# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001303942
**File Stem:** 0001437749-25-038306
**Filing Date:** 2025-12
**Character Count:** 6368
**Document Hash:** 78aa5f7ecbf0da620ac61de7de07685b
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001437749-25-038306.hdr.sgml**: 20251218

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001437749-25-038306

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251218

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251218

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251218

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** BankFinancial CORP
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001303942
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SAVINGS INSTITUTION, FEDERALLY CHARTERED [6035]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 000-51331
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251583788

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 60 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD
- **CITY:** BURR RIDGE
- **STATE:** IL
- **ZIP:** 60527
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (800) 894-6900

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 60 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD
- **CITY:** BURR RIDGE
- **STATE:** IL
- **ZIP:** 60527

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**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549**

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**FORM 8-K**

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**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF**

**THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 18, 2025**

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**BANKFINANCIAL CORPORATION**

**(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)**

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| **Maryland** | **0-51331** | **75-3199276** |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction**<br> **of Incorporation)** | **(Commission File No.)** | **(I.R.S. Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |

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| **60 North Frontage Road, Burr Ridge, Illinois** | **60527** |
| **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**s telephone number, including area code: (800)**

**Not Applicable**

**(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)**

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share<br> BFIN | The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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**Item 5.07**&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.**

**<u>Special Meeting Voting Results.</u>** The following are the results of the stockholder votes that were cast at the Special Meeting of Stockholders of BankFinancial Corporation (the "Company") held December 18, 2025. As of September 22, 2025, the record date for the special meeting, there were 12,460,678 shares of the Company's common stock issued and outstanding and eligible to be voted at the Special Meeting, and 9,230,346 shares of the Company's common stock were represented in person or by proxy at the Special Meeting, which represented approximately 74% of the Company's total outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at the Special Meeting.

**<u>Proposal No.</u>** <u>1</u>**<u>:</u>** The approval of the transaction**s** contemplated by the merger agreement by and between First Financial Bancorp and BankFinancial Corporation, dated as of August 11, 2025, (the "merger agreement") including the merger of BankFinancial Corporation with and into First Financial Bancorp. (collectively, the "merger proposal").

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| Number of votes cast FOR Proposal | 9149411 |
| Number of votes cast AGAINST Proposal | 71498 |
| Number of Abstentions | 9438 |
| Broker Non-Votes |  |

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**<u>Proposal No.</u>** <u>2</u>**<u>:</u>** The approval, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, of the merger-related compensation payments that will or may be paid to the named executive officers of BankFinancial Corporation in connection with the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.

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| Number of votes cast FOR the non-binding resolution | 8316993 |
| Number of votes cast AGAINST the non-binding resolution | 586486 |
| Number of Abstentions | 326868 |
| Broker Non-Votes |  |

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**<u>Proposal No.</u><u>3:</u>** A proposal to adjourn the special meeting, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes at the time of the special meeting to approve the merger proposal, or to ensure that any supplement or amendment to the accompanying proxy statement/prospectus is timely provided to BankFinancial stockholders (the "adjournment proposal").

There were a sufficient number of votes at the time of the special meeting to approve the merger proposal; accordingly, Proposal 3 was not acted upon at the special meeting.

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|  |  | **BANKFINANCIAL CORPORATION** | **BANKFINANCIAL CORPORATION** |
|  |  | (Registrant) | (Registrant) |
| Date: | December 18, 2025 | By: | <u>/s/ F. Morgan Gasior</u>  |
|  |  |  | F. Morgan Gasior |
|  |  |  | Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President |

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