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LOUISVILLE, Ky.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--S.Y. Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBT), parent company of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, with offices in the Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati metropolitan markets, today announced that it has reset the pay date of its previously announced quarterly cash dividend of $0.18 per common share. The dividend will now be paid on January 3, 2012, instead of January 2, 2012, as previously announced, due to the observance of the New Year's Day holiday on January 2^nd. The record date of December 12, 2011, remains the same.

Separately, the Company noted that the Wilmington Trust Company, trustee for the 10% fixed-rate cumulative trust preferred securities issued by S.Y. Bancorp Capital Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust and 100%-owned finance subsidiary of S.Y. Bancorp, will make a normal quarterly distribution on the trust preferred securities on or about December 31, 2011. The amount of the quarterly distribution will be $0.25 on each $10 preferred security owned.

Louisville, Kentucky-based S.Y. Bancorp, Inc., with $1.9 billion in assets, was incorporated in 1988 as a bank holding company. It is the parent company of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, which was established in 1904. The Company's common shares trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol SYBT. The trust preferred securities of S.Y. Bancorp Capital Trust II also trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol SYBTP.