WIBC Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. (MM)

Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIBC), will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss second quarter results on Thursday, July 27, 2006, at 1:30 p.m. PDT (4:30 p.m. EDT). The financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2006 will be released before market open on July 27, 2006. The conference call will be hosted by Brian Cho, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Joanne Kim, Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer. This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at www.wilshirebank.com. The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com, Thomson's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), a password-protected event management site, or by dialing toll-free 866-383-7989 and providing passcode number 51871478. About Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wilshire Bancorp is the parent company of Wilshire State Bank, which operates 18 branch offices in California, Texas and New York and seven Loan Production Offices in San Jose, Seattle, Las Vegas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver and Annandale, Virginia, and is an SBA preferred lender nationwide. The Bank is a community bank with a focus on commercial real estate lending and general commercial banking, with its primary market encompassing the multi-ethnic populations of the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. Wilshire Bancorp's strategic goals include increasing shareholder and franchise value by continuing to grow its multi-ethnic banking business and expanding its geographic reach to other similar markets with strong levels of small business activity.