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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-152744"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CCNE"
cik: "0000736772"
company_name: "CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA"
filed_at: "2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T15:08:31.853819+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CNB Financial and ESSA Bancorp receive regulatory approvals; merger close set for July 23

## Summary
- FDIC, PA Dept of Banking, and Fed Reserve Bank of Philadelphia approved the all-stock merger.
- ESSA will merge with and into CNB; ESSA Bank will merge with and into CNB Bank.
- Closing expected on July 23, 2025, subject to customary conditions.
- Transaction announced Jan 9, 2025; will expand CNB's footprint in eastern Pennsylvania.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-152744
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CCNE
- cik: 0000736772
- company_name: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
- filed_at: 2025-06-30T23:59:59+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/736772/000119312525152744/0001193125-25-152744-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/736772/000119312525152744/d70377d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-152744.txt

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