secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Columbia Financial, Inc. (CLBK)
CIK:        0001723596
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-06-25T20:44:12+00:00
Accession:  0001723596-26-000029
Event type: m_and_a
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Shareholders approve conversion and merger with Northfield Bancorp at annual meeting
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- Plan of Conversion and Reorganization approved with 97.6M votes for, 168k against.
- Merger with Northfield Bancorp approved: 97.6M for, 206k against, 2.8M broker non-votes.
- Directors Dennis Gibney, Robert Van Dyk, James Wainwright elected to three-year terms.
- KPMG ratified as independent auditor for FY2026 with 100.2M votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved; company will hold annual vote based on 1-year frequency.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359626000029/0001723596-26-000029-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359626000029/clbk-20260625.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001723596-26-000029

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