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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-018694"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SYBT"
cik: "0000835324"
company_name: "Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T09:44:01.491128+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stock Yards Bancorp drops Forvis Mazars as auditor for FY2025 after RFP process

## Summary
- Notified Forvis Mazars on May 21, 2025 it will not be engaged for fiscal year 2025 following a competitive request-for-proposal process.
- Forvis reports for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 were unqualified; no disagreements or reportable events.
- Decision was based on corporate governance review, not any accounting or auditing dispute.
- New independent auditor will be selected and disclosed once the evaluation is completed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-018694
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SYBT
- cik: 0000835324
- company_name: Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/835324/000143774925018694/0001437749-25-018694-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/835324/000143774925018694/sybt20250528_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. dismissed Forvis Mazars, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Forvis Mazars, LLP
  source text: On May 21, 2025, upon the decision of the Audit Committee, the Company notified Forvis that it would not be engaged to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/835324/000143774925018694/0001437749-25-018694-index.htm

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