FIRST MERCHANTS CORP

For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 29, 2024.

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FY2023 · Filed Feb 29, 2024

FRME$41.43+1.5%Stored close · as of Nov 9, 2026

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Glossary of Defined Terms

2021 CAA	The 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act, signed into law on December 27, 2020, provided the annual funding for the federal government and also contained several rules giving further COVID-19 relief
ACL	Allowance for Credit Losses
ASC	Accounting Standards Codification
ASU	Accounting Standards Update
AOCI	Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
Bank	First Merchants Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Corporation
BOLI	Bank owned life insurance
BHC Act	Bank Holding Company Act of 1956
BSA	Bank Secrecy Act
BTFP	Bank Term Funding Program created by the Federal Reserve in March 2023
CARES Act	Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act
CECL	FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, adopted by the Corporation on January 1, 2021.
CET1	Common equity tier 1
CFPB	Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
CME Term SOFR	A forward-looking term Secured Overnight Financing Rate, as administered by CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited.
CODM	Chief operating decision maker
Corporation	First Merchants Corporation
COVID or COVID-19	2019 novel coronavirus disease, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020.
CRA	The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
DEI	Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Dodd-Frank Act	Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Economic Growth Act	The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act enacted in May 2018.
EITF	FASB’s Emerging Issues Task Force
ERISA	Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
ERM	Enterprise risk management
ESG	Environmental, social and governance
ESPP	Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Exchange Act	Securities Exchange Act of 1934
FASB	Financial Accounting Standards Board
FDIC	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDICIA	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991
Federal Reserve	Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
FHLB	Federal Home Loan Bank
FOMC	Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary policymaking body of the Federal Reserve System
FTE	Fully taxable equivalent
GAAP	Accounting Principles Generally Accepted in the United States of America
Hoosier	Hoosier Trust Company, which was acquired by the Bank on April 1, 2021
Indiana DFI	Indiana Department of Financial Institutions
IRA	Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
IRS	Internal Revenue Service
Level One	Level One Bancorp, Inc., which was acquired by the Corporation on April 1, 2022.
LIBOR Act	Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act enacted on March 15, 2022
LIHTC	Low income housing tax credit
MBT	MBT Financial Corp., which was acquired by the Corporation on September 1, 2019.
OREO	Other real estate owned
PCD	Purchased credit deteriorated loans
PDIF	Public Deposit Insurance Fund
PPP	Paycheck Protection Program, which was established by the CARES Act and implemented by the Small Business Administration to provide small business loans.
ROU	Right of Use
RSA	Restricted Stock Awards
Sarbanes-Oxley Act	Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Savings Plan	The First Merchants Corporation Retirement and Income Savings Plan
SBA	Small Business Administration
SEC	Securities and Exchange Commission
SOFR	Secured Overnight Funding Rate
Treasury	U.S. Department of Treasury

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