United Commercial Bank
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United Commercial Bank | |
Type | Public (NASDAQ: UCBH) |
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Founded | San Francisco, CA (1974) |
Headquarters | San Francisco, CA |
Key people | Thomas S. Wu, Chairman, President & CEO |
Industry | Finance and Insurance |
Products | Banking |
Revenue | $432.5 million USD ( $97.8M FY 2005) |
Employees | 1,098 |
Website | www.ibankunited.com |
United Commercial Bank (聯合商業銀行) is a overseas Chinese bank in the United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It is a subsidiary of UCBH Holdings. Founded in 1974 as United Federal Savings and Loan Association, it changed its name to United Savings Bank, and finally United Commercial Bank in 1998. It has operations and branches located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Stockton, Los Angeles and Orange Counties, New York, Boston, Greater Seattle Area, Hong Kong, and two representative branches in Taipei, Taiwan and Shenzhen, China.
On September 19, 2006, UCBH announced that it was aquiring Summit Bank Corp. This would add branch locations in Atlanta, Houston, and Shanghai.