---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-026117"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MBIN"
cik: "0001629019"
company_name: "Merchants Bancorp"
filed_at: "2025-03-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T10:14:20.111246+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Merchants Bancorp appoints Darin Thomas as Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Darin Thomas, 57, appointed CAO effective March 17, 2025; assumes duties from CFO Sean A. Sievers.
- Thomas previously served as Controller at Barclays' US Consumer Bank (2019-2025).
- He holds a B.S. in Accounting from University of Missouri-Columbia and is a licensed CPA.
- No family relationships with directors/executives; no material interests in related-party transactions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-026117
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MBIN
- cik: 0001629019
- company_name: Merchants Bancorp
- filed_at: 2025-03-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1629019/000110465925026117/0001104659-25-026117-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1629019/000110465925026117/tm259893d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-026117
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-026117.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-026117.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Darin Thomas was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Merchants Bancorp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On March 17, 2025, Merchants Bancorp (the “Company”) appointed Darin Thomas, 57, as its Chief Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1629019/000110465925026117/0001104659-25-026117-index.htm

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