Rurban Financial Corp. to Release Second Quarter 2008 Earnings July 16, 2008

Webcast Alert: Conference Call Scheduled for 4:00 p.m. (ET) July 17, 2008


DEFIANCE, Ohio, June 18, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Rurban Financial Corp. (Nasdaq:RBNF), a leading provider of full-service banking, investment management, trust services and bank data and item processing, announced that it plans to release second quarter earnings on July 16, 2008 after the market closes. The news release will be available on Rurban's website: http://www.rurbanfinancial.net.

Kenneth A. Joyce, President and CEO, will host a conference call at 4:00 p.m. (ET) on July 17, 2008 to recap the Company's quarterly earnings. The conference call may be accessed via the Internet (listen only mode) live during the call at these web addresses: www.rurbanfinancial.net or http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=49243. The conference call will also be available for replay through August 7, 2008 at these same web addresses.

About Rurban Financial Corp.

Rurban Financial Corp. is a publicly-held financial services holding company based in Defiance, Ohio. Rurban's wholly-owned subsidiaries are The State Bank and Trust Company, including Reliance Financial Services and Rurbanc Data Services, Inc. (RDSI), including DCM. The State Bank and Trust Company offers financial services through its 17 branches in Allen, Defiance, Fulton, Lucas, Paulding and Wood Counties, Ohio and Allen County, Indiana and a Loan Production Office in Franklin County, Ohio. Reliance Financial Services, a division of the Bank, offers a diversified array of trust and financial services to customers throughout the Midwest. RDSI and DCM provide data and item processing services to community banks in Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio and Wisconsin. Rurban's common stock is quoted on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol RBNF. The Company currently has 10,000,000 shares of stock authorized and 4,913,933 shares outstanding. The Company's website is http://www.rurbanfinancial.net.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements within this document, which are not statements of historical fact, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from those predicted by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties inherent in the national and regional banking, insurance and mortgage industries, competitive factors specific to markets in which Rurban and its subsidiaries operate, future interest rate levels, legislative and regulatory actions, capital market conditions, general economic conditions, geopolitical events, the loss of key personnel and other factors.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and Rurban undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which the statement is made. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Rurban or any person acting on our behalf are qualified by these cautionary statements.



            

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