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Note 11: Small Business Lending Fund
9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
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Note 11: Small Business Lending Fund

Note 11: Small Business Lending Fund

 

On July 21, 2011, as part of the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) of the United States Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Company entered into a Small Business Lending Fund-Securities Purchase Agreement (Purchase Agreement) with the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to which the Company (i) sold 20,000 shares of the Company’s Senior Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A (SBLF Preferred Stock) to the Secretary of the Treasury for a purchase price of $20,000,000. The SBLF Preferred Stock was issued pursuant to the SBLF program, a $30 billion fund established under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 that was created to encourage lending to small business by providing capital to qualified community banks with assets of less than $10 billion.

 

The SBLF Preferred Stock qualifies as Tier 1 capital. The holder of SBLF Preferred Stock is entitled to receive non-cumulative dividends, payable quarterly, on each January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1, beginning October 1, 2011. The dividend rate, as a percentage of the liquidation amount, fluctuated on a quarterly basis from the original issue date through the tenth dividend period (which ended December 31, 2013), based upon changes in the Company’s level of Qualified Small Business Lending (QBSL), as defined in the Purchase Agreement, over the baseline level calculated under the terms of the Purchase Agreement. From January 1, 2014, through four and one half years after issuance (i.e., through January 21, 2016), the dividend rate will be fixed at one percent (1%), based upon the increase in QBSL as compared to the baseline. After four and one half years from issuance, the dividend rate will increase to nine percent (9%), including a quarterly lending incentive fee of one-half percent (0.5%).

 

The SBLF Preferred Stock is non-voting, except in limited circumstances. In the event that the Company misses five dividend payments, the holder of the SBLF Preferred Stock will have the right to appoint a representative as an observer on the Company’s Board of Directors. In the event that the Company misses six dividend payments, then the holder of the SBLF Preferred Stock will have the right to designate two directors to the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

The SBLF Preferred Stock may be redeemed at any time at the Company’s option, at a redemption price of 100% of the liquidation amount plus accrued but unpaid dividends to the date of redemption for the current period, subject to the approval of its federal banking regulator.

 

As required by the Purchase Agreement, $9,635,000 of the proceeds from the sale of the SBLF Preferred Stock was used to redeem the 9,550 shares of the Company’s Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A issued in 2008 to the Treasury in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), plus the accrued but unpaid dividends on those preferred shares. As part of the 2008 TARP transaction, the Company issued a ten-year warrant to Treasury to purchase 114,326 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $12.53 per share. Based on dividends paid by the Company on its common stock since the issuance of the warrant, and the two-for-one common stock split in the form of a common stock dividend paid on January 30, 2015, the warrant has been adjusted and, as of March 31, 2015, was exercisable for the purchase of 231,891 shares, at an exercise price of $6.18 per share.