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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001505732-22-000132"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BWFG"
cik: "0001505732"
company_name: "Bankwell Financial Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-05-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T07:10:32.354466+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bankwell Financial Group announces annual meeting voting results; all directors elected

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected; Castiglioni, Lampert, and Liss each received >20% withheld votes.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 63.74% for, 25.66% against, 10.60% abstain.
- 2022 Stock Plan approved with 64.87% for, 31.75% against, 3.38% abstain.
- RSM US LLP ratified as independent auditor for FY2022 with 99.02% for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001505732-22-000132
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BWFG
- cik: 0001505732
- company_name: Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-05-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1505732/000150573222000132/0001505732-22-000132-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1505732/000150573222000132/bwfg-20220525.htm

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