diff --git a/accounts/abi/bind/topics.go b/accounts/abi/bind/topics.go
index 45978641ae..dfb40f122d 100644
--- a/accounts/abi/bind/topics.go
+++ b/accounts/abi/bind/topics.go
@@ -228,7 +228,9 @@ func parseTopicsIntoMap(out map[string]interface{}, fields abi.Arguments, topics
 		case abi.HashTy:
 			out[arg.Name] = topics[0]
 		case abi.FixedBytesTy:
-			out[arg.Name] = topics[0][:]
+			array := reflect.New(arg.Type.Type).Elem()
+			reflect.Copy(array, reflect.ValueOf(topics[0][:arg.Type.Size]))
+			out[arg.Name] = array.Interface()
 		case abi.StringTy, abi.BytesTy, abi.SliceTy, abi.ArrayTy:
 			// Array types (including strings and bytes) have their keccak256 hashes stored in the topic- not a hash
 			// whose bytes can be decoded to the actual value- so the best we can do is retrieve that hash