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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-036854"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WRLD"
cik: "0000108385"
company_name: "WORLD ACCEPTANCE CORP"
filed_at: "2025-12-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T14:29:36.935224+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# World Acceptance EVP & Chief Branch Ops Officer Dyer to retire March 31, 2026

## Summary
- D. Clinton Dyer, EVP and Chief Branch Operations Officer, retires March 31, 2026 after 30 years.
- Compensation Committee approved $550,000 severance payable over 24 months, COBRA lump sum, and full vesting of time-based equity.
- Dyer also receives early retirement benefit under the 2005 Supplemental Income Plan.
- J. Tobin Turner, SVP of Strategy and Analytics, named interim head of branch operations.
- Transition period runs from December 4, 2025 through March 31, 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-036854
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WRLD
- cik: 0000108385
- company_name: WORLD ACCEPTANCE CORP
- filed_at: 2025-12-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/108385/000143774925036854/0001437749-25-036854-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/108385/000143774925036854/wrld20251203_8k.htm

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