RENTON, Wash., Aug. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Financial Northwest, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ GS: FFNW), the holding company for First Financial Northwest Bank (the "Bank"), announced today that they received the required regulatory approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") for Global Federal Credit Union ("Global") to acquire substantially all of the assets and assume substantially all of the liabilities (including deposit liabilities) of the Bank (the "Asset Sale"), on the terms and subject to the conditions of the Purchase and Assumption Agreement, dated as of January 10, 2024, by and among the Company, the Bank and Global. The Company previously announced that the Bank had received approval from the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions. The Company shareholders approved the transaction at a special meeting of shareholders held on July 19, 2024. The consummation of the Asset Sale remains subject to Global receiving the required regulatory approval from the National Credit Union Administration ("NCUA"), which has not yet been obtained. The Company cannot provide any assurance as to whether the required final regulatory approval from the NCUA will be received, when such approval will be received, or whether there will be conditions to such approval that are unacceptably burdensome to the Company or Global. First Financial Northwest, Inc. is the parent company of First Financial Northwest Bank; an FDIC insured Washington State-chartered commercial bank headquartered in Renton, Washington, serving the Puget Sound Region through 15 full-service banking offices. For additional information about us, please visit our website at ffnwb.com and click on the "Investor Relations" link at the bottom of the page. Forward-looking statements: When used in this press release and in other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), in press releases or other public shareholder communications, or in oral statements made with the approval of an authorized executive officer, the words or phrases "believe," "will," "will likely result," "are expected to," "will continue," "is anticipated," "estimate," "project," "plans," or ...