---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-047103"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNOB"
cik: "0000712771"
company_name: "ConnectOne Bancorp, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T00:53:20.708702+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ConnectOne Bancorp receives Fed waiver for First of Long Island merger

## Summary
- Received Federal Reserve Bank of New York waiver from filing application for merger with The First of Long Island Corporation on May 9, 2025.
- Waiver removes a regulatory hurdle under the Bank Holding Company Act for the previously announced merger.
- Investor presentation for fixed-income investors filed as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-047103
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNOB
- cik: 0000712771
- company_name: ConnectOne Bancorp, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712771/000110465925047103/0001104659-25-047103-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712771/000110465925047103/tm2514692d1_8k.htm

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