# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001435508
**File Stem:** 0001193125-26-209366
**Filing Date:** 2026-5
**Character Count:** 4183
**Document Hash:** 799ba2d006220f5764360e3a1e96b210
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-26-209366.hdr.sgml**: 20260506

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-26-209366

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 15-15D

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260506

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260506

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260506

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** First Savings Financial Group, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001435508
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SAVINGS INSTITUTION, FEDERALLY CHARTERED [6035]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 371567871
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** IN
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0930

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 15-15D
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-154417
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26949658

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 702 NORTH SHORE DRIVE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 300
- **CITY:** JEFFERSONVILLE
- **STATE:** IN
- **ZIP:** 47130
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 812-283-0724

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 702 NORTH SHORE DRIVE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 300
- **CITY:** JEFFERSONVILLE
- **STATE:** IN
- **ZIP:** 47130

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** First Savings Financial Group Inc
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20080519

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**FORM 15** 

**CERTIFICATION AND NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION** 

**UNDER SECTION 12(g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934** 

**OR SUSPENSION OF DUTY TO FILE REPORTS UNDER SECTIONS 13 AND 15(d)** 

**OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.** 

**Commission File Number: 333-154417** 

## FIRST SAVINGS BANK EMPLOYEES' SAVINGS & PROFIT SHARING PLAN
**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)** 

**c/o First Merchants Corporation** 

**200 East Jackson Street** 

**Muncie, Indiana 47305** 

**(765) 747-1500** 

**(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)** 

**Plan Interests in the First Savings Bank Employees' Savings & Profit Sharing Plan** 

**(Title of each class of securities covered by this Form)** 

**First Merchants Corporation Common Stock, $0.125 stated value per share\*** 

**(Titles of all other classes of securities for which a duty to file reports under section 13(a) or 15(d) remains)** 

Please place an X in the box(es) to designate the appropriate rule provision(s) relied upon to terminate or suspend the duty to file reports:

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|:---|:---|
|  Rule 12g-4(a)(1) | ☐ |
|  Rule 12g-4(a)(2) | ☐ |
|  Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(i) | ☒ |
|  Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(ii) | ☐ |
|  Rule 15d-6 | ☐ |
|  Rule 15d-22(b) | ☐ |

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Approximate number of holders of record as of the certification or notice date: **None\***

\* Effective May 4, 2026, First Merchants Corporation merged the First Savings Bank Employees' Savings & Profit Sharing Plan (the "FSB Plan") with and into the First Merchants Corporation Retirement and Income Savings Plan (the "Plan Merger"). As a result of the Plan Merger, interests in the FSB Plan, which previously constituted securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no longer exist. Pursuant to Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(i), this Form 15 is being filed to reflect the suspension of the FSB Plan's duties to file reports under Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the First Savings Bank Employees' Savings & Profit Sharing Plan has caused this certification/notice to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned duly authorized person.

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|:---|:---|:---|
|  | **FIRST SAVINGS BANK EMPLOYEES' SAVINGS & PROFIT SHARING PLAN**<br> By: First Merchants Corporation (as successor by merger to First Savings Financial Group, Inc., the parent company of First Savings Bank) | **FIRST SAVINGS BANK EMPLOYEES' SAVINGS & PROFIT SHARING PLAN**<br> By: First Merchants Corporation (as successor by merger to First Savings Financial Group, Inc., the parent company of First Savings Bank) |
| Date: May 6, 2026 | By: | /s/ Michele M. Kawiecki |
|  |  | Michele M. Kawiecki |
|  |  | Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer |

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