# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001435508
**File Stem:** 0001193125-26-048155
**Filing Date:** 2026-2
**Character Count:** 3244
**Document Hash:** 8ee7798a76bc37b0fffdf21f010577b3
**Contains OCR:** False
**Source Format:** 

## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-26-048155.hdr.sgml**: 20260212

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-26-048155

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 15-12G

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260212

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260212

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260212

**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:** 15-12G
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-34155
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26624858

**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: 001-34155** 

## FIRST SAVINGS FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
**(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)** 

**Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share** 

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

**None** 

**(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**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, First Merchants Corporation, as successor to First Savings Financial Group, Inc., has caused this certification/notice to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned duly authorized person.

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|:---|:---|:---|
|  | **FIRST MERCHANTS CORPORATION, as successor** | **FIRST MERCHANTS CORPORATION, as successor** |
|  | **by merger to First Savings Financial Group, Inc.** | **by merger to First Savings Financial Group, Inc.** |
| Date: February 12, 2026 | By: | /s/ Michele M. Kawiecki |
|  |  | Michele M. Kawiecki |
|  |  | Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer |

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