Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On December 6, 2012, MainSource Financial Group, Inc. (the "Company") repurchased 19,050 shares of its Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A (the "Preferred Stock") in a privately negotiated transaction.

As a result of its repurchase of these shares, the Company has retired a total of 41,900 shares of its original sale of 57,000 of shares of Preferred Stock. As it has previously stated, the Company intends to redeem the remainder of the Preferred Stock in such amounts and at such times as it deems prudent, and in any event it intends to redeem the remainder of the Preferred Stock in full no later than the first quarter of 2014.

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