{"id":190377,"date":"2026-02-23T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190377\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:53:39","slug":"farmers-merchants-bank-of-long-beach-declares-first-quarter-cash-dividend-payment-of-28-per-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190377\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers &#038; Merchants Bank of Long Beach Declares First-Quarter Cash Dividend Payment of $28 Per Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">LONG BEACH, Calif.&#8211;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)&#8211;Farmers &amp; Merchants Bank of Long Beach (OTCQX: FMBL) today announced that its board of directors has approved the Bank\u2019s regular quarterly cash dividend of $28 per share on the Bank\u2019s common and preferred stock.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nThe quarterly dividend is payable on March 31, 2026, to shareholders of record as of March 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nThe declaration represents F&amp;M\u2019s 536th dividend payment. F&amp;M has paid a dividend each year to shareholders since 1916, and the value of F&amp;M\u2019s quarterly dividend has never decreased.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nAbout Farmers &amp; Merchants Bank of Long Beach<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nFounded in Long Beach in 1907 by C.J. Walker, Farmers &amp; Merchants Bank provides white-glove service to clients at 27 branches from San Clemente to Santa Barbara, as well as through its Online and Mobile Banking platforms. The Bank offers commercial and small business banking, business loan programs, home loans, and a robust offering of consumer retail banking products, including checking, savings and youth accounts. Farmers &amp; Merchants Bank is a California state-chartered bank with deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Member FDIC) and an Equal Housing Lender. For more information about F&amp;M, please visit the website, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fmb.com&amp;esheet=54429963&amp;newsitemid=20260223522073&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=www.fmb.com&amp;index=1&amp;md5=1f487f90fe92f12b8ad001fd3d2c2d9e\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\">www.fmb.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Farmers &amp; Merchants Bank of Long Beach (OTCQX: FMBL) today announced that its board of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-190377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}