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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-039039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FCBC"
cik: "0000859070"
company_name: "FIRST COMMUNITY BANKSHARES INC /VA/"
filed_at: "2025-12-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T11:56:57.772755+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Community Bankshares gets Virginia BFI approval for Union Bank merger; final regulatory condition met

## Summary
- Received Virginia Bureau of Financial Institutions approval to merge Union Bank into First Community Bank.
- This BFI approval satisfies the final regulatory condition for the Hometown Bancshares merger.
- Transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in Q1 2026.
- Merger Agreement was dated July 19, 2025 between First Community Bankshares and Hometown Bancshares.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-039039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FCBC
- cik: 0000859070
- company_name: FIRST COMMUNITY BANKSHARES INC /VA/
- filed_at: 2025-12-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/859070/000143774925039039/0001437749-25-039039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/859070/000143774925039039/fcbc20251231_8k.htm

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