East West Bancorp, Inc. (EWBC) Presents at Barclays 24th Annual Global Financial Services Conference Transcript

Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Jared Shaw. I cover the mid-cap banks here at Barclays. We're excited to start the mid-cap -- the first mid-cap panel or a fireside chat of our conference with Chris Del Moral-Niles from East West Bank, the CFO. Thanks a lot for coming.

It's always a great event, one that I've been delighted to participate alongside you, Jared, here for the last couple of years, and I look forward to many, many more in the years ahead. I will make sure everyone addresses Adrienne here in the front row, who I think you all know is Director of IR. And with us today is also Chris Mattern, our Treasurer. And so we've been having good dialogue with folks all this morning and look forward to good dialogues over the next day or so. Thanks for a full lineup up until 5:30 every day.

Great. Thanks. Well, just kicking it off, East West remains differentiated through its exposure to both U.S. and Asian markets. As you look across the franchise today, what do you think continues to