First Savings Financial Group, Inc. Announces Redemption of Subordinated Notes

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., May 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Savings Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSFG) (the “Company”), the holding company for First Savings Bank (the “Bank”), announced today the redemption of $20.0 million of subordinated notes, at par, on April 30, 2025. The subordinated notes were issued by the Company on September 20, 2018 as a 5.95% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Note due 2028, in the principal amount of $20.0 million. Prior to redemption, the subordinated notes were floating rate and yielded 7.66%. In order to consummate the redemption, the Bank paid the Company a dividend of $19.0 million, which the Bank funded with a like dollar amount of short-term wholesale borrowings at a rate of 4.48%. Subsequent to the dividend, the Bank maintained leverage and total risk-based capital ratios in excess of 9.0% and 12.0%, respectively, as of March 31, 2025. Subsequent to the redemption, the Company maintained leverage and total risk-based capital ratios in excess of 9.0% and 12.0%, respectively, as of April 30, 2025.