Kish Bancorp, Inc. names Tina M. Collins Chief Financial Officer, strengthens finance team with key leadership additions. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Kish Bancorp, Inc. (OTCQX: KISB) ("Kish" or the "Company"), parent company of Kish Bank, today announced that Tina M. Collins has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Kish Bancorp and Kish Bank, effective immediately. Collins most recently served as interim CFO since October 2025 and steps into the permanent role following a public recruiting search that drew a strong and competitive field of candidates. Tina M. Collins is a seasoned accounting and finance executive with over 30 years of experience in community banking, who joined Kish Bank in 2019. Prior to serving as interim CFO, she was SVP, Accounting & Controls Director at Kish Bank, where she was responsible for financial reporting, compliance with regulatory reporting requirements, internal controls, and asset/liability management. Collins has deep expertise in corporate accounting, audit oversight, budgeting, investment portfolio management, and treasury operations, with prior leadership roles at Riverview Bank and CBT Bank. A graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania with advanced training from the Pennsylvania Bankers Association, she is recognized for strengthening financial systems, managing complex audits and reporting, and guiding strategic financial and capital planning. Kish also announced the hiring of Sean Rainey to succeed Collins as Controller, effective immediately. Rainey most recently served as Senior Accounting Manager at Nikon SLM Solutions, overseeing North American accounting operations and leading financial statement consolidation and reporting. In his prior roles, Rainey held progressive accounting and finance leadership positions at GE Healthcare, KCF Technologies, and Rex Energy Corporation. Rainey holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Juniata College. "We couldn't be more thrilled to announce Tina is stepping into the CFO role in a permanent capacity," stated Gregory T. Hayes, President and CEO. "During her tenure as interim CFO, Tina has shown strong leadership in helping Kish build out its Finance team and will provide essential continuity for the CFO position. This appointment reflects the confidence the Board and leadership team have in Tina's ability to help guide our next phase of growth, as well as our deliberate investment in building out the Finance team. We are fortunate to have established leaders like Tina and Allan Bills, our SVP of Technical Accounting and Balance Sheet Management and a CPA, working alongside strong new additions like Sean Rainey, our new VP, Controller." About Kish Bancorp, Inc. Kish Bancorp, Inc. is a diversified financial services corporation headquartered in Belleville, PA, with executive offices in State College, PA and an Innovation Center in Reedsville, PA. Kish Bank, a subsidiary of Kish Bancorp, Inc., operates 21 locations serving Centre, Mifflin, Huntingdon, Blair, and Juniata counties in Pennsylvania, as well as northeastern Ohio. In addition to Kish Bank, Kish Bancorp's business units include: Kish Insurance, an independent property and casualty insurance agency; Kish Financial Solutions, which offers investment, insurance, financial planning, and wealth management advisory services; Kish Benefits Consulting, which provides employee benefits consulting services; Kish Trust, which offers a full range of trust and fiduciary services; and Kish Travel, a full-service travel agency. KISB is the OTCQX stock ticker symbol for Kish Bancorp, Inc. For additional information, please visit ir.kishbancorp.com or otcmarkets.com/stock/KISB. 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FUCHS and KCF Technologies partner to tackle machine downtime with AI and smart lubrication. Strategic alliance offers engineers and industrial operators a data-driven edge in predictive maintenance. In a game-changing move when it comes to industrial reliability, FUCHS Lubricants Co. - the world's largest independent lubricant supplier - recently partnered with KCF Technologies - a leader in machine health optimization. The partnership combines cutting-edge AI-driven monitoring with advanced lubrication science to help design engineers, machine builders and OEMs proactively prevent machine failure and eliminate unplanned downtime. Combining expertise. It's also a partnership that directly integrates FUCHS' high-performance lubrication expertise with KCF's Machine Health Platform, creating a unified solution that offers real-time lubrication diagnostics, vibration monitoring and customized maintenance recommendations. And the goal driving the collaboration? To empower industrial operators to move from reactive to predictive maintenance strategies - a move that will result in maximized uptime, reduced costs and extended equipment life. In fact, according to Kevin Vincent, Senior Vice President of KCF Technologies, it's a partnership between the two leaders that focuses purely on the end user - the operator. "Historically, coordinating analysis of lubrication related failures put the onus entirely on the customer to coordinate between their reliability teams, lubrication experts and monitoring solution providers," he says. "Our partnership aims to create a higher level of service that will allow for the collaboration of subject matter experts from each key member of the resolution team reducing the time to resolution and allowing the customer to focus on higher level problem solving, freeing up time for manufacturers to focus on what matters." Addressing issues head-on. With over 60 per cent of bearing failures attributed to lubrication issues, the alliance between FUCHS and KCF Technologies tackles a key issue head-on. By combining KCF's SMARTdiagnostics platform, which uses real-time analytics and machine learning to continuously monitor asset health, with FUCHS' application-specific lubricants, customers receive validated, data-informed guidance tailored to their unique operating conditions. A recent pilot project with a global heavy-haul railcar manufacturer illustrates the potential: using KCF's platform, early signs of lubricant degradation were detected in a critical gearbox. In response, FUCHS' team provided expert evaluation and product adjustments, preventing a costly failure and enabling a shift to a proactive maintenance model built on continuous monitoring. And after all, says Dr. Jeremy Frank, CEO of KCF Technologies, avoiding lost time is what it's all about. "At KCF, our mission is to eliminate unplanned downtime across industry," he asserts. "And we can't do that without addressing lubrication head-on. This partnership with FUCHS unites world-class lubrication services with our real-time machine health technology to empower manufacturers to act earlier, smarter and with greater confidence than ever before." For design engineers and machine builders, the partnership signals a new era in equipment reliability - one in which predictive analytics and smart lubrication converge to drive performance, protect assets and significantly reduce total cost of ownership.