BankFinancial Corporation Declares Cash Dividend

BURR RIDGE, Ill., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BankFinancialCorporation (Nasdaq: BFIN) announced that its Board of Directors hasdeclared a cash dividend of $0.07 per common share. The dividend will bepayable on September 7, 2007 to stockholders of record on August 9, 2007. BankFinancial Corporation is the holding company for BankFinancial,F.S.B., a full-service, community-oriented bank providing financialservices to individuals, families and businesses through 18 full-servicebanking offices, located in Cook, DuPage, Lake and Will Counties, Illinois.At March 31, 2007, BankFinancial Corporation had total assets of $1.567billion, total loans of $1.298 billion, total deposits of $1.106 billionand stockholders' equity of $310 million. BankFinancial Corporation becamea publicly-traded company on June 24, 2005, and its common stock trades onthe Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol BFIN. "Forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private SecuritiesLitigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this release. A variety offactors could cause BankFinancial Corporation's actual results to differfrom those expected at the time of this release. Investors are urged tocarefully review and consider the various disclosures made by BankFinancialCorporation in its periodic reports filed with the Securities and ExchangeCommission, including the risk factors and other information disclosed inBankFinancial Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the mostrecently ended fiscal year. Copies of these filings are available at nocost on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov or on BankFinancial's website at http://www.bankfinancial.com.