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Issuer:     MERCANTILE BANK CORP (MBWM)
CIK:        0001042729
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-09-25T20:15:49+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-26-031227
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.20
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Mercantile Bank approves $3M bonus pool tied to Eastern Michigan Bank merger, Jack Henry conversion
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- Board approved the 2026-2027 Merger Integration and Core Conversion Bonus Plan on Sept. 24, 2026, creating a $3,000,000 aggregate cash bonus pool.
- Pool rewards employees, including executive officers, for integrating the Eastern Michigan Bank merger and converting Mercantile's core and digital banking systems to the Jack Henry platform.
- Compensation Committee has sole discretion over participants and award amounts; no minimum award is guaranteed and none, part or all of the pool may be granted.
- Earned awards pay on or before March 31, 2027; recipients must be active employees (medical leave excepted), while suspended or final-written-warning employees are ineligible.
- Awards are subject to recovery under the company's Oct. 2, 2023 Dodd-Frank/Nasdaq Rule 5608 clawback policy; the plan is effective immediately and governed by Michigan law.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1042729/000143774926031227/0001437749-26-031227-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1042729/000143774926031227/mbwm20260921_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-031227

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