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Cathay Bank: Deposit Base

Data as of · Call Report Schedules RC-E and RC-O How we update

How the bank is funded. Core deposits are the stable, mostly-insured relationship money; brokered and uninsured balances are the fastest to leave. The 2023 regional bank failures were runs on uninsured deposits, which is why that share now gets read first.

The standout move of Q2 2026 was in Transaction accounts to domestic deposits: 2.97 percentage points higher than in Q1 2026, at 9.55%. On total deposits, Cathay Bank ranks 5th highest among the 114 banks headquartered in California, at $21.12B (Q2 2026). Cathay Bank reported $21.12B on total deposits for Q2 2026, 17% above the $18.03B median for banks in the $10B-100B asset tier.

Deposit totals

Deposit totals for Cathay Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Total deposits $21.12B
Domestic office deposits $20.86B
Foreign office deposits $252.2M
Deposits to total assets 85.69%
Deposits to total liabilities 98.03%

Deposit composition

Deposit composition for Cathay Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Demand deposits $1.19B
Savings deposits $1.39B
Transaction accounts to domestic deposits 9.55%
Time deposits $44K
Time deposits under $100k $1.52B
Time deposits $100k to $250k $2.40B
Time deposits over $250k $5.45B
Noninterest-bearing share of deposits 17.15%

Stability of funding

Stability of funding for Cathay Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Core deposits $13.63B
Core deposits to total deposits 64.54%
Insured deposits $10.72B
Uninsured deposits $10.39B
Uninsured deposits to total deposits 49.22%
Brokered deposits $1.80B
Brokered deposits to total deposits 8.53%

Cost of deposits

Cost of deposits for Cathay Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Cost of interest-bearing deposits 2.83%
Interest expense on deposits $121.8M
Loans and leases to core deposits 133.75%

Deposit Base trend

Last 12 quarters as filed. Every value plotted here also appears in the tables above.

Total deposits
Core, uninsured and brokered shares
Cost of interest-bearing deposits

Deposit Base by quarter

Values plotted above, Cathay Bank, oldest first
Quarter Total depositsCore depositsUninsured depositsBrokered depositsCost of interest-bearing deposits
Q3 2023 $19.66B 65.08% 45.76% 7.05% 3.25%
Q4 2023 $19.35B 63.77% 45.03% 7.87% 3.55%
Q1 2024 $19.87B 62.75% 44.40% 9.03% 3.77%
Q2 2024 $19.81B 63.29% 45.43% 7.73% 3.92%
Q3 2024 $19.98B 62.94% 45.96% 7.37% 3.98%
Q4 2024 $19.74B 65.38% 47.80% 5.35% 3.76%
Q1 2025 $19.84B 65.11% 46.66% 5.92% 3.37%
Q2 2025 $20.03B 64.52% 47.33% 6.65% 3.35%
Q3 2025 $20.54B 64.48% 48.49% 7.06% 3.32%
Q4 2025 $20.91B 64.68% 48.74% 7.59% 3.15%
Q1 2026 $20.70B 64.51% 48.68% 7.32% 2.90%
Q2 2026 $21.12B 64.54% 49.22% 8.53% 2.83%

Cathay Bank deposit base, all the way back

Deposit Base back to 2001 · peer percentiles on every line item · Excel export

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Source: Call Report Schedules RC-E and RC-O, as filed with the FFIEC and standardized by BankRegReports. Dollar amounts are as reported, point-in-time; income statement items are year-to-date through the report date. See the full Cathay Bank profile, peer group comparison, or how this data updates.

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