Company: MBINL
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032188
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Company: Merchants Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 registered public accounting firm for 
 the year ending December 31, 2025; and                                                                                       |

| (4) | The transaction of such other matters as may properly come before the meeting and any adjournment or postponement of the meeting. |

| RECORD 
 DATE   | In                                                                                                                                             
 order to vote, you must have been a holder of our common stock at the close of business on March 21, 2025.                                     |
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| PROXY  
 VOTING | It                                                                                                                                             
 is important that your shares be represented and voted at the meeting. You can vote your shares electronically, by telephone, or by completing 
 and returning the proxy card. Voting instructions are printed on the proxy card. You can revoke a proxy at any time before its exercise        
 at the meeting by following the instructions in the proxy statement.                                                                           |

| BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS   |
| Michael F. Petrie                    |
| Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |

April 4, 2025 MERCHANTS BANCORP PROXY STATEMENT ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS May 15, 2025 These proxy materials are furnished in connection with the solicitation by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Merchants Bancorp(the “Company,” “Merchants,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) , an Indiana corporation, of proxies to be used at the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders of the Company (the “Annual Meeting”) and at any adjournments or postponements of such meeting. In accordance with rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), instead of mailing a printed copy of our proxy materials to each shareholder of record, we make available proxy materials, which include the Notice of Annual Meeting, this proxy statement, and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 (“Annual Report”), on the internet unless otherwise instructed by the shareholder. If you received the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the “Notice”) by mail and would like to receive a printed copy of our proxy materials, you should follow the instructions for requesting such materials included in the Notice. The Notice is first being mailed to shareholders and we intend to provide access to the proxy materials to the shareholders of record beginning on or about April 4, 2025. This Proxy Statement and our Annual Report are available at: investors.merchantsbancorp.com GENERAL INFORMATION