secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FIRST MERCHANTS CORP (FRME)
CIK:        0000712534
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-05-20T20:40:12+00:00
Accession:  0000712534-26-000041
Event type: other
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

First Merchants shareholders re-elect all nine directors, approve say-on-pay and auditor at 2026 annual meeting
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- All nine incumbent directors re-elected for one-year terms; votes for ranged from 36.8M to 45.3M, with most withheld votes between 360K and 8.9M.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 43.1M for, 2.2M against, 374K abstain, 7.4M broker non-votes.
- Forvis Mazars, LLP ratified as independent auditor for 2026: 51.1M for, 1.8M against, 77K abstain.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712534/000071253426000041/0000712534-26-000041-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712534/000071253426000041/frme-20260519.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000712534-26-000041

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