FDIC Cert #4365 · Muncie, Indiana · Est. 1893

First Merchants Bank - FDIC Bank Health Profile

A community-scale look at First Merchants Bank's own numbers, pulled straight from its quarterly FDIC Call Report.

Compiled from official public sources by the publisher.
$19.0B
Total assets
A
Health grade · Excellent
1.27%
Return on assets
11.9%
Tier 1 capital

Data updated July 2026

The verdict

First Merchants Bank earns a PlainBankData health grade of A (80/100), with well-capitalized at 11.86% Tier 1, profitable at 1.27% ROA, efficient (55% cost ratio).

#108
largest of 4,313 FDIC banks by assets
98th
percentile by asset size, nationally
11.86%
Tier 1 ratio - above the 10% well-capitalized line
62nd
percentile for profitability (ROA), nationally

The grade above reflects PlainBankData's own read of the bank's regulatory filings, not an FDIC judgment, deposit coverage stays at $250,000 per depositor, per category, unaffected by it.

FDIC Call Report plate

Cert 4365 · IN A · 80/100

GRADE-A · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · TIER1-WELL · TEXAS-CLEAN · ROA-STRONG · SIZE-LARGE · BOOK-FULL

  • GRADE-A A (80/100)
  • MID-PACK #1914/4307
  • PHOTO-FINISH The City National Ba… · OK
  • TIER1-WELL 11.9% Tier 1
  • TEXAS-CLEAN 2.8% Texas
  • ROA-STRONG 1.27% ROA
  • SIZE-LARGE $10–100B
  • BOOK-FULL 9/9 fields

Nearest health peer outside Indiana: The City National Bank and Trust Company of Lawton, Oklahoma, OK (±0 health pts)

Instrument codes from this bank’s FDIC Call Report sheet: grade band, health peer rank, photo-finish gap, Tier 1, Texas Ratio, ROA, size band, and book completeness. Not an official FDIC rating.

Health-score neighbourhood around First Merchants Bank

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest scored peers outside Indiana, not a full FDIC corpus board reprint.

Morgan Stanley Bank,… · UT ·…100/100First Dakota Nationa… · SD ·…80/100First Merchants Bank · IN · …80/100First National Bank… · AR · …80/100The City National Ba… · OK ·…80/100The First National B… · KS ·…80/100Tioga-Franklin Savin… · PA ·…0/100
PlainBankData health composite · neighbourhood around First Merchants Bank · July 2026

What First Merchants Bank's Call Report plate shows

First Merchants Bank (FDIC Cert #4365) carries a PlainBankData health grade of A at 80/100, built only from this bank's own Call Report Tier 1 capital, ROA, Texas Ratio, and efficiency inputs. On the scored corpus it sits at health rank #1,914 of 4,307. Tier 1 capital prints at 11.86%, clearing the 10% well-capitalized line. The Texas Ratio is 2.77%, inside the sub-50% band analysts treat as healthy. Return on assets is 1.27%. Balance-sheet scale is $19.0B, 108th of 4,313 FDIC-insured banks by assets. The nearest cross-state health peer is The City National Bank and Trust Company of Lawton, Oklahoma (OK), tied on the composite. These are instrument codes from the Call Report sheet, not an official FDIC CAMELS rating, and insured deposits stay protected to $250,000 per depositor per ownership category regardless of grade. Compare the plate stamps against the score breakdown and the health-score neighbourhood before treating any single ratio as decisive.

State failure history around First Merchants Bank

3 FAILURE resolutions in Indiana since 2000 (3 since 2008)

First Merchants Bank's home state sits in the middle band of post-2000 FAILURE counts (3; 3 since the 2008 crisis window). Recent named resolutions below are Failed Bank List rows for this state only; First Merchants Bank remains an active FDIC-insured reporter.

  • SCB BANK SHELBYVILLE, IN 2012 → FIRST MERCHANTS BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
  • INTEGRA BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION EVANSVILLE, IN 2011 → OLD NATIONAL BANK
  • IRWIN UNION BANK AND TRUST COMPANY COLUMBUS, IN 2009 → FIRST FINANCIAL BANK, N.A.

Source: FDIC Failed Bank List (resolution_type=FAILURE only; ASSISTANCE excluded). See the depositor failures guide and Indiana banks.

How First Merchants Bank's 80/100 score adds up

Each factor is scored from this bank's own FDIC Call Report figures, then summed to the composite health score.

0/100100/100National avg77/10080/100
First Merchants Bank's composite health score
Tier 1 Capital Ratio (11.86%) 28/40
Return on Assets (ROA) (1.27%) 20/25
Texas Ratio (2.77%) 20/20
Efficiency Ratio (54.97%) 12/15

80 of 100 points earned across four weighted factors. See our methodology for the full scoring formula.

Balance sheet at a glance

Total Assets

$19.0B

Total balance-sheet footings

Total Deposits

$15.3B

Customer-funded liabilities

Net Loans

$13.6B

Outstanding loan book

Net Income

$236M

Bottom-line earnings

Capital adequacy vs federal thresholds

0% 3% 6% 9% 12% 15% CET1 (≥6.5% req.) Tier 1 (≥8.0% req.) Total (≥10.0% req.) 10.46% 11.86% 13.26%
Basel III capital ratios - First Merchants Bank

Where First Merchants Bank ranks

Every one of the 4,307 FDIC-insured banks with a computed health score, bucketed by score. First Merchants Bank's score of 80/100 falls in the highlighted band.

First Merchants Bank: health score vs. every FDIC-insured bank

0-100 composite health score, FDIC Call Reports

80 Top 44% higher than 56% of 4,307 FDIC-insured banks

0–10: 3 FDIC-insured banks (0%). Below this entry. 10–20: 6 FDIC-insured banks (0%). Below this entry. 20–30: 26 FDIC-insured banks (1%). Below this entry. 30–40: 36 FDIC-insured banks (1%). Below this entry. 40–50: 98 FDIC-insured banks (2%). Below this entry. 50–60: 279 FDIC-insured banks (6%). Below this entry. 60–70: 777 FDIC-insured banks (18%). Below this entry. 70–80: 1,030 FDIC-insured banks (24%). Below this entry. 80–90: 1,237 FDIC-insured banks (29%). This entry sits in this band. 90–100: 815 FDIC-insured banks (19%). Above this entry. First Merchants Bank 0 100 every FDIC-insured bank with a health score, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more FDIC-insured banks. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FDIC Call Reports · July 2026

First Merchants Bank's size among FDIC-insured banks

Every one of the 4,307 FDIC-insured banks with reported assets, bucketed by total-asset scale (note the buckets are powers of 10, most banks cluster in the $100M-$1B range). First Merchants Bank's $19.0B falls in the highlighted band.

Safety ratios for First Merchants Bank

Tier 1 capital ratio
Well-capitalized 10%

11.86% of risk-weighted assets - above the federal "well-capitalized" threshold of 10%.

Tier 1 Capital Ratio
11.86%
Texas Ratio
2.77%
Equity Capital
$2.5B

What these ratios mean →

Earnings posture at First Merchants Bank

Return on Assets (ROA)
62nd percentile nationally
1.27%
Return on Equity (ROE)
9.95%
Efficiency Ratio
54.97%

What these mean →

Income & expense at First Merchants Bank

$925M
Interest Income
$124M
Non-Interest Income
$371M
Non-Interest Expense

Asset quality, Texas Ratio detail

The Texas Ratio compares troubled assets to the capital available to absorb losses. First Merchants Bank reports a Texas Ratio of 2.77% - comfortably in the healthy band; non-performing loans are a small fraction of the bank’s loss-absorbing capital.

Texas Ratio
Caution 50%

2.77% - lower is safer; 100% is the level at which troubled assets equal loss-absorbing capital.

FDIC Failed Bank List → View First Merchants Bank on FDIC BankFind →

Top banks in Indiana by total assets

Largest banks headquartered in Indiana
  1. 1
    Old National Bank $71.8B

    Evansville, IN · Grade B

  2. 2
    Merchants Bank of Indiana $19.4B

    Carmel, IN · Grade A

  3. 3
    First Merchants Bank $19.0B

    Muncie, IN · Grade A

  4. 4
    Centier Bank $9.7B

    Whiting, IN · Grade A

  5. 5
    1st Source Bank $9.1B

    South Bend, IN · Grade A

Top 5 banks in Indiana ranked by total assets · FDIC Call Report Q4 2025.

National size peers: banks closest to First Merchants Bank by assets

Measured strictly by total assets rather than geography, First Merchants Bank's closest national peers include Trustmark Bank, FirstBank Puerto Rico, Apple Bank, Merchants Bank of Indiana, spanning 6 different states -- a reminder that at this scale, competition and comparison happen nationally, not just within Indiana. Averaged across this asset-matched cohort, return on assets runs 1.12% (First Merchants Bank is above that at 1.27%), the efficiency ratio averages 55.16% (First Merchants Bank runs leaner at 54.97%), and Tier 1 capital averages 12.68% (First Merchants Bank holds less at 11.86%). None of this cohort competes on branch count alone -- balance-sheet scale, funding mix, and regulatory capital posture are the metrics that actually separate similarly-sized institutions.

At $19.0B in assets, First Merchants Bank has crossed the $10 billion threshold at which the CFPB takes over direct supervision for consumer-protection compliance under Dodd-Frank Act Section 1025, rather than leaving that oversight solely to the bank's primary prudential regulator.

Closest banks to First Merchants Bank nationally by total assets
  1. 1
    Trustmark Bank $18.9B

    Jackson, MS · Grade B

  2. 2
    FirstBank Puerto Rico $19.1B

    Santurce, PR · Grade A

  3. 3
    Apple Bank $19.2B

    New York, NY · Grade C

  4. 4
    Merchants Bank of Indiana $19.4B

    Carmel, IN · Grade A

  5. 5
    Stifel Bank and Trust $19.4B

    Saint Louis, MO · Grade A

  6. 6
    Bank of Hope $18.5B

    Los Angeles, CA · Grade B

Six FDIC-insured banks nearest in total assets nationwide, regardless of state.

Head-to-head against the six closest national size peers, same FDIC Call Report vintage.
BankStateAssetsROAEfficiencyTier 1
First Merchants Bank (this bank) IN $19.0B 1.27% 54.97% 11.86%
Trustmark Bank MS $18.9B 1.26% 62.79% 12.33%
FirstBank Puerto Rico PR $19.1B 1.69% 49.71% 15.60%
Apple Bank NY $19.2B 0.34% 78.94% 11.30%
Merchants Bank of Indiana IN $19.4B 1.20% 43.06% 12.84%
Stifel Bank and Trust MO $19.4B 1.82% 27.28% 11.18%
Bank of Hope CA $18.5B 0.42% 69.20% 12.82%

Nationwide banks with similar total assets

Nearest other-state banks with ≥$10M assets ($19.0B here), outside Indiana so the neighborhood is not state containment.

Trustmark Bank $18.9B · MS FirstBank Puerto Rico $19.1B · PR Apple Bank $19.2B · NY Stifel Bank and Trust $19.4B · MO

Source: FDIC BankFind Suite, Call Report (FFIEC 031/041) First Merchants Bank (FDIC Cert #4365) - Tier 1 capital ratio, total assets, deposits, ROA/ROE · 2025 FDIC Call Reports filed quarterly; latest publicly-available vintage shown. Health grades are PlainBankData's interpretation of regulatory filings and are not official FDIC ratings.

First Merchants Bank Call Report profile · FDIC Failed Bank List · Indiana FAILURE history · Informational only, not financial advice; consult a licensed professional before acting. See the disclaimer and methodology.

Other banks in Indiana

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BankAssetsGradeROA
Old National BankEvansville $71.8B B 1.16%
Merchants Bank of IndianaCarmel $19.4B A 1.20%
Centier BankWhiting $9.7B A 1.67%
1st Source BankSouth Bend $9.1B A 1.84%
German American BankJasper $8.4B A 1.46%
Lake City BankWarsaw $7.0B A 1.61%
Horizon BankMichigan City $6.4B C -1.96%
United Fidelity Bank, fsbEvansville $6.3B D -0.09%