to offer for sale.

The following table provides information with respect to the components of our non-performing assets as of the dates indicated (the figures in the table are net of the portion guaranteed by the U.S. Government):

Non-performing Assets

(Dollars in Thousands)

	September 30, 2007			December 31, 2006			September 30, 2006

Nonaccrual loans: ¹
Real estate secured	$	6,014		$	2,530		$	3,122
Commercial and industrial		2,037			2,342			2,058
Consumer		126			930			580
Total		8,177			5,802			5,760
Loans 90 days or more past due (as to principal or interest) and still accruing:
Construction		-			-			-
Real estate secured		-			209			761
Commercial and industrial		5			838			520
Consumer		130			-			56
Total		135			1,047			1,337
Restructured loans: ²
Real estate secured		-			-			-
Commercial and industrial		-			-			-
Consumer		-			-			-
Total		-			-			-
Total non-performing loans (“NPLs”)		8,312			6,849			7,097
Repossessed vehicles		58			95			-
Other real estate owned (“OREO”)		612			138			242
Total non-performing assets (“NPAs”)	$	8,982		$	7,082		$	7,339

NPLs as a % of total loans		0.48	%		0.44	%		0.47	%
NPAs as a % of total loans, OREO, and repossessed vehicles		0.45	%		0.49	%		0.52	%
Allowance for loan losses as a % of NPLs		251.48	%		272.38	%		259.51	%

Loans are generally placed on non-accrual status when they become 90 days past due, unless management believes the loan is adequately collateralized and in the process of collection. The past due loans may or may not be adequately collateralized, but collection efforts are continuously pursued. Loans may be restructured by management when a borrower has experienced some changes in financial status, causing an inability to meet the original repayment terms, and where we believe the borrower will eventually overcome those circumstances and repay the loan in full.

¹ During the three months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, no interest income related to these loans was included in net income. Additional interest income of approximately $1.6 million would have been recorded during the three months ended September 30, 2007 if these loans had been paid in accordance with their original terms and had been outstanding throughout the three months ended September 30, 2007 or, if not outstanding throughout the three months ended September 30, 2007, since origination.

² A “restructured loan” is defined as a loan in which the terms were renegotiated to provide a reduction or deferral of interest or principal because of deterioration in the financial position of the borrower.

Our continued emphasis on asset quality control enabled us to maintain a relatively low level of NPLs prior to 2007. However, the general economic condition of the United States as well as the local economies in which we do business has shown a slowdown as the housing sector cooled since 2006. This transition of the economy affected our borrowers’ strength and four large loans placed in non-accrual status in the aggregate amount of $13.1 million increased our non-performing loans to $20.3 million, or 1.25% of loans as of March 31, 2007. Most of them were paid-off or brought current as planned during the second quarter of 2007 and, by the end of the third quarter of 2007, we successfully decreased the level of NPLs to $8.3 million or 0.48% of gross loans which is higher than $6.9 million or 0.44% at December 31, 2006 and $7.1 million or 0.47% at September 30, 2006.

The relatively low level of NPLs and delinquent loans supports management’s belief that the increase of non-performing loans in the beginning of 2007 did not reflect a trend nor the overall quality of our loan portfolio considering the fact that total delinquent loans over 30 days, net of the portion guaranteed by the U.S. government, were insignificant as of September 30, 2007. Management also believes that the reserve provided for non-performing loans, together with the tangible collateral, were adequate as of September 30, 2007. See “Allowance for Loan Losses” below for further discussion. Except as disclosed above, as of September 30, 2007, management was not aware of any material credit problems of borrowers that would cause it to have serious doubts about the ability of a borrower to comply with the present loan payment terms. However, no assurance can be given that credit problems may exist that may not have been brought to the attention of management.

In the third quarter of 2007, we foreclosed a commercial property in the amount of $612,000 and therefore our other NPAs at September 30, 2007 increased to $670,000 together with a few repossessed vehicles as compared with $233,000 at the end of 2006 , which consisted of one OREO which was sold at a small loss in January 2007 and a few repossessed vehicles. At September 30, 2006, we had two OREO in other NPAs, in an amount of $242,000, which were subsequently sold without significant losses. Together with other NPAs, the ratio of NPAs as a percentage of total loans and other NPAs increased to 0.52% at September 30, 2007, as compared with 0.45% at December 31, 2006 and 0.49% at September 30, 2006.

A llowance for Loan Losses

In anticipation of credit risk inherent in our lending business, we set aside allowances through charges to earnings. Such charges were not only made for the outstanding loan portfolio, but also for off-balance sheet items, such as commitments to extend credit or letters of credit. Charges made for our outstanding loan portfolio were credited to the allowance for loan losses, whereas charges for off-balance sheet items were credited to the reserve for off-balance sheet items, which is presented as a component of other liabilities

In order to keep pace with the increase of loan charge-offs and the growth of our loan portfolio, we increased our allowance for loan losses to $20.9 million at September 30, 2007, representing an increase of 12.1%, or $2.2 million from $18.7 million at the end of 2006 and an increase of 13.5% or $2.5 million from $18.5 million at September 30, 2006. With the increase of our non-performing loans, our allowance requirements have increased and we have maintained the ratio of allowance for loan losses to total loans slightly over 1.20% since the third quarter-end of 2006, a bit higher than the 1.1% retained prior to the third quarter of 2006. Management believes that the current ratio of 1.21% is in line with our peer group average and adequate for our loan portfolio because the level of total NPLs as of September 30, 2007 was relatively low at 0.48% of total loans.

With the economic transition addressed in “Non-performing Assets” above, the net charge-offs in the third quarter and first nine months of 2007 increased to $2.4 million and $6.8 million, respectively, compared to $706,000 and $892,000, respectively, in the same periods of 2006. Such increases were mainly caused by charge-offs of one large commercial loan in the amount of $3.1 million and $1.4 million consumer loan charge-offs, the majority of which were written-off in the first quarter of 2007 for automobile loans, including automobile inventory financing, extended in connection with two used car dealers who closed down their businesses in 2006. The net charge-offs represent 0.14% and 0.42% of average total loans in the third quarter and first nine months of 2007, respectively. The rise in loan charge-offs in the recent period and the growth of our loan portfolio has required more provision for loan losses. The provision for loan losses is discussed in the section entitled “Results of Operations - Provision for Loan Losses”, above.

As of September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, our allowance for loan losses consisted of amounts allocated to three phases of our methodology for assessing loan loss allowances as follows:

Phase of Methodology	As of: September 30, 2007		As of: December 31, 2006
Specific review of individual loans	$	2,347,998	$	1,779,560
Review of pools of loans with similar characteristics		14,842,835		13,424,657
Quantitative reserve for loan pools with various risk factors		3,711,219		3,449,865
Total allowance for loan losses	$	20,902,052	$	18,654,082

The table below summarizes for the end of the periods indicated, the balance of allowance for loan losses and its percent of such loan balance for each type of loan:

	Distribution and Percentage Composition of Allowance for Loan Losses
	(Dollars in thousands)
Balance as of	September 30, 2007						December 31, 2006
Applicable to:		Reserve Amount		Total Loans	( %)			Reserve Amount		Total Loans	(%)
Construction loans	$	581	$	61,167	0.95	%	$	352	$	46,285	0.76	%
Real estate secured	$	13,370	$	1,322,371	1.01	%	$	9,933	$	1,183,030	0.84	%
Commercial and industrial	$	6,215	$	302,679	2.05	%	$	7,164	$	278,165	2.58	%
Consumer	$	736	$	38,408	1.92	%	$	1,205	$	53,059	2.27	%
Total Allowance	$	20,902	$	1,724,625	1.21	%	$	18,654	$	1,560,539	1.20	%

The table below summarizes for the periods indicated, loan balances at the end of each period, the daily averages during the period, changes in the allowance for loan losses arising from loans charged off, recoveries on loans previously charged off, additions to the allowance and certain ratios related to the allowance for loan losses:

Allowance for Loan Losses

(Dollars in Thousands)

As of and for the period of	Three months ended September 30,						Nine months ended September 30,
	2007			2006			2007			2006
Balances:
Average total loans outstanding during period	$	1,687,978		$	1,477,773		$	1,632,483		$	1,384,858
Total loans (net of unearned income)		1,724,625			1,509,883			1,724,625			1,509,883
Allowance for loan losses:
Balances at beginning of period		19,378			16,358			18,654			13,999
Actual charge-offs:
Real estate secured		99			131			262			138
Commercial and industrial		2,131			321			5,383			669
Consumer		251			263			1,370			382
Total charge-offs		2,481			715			7,015			1,189
Recoveries on loans previously charged off:
Real estate secured		-			-			-			145
Commercial and industrial		2			8			18			146
Consumer		123			1			189			5
Total recoveries		125			9			207			297
Net charge-offs (recoveries)		2,356			706			6,808			892
Allowance for loan losses acquired in LBNY acquisition		-			-			-			601
Provision for loan losses		4,100			2,800			10,230			5,060
Less: Provision for losses in off-balance sheet items		220			35			1,174			351
Balances at end of period	$	20,902		$	18,417		$	20,902		$	18,417
Ratios:
Net loan charge-offs to average total loans		0.14	%		0.05	%		0.42	%		0.06	%
Allowance for loan losses to total loans at period-end		1.21	%		1.22	%		1.21	%		1.22	%
Net loan charge-offs to allowance for loan losses		11.27	%		3.84	%		32.57	%		4.85	%
Net loan charge-offs to provision for loan losses		57.46	%		25.24	%		66.55	%		17.64	%

Contractual Obligations

The following table represents our aggregate contractual obligations to make future payments (principal and interest) as of September 30, 2007:

(Dollars in thousands)	One Year or Less		Over One Year To Three Years		Over Three Years To Five Years		Over Five Years		Total
FHLB borrowings	$	70,402	$	-	$	-	$	-	$	70,402
Junior subordinated debentures		5,721		7,871		3,194		87,321		104,107
Operating leases		2,881		4,722		2,604		3,375		13,582
Time deposits		919,976		2,089		-		10		922,075
Total	$	998,980	$	14,682	$	5,798	$	90,706	$	1,110,166

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

During the ordinary course of business, we provide various forms of credit lines to meet the financing needs of our customers. These commitments, which represent a credit risk to us, are not represented in any form on our balance sheets.

As of September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, we had commitments to extend credit of $293.7 million and $141.2 million, respectively. Obligations under standby letters of credit were $9.6 million and $9.5 million at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively, and our obligations under commercial letters of credit were $13.0 million and $14.8 million at such dates, respectively. The effect on our revenues, expenses, cash flows and liquidity from the unused portion of the commitments to provide credit cannot be reasonably predicted because there is no guarantee that the lines of credit will be used.

In the normal course of business, we are involved in various legal claims. We have reviewed all legal claims against us with counsel and have taken into consideration the views of counsel as to the outcome of the claims. In our opinion, the final disposition of all such claims will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations.

Investment Activities

Investments are one of our major sources of interest income and are acquired in accordance with a written comprehensive investment policy addressing strategies, types and levels of allowable investments. This investment policy is reviewed at least annually by the Board of Directors. Management of our investment portfolio is set in accordance with strategies developed and overseen by our Asset/Liability Committee. Investment balances, including cash equivalents and interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions, are subject to change over time based on our asset/liability funding needs and interest rate risk management objectives. Our liquidity levels take into consideration anticipated future cash flows and all available sources of credits and are maintained at levels management believes are appropriate to assure future flexibility in meeting anticipated funding needs.

Cash Equivalents and Interest-bearing Deposits in other Financial Institutions

We sell federal funds, purchase securities under agreements to resell and high quality money market instruments, and deposit interest-bearing accounts in other financial institutions to help meet liquidity requirements and provide temporary holdings until the funds can be otherwise deployed or invested. As of September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, we had $20.5 million and $130.0 million, respectively, in federal funds sold and repurchase agreements, and in interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions.

Investment Securities

Management of our investment securities portfolio focuses on providing an adequate level of liquidity and establishing an interest rate-sensitive position, while earning an adequate level of investment income without taking undue risk. We classify our investment securities as “held-to-maturity” or “available-for-sale.” Investment securities that we intend to hold until maturity are classified as held-to-maturity securities, and all other investment securities are classified as available-for-sale. The carrying values of available-for-sale investment securities are adjusted for unrealized gains or losses as a valuation allowance and any gain or loss is reported on an after-tax basis as a component of other comprehensive income.

The following table summarizes the book value and market value and distribution of our investment securities as of the dates indicated:

Investment Securities Portfolio

(Dollars in Thousands)

	As of September 30, 2007				As of December 31, 2006
	Amortized Cost		Market Value		Amortized Cost		Market Value
Held to Maturity :
Securities of government sponsored enterprises	$	11,000	$	10,971	$	14,000	$	13,845
Collateralized mortgage obligation.		170		155		196		181
Municipal securities		220		219		425		419

Available for Sale :
Securities of government sponsored enterprises		106,877		107,115		87,809		87,511
Mortgage backed securities		16,145		16,125		21,033		20,917
Collateralized mortgage obligation		47,466		47,126		38,650		38,260
Corporate securities		17,396		17,326		13,445		13,387
Municipal securities		7,725		7,641		7,725		7,763

Total investment securities	$	206,999	$	206,678	$	183,283	$	182,283

The following table summarizes the maturity and repricing schedule of our investment securities at their carrying values and their weighted average yields (without the consideration of tax effects, if any) at September 30, 2007:

Investment Maturities and Repricing Schedule

(Dollars in Thousands)

	Within One Year					After One But Within Five Years					After Five But Within Ten Years					After Ten Years					Total
	Amount		Yield			Amount		Yield			Amount		Yield			Amount		Yield			Amount		Yield
Held to Maturity:
Securities of government sponsored enterprises	$	4,000		5.11	%	$	5,000		4.62	%		2,000		4.46	%	$	-		-		$	11,000		4.77	%
Mortgage backed securities		-		-			170		3.98	%		-		-			-		-			170		3.98	%
Municipal securities		220		4.18	%		-		-			-		-			-		-			220		4.18	%

Available-for-sale:
Securities of government sponsored enterprises		17,000		4.91	%		90,115		5.32	%		-		-			-		-			107,115		5.26	%
Mortgage backed securities		11,363		5.16	%		2,857		4.74	%		799		5.57	%		1,106		6.03	%		16,125		5.16	%
Collateralized mortgage obligation		4,398		5.23	%		42,728		5.22	%		-		-			-		-			47,126		5.22	%
Corporate securities		5,336		4.33	%		10,032		5.48	%		1,958		4.46	%		-		-			17,326		5.01	%
Municipal securities		399		7.14	%		-		-			2,241		3.72	%		5,001		4.06	%		7,641		4.12	%
Total investment securities	$	42,716		4.97	%	$	150,902		5.27	%	$	6,998		4.35	%	$	6,107		4.42	%	$	206,723		5.15	%

Our investment securities holdings increased by $24.3 million, or 13.3%, to $206.7 million at September 30, 2007, compared to holdings of $182.5 million at December 31, 2006. Total investment securities as a percentage of total assets were 9.8% and 9.1% at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively. As of September 30, 2007, investment securities having a carrying value of $182.4 million were pledged to secure certain deposits.

As of September 30, 2007, held-to-maturity securities, which are carried at their amortized costs, decreased to $11.4 million from $14.6 million at December 31, 2006. However, available-for-sale securities, which are stated at their fair market values, increased to $195.3 million at September 30, 2007 from $167.8 million at December 31, 2006. Such increase reflects our strategy for improving our liquidity level using available-for-sale securities, in addition to immediately available funds, the majority of which are maintained in the form of overnight investments.

The following table shows our investments’ gross unrealized losses and fair value, aggregated by investment category and length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006:

As of September 30, 2007	(Dollars in thousands)
	Less than 12 months					12 months or longer					Total
Description of Securities	Fair Value		Gross Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Gross Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Gross Unrealized Losses

Securities of government sponsored enterprises	$	-	$	-		$	14,925	$	(74	)	$	14,925	$	(74	)
Collateralized mortgage obligation		14,085		(31	)		11,955		(362	)		26,040		(393	)
Mortgage backed securities		4,551		(21	)		3,766		(49	)		8,317		(70	)
Corporate securities		10,250		(59	)		1,958		(41	)		12,208		(100	)
Municipal securities		2,247		(43	)		3,564		(65	)		5,811		(108	)
	$	31,133	$	(154	)	$	36,168	$	(591	)	$	67,301	$	(745	)

As of December 31, 2006	(Dollars in thousands)
	Less than 12 months					12 months or longer					Total
Description of Securities	Fair Value		Gross Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Gross Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Gross Unrealized Losses

Securities of government sponsored enterprises	$	17,972	$	(24	)	$	64,484	$	(497	)	$	82,456	$	(521	)
Collateralized mortgage obligation		12,066		(31	)		17,455		(383	)		29,521		(414	)
Mortgage backed securities		1,740		(5	)		10,834		(204	)		12,574		(209	)
Corporate securities		-		-			2,929		(68	)		2,929		(68	)
Municipal securities		-		-			3,802		(34	)		3,802		(34	)
	$	31,778	$	(60	)	$	99,504	$	(1,186	)	$	131,282	$	(1,246	)

As of September 30, 2007, the total unrealized losses less than 12 months old were $154,000, and total unrealized losses more than 12 months old were $591,000. The aggregate related fair value of investments with unrealized losses less than 12 months old was $31.1 million at September 30, 2007, and those with unrealized losses more than 12 months old were $36.2 million. As of December 31, 2006, the total unrealized losses less than 12 months old were $60,000 and total unrealized losses more than 12 months old were $1.2 million. The aggregate related fair value of investments with unrealized losses less than 12 months old was $31.8 million at December 31, 2006, and those with unrealized losses more than 12 months old were $99.5 million.

Declines in the fair value of held-to-maturity and available-for-sale securities below their cost that are deemed to be other than temporary are reflected in earnings as realized losses. In estimating other-than-temporary impairment losses, we consider, among other things, (i) the length of time and the extent to which the fair value has been less than cost, (ii) the financial condition and near-term prospects of the issuer, and (iii) our intent and ability to retain our investment in the issuer for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in fair value.

We have the ability and intent to hold the securities classified as held-to-maturity until they mature, at which time we expect to receive full value for the securities. Furthermore, as of September 30, 2007, we also had the ability and intent to hold the securities classified as available-for-sale for a period of time sufficient for a recovery of cost. The unrealized losses were largely due to increases in market interest rates over the yields available at the time the underlying securities were purchased. The fair value is expected to recover as the bonds approach their maturity date or repricing date or if market yields for such investments decline. We do not believe any of the securities are impaired due to reasons of credit quality. Accordingly, as of September 30, 2007, we believe the impairments detailed in the table above were temporary, and no impairment loss has been realized in our consolidated statements of operations.

Other Earning Assets

For various business purposes, we make investments in earning assets other than the interest-earning securities discussed above. Before 2003, the only other earning assets held by us were insignificant amounts of FHLB stock and the cash surrender value on the BOLI.

During 2003, in an effort to provide additional benefits aimed at retaining key employees, while generating a tax-exempt non-interest income stream, we purchased $10.5 million in BOLI from insurance carriers rated AA or above. We are the owner and the primary beneficiary of the life insurance policies and recognize the increase of the cash surrender value of the policies as tax-exempt other income. In the second quarter of 2005, we purchased an additional $3.0 million of BOLI.

In 2003, we invested in two low-income housing tax credit funds, or LIHTCFs, to promote our participation in CRA activities. We committed to invest, over two to three years, a total of $3 million to two different LIHTCF - $1 million in Apollo California Tax Credit Fund XXII, LP, and $2 million in Hudson Housing Los Angeles Revitalization Fund, LP. In 2006, in order to promote our CRA activities in each of the assessment areas in Dallas, New York, and Los Angeles, we also committed to invest an additional $1 million, $2 million, and $3 million in WNC Institutional Tax Credit Fund XXI, WNC Institutional Tax Credit Fund X New York Series 7, and WNC Institutional Tax Credit Fund X California Series 6, respectively. We receive the returns on these investments, over the fifteen years following the said two to three-year investment periods in the form of tax credits and tax deductions.

The balances of other earning assets as of September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006 were as follows:

Type	Balance as of September 30, 2007		Balance as of December 31, 2006
BOLI	$	16,079,335	$	15,636,000
LIHTCF		5,383,955		4,206,000
Federal Home Loan Bank Stock		8,582,100		7,542,000

Deposits and Other Sources of Funds

Deposits

Deposits are our primary source of funds. Total deposits at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006 were both $1.75 billion.

Since 2006, our niche market depositor’s preference in time deposits bearing relatively high interest rates decreased the level of deposits in transactional accounts. Therefore, our reliance on time deposits to fund our lending continued to increase in 2006. In the fourth quarter of 2006, we implemented a new strategy to moderate balance sheet growth and initiated a deposit campaign to increase non-time deposits and improve our funding cost. This campaign increased our non-time deposits by $75.0 million in the first nine months of 2007 while decreasing time deposits by $78.8 million in the same period. Our average cost of interest-bearing liabilities was slightly lowered to 5.01% in the third quarter of 2007 from 5.03% in the last quarter of 2006 after rising in each quarter of 2006. We believe that our regional diversification into the Texas and New York/New Jersey markets will also help reduce our time deposit reliance level going forward.

The average rate paid on time deposits in denominations of $100,000 or more for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2007 increased to 5.27% and 5.28%, respectively, as compared with 5.32% and 4.99%, respectively, for the same periods in the prior year. See “Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin” for further discussion.

The following tables summarize the distribution of average daily deposits and the average daily rates paid for the quarters indicated:

Average Deposits

(Dollars in Thousands)

For the quarters ended:	September 30, 2007					December 31, 2006					September 30, 2006
	Average Balance		Average Rate			Average Balance		Average Rate			Average Balance		Average Rate

Demand, non-interest-bearing	$	322,865				$	317,630				$	322,910
Money market		474,122		4.62	%		385,823		4.50	%		375,030		4.35	%
Super NOW		22,317		1.26	%		19,719		1.16	%		20,550		1.26	%
Savings		29,790		2.50	%		29,007		1.66	%		25,856		1.47	%
Time certificates of deposit in denominations of $100,000 or more		780,463		5.27	%		791,800		5.40	%		726,287		5.32	%
Other time deposit		142,877		4.92	%		162,876		4.90	%		162,464		4.81	%
Total deposits	$	1,772,434		4.01	%	$	1,706,855		4.03	%	$	1,633,097		3.88	%

The scheduled maturities of our time deposits in denominations of $100,000 or greater at September 30, 2007 were as follows:

Maturities of Time Deposits of $100,000 or More, at September 30, 200 7

(Dollars in Thousands)

Three months or less	$	392,101
Over three months through six months		211,434
Over six months through twelve months		150,391
Over twelve months		1,233
Total	$	755,159

Because our client base is comprised primarily of commercial and industrial accounts, individual account balances are generally higher than those of consumer-oriented banks. A number of clients carry deposit balances of more than 1% of our total deposits, but the California State Treasury was the only depositor which had a deposit balance of more than 5% of total deposits at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006.

We accept brokered deposits on a selective basis at reasonable interest rates to augment deposit growth. We have reduced these deposits to $2.1 million at September 30, 2007 from $6.3 million at December 31, 2006 in order to limit our reliance on non-core funding sources. Most of the brokered deposits will mature within one year. Since brokered deposits are generally less stable forms of deposits, we closely monitor growth from this non-core funding source.

FHLB Borrowings

Although deposits are the primary source of funds for our lending and investment activities and for general business purposes, we may obtain advances from the FHLB as an alternative to retail deposit funds. Since 2002, we have increased borrowings from the FHLB in order to take advantage of their flexibility and reasonably low cost. See “Liquidity Management” below for details relating to the FHLB borrowings program.

The following table is a summary of FHLB borrowings for the quarters indicated (dollars in thousands):

	September 30, 2007			December 31, 2006
Balance at quarter-end	$	70,000		$	20,000
Average balance during the quarter	$	22,174		$	20,000
Maximum amount outstanding at any month-end	$	70,000		$	20,000
Average interest rate during the quarter		4.16	%		3.68	%
Average interest rate at quarter-end		4.43	%		3.68	%

Junior Subordinated Debentures; Trust Preferred Securities

In December 2002, the Bank issued $10 million of the 2002 Junior Subordinated Debentures. Subsequently, the Company, as a wholly owned subsidiary in 2003 and as a parent company of the Bank in 2005 and 2007, issued a total of $77,321,000 of Junior Subordinated Debentures in connection with a $75,000,000 trust preferred securities issuance by statutory trusts wholly owned by the Company.

2002 Bank Level Junior Subordinated Debenture . In December 2002, the Bank issued a $10 million Junior Subordinated Debenture (the “2002 debenture”). The interest rate payable on the 2002 debenture was 8.30% at September 30, 2007, which rate adjusts quarterly to the three-month LIBOR plus 3.10%. The 2002 debenture will mature on December 26, 2012. Interest on the 2002 debenture is payable quarterly and no scheduled payments of principal are due prior to maturity. The Bank may redeem the 2002 debenture in whole or in part prior to maturity on or after December 26, 2007.

The 2002 debenture is treated as Tier 2 capital for Bank regulatory capital purposes. Likewise, on a consolidated basis, the 2002 debenture also is treated as Tier 2 capital for Company level capital purposes under current FRB capital guidelines.

2003 Junior Subordinated Debenture; Trust Preferred Securities Issuance . In December 2003, Wilshire Bancorp was formed as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bank, in order to raise additional capital funds through the issuance of trust preferred securities. Prior to the completion of the August 2004 bank holding company reorganization, Wilshire Bancorp organized its wholly owned subsidiary, Wilshire Statutory Trust I, which issued $15 million in trust preferred securities. Wilshire Bancorp then purchased all of the common interest in the Wilshire Statutory Trust I ($464,000) and issued the 2003 Junior Subordinated Debenture (the “2003 debenture”) in the amount of approximately $15.5 million to the Wilshire Statutory Trust I with terms substantially similar to the 2003 trust preferred securities in exchange for the proceeds from the issuance of the Wilshire Statutory Trust I’s 2003 trust preferred securities and common securities. Wilshire Bancorp subsequently deposited the proceeds from the 2003 debenture in a depository account at the Bank and infused $14.5 million as additional equity capital to the Bank immediately following the holding company reorganization. The rate of interest on the 2003 debenture and related trust preferred securities was 8.54% at September 30, 2007, which adjusts quarterly to the three-month LIBOR plus 2.85%. The 2003 debenture and related trust preferred securities will mature on December 17, 2033. The interest on both the 2003 debenture and related trust preferred securities is payable quarterly and no scheduled payments of principal are due prior to maturity. Wilshire Bancorp may redeem the 2003 debenture (and in turn the trust preferred securities) in whole or in part prior to maturity on or after December 17, 2008.

March 2005 Junior Subordinated Debenture; Trust Preferred Securities Issuance . In March 2005, Wilshire Bancorp organized its wholly owned subsidiary, Wilshire Statutory Trust II, which issued $20 million in trust preferred securities. Wilshire Bancorp then purchased all of the common interest in the Wilshire Statutory Trust II ($619,000) and issued the 2005 Junior Subordinated Debenture (the “March 2005 debenture”) in the amount of $20.6 million to the Wilshire Statutory Trust II with terms substantially similar to the March 2005 trust preferred securities in exchange for the proceeds from the issuance of the Wilshire Statutory Trust II’s March 2005 trust preferred securities and common securities. Wilshire Bancorp subsequently deposited the proceeds from the March 2005 debenture in a depository account at the Bank and infused $14 million as additional equity capital to the Bank. The rate of interest on the March 2005 debenture and related trust preferred securities was 7.48% at September 30, 2007, which adjusts quarterly to the three-month LIBOR plus 1.79%. The March 2005 debenture and related trust preferred securities will mature on March 17, 2035. The interest on both the March 2005 debenture and related trust preferred securities are payable quarterly and no scheduled payments of principal are due prior to maturity. Wilshire Bancorp may redeem the March 2005 debenture (and in turn the trust preferred securities) in whole or in part prior to maturity on or after March 17, 2010.

September 2005 Junior Subordinated Debenture; Trust Preferred Securities Issuance . In September 2005, Wilshire Bancorp organized its wholly owned subsidiary, Wilshire Statutory Trust III (“Wilshire Trust III”), which issued $15 million in trust preferred securities. Wilshire Statutory Trust III, a subsidiary of Wilshire Bancorp, purchased $15.5 million of Wilshire Bancorp’s Junior Subordinated Debt Securities (the “September 2005 debenture”), payable in 2035. Until September 15, 2010, the securities will be fixed at a 6.07% annual interest rate, thereafter converting to a floating rate of three-month LIBOR plus 1.40%, resetting quarterly. Wilshire Bancorp may defer the payment of interest at any time for a period up to twenty consecutive quarters, provided the deferral period does not extend past the stated maturity. Except upon the occurrence of certain events resulting in a change in the capital treatment or tax treatment of the Subordinated Debentures or resulting in Wilshire Trust being deemed to be an investment company required to register under the Investment Company Act of 1940, we may not redeem the Subordinated Debentures until after September 15, 2010.

July 2007 Junior Subordinated Debenture; Trust Preferred Securities Issuance . In July 2007, Wilshire Bancorp organized its wholly owned subsidiary, Wilshire Statutory Trust IV, which issued $25 million in trust preferred securities. Wilshire Bancorp then purchased all of the common interest in the Wilshire Statutory Trust IV ($774,000) and issued the 2007 Junior Subordinated Debenture (the “July 2007 debenture”) in the amount of $25.8 million to the Wilshire Statutory Trust IV with terms substantially similar to the July 2007 trust preferred securities in exchange for the proceeds from the issuance of the Wilshire Statutory Trust IV’s July 2007 trust preferred securities and common securities. Wilshire Bancorp subsequently deposited the proceeds from the July 2007 debenture in a depository account at the Bank. The rate of interest on the July 2007 debenture and related trust preferred securities was 7.07% at September 30, 2007, which adjusts quarterly to the three-month LIBOR plus 1.38%. The July 2007 debenture and related trust preferred securities will mature on July 10, 2037. The interest on both the July 2007 debenture and related trust preferred securities are payable quarterly and no scheduled payments of principal are due prior to maturity. Wilshire Bancorp may redeem the July 2007 debenture (and in turn the trust preferred securities) in whole or in part prior to maturity on or after July 10, 2012.

Payments of distributions on the trust preferred securities and payments on redemption of the trust preferred securities are guaranteed by Wilshire Bancorp. The junior subordinated debentures are senior to our shares of common stock. As a result, in the event of our bankruptcy, dissolution or liquidation, the holder of the junior subordinated debentures must be satisfied before any distributions can be made to the holders of our common stock. We have the right to defer distributions on the junior subordinated debentures and related trust preferred securities for up to five years, during which time no dividends may be paid to holders of our common stock.

On March 1, 2005, the Federal Reserve Board adopted a final rule that allows continued inclusion of trust preferred securities in the Tier 1 capital of bank holding companies, subject to stricter quantitative limits. Under the final rule, bank holding companies may include trust preferred securities in Tier 1 capital in an amount (together with other restricted core capital elements) equal to 25% of the sum of core capital elements (including restricted core capital elements) net of goodwill less any associated deferred tax liability. Amounts in excess of these limits will generally be included in Tier 2 capital. For purposes of this rule, restricted core capital elements are generally to be comprised of qualifying cumulative perpetual preferred stock and related surplus, minority interest related to qualifying cumulative perpetual preferred stock directly issued by a consolidated U.S. depository institution or foreign bank subsidiary, minority interest related to qualifying common stock or qualifying cumulative perpetual preferred stock directly issued by a consolidated subsidiary that is neither a U.S. depository institution or a foreign bank and qualifying trust preferred securities.

The final rule provides a transition period for bank holding companies to come into compliance with these new capital restrictions. Accordingly, while the final rule became effective on April 11, 2005, for practical purposes, bank holding companies will have until September 30, 2009 (an extension of the September 30, 2007 transition period under the proposed rule) to come into compliance with the final rule’s capital restrictions due to the transition period. In extending the transition period to 2009, the Federal Reserve noted that the extended period will provide bank holding companies with existing trust preferred securities with call features after the first five years an opportunity to restructure their capital elements in order to conform to the limitations of the final rule.

Under the final rule, as of September 30, 2007, Wilshire Bancorp would have been able to count $56.0 million of total trust preferred securities as Tier 1 capital, leaving $19.0 million as Tier 2 capital.

Asset/Liability Management

We seek to ascertain optimum and stable utilization of available assets and liabilities as a vehicle to attain our overall business plans and objectives. In this regard, we focus on measurement and control of liquidity risk, interest rate risk and market risk, capital adequacy, operation risk and credit risk. See further discussion on these risks in the “Risk Factors” section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006. Information concerning interest rate risk management is set forth under “Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.”

Liquidity Management

Maintenance of adequate liquidity requires that sufficient resources be available at all times to meet our cash flow requirements. Liquidity in a banking institution is required primarily to provide for deposit withdrawals and the credit needs of its customers and to take advantage of investment opportunities as they arise. Liquidity management involves our ability to convert assets into cash or cash equivalents without incurring significant loss, and to raise cash or maintain funds without incurring excessive additional cost. For this purpose, we maintain a portion of our funds in cash and cash equivalents, deposits in other financial institutions and loans and securities available for sale. Our liquid assets at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006 totaled approximately $309.9 million and $378.6 million, respectively. Our liquidity level measured as the percentage of liquid assets to total assets was 14.8% and 18.8% at September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively.

As a secondary source of liquidity, we rely on advances from the FHLB to supplement our supply of lendable funds and to meet deposit withdrawal requirements. Advances from the FHLB are typically secured by our mortgage loans and stock issued by the FHLB. Advances are made pursuant to several different programs. Each credit program has its own interest rate and range of maturities. Depending on the program, limitations on the amount of advances are based either on a fixed percentage of an institution’s net worth or on the FHLB’s assessment of the institution’s creditworthiness. While this fund provides flexibility and low cost, we limit our use to 50% of borrowing capacity, as such borrowing does not qualify as core funds. As of September 30, 2007, our borrowing capacity from the FHLB was about $450.8 million and the outstanding balance was $70 million, or approximately 15.5% of our borrowing capacity. As of September 30, 2007, we also maintained a guideline to purchase up to $25 million and $10 million in federal funds with Bank of the West and Union Bank of California, respectively.

Capital Resources and Capital Adequacy Requirements

Historically, our primary source of capital has been internally generated operating income through retained earnings. In order to ensure adequate levels of capital, we conduct ongoing assessments of projected sources and uses of capital in conjunction with projected increases in assets and level of risks. We have considered, and we will continue to consider, additional sources of capital as the need arises, whether through the issuance of additional equity, debt or hybrid securities.

We are subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies. Under capital adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, we must meet specific capital guidelines that rely on quantitative measures of our assets, liabilities and certain off-balance-sheet items as calculated under regulatory accounting practices. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can trigger regulatory actions under the prompt corrective action rules that could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and operations. Prompt corrective action may include regulatory enforcement actions that restrict dividend payments, require the adoption of remedial measures to increase capital, terminate FDIC deposit insurance, and mandate the appointment of a conservator or receiver in severe cases. In addition, failure to maintain a well-capitalized status may adversely affect the evaluation of regulatory applications for specific transactions and activities, including acquisitions, continuation and expansion of existing activities, and commencement of new activities, and could adversely affect our business relationships with our existing and prospective clients. The aforementioned regulatory consequences for failing to maintain adequate ratios of Tier 1 and Tier 2 capital could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. Our capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by regulators about components, risk weightings, and other factors. See Part I, Item 1 “Description of Business -- Regulation and Supervision -- Capital Adequacy Requirements” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 for additional information regarding regulatory capital requirements.

As of September 30, 2007, we were qualified as a “well capitalized institution” under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action. The following table presents the regulatory standards for well-capitalized institutions, compared to capital ratios as of the dates specified for the Company and the Bank:

Wilshire Bancorp, Inc.	Regulatory Well-			Regulatory Adequately-			Actual ratios for the Company as of:
	Capitalized Standards			Capitalized Standards			September 30, 2007			December 31, 2006			September 30, 2006
Total capital to risk-weighted assets		10	%		8	%		15.06	%		13.63	%		13.66	%
Tier I capital to risk-weighted assets		6	%		4	%		12.18	%		11.81	%		11.60	%
Tier I capital to adjusted average assets		5	%		4	%		10.41	%		9.79	%		9.59	%

Wilshire State Bank	Regulatory Well-			Regulatory Adequately-			Actual ratios for the Bank as of:
	Capitalized Standards			Capitalized Standards			September 30, 2007			December 31, 2006			September 30, 2006
Total capital to risk-weighted assets		10	%		8	%		13.84	%		13.51	%		13.33	%
Tier I capital to risk-weighted assets		6	%		4	%		12.03	%		11.68	%		11.44	%
Tier I capital to adjusted average assets		5	%		4	%		10.29	%		9.69	%		9.46	%

At September 30, 2007, total shareholders’ equity increased by $18.5 million, after declaring cash dividends of $4.4 million and netting the treasury shares the Company owned, to $168.1 million from $149.6 million at December 31, 2006. Such additional capital was primarily derived from internally generated operating income ($21.3 million). Our equity also increased by the share-based compensation, cumulative effects in change of accounting principles, and other comprehensive income. In the third quarter of 2007, the Company adopted the 2007 stock repurchase program which permits the repurchase of up to $10 million worth of shares of the Company’s common stock from time to time until July 31, 2008 and bought back 39,625 shares of the Company and owned them as treasury stock in the amount of $410,000 at September 30, 2007.

For the regulatory capital ratio computation purpose, the Junior Subordinated Debentures of $87.3 million, which consists of $10 million issued by the Bank and $77.3 million issued by the Company in connection with the issuance of $75 million trust preferred securities, were taken into consideration. At December 31, 2006 before the issuance the July 2007 debentures, Wilshire Bancorp accounted for $50.0 million of such securities as Tier 1 capital and $10.0 million as Tier 2 capital. With the issuance of July 2007 debentures in the third quarter of 2007, the portion qualified for Tier 1 capital increased to $56 million and the portion for Tier 2 increased to $29.0 million. For the Bank level, only the $10 million debenture issued by the Bank in 2002 is treated as Tier 2 capital. See “Deposits and Other Sources of Funds” for further discussion regarding the capital treatment of subordinated debentures and the trust preferred securities.

Item 3.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

Market risk is the risk of loss from adverse changes in market prices and rates. Our market risk arises primarily from interest rate risk inherent in lending, investing and deposit taking activities. We evaluate market risk pursuant to policies reviewed and approved annually by our Board of Directors. The Board delegates responsibility for market risk management to the Asset & Liability Management Committee (“ALCO”), which reports monthly to the Board on activities related to market risk management. As part of the management of our market risk, ALCO may direct changes in the mix of assets and liabilities. To that end, we actively monitor and manage interest rate risk exposures.

Interest rate risk management involves development, analysis, implementation and monitoring of earnings to provide stable earnings and capital levels during periods of changing interest rates. In the management of interest rate risk, we utilize monthly gap analysis and quarterly simulation modeling to determine the sensitivity of net interest income and economic value sensitivity of the balance sheet. These techniques are complementary and are used together to provide a more accurate measurement of interest rate risk.

Gap analysis measures the repricing mismatches between assets and liabilities. The interest rate sensitivity gap is determined by subtracting the amount of liabilities from the amount of assets that reprice in a particular time interval. If repricing assets exceed repricing liabilities in any given time period, we would be deemed to be “asset-sensitive” for that period. Conversely, if repricing liabilities exceed repricing assets in a given time period, we would be deemed to be “liability-sensitive” for that period.

The significant balance of non-interest-bearing deposits puts us in an overall asset-sensitive position and we strategically plan a significant three-month positive gap to meet any unanticipated funding needs by maintaining a large portion of funds obtained from non-interest-bearing deposits in overnight investments and other cash equivalents. In general, based upon our mix of deposits, loans and investments, increases in interest rates would be expected to increase our net interest margin. Decreases in interest rates would be expected to have the opposite effect. However, we usually seek to maintain a balanced position over the period of one year to ensure net interest margin stability in times of volatile interest rates. This is accomplished by maintaining a similar level of interest-earning assets and interest-paying liabilities available to be repriced within one year. At September 30, 2007, our position appeared balanced for a one-year timeframe with a negligible sensitive cumulative gap (minus 16.1% of average interest-earning assets). We do not anticipate a major change in our net interest margin as we expect such repricing gap, if occurring, to be eliminated within a year.

The change in net interest income may not always follow the general expectations of an “asset-sensitive” or a “liability-sensitive” balance sheet during periods of changing interest rates. This possibility results from interest rates earned or paid changing by differing increments and at different time intervals for each type of interest-sensitive asset and liability. The interest rate gaps reported in the tables arise when assets are funded with liabilities having different repricing intervals. Since these gaps are actively managed and change daily as adjustments are made in interest rate views and market outlook, positions at the end of any period may not reflect our interest rate sensitivity in subsequent periods. We attempt to balance longer-term economic views against prospects for short-term interest rate changes.

Although the interest rate sensitivity gap is a useful measurement and contributes to effective asset and liability management, it is difficult to predict the effect of changing interest rates based solely on that measure. As a result, the Asset & Liability Management (ALM) committee also regularly uses simulation modeling as a tool to measure the sensitivity of earnings and net portfolio value, or NPV, to interest rate changes. The NPV is defined as the net present value of an institution’s existing assets, liabilities and off-balance sheet instruments. The simulation model captures all assets, liabilities and off-balance sheet financial instruments and accounts for significant variables that are believed to be affected by interest rates. These include prepayment speeds on loans, cash flows of loans and deposits, principal amortization, call options on securities, balance sheet growth assumptions and changes in rate relationships as various rate indices react differently to market rates.

Although the simulation measures the volatility of net interest income and net portfolio value under immediate increase or decrease of market interest rate scenarios in 100 basis point increments, our main concern is the negative effect of a reasonably-possible worst scenario. The ALM policy prescribes that for the worst possible rate-change scenario the possible reduction of net interest income and NPV should not exceed 20% of the base net interest income and 25% of the base NPV, respectively.

As our simulation measures indicate below, the net interest income increases (decreases) as market interest rates rise (fall), since we were in an overall asset-sensitive position with a 3.87% positive gap for the three-month timeframe and 17.89% cumulative positive gap for a whole portfolios. The NPV increases (decreases) as interest income increases (decreases) since the change in cash flows has a greater impact on the change in the NPV than does the change in the discount rate. However the extent of such changes was within the tolerance level prescribed by our ALM policy due partly to the near-balanced cumulative gap for the one-year timeframe.

Management believes that the assumptions used to evaluate the vulnerability of our operations to changes in interest rates approximate actual experience and considers them reasonable; however, the interest rate sensitivity of our assets and liabilities and the estimated effects of changes in interest rates on our net interest income and NPV could vary substantially if different assumptions were used or actual experience differs from the historical experience on which they are based.

The following table sets forth the interest rate sensitivity of our interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities as of September 30, 2007 using the interest rate sensitivity gap ratio. For purposes of the following table, an asset or liability is considered rate-sensitive within a specified period when it can be repriced or matures within its contractual terms. Actual payment patterns may differ from contractual payment patterns:

Interest Rate Sensitivity Analysis

(Dollars in Thousands)

	At September 30, 2007
	Amounts Subject to Repricing Within

Interest-earning assets:		0-3 months			3-12 months			Over 1 to 5 years			After 5 years			Total
Gross loans ¹	$	1,158,605		$	47,206		$	445,657		$	64,643		$	1,716,111
Investment securities		13,873			28,843			150,902			13,105			206,723
Federal funds sold and cash equivalents agreement to resell		20,004			-			-			-			20,004
Interest-earning deposits		-			-			-			-			-
Total	$	1,192,482		$	76,049		$	596,559		$	77,748		$	1,942,838

Interest-bearing liabilities:
Savings deposits		30,647			-			-			-			30,647
Time deposits of $100,000 or more		392,100			361,826			1,233			-			755,159
Other time deposits		58,308			80,019			742			5			139,074
Other interest-bearing deposits		514,831			-			-			-			514,831
Other borrowings demand deposits		50,000			20,000			-			-			70,000
Subordinate Debentures	$	71,857			-			15,464			-			87,321
Total	$	1,117,743		$	461,845		$	17,439		$	5		$	1,597,032

Interest rate sensitivity gap	$	74,739			($ 385,796	)	$	579,120		$	77,743		$	345,806
Cumulative interest rate sensitivity gap	$	74,739			($ 311,057	)	$	268,063		$	345,806
Cumulative interest rate sensitivity gap ratio (based on average interest-earning assets)		3.87	%		-16.10	%		13.87	%		17.89	%

The following table sets forth our estimated net interest income over a 12-month period and NPV based on the indicated changes in market interest rates as of September 30, 2007. All assets presented in this table are held-to-maturity or available-for-sale. At September 30, 2007, we had no trading securities:

(Dollars in Thousands)

Change	Net Interest Income
(in Basis Points)	(next twelve months)		% Change			NPV		% Change
+200		97,755		5.7	%		266,433		4.8	%
+100		95,361		3.1	%		262,334		3.2	%
0		92,453		-			254,298		-
-100		88,090		-4.7	%		238,140		-6.4	%
-200		82,395		-10.9	%		214,472		-15.7	%

Our strategies in protecting both net interest income and economic value of equity from significant movements in interest rates involve restructuring our investment portfolio and using FHLB advances. Although our policy also permits us to purchase rate caps and floors and interest rate swaps, we are not currently engaged in any of these types of transactions.

Item 4.

Controls and Procedures

As of September 30, 2007, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, regarding the effectiveness of the design and operation of our “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined under Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e).

Based on this evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of September 30, 2007, such disclosure controls and procedures were effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, our management recognized that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can only provide reasonable assurance in achieving the desired control objectives and in reaching a reasonable level of assurance our management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.

There were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2007 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.

¹ Excludes the gross amount of non-accrual loans of approximately $15.9 million at September 30, 2007.

Part II. OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

Not applicable.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Not applicable.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

In July 2007, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program to repurchase up to $10 million of the Company’s common stock until July 31, 2008. As of September 30, 2007, 39,625 shares have been repurchased under this program in open-market transactions amounting to $410,000. Detail for the share repurchase transactions conducted during the third quarter of 2007 appears below.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Period	(a) Total number of shares (or units) purchased		(b) Average price paid per share (or unit)		(c) Total number of shares (or units) purchased as part of publicly announced plans or programs		(d) Approximate dollar value of shares (or units) that may yet be purchased under the plans or programs
July 1, 2007 - July 31, 2007		-		-		-		-
August 1, 2007 - August 31, 2007		39,625	$	10.36		39,625	$	9,590,000
September 1, 2007 - September 30, 2007		-		-		-		-
Total		39,625	$	10.36		39,625	$	9,590,000

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

Not applicable.

Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

None.

Item 5. Other Information

Not applicable.

Item 6. EXHIBITS

Exhibit Table

Reference Number		Item

4.12		Indenture by and between Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. and LaSalle Bank National Association dated as of July 10, 2007.

4.13		Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust by and among LaSalle National Trust Delaware, LaSalle Bank National Association, Wilshire Bancorp, Inc., Soo Bong Min and Brian E. Cho dated as of July 10, 2007.

4.14		Guarantee Agreement by and between Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. and LaSalle Bank National Association dated as of July 10, 2007.

11		Statement Regarding Computation of Net Earnings per Share ¹

31.1		Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

31.2		Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

32		Certifications of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

¹ The information required by this Exhibit is incorporated by reference from Note 3 of the Company’s Financial Statements included herein.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

	WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

Date: November 9, 2007	By:	/s/ Brian E. Cho
		Brian E. Cho
		Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
		(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS

SECTION 1.01.	Definitions	1

ARTICLE II
DEBT SECURITIES

SECTION 2.01.	Authentication and Dating	9
SECTION 2.02.	Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication	9
SECTION 2.03.	Form and Denomination of Debt Securities	10
SECTION 2.04.	Execution of Debt Securities	10
SECTION 2.05.	Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Debt Securities	10
SECTION 2.06.	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Debt Securities	13
SECTION 2.07.	Temporary Debt Securities	14
SECTION 2.08.	Payment of Interest	15
SECTION 2.09.	Cancellation of Debt Securities Paid, etc	16
SECTION 2.10.	Computation of Interest	16
SECTION 2.11.	Extension of Interest Payment Period	18
SECTION 2.12.	CUSIP Numbers	19
SECTION 2.13.	Income Tax Certification	19
SECTION 2.14.	Global Debentures	19

ARTICLE III
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

SECTION 3.01.	Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest; Agreed Treatment of the Debt Securities	22
SECTION 3.02.	Offices for Notices and Payments, etc	22
SECTION 3.03.	Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's Office	23
SECTION 3.04.	Provision as to Paying Agent	23
SECTION 3.05.	Certificate to Trustee	24
SECTION 3.06.	Additional Interest	24
SECTION 3.07.	Compliance with Consolidation Provisions	24
SECTION 3.08.	Limitation on Dividends	25
SECTION 3.09.	Covenants as to the Trust	25

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ARTICLE IV
LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE

SECTION 4.01.	Securityholders' Lists	26
SECTION 4.02.	Preservation and Disclosure of Lists	26
SECTION 4.03.	Financial and Other Information	27

ARTICLE V
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS UPON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT

SECTION 5.01.	Events of Default	28
SECTION 5.02.	Payment of Debt Securities on Default; Suit Therefor	30
SECTION 5.03.	Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee	31
SECTION 5.04.	Proceedings by Securityholders	32
SECTION 5.05.	Proceedings by Trustee	32
SECTION 5.06.	Remedies Cumulative and Continuing	33
SECTION 5.07.	Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Securityholders	33
SECTION 5.08.	Notice of Defaults	34
SECTION 5.09.	Undertaking to Pay Costs	34

ARTICLE VI
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE

SECTION 6.01.	Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee	34
SECTION 6.02.	Reliance on Documents, Opinions, etc	36
SECTION 6.03.	No Responsibility for Recitals, etc	37
SECTION 6.04.	Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer Agents or Registrar May Own Debt Securities	37
SECTION 6.05.	Moneys to be Held in Trust	37
SECTION 6.06.	Compensation and Expenses of Trustee	38
SECTION 6.07.	Officers' Certificate as Evidence	38
SECTION 6.08.	Eligibility of Trustee	39
SECTION 6.09.	Resignation or Removal of Trustee, Calculation Agent, Paying Agent or Debt Security Registrar	39
SECTION 6.10.	Acceptance by Successor	40

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SECTION 6.11.	Succession by Merger, etc	41
SECTION 6.12.	Authenticating Agents	42

ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS

SECTION 7.01.	Action by Securityholders	43
SECTION 7.02.	Proof of Execution by Securityholders	44
SECTION 7.03.	Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners	44
SECTION 7.04.	Debt Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding	44
SECTION 7.05.	Revocation of Consents; Future Securityholders Bound	45

ARTICLE VIII
SECURITYHOLDERS' MEETINGS

SECTION 8.01.	Purposes of Meetings	45
SECTION 8.02.	Call of Meetings by Trustee	46
SECTION 8.03.	Call of Meetings by Company or Securityholders	46
SECTION 8.04.	Qualifications for Voting	46
SECTION 8.05.	Regulations	46
SECTION 8.06.	Voting	47
SECTION 8.07.	Quorum; Actions	47
SECTION 8.08.	Written Consent Without a Meeting	48

ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 9.01.	Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Securityholders	48
SECTION 9.02.	Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Securityholders	50
SECTION 9.03.	Effect of Supplemental Indentures	51
SECTION 9.04.	Notation on Debt Securities	51
SECTION 9.05.	Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be furnished to Trustee	51

ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

SECTION 10.01.	Optional Redemption	51
SECTION 10.02.	Special Event Redemption	52

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SECTION 10.03.	Notice of Redemption; Selection of Debt Securities	52
SECTION 10.04.	Payment of Debt Securities Called for Redemption	53

ARTICLE XI
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE

SECTION 11.01.	Company May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms	53
SECTION 11.02.	Successor Entity to be Substituted	54
SECTION 11.03.	Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee	55

ARTICLE XII
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

SECTION 12.01.	Discharge of Indenture	55
SECTION 12.02.	Deposited Moneys to be Held in Trust by Trustee	56
SECTION 12.03.	Paying Agent to Repay Moneys Held	56
SECTION 12.04.	Return of Unclaimed Moneys	56

ARTICLE XIII
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

SECTION 13.01.	Indenture and Debt Securities Solely Corporate Obligations	56

ARTICLE XIV
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SECTION 14.01.	Successors	57
SECTION 14.02.	Official Acts by Successor Entity	57
SECTION 14.03.	Surrender of Company Powers	57
SECTION 14.04.	Addresses for Notices, etc	57
SECTION 14.05.	Governing Law	58
SECTION 14.06.	Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent	58
SECTION 14.07.	Non-Business Days	58
SECTION 14.08.	Table of Contents, Headings, etc	58
SECTION 14.09.	Execution in Counterparts	59
SECTION 14.10.	Severability	59
SECTION 14.11.	Assignment	59
SECTION 14.12.	Acknowledgment of Rights	59

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ARTICLE XV
SUBORDINATION OF DEBT SECURITIES

SECTION 15.01.	Agreement to Subordinate	60
SECTION 15.02.	Default on Senior Indebtedness	60
SECTION 15.03.	Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy	61
SECTION 15.04.	Subrogation	62
SECTION 15.05.	Trustee to Effectuate Subordination	63
SECTION 15.06.	Notice by the Company	63
SECTION 15.07.	Rights of the Trustee, Holders of Senior Indebtedness	63
SECTION 15.08.	Subordination May Not Be Impaired	64

EXHIBITS

EXHIBIT A	FORM OF DEBT SECURITY

Special Redemption During the 12-Month Period Beginning September 15		Percentage of Principal Amount

2008		103.140%
2009		102.355%
2010		101.570%
2011		100.785%
2012 and thereafter		100.000%

LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee

By:
Name:
Title:

	LaSalle Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee

	By:
		Authorized Signatory
Dated:__________________, 2007

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ARTICLE I
INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS

SECTION 1.1.	Definitions	1

ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION

SECTION 2.1.	Name	9
SECTION 2.2.	Office	9
SECTION 2.3.	Purpose	9
SECTION 2.4.	Authority	9
SECTION 2.5.	Title to Property of the Trust	10
SECTION 2.6.	Powers and Duties of the Trustees and the Administrators	10
SECTION 2.7.	Prohibition of Actions by the Trust and the Trustees	14
SECTION 2.8.	Powers and Duties of the Institutional Trustee	15
SECTION 2.9.	Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustees and the Administrators	17
SECTION 2.10.	Certain Rights of Institutional Trustee	19
SECTION 2.11.	Delaware Trustee	21
SECTION 2.12.	Execution of Documents	21
SECTION 2.13.	Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities	21
SECTION 2.14.	Duration of Trust	22
SECTION 2.15.	Mergers	22

ARTICLE III
SPONSOR

SECTION 3.1.	Sponsor's Purchase of Common Securities	24
SECTION 3.2.	Responsibilities of the Sponsor	24

ARTICLE IV
TRUSTEES AND ADMINISTRATORS

SECTION 4.1.	Number of Trustees	24
SECTION 4.2.	Delaware Trustee	24
SECTION 4.3.	Institutional Trustee; Eligibility	25
SECTION 4.4.	Certain Qualifications of the Delaware Trustee Generally	25
SECTION 4.5.	Administrators	25
SECTION 4.6.	Initial Delaware Trustee	26

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SECTION 4.7.	Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Trustees and the Administrators	26
SECTION 4.8.	Vacancies Among Trustees	28
SECTION 4.9.	Effect of Vacancies	28
SECTION 4.10.	Meetings of the Trustees and the Administrators	28
SECTION 4.11.	Delegation of Power	28
SECTION 4.12.	Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business	29

ARTICLE V
DISTRIBUTIONS

SECTION 5.1.	Distributions	29

ARTICLE VI
ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES

SECTION 6.1.	General Provisions Regarding Securities	30
SECTION 6.2.	Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, Calculation Agent and Registrar	31
SECTION 6.3.	Form and Dating	31
SECTION 6.4.	Book-Entry Capital Securities	32
SECTION 6.5.	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates	34
SECTION 6.6.	Temporary Securities	34
SECTION 6.7.	Cancellation	34
SECTION 6.8.	Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults	35

ARTICLE VII
DISSOLUTION AND TERMINATION OF TRUST

SECTION 7.1.	Dissolution and Termination of Trust	36

ARTICLE VIII
TRANSFER OF INTERESTS

SECTION 8.1.	General	37
SECTION 8.2.	Transfer Procedures and Restrictions	38
SECTION 8.3.	Deemed Security Holders	42

ARTICLE IX
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES, TRUSTEES OR OTHERS

SECTION 9.1.	Liability	42
SECTION 9.2.	Exculpation	43
SECTION 9.3.	Fiduciary Duty	43
SECTION 9.4.	Indemnification	44
SECTION 9.5.	Outside Businesses	47
SECTION 9.6.	Compensation; Fee	47

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ARTICLE X
ACCOUNTING

SECTION 10.1.	Fiscal Year	48
SECTION 10.2.	Certain Accounting Matters	48
SECTION 10.3.	Banking	49
SECTION 10.4.	Withholding	49

ARTICLE XI
AMENDMENTS AND MEETINGS

SECTION 11.1.	Amendments	49
SECTION 11.2.	Meetings of the Holders of the Securities; Action by Written Consent	51

ARTICLE XII
REPRESENTATIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL TRUSTEE AND DELAWARE TRUSTEE

SECTION 12.1.	Representations and Warranties of Institutional Trustee	53
SECTION 12.2.	Representations and Warranties of Delaware Trustee	54

ARTICLE XIII
MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 13.1.	Notices	54
SECTION 13.2.	Governing Law	56
SECTION 13.3.	Submission to Jurisdiction	56
SECTION 13.4.	Intention of the Parties	56
SECTION 13.5.	Headings	56
SECTION 13.6.	Successors and Assigns	57
SECTION 13.7.	Partial Enforceability	57
SECTION 13.8.	Counterparts	57

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ANNEXES AND EXHIBITS
ANNEX I	Terms of TP Securities and Common Securities	A-I-1
EXHIBIT A-1	Form of Capital Security Certificate	A-1-1
EXHIBIT A-2	Form of Common Security Certificate	A-2-1

LASALLE NATIONAL TRUST DELAWARE,
as Delaware Trustee


By:
	Name:
	Title:
LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Institutional Trustee


By:
	Name:
	Title:
WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.,
as Sponsor


By:
	Name:
	Title:



Name: Brian E. Cho
Administrator



Name: Soo Bong Min
Administrator

Special Redemption During the 12-Month Period Beginning September 15		Percentage of Principal Amount

2008		103.140%
2009		102.355%
2010		101.570%
2011		100.785%
2012 and thereafter		100.000%

Wilshire Statutory Trust IV


By:
	Name:
	Title:	Administrator

Dated:

LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Institutional Trustee


By:
	Authorized Signatory
Dated:

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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
SECTION 1.1.	Definitions and Interpretation	1
ARTICLE II
POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF THE GUARANTEE TRUSTEE

SECTION 2.1.	Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee	4
SECTION 2.2.	Certain Rights of the Guarantee Trustee	5
SECTION 2.3.	Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Guarantee	7
SECTION 2.4.	Events of Default; Waiver	7
SECTION 2.5.	Events of Default; Notice	8

ARTICLE III
THE GUARANTEE TRUSTEE

SECTION 3.1.	The Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility	8
SECTION 3.2.	Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee	9

ARTICLE IV
GUARANTEE

SECTION 4.1.	Guarantee	10
SECTION 4.2.	Waiver of Notice and Demand	10
SECTION 4.3.	Obligations Not Affected	10
SECTION 4.4.	Rights of Holders	11
SECTION 4.5.	Guarantee of Payment	12
SECTION 4.6.	Subrogation	12
SECTION 4.7.	Independent Obligations	12
SECTION 4.8.	Enforcement	12

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ARTICLE V
LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS; SUBORDINATION

SECTION 5.1.	Limitation of Transactions	13
SECTION 5.2.	Ranking	13

ARTICLE VI
TERMINATION

SECTION 6.1.	Termination	14

ARTICLE VII
INDEMNIFICATION

SECTION 7.1.	Exculpation	14
SECTION 7.2.	Indemnification	14
SECTION 7.3.	Compensation; Reimbursement of Expenses	15

ARTICLE VIII
MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 8.1.	Successors and Assigns	16
SECTION 8.2.	Amendments	16
SECTION 8.3.	Notices	16
SECTION 8.4.	Benefit	17
SECTION 8.5.	Governing Law	17
SECTION 8.6.	Counterparts	17

Wilshire Bancorp, Inc., as Guarantor

By:
Name:
Title:

LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Guarantee Trustee

By:
Name:
Title:

		WILSHIRE BANCORP, INC.

Date: November 9, 2007	By:	/s/ Soo Bong Min
		Soo Bong Min
		Chief Executive Officer

Date: November 9, 2007	By:	/s/ Brian E. Cho
		Brian E. Cho
		Chief Financial Officer