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- Farmers Capital Bank Corporation Farmers Capital Bank Corporation (FFKT) operates as a financial holding company headquartered in Frankfort, Kentucky, and founded in 1982, providing a broad range of banking and related financial services through its subsidiaries primarily to individual, business, agricultural, government, and educational customers across Central and Northern Kentucky. The company offers core deposit products including checking accounts, savings accounts, term certificates, time deposits, and demand deposits; lending products such as residential mortgages, commercial loans, consumer installment loans, and agricultural loans secured by business assets, consumer assets, commercial real estate, and residential real estate; and additional services encompassing cash management, letters of credit, safe deposit boxes, funds transfers, trust and investment management, and insurance through nonbank subsidiaries like FFKT Insurance Services, Inc. It maintains approximately 34 banking locations in 21 communities, with its primary banking subsidiary, United Bank & Capital Trust Company, serving as the key operational entity following internal mergers of affiliates including Farmers Bank & Capital Trust Company, First Citizens Bank, and Citizens Bank of Northern Kentucky in 2017. In a significant strategic development, Farmers Capital Bank Corporation merged with and into WesBanco, Inc. in August 2018, resulting in the delisting of its common stock from NASDAQ and the integration of its operations, including United Bank & Capital Trust Company, into WesBanco Bank, Inc., thereby expanding WesBanco's footprint in key Kentucky markets such as Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville, Elizabethtown, and the Cincinnati area while enhancing wealth management capabilities with approximately $560 million in prior trust assets.