secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HBT Financial, Inc. (HBT)
CIK:        0000775215
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-03-25T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000775215-26-000033
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

HBT Financial appoints Michael J. Morton to Board of Directors, effective April 1, 2026
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- Appointed to both HBT Financial and Heartland Bank and Trust Company boards.
- Term expires at 2026 Annual Meeting; eligible for re-election at that time.
- Morton served as Vice Chair of U.S. Commercial Banking at BMO from 2020 to 2023.
- Previously EVP and Chief Credit Officer of MB Financial (2014-2019); nearly 40 years of banking experience.
- Compensated under standard non-employee director program; no related-party transactions.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/775215/000077521526000033/0000775215-26-000033-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/775215/000077521526000033/hbt-20260324.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000775215-26-000033

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