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Capital Actions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Capital Actions  
Capital Actions

13. Capital Actions

On March 18, 2014, the Bancorp's Board of Directors authorized the Bancorp to repurchase up to 100 million shares of its outstanding common stock in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, and to utilize any derivative or similar instrument to effect share repurchase transactions (including without limitation, accelerated share repurchase contracts, equity forward transactions, equity option transactions, equity swap transactions, cap transactions, collar transactions, floor transactions or other similar transactions or any combination of the foregoing transactions). This share repurchase authorization replaced the Board's previous authorization from March of 2013.

 

During 2013 and the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Bancorp entered into a number of accelerated share repurchase transactions. As part of these transactions, the Bancorp entered into forward contracts in which the final number of shares delivered at settlement was based generally on a discount to the average daily volume weighted average price of the Bancorp's common stock during the term of these repurchase agreements. The accelerated share repurchases were treated as two separate transactions (i) the acquisition of treasury shares on the acquisition date and (ii) a forward contract indexed to the Bancorp's stock.

 

For further information on subsequent events related to capital actions refer to Note 21

The following table presents a summary of the Bancorp's accelerated share repurchase transactions that were entered into or settled during the three months ended March 31, 2014:
         
Repurchase Date Amount ($ in millions)Shares RepurchasedShares Received from Forward Contract SettlementTotal Shares RepurchasedSettlement Date
November 18, 2013$ 200 8,538,423 1,132,495 9,670,918March 5, 2014
December 13, 2013  456 19,084,195 2,294,932 21,379,127March 31, 2014
January 31, 2014  99 3,950,705 602,109 4,552,814March 31, 2014