AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Tompkins Financial (TMP)

Tompkins Financial sets new retirement plans for CFO Tomazin and CEO Romaine

Neutral Impact 2 of 5 leadership Written later

Tompkins Financial entered into a new defined contribution supplemental executive retirement plan for CFO Matthew Tomazin and a similar plan for CEO Stephen Romaine, both effective December 16, 2025. It also amended Romaine's existing defined benefit SERP so that a minimum senior incentive payment is used to calculate benefits. These are executive compensation changes, with no effect on reported results disclosed in the filing.

Key points

  • Company will contribute 20% of CFO Matthew Tomazin's base pay annually to his DC SERP, credited at Prime plus 1%
  • Company will contribute 15% of CEO Stephen Romaine's base pay annually to his DC SERP, credited at Prime plus 1%
  • Romaine's DB SERP earnings now use 50% of the greater of actual senior incentive paid or 70% of target senior incentive
  • Tomazin becomes fully vested in his DC SERP balance at the sixth anniversary of the effective date

The filing

CompanyTompkins Financial (TMP)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECDec 17, 2025, 4:24 PM ET
Accession number0001999371-25-020552

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 6:58 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on December 17, 2025.

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