Preferred Bank (PFBC) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning, and welcome to the Preferred Bank Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Jeffrey Haas with Financial Profiles. Please go ahead. Thank you, Kim. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us to discuss Preferred Bank's financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025. With me today from management are Chairman and CEO Lee Yu, President and Chief Operating Officer Wellington Chen, Chief Financial Officer Edward Chayka, Chief Risk Officer Nick Pye, and Deputy Chief Operating Officer Johnny Hsu. Management will provide a brief summary of the results, and then we will open up the call to your questions. During the course of this conference call, statements made by management may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are based upon specific assumptions that may or may not prove correct. Forward-looking statements are also subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors relating to preferred banks, operations, and business environment, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of preferred banks. For a detailed description of these risks and uncertainties, please refer to the SEC-required documents the bank files with the Federal Deposit Insur...