DEFIANCE, Ohio, Jan. 23, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Rurban Financial Corp. (Nasdaq:RBNF), a leading provider of full-service community banking, investment management, trust services and bank data processing, announced their quarterly shareholder dividend will be $0.08, which represents a $0.01, or 14.3 percent, increase over the previous quarters. The dividend is payable on February 22, 2008 to all shareholders of record on February 8, 2008.
Kenneth A. Joyce, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are pleased to announce that on January 16, 2008, the Board of Directors approved an increase in our quarterly cash dividend to eight cents per share, which is representative of our continuing earnings improvement."
About Rurban Financial Corp.
Rurban Financial Corp. is a publicly-held financial services holding company based in Defiance, Ohio. Rurban's wholly-owned subsidiaries are The State Bank and Trust Company, including Reliance Financial Services; Rurbanc Data Services, Inc. (RDSI); and DCM. The State Bank and Trust Company offers financial services through its 18 branches in Allen, Defiance, Franklin, Fulton, Lucas, Paulding and Wood Counties, Ohio and Allen County, Indiana. Reliance Financial Services, a division of the Bank, offers a diversified array of trust and financial services to customers throughout the Midwest. RDSI and DCM provide data and item processing services to community banks in Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio and Wisconsin. Rurban's common stock is quoted on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol RBNF. The Company currently has 10,000,000 shares of stock authorized and 4,978,933 shares outstanding. The Company's website is http://www.rurbanfinancial.net.
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