BBCN to Rebrand as Hope Bancorp After Completing Wilshire Deal: BBCN Bancorp in Los Angeles will rebrand itself as Hope Bancorp after buying Wilshire Bancorp. The $8.1 billion-asset BBCN also plans to change the name of its banking subsidiary to Bank of Hope after the deal closes.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Bank of Hope is the largest bank focused on Korean Americans . it offers commercial banking loan and deposit products through 63 branches in California, Washington, Texas, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama . BBCN was an acronym for Business Bank of Center and Nara . in 2017, the bank acquired U & I Financial Corp, based in Seattle .