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What Do They Do?

Takes deposits and makes residential and commercial real estate, business and consumer loans, and provides wealth management services to consumers, businesses and municipalities.

How Do They Make Money?

Earns its main income from the difference between interest on loans and investments and interest paid on deposits and borrowings; fees, service charges and wealth management income also contribute.

FY2025 revenue

Who Are Their Customers?

The bank takes deposits from the general public and makes loans to households, businesses and municipalities. Loan referrals come from commercial customers, real estate brokers and builders; bank staff and advertising also generate leads.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Yes. It kept 9 cents of every revenue dollar as net income in FY2025 and turned 10 cents into free cash flow.

Net income, FY2025
9% of revenue
▼ −33% vs FY2024 ($12.1M, 14%)
Free cash flow, FY2025
10% of revenue
▲ +34% vs FY2024 ($6.7M, 8%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2025 annual report
Latest quarter: Q2 FY2026, the three months to Jun 30, 2026
Revenue
▲ +2%
vs $22.7M in Q2 FY2025
Net income
▼ −3%
vs $2.2M in Q2 FY2025
  • Jul 21, 2026 Agreed to merge with First Financial Bancorp. Finward and Peoples Bank are expected to merge into First Financial and First Financial Bank, subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals.
  • Jul 6, 2026 Regulators terminated Peoples Bank’s memorandum of understanding The FDIC and Indiana’s financial regulator ended the MOU effective immediately.

Growing. Revenue grew 81% in 4 years, from $50.7M in FY2021 to $91.8M in FY2025, about 16% a year.

Captive insurance The older report included NWIN Risk Management, a captive insurance company, among Finward’s activities; the latest describes it as a holding company only for Peoples Bank.

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