Opus Bank Announces Addition to S&P SmallCap 600 Index

IRVINE, Calif.--()--Opus Bank (“Opus”) (NASDAQ: OPB) announced today that it will be added to the S&P SmallCap 600® Index after the market closes on Friday, April 29, 2016. Opus will also be added to the S&P SmallCap 600® Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) Regional Banks Sub-Industry index.

The S&P SmallCap 600® measures the small-cap segment of the U.S. equity market. The S&P SmallCap 600® is designed to measure the performance of 600 small-size companies in the U.S., reflecting this market segment’s distinctive risk and return characteristics. The index is designed to track companies that meet investability and financial viability criteria. The S&P SmallCap 600® is part of a series of S&P Dow Jones U.S. equity indices that can be used as mutually exclusive building blocks; the index does not overlap holdings with the S&P 500® or S&P MidCap 400®. Together these indices form the S&P Composite 1500®.

About Opus Bank

Opus Bank is an FDIC insured California-chartered commercial bank with $6.9 billion of total assets, $5.8 billion of total loans, and $5.2 billion in total deposits as of March 31, 2016. Opus Bank provides high-value, relationship-based banking products, services, and solutions to its clients through its Retail Bank, Commercial Bank, Merchant Bank, and Correspondent Bank. Opus Bank offers a suite of treasury and cash management and depository solutions and a wide range of loan products, including commercial, healthcare, technology, multifamily residential, commercial real estate, and structured finance, and is an SBA preferred lender. Opus Bank offers commercial escrow services and facilitates 1031 Exchange transactions through its Escrow and Exchange divisions. Opus Bank provides clients with financial and advisory services related to raising equity capital, targeted acquisition and divestiture strategies, general mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, balance sheet restructuring, valuation, strategy, and performance improvement through its Merchant Banking division and its broker-dealer subsidiary, Opus Financial Partners. Opus Bank’s subsidiary, PENSCO Trust Company, is a leading tech-enabled alternative asset IRA custodian with approximately $11 billion of custodial assets and over 45,000 clients, which are comprised of self-directed investors, financial institutions, capital raisers, and financial advisors. Opus Bank operates 58 client experience centers, including 33 in California, 22 in the Seattle/Puget Sound region in Washington, two in the Phoenix metropolitan area of Arizona, and one in Portland, Oregon. Opus Bank is an Equal Housing Lender. For additional information about Opus Bank, please visit our website: www.opusbank.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release may include forward-looking statements related to Opus’ plans, beliefs and goals, which involve certain risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking information presented in this press release is not a guarantee of future events, and actual events may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking information contained in this press release. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “intend” or “expect” or variations thereon or similar terminology. All such statements speak only as of the date made, and Opus undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Contacts

Opus Bank
Mr. Jeff L. Leonard, 949-251-8146
SVP, Dir. of Corporate Strategy/Communications

Contacts

Opus Bank
Mr. Jeff L. Leonard, 949-251-8146
SVP, Dir. of Corporate Strategy/Communications