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Note 29: Preferred Stock
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Notes  
Note 29: Preferred Stock

Note 29:    Preferred Stock

 

On August 18, 2011, the Company entered into a Small Business Lending Fund-Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SBLF Purchase Agreement”) with the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to which the Company sold 57,943 shares of the Company’s Senior Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A (the “SBLF Preferred Stock”) to the Secretary of the Treasury for a purchase price of $57.9 million.  The SBLF Preferred Stock was issued pursuant to Treasury’s SBLF program, a $30 billion fund established under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 that was created to encourage lending to small businesses by providing Tier 1 capital to qualified community banks and holding companies with assets of less than $10 billion.  As required by the SBLF Purchase Agreement, the proceeds from the sale of the SBLF Preferred Stock were used in connection with the redemption of all 58,000 shares of the Company’s preferred stock, issued to Treasury in December 2008 pursuant to Treasury’s TARP Capital Purchase Program (the “CPP Preferred Stock”).  The shares of CPP Preferred Stock were redeemed at their liquidation amount of $1,000 per share plus the accrued but unpaid dividends to the redemption date.

 

The SBLF Preferred Stock qualified as Tier 1 capital.  The holders of SBLF Preferred Stock were entitled to receive noncumulative dividends, payable quarterly, on each January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1.  The dividend rate, as a percentage of the liquidation amount, could fluctuate between one percent (1%) and five percent (5%) per annum on a quarterly basis during the first 10 quarters during which the SBLF Preferred Stock was outstanding, based upon changes in the level of “Qualified Small Business Lending” or “QSBL” (as defined in the SBLF Purchase Agreement) by the Bank over the adjusted baseline level calculated under the terms of the SBLF Preferred Stock $(249.7 million).  Based upon the increase in the Bank’s level of QSBL over the adjusted baseline level, the dividend rate had been 1.0%.  For the tenth calendar quarter through four and one-half years after issuance, the dividend rate was fixed at between one percent (1%) and seven percent (7%) based upon the level of qualifying loans.  The Company’s dividend rate was 1.0% during 2015, and was expected to remain at 1% until four and one half years after the issuance, which is March 2016. After four and one half years from issuance, the dividend rate would have increased to 9% (including a quarterly lending incentive fee of 0.5%).

 

On December 15, 2015, the Company (with the approval of its federal banking regulator) redeemed all 57,943 shares of the SBLF Preferred Stock at their liquidation amount of $1,000 per share plus accrued but unpaid dividends to the redemption date.  The redemption of the SBLF Preferred Stock was completed using internally available funds.