Forward Bank: email security grade D

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Forward Bank, Marshfield, Wisconsin, is the 840th largest FDIC-insured US bank by total assets ($1.3bn). On 4 November 2026 the public email records of forward.bank graded D: MX fail, SPF pass, DMARC p=reject, no MX records.

Grade D. One required record missing or broken. Read by DNS on 4 November 2026; the records are shown as published.

What was found on forward.bank

Check	Result	What was published
MX	Fail	No MX records
SPF	Pass	`v=spf1 -all`. DNS lookups: 0 of 10 allowed; ends -all
DMARC	Pass	`v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:postmaster@forward.bank`. Policy p=reject; reports collected (rua= set)
DKIM	Reported, not graded	No key on any of 10 common selectors. This proves nothing: the bank's real selectors may be any name

Where Forward Bank ranks

Forward Bank is the 840th largest FDIC-insured US bank by total assets, at $1.3bn as reported to the FDIC (certificate 28530; Marshfield, Wisconsin). Among the 999 graded banks, Forward Bank ranks 979th by grade (ties broken by assets, larger first). In its asset band, $1bn to $10bn, it ranks 827th of 846; among the 29 graded banks in Wisconsin, 29th. 66% of its band and 72.4% of its state graded A.

What this means for the bank

The checker's own notes on each record:

MX, fail: No MX records, so forward.bank cannot receive mail. Every reply to a cold email sent from it bounces.
SPF, pass: One SPF record, ending in -all (fail): mail from a server that is not on the list should be rejected.
SPF, info: DNS lookups: about 0 of the 10 allowed. This count is an estimate.
DMARC, pass: Policy p=reject: receivers are asked to refuse mail that fails.
DMARC, info: Reports go to postmaster@forward.bank.
DKIM, info: No DKIM key at the 10 common selectors tried. That does not mean DKIM is missing. Your email provider picks the selector name, and DNS has no way to list them.

What this means if you sell to Forward Bank

forward.bank publishes no MX records, so it does not receive mail. Forward Bank's staff mail must run on another domain, which this check did not read. Before you send, run your own domain through the email setup checker and publish a policy with the DMARC record generator. For how a bank buys, see the selling to banks playbook.

Check it live

The records above are from 4 November 2026. Run the same check on forward.bank now for today's result. The FDIC's record of the bank is at BankFind, certificate 28530.

This page is one of 1,000 in the Bank Email Readiness Index Q4 2026, published 4 November 2026 and re-read every quarter; the next edition is due 2 February 2027. If you work at Forward Bank and the records have changed, email moe@roimaxi.com and we will re-check and update this page.

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