Important Notices

August 06, 2007

DFI Extends Deadline for 2007 Executive Officer and Director Compensation Survey

If you have already completed and returned the form for the Executive Officer and Director Compensation Survey, we thank you for your participation and support. If you have not, there is still time to participate in the 30th Annual Executive Officer and Director Compensation Survey.

Attached are forms for the 30th Annual Executive Officer and Director Compensation Survey as of June 30, 2007. You can also download the form from the DFI Web site here: http://www.dfi.ca.gov/publications/executive_summaries/.

In the 2006 survey, 132 out of 268 banks participated in the Executive Officer and Director Compensation Survey, a participation rate of 49.3% down slightly from the 51.1% rate in 2005. We hope that your participation in the survey will help increase the rate in 2007.

Your participation is entirely voluntary. Information regarding individuals will be kept confidential and will not be made available to any other participant or outside party. Please return the completed forms to Patrick Carroll at the Department of Financial Institutions, 111 Pine Street, #1100, San Francisco, CA 94601 by our extended deadline Friday, August 31, 2007.

The information that we collect will be compiled into a summary report that will be mailed without charge to participants on or about October 31, 2007. For an example of what you will receive, please refer to the survey results from past years, which are available on the DFI Web site at http://www.dfi.ca.gov/publications/executive_summaries/.

Contact the undersigned at (415) 263-8559 or e-mail licensing@dfi.ca.gov with any questions you may have. You may also fax completed surveys to (415) 288-8836 or email them as PDF attachments. We thank you for your participation in the Executive Officer and Director Compensation Survey.