Company: SFNC
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEFR14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000480
Chunk: 20

Company: SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEFR14A
Chunk 20
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 it is in the best interest of the Company to provide flexibility in the Company’s leadership structure to address differences in the Company’s operating environment as well as differences in the experience, skills, and capabilities of the executive management team serving the Company from time to time. While the Board believes the unification of the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer positions is currently in the Company’s and shareholders’ best interests, the Board is authorized to separate these positions should circumstances change in the future. Codes of Ethics Code of Ethics — General .The Company has adopted a general Code of Ethics applicable to all directors, advisory directors, officers, and associates of the Company. The Code of Ethics is designed to promote conducting the business of the Company in accordance with the highest ethical standards of conduct and to promote the ethical handling of conflicts of interest, full and fair disclosure, and compliance with laws, rules, and regulations. Additionally, under the Code of Ethics, directors, advisory directors, officers, and associates who learn of a business opportunity in the course of their service for the Company generally cannot appropriate that opportunity for themselves or for others, but must allow the Company to take advantage of the opportunity. The Company’s Code of Ethics is designed to provide guidance and resources to help ensure that: •The Company and its directors, advisory directors, officers, and associates comply with applicable laws and regulations; •The Company’s assets are used efficiently and appropriately; •Confidential and proprietary information is protected; •The Company’s directors, advisory directors, officers, and associates comply with the Company’s Insider Trading Policy, as well as the laws, rules, and regulations that regulate transactions in the Company’s stock; •Inappropriate gifts or favors are not accepted; and •Actual or perceived conflicts of interest are appropriately addressed. Any material departure from a provision of the Code of Ethics by a director, advisory director, officer, or associate may be waived by the Ethics Committee (in the case of an officer or associate (other than an executive officer)) or the NCGC (in the case of a director, advisory director, or executive officer) and shall, as appropriate, be reported to the Board, and any such waiver will be promptly disclosed on the Company’s website to the extent required by applicable law, rule, or regulation. The Company will disclose any amendments with respect to its Code of Ethics on its website. Code of Ethics for Finance Group .The Board has adopted a separate Finance Group Code of Ethics that supplements the Code of Ethics and applies to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief