improved accuracy was largely attributable to the nonrenewal of a major Tax Provider contract that drove significant RA volume during the 2025 tax season and historically contributed greater variability to credit loss estimates.
Republic Payment Solutions
RPS reported net income of $1.9 million for the second quarter of 2026, compared with $2.4 million for the same period in 2025. The decline in net income was driven primarily by lower net interest income, reflecting a lower applied yield earned on the segment’s average deposit balances. The lower yield primarily resulted from the 75 basis point decline in the FFTR between the second quarters of 2025 and 2026. As a result, RPS earned a yield of 3.67% on average deposit balances of $370 million during the second quarter of 2026, compared with a yield of 4.28% on average deposit balances of $350 million during the second quarter of 2025.
Republic Credit Solutions(1)
RCS reported net income of $6.4 million for the second quarter of 2026, a decrease of $655,000, or 9%, from $7.0 million for the second quarter of 2025. Growth in RCS net interest income and program fees was more than offset by higher provision expense and noninterest expenses.
Net interest income and program fees benefited from strong origination growth across both RCS line of credit (“LOC”) products and the segment’s installment loan program. However, provision expense increased specifically due to growth in the segment’s LOC II product, which carries substantially higher provisioning requirements than the segment’s other lending products.
Noninterest expense also increased during the quarter, driven primarily by higher marketing costs. Comparisons to the prior-year period were further impacted by a $763,000 reimbursement recognized during the second quarter of 2025 related to the resolution of a prior-period billing dispute. As a result, the combined impact of higher provision and operating expenses more than offset the benefit of revenue growth, resulting in lower net income for the quarter.
Republic Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) is the parent company of Republic Bank & Trust Company (the “Bank”). The Bank currently operates 47 banking centers within five metropolitan statistical areas (“MSAs”) across five states: 22 banking centers in the Louisville MSA, serving Louisville, Prospect, Shelbyville, and Shepherdsville, Kentucky, and Floyds Knobs, Jeffersonville, and New Albany, Indiana; six banking centers in the Lexington MSA, serving Georgetown and Lexington, Kentucky; eight banking centers in the Cincinnati MSA, serving Cincinnati and West Chester, Ohio, and Bellevue, Covington, Crestview Hills, and Florence, Kentucky; seven banking centers in the Tampa MSA, serving Largo, New Port Richey, St. Petersburg, Seminole, and Tampa, Florida; and four banking centers in the Nashville MSA, serving Franklin, Murfreesboro, Nashville, and Spring Hill, Tennessee. The Bank also offers online banking at www.republicbank.com. The Company is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky and, as of June 30, 2026, had approximately $7.06 billion in total assets. The Company’s Class A Common Stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “RBCAA.”
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements in the preceding paragraphs are based on our current expectations and assumptions regarding our business, the future average balances of the new RPS program launched during June 2026, the future impact to our balance sheet and income statement resulting from changes in interest rates, the yield curve, the ability to develop products and strategies in order to meet the Company’s long-term strategic goals and other future conditions.
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