• Earnings of $5.5 Million From Continuing Operations;
• Commercial Segments Credit Quality Stable and Earnings Improved;
• Consumer Mortgage Segments Results Reflect Continued Weak Market Conditions;
• Liquidity and Capital Remain Strong

(Columbus, IN, August 1, 2007) Irwin Financial Corporation (NYSE:IFC), a bank holding company focusing on small business and consumer mortgage lending, today announced earnings from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2007 of $5.5 million or $0.17 per diluted share. This compares with a loss of $0.22 per diluted share in the first quarter and net income of $0.30 per diluted share during the second quarter of 2006. When the results of the Discontinued Operations are combined with Continuing Operations, the Corporation had a consolidated net loss of $0.4 million or $0.03 per share in the quarter.

"The second quarter, while better than the first, was a challenge for us," said Will Miller, Chairman and CEO of Irwin Financial. "We saw loan credit quality in our commercial portfolios returning to our historic pattern of low delinquency and loss rates, as well as pockets of good commercial loan growth. However, we continue to be confronted with the negative effects of the mortgage market correction.

"On the commercial side, we are experiencing good loan growth in our Western branches and in our franchise finance channel. While it was slightly slower than we want longer-term, we also saw growth in core deposits during the quarter. These are areas in which we are making good progress in re-focusing the Corporation towards renewed growth.

"Conditions in certain of our other markets remain challenging. We have new leadership in several of our Midwest commercial banking branch markets.  From these, we expect to see improved results.  Due to local economic conditions in our four Michigan markets, we are focusing on margin improvement and tighter underwriting and portfolio management practices over asset oriented growth.

"Finally," Miller continued, "the consumer mortgage markets have yet to recover and industry experts are predicting continued difficulties for some time. These industry conditions negatively affected us in the home equity segment where production was low and credit costs high during the second quarter. We have taken steps to reduce our origination costs and to improve production through the introduction of modified products to meet changing secondary market needs, as well as through a new point-of-sale system designed to improve service quality for our broker partners. We also took significant additional loss provisioning to address further credit deterioration. In the discontinued conforming mortgage operation, we are experiencing greater losses than we had expected. The majority of these losses are the result of loan repurchases and indemnifications for previous underwriting or appraisal deficiencies. We have increased our resources to address these repurchase requests; nonetheless, future economic deterioration could cause us to see elevated levels of credit losses in future quarters. Outside of these repurchase claims, the work to wrap up the remaining items of the wind-down are proceeding at a good pace."

Financial highlights for Continuing Operations (commercial bank, commercial finance, and home equity lending) for the period include:

Consolidated net revenues from continuing operations for the second quarter increased on a sequential quarter basis, primarily reflecting decreased credit costs as compared to the first quarter. Total net revenues declined on a year-over-year basis, however, reflecting substantially greater credit provisions in the home equity segment. Net interest income of $66 million was unchanged on a sequential quarter basis and up slightly on a year-over-year basis. Non-interest expenses declined 10 percent from the first quarter, reflecting reduced variable compensation expenses and other expense reductions undertaken to improve profitability.

The consolidated loan and lease portfolio grew to $5.5 billion as of June 30, up 7 percent on an annualized basis from the end of the first quarter. The bulk of this increase came from growth in our commercial finance portfolio. The portfolios in commercial banking and home equity lending were flat on a sequential quarter basis. The commercial bank had good loan growth in Western branches, but had portfolio run-off in Midwestern branches, reflecting economic conditions.

Liquidity remains strong, with little use of short-term, warehouse funding. Deposits totaled $3.3 billion at June 30, down $0.1 billion from March 31, 2007. Average core deposits rose at an annualized rate of 18 percent during the second quarter, although low-cost demand deposits declined modestly. Deposits declined $550 million on a year-over-year basis reflecting the delivery of mortgage escrow deposits associated with servicing rights which were sold in late 2006. During the quarter, we completed a $268 million asset-backed home equity term funding.

The consolidated net interest margin declined to 4.58 percent as compared to 4.66 percent during the first quarter, reflecting recent deposit growth in higher interest products. In order to increase core deposits, an internet deposit platform was launched late in the second quarter. Element Financial ( https://www.element-direct.com ) offers CDs nationally in denominations of $5 thousand and larger.

The Corporation had $508 million or $16.90 per share in common shareholders' equity as of June 30. At quarter-end, the Tier 1 Leverage Ratio and Total Risk-based Capital Ratio were 11.1 percent and 13.3 percent, respectively, compared to 11.3 percent and 13.5 percent as of March 31, 2007. During the second quarter, the Corporation repurchased 304 thousand shares of common stock at an average price of $16.49 per share and has purchased 629 thousand shares year-to-date. Given ongoing losses in Discontinued Operations and, generally, uncertain conditions in the mortgage markets, the Corporation expects to be less active in repurchases in the near-term.

Nonperforming assets (including other real estate owned of $17 million) were $61 million or 0.99 percent of total assets as of June 30, 2007, down from $63 million or 1.05 percent of total assets at the end of March. The allowance for loan and lease losses for the Corporation's portfolios totaled $92 million as of June 30, up $7 million from the end of the first quarter. The majority of the increase reflects additional provision taken at the home equity segment. The ratio of allowance for loan and lease losses for on-balance sheet portfolio to nonperforming loans and leases was 216 percent at June 30, compared to 179 percent at March 31.

The consolidated loan and lease loss provision totaled $19.5 million in the second quarter, down from $23.2 million in the first quarter of 2007. This decrease reflects a reduced rate in the commercial banking segment which was elevated in the first quarter due to a loan loss which appears to have involved fraud. Consolidated quarterly net charge-offs on the held-for-investment portfolio totaled $12.0 million, down from $12.5 million during the first quarter. Thirty-day and greater delinquencies, the ratio of charge-offs to average loans and leases, and the allowance for loan and lease losses to total loans and leases for principal credit-related portfolios are shown in the next table.

1. Home Equity on balance sheet Allowance to Loans and Leases relates to Loans Held for Investment portfolio only.

Segment Results

Net income (loss) by line of business is shown below, with additional detail available in the segment summary tables at the end of this release.

The commercial banking segment earned income of $6.3 million, an increase of $3.2 million over the first quarter, reflecting lower compensation expenses and reduced loan loss provision.

The commercial banking segment's loan portfolio was flat during the quarter. While good growth is seen in the Western branches, the portfolio has shrunk in Midwestern markets. Loans outstanding as of June 30 totaled $2.9 billion. Net interest margin declined to 3.86 percent during the quarter, down from 3.99 percent during the first quarter, reflecting recent deposit growth in higher interest products .

Credit quality in the commercial banking portfolio has stabilized and is in good overall condition. Thirty-day and greater delinquencies rose modestly to 0.25 percent, compared to 0.22 percent at March 31. Non-performing assets decreased from $23 million to $17 million as of June 30. The commercial banking segment's loan and lease loss provision totaled $0.8 million during the quarter and net charge-offs were $1.3 million. Portfolio credit quality is weak, however, in the Michigan branches. While Michigan-based loans account for only 17 percent of the commercial banking portfolio, these same loans account for 73 percent of non-accruals in this portfolio. In light of the economic difficulties in the state, steps have been taken to enhance portfolio management practices. Overall, management believes portfolio credit quality is good for this stage of the economic cycle.

The commercial finance line of business earned $2.9 million in the second quarter of 2007, up from $2.6 million in the first quarter. The results principally reflect an increase in net interest income due to portfolio growth.

• statements and assumptions relating to projected growth in our earnings, projected loan originations and deposits, net interest and margins, and the relative performance of our lines of business;
• statements and assumptions relating to projected trends or potential changes in our asset quality, loan delinquencies, charge-offs, reserves and asset valuations, including valuations of our servicing portfolios;
• statements about the expected behavior of and our response to secondary market conditions;
• statements about the expected level of activity in our share repurchase program;
• statements about expected results from the discontinued operations of our conventional mortgage banking segment; and
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We qualify any forward-looking statements entirely by these cautionary factors.

Actual future results may differ materially from what is projected due to a variety of factors including: potential changes in direction, volatility and relative movement (basis risk) of interest rates, which may affect consumer demand for our products and the management and success of our interest rate risk management strategies; staffing fluctuations in response to product demand or the implementation of corporate strategies that affect our work force; the relative profitability of our lending and deposit operations; the valuation and management of our portfolios, including the use of external and internal modeling assumptions we embed in the valuation of those portfolios and short-term swings in the valuation of such portfolios; borrowers' refinancing opportunities, which may affect the prepayment assumptions used in our valuation estimates and which may affect loan demand; unanticipated deterioration in the credit quality or collectibility of our loan and lease assets, including deterioration resulting from the effects of natural disasters; unanticipated deterioration or changes in estimates of the carrying value of our other assets, including securities; difficulties in delivering products to the secondary market as planned; difficulties in expanding our business and obtaining funding sources as needed; competition from other financial service providers for experienced managers as well as for customers; changes in the value of our lines of business, subsidiaries, or companies in which we invest; changes in variable compensation plans related to the performance and valuation of lines of business where we tie compensation systems to line of business performance; unanticipated outcomes in litigation; legislative or regulatory changes, including changes in laws, rules or regulations that affect tax, consumer or commercial lending, corporate governance and disclosure requirements, regulatory capital, and other laws or regulations affecting the rights and responsibilities of our Corporation, bank or thrift; regulatory actions that impact our Corporation, bank or thrift; regulatory actions that impact our Corporation, bank or thrift, including the memorandum of understanding entered into as of March 1, 2007, between our subsidiary bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; changes in the interpretation of regulatory capital or other rules; the availability of resources to address changes in laws, rules or regulations or to respond to regulatory actions; changes in applicable accounting policies or principles or their application to our businesses or final audit adjustments, including additional guidance and interpretation on accounting issues and details of the implementation of new accounting methods; the final disposition of our remaining assets and obligations of our discontinued mortgage banking segment; or governmental changes in monetary or fiscal policies. We undertake no obligation to update publicly any of these statements in light of future events, except as required in subsequent reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Corporation will host a conference call to review results on Wednesday, August 1, at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Greg Ehlinger, Senior Vice President and CFO, Will Miller, CEO, and Jody Littrell, First Vice President and Controller, of Irwin Financial Corporation, will be the speakers on the call. The toll-free number for the call is (866) 686-6743; please tell the operator you would like to join the Irwin Financial call, confirmation #18670406. A replay of the call will be available on the Irwin Financial Corporation website at http://www.irwinfinancial.com/investors/index_ir.htm.

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