---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-23-003642"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMBH"
cik: "0000700565"
company_name: "FIRST MID BANCSHARES, INC."
filed_at: "2023-05-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T12:12:40.806407+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Mid Bancshares receives Federal Reserve approval for Blackhawk merger; still awaiting state nod

## Summary
- Federal Reserve Board approved First Mid's acquisition of Blackhawk Bancorp on May 26, 2023.
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions approval still pending; can be received no sooner than June 6, 2023.
- Closing expected in second half of 2023, subject to customary conditions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-23-003642
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMBH
- cik: 0000700565
- company_name: FIRST MID BANCSHARES, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-05-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700565/000117184323003642/0001171843-23-003642-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700565/000117184323003642/f8k_052623.htm

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