VERSABANK ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS OF ITS 2025 MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

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LONDON, ON, April 25, 2025

LONDON, ON, April 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - VersaBank (TSX: VBNK) $(VBNK)$ ("VersaBank" or the "Bank") reports the results of its 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") held in London, Ontario on April 24, 2025.

Each of the director nominees listed in VersaBank's Management Information Circular dated February 28, 2025, were elected as directors of the Bank. The detailed results of the vote are as follows, with percentages rounded to two decimal places:

 
 
Director                             Number of Votes       Percentage of Votes 
                                                Cast                      Cast 
The Honourable Frank     In Favour:       10,013,335                   98.97 % 
Newbould                  Withheld:          104,228                    1.03 % 
Robbert-Jan Brabander    In Favour:        9,933,208                   98.18 % 
                          Withheld:          184,352                    1.82 % 
David A. Bratton         In Favour:        9,826,370                   97.12 % 
                          Withheld:          291,190                    2.88 % 
Gabrielle Bochynek       In Favour:        9,954,965                   98.39 % 
                          Withheld:          162,595                    1.61 % 
Peter M. Irwin           In Favour:        9,866,106                   97.51 % 
                          Withheld:          251,454                    2.49 % 
Richard Jankura          In Favour:        9,959,038                   98.43 % 
                          Withheld:          158,522                    1.57 % 
Arthur Linton            In Favour:        9,930,273                   98.15 % 
                          Withheld:          187,287                    1.85 % 
Susan T. McGovern        In Favour:        9,470,605                   93.61 % 
                          Withheld:          646,955                    6.39 % 
Paul G. Oliver           In Favour:        9,953,995                   98.38 % 
                          Withheld:          163,568                    1.62 % 
David R. Taylor          In Favour:       10,024,905                   99.08 % 
                          Withheld:           92,658                    0.92 % 
 

At the Meeting, the Shareholders also approved the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Bank.

VersaBank's Voting Results with respect to all matters voted upon at the Meeting will be filed on SEDAR at www.sedarplus.ca and EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.

ABOUT VERSABANK

VersaBank is a North American bank with a difference. Federally chartered in both Canada and the US, VersaBank has a branchless, digital, business-to-business model based on its proprietary state-of-the-art technology that enables it to profitably address underserved segments of the banking industry in a significantly risk mitigated manner. Because VersaBank obtains substantially all of its deposits and undertakes the majority of its funding electronically through financial intermediary partners, it benefits from significant operating leverage that drives efficiency and return on common equity. In August 2024, VersaBank launched its unique Receivable Purchase Program funding solution for point-of-sale finance companies, which has been highly successful in Canada for nearly 15 years, to the underserved multi-trillion-dollar US market. VersaBank also owns Washington, DC-based DRT Cyber Inc., a North America leader in the provision of cyber security services to address the rapidly growing volume of cyber threats challenging financial institutions, multi-national corporations and government entities. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Digital Meteor Inc. ("Digital Meteor"), VersaBank owns proprietary intellectual property and technology to enable the next generation of digital assets for the banking and financial community, including the Bank's revolutionary Digital Deposit Receipts ("DDRs").

VersaBank's Common Shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ under the symbol VBNK.

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