---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001734342-23-000077"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMTB"
cik: "0001734342"
company_name: "Amerant Bancorp Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T14:17:47.870926+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Amerant Bancorp amends Code of Conduct and Ethics with non-substantive updates

## Summary
- Amendments clarify confidentiality and communications with SEC and other regulators.
- Updated reporting violations procedures to include an Ethics and Compliance Hotline.
- Other administrative and non-substantive changes made; no waivers granted.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001734342-23-000077
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMTB
- cik: 0001734342
- company_name: Amerant Bancorp Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1734342/000173434223000077/0001734342-23-000077-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1734342/000173434223000077/amtb-20231206.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001734342-23-000077.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Amerant Bancorp Inc.: Approved an amendment to the Code of Conduct and Ethics, effective December 6, 2023, with clarifications on confidentiality, SEC communications, and reporting violations via an Ethics and Compliance Hotline (effective 2023-12-06).
  - Change: code of ethics
  - Effective: 2023-12-06
  source text: On December 6, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Amerant Bancorp Inc. (the “Company”), acting upon the recommendation of the Board’s Corporate Governance, Nominating and Sustainability Committee, approved an amendment to the Code of Conduct and Ethics of the Company effective as of December 6, 2023 (the “Code”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1734342/000173434223000077/0001734342-23-000077-index.htm

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