---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001698530-25-000044"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XCUR"
cik: "0001698530"
company_name: "EXICURE, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T08:18:44.423033+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Exicure receives Nasdaq delinquency notice for late Q1 2025 Form 10-Q filing

## Summary
- Received Nasdaq delinquency notice on May 21, 2025 for failure to timely file Form 10-Q for quarter ended March 31, 2025.
- Company has 60 calendar days to submit a compliance plan; Nasdaq may grant extension until November 17, 2025.
- Exicure is working diligently to complete and file the Form 10-Q as soon as practicable.
- Non-compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) requiring timely periodic financial reports.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001698530-25-000044
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XCUR
- cik: 0001698530
- company_name: EXICURE, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698530/000169853025000044/0001698530-25-000044-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698530/000169853025000044/xcur-20250521.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  EXICURE, INC. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding late filing (rules 5250(c)(1)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: deficiency notice
  - Deficiency: late filing
  - Rules: 5250(c)(1)
  source text: May 21, 2025, Exicure, Inc. (the “Company”) received a delinquency notification letter (the “Letter”) from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying the Company that due to the delay in filing the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025 (the “Form 10-Q”), the Company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires listed companies to timely file all periodic financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The Letter states that, the Company has 60 calendar da
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698530/000169853025000044/0001698530-25-000044-index.htm

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