Shareholders’ Equity

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

Shareholders' Equity [Abstract]

Shareholders' Equity

Note 11.Shareholders’ Equity

1. Preferred Stock

On February 20, 2009, as part of the Capital Purchase Program (“CPP”) established by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”), we issued to Treasury 30,407 shares of the Company’s Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, without par value per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), and a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share.  In conjunction with the purchase of the Series A Preferred Stock, Treasury received a warrant to purchase 1,104,370 shares of our Class A common stock.  The aggregate purchase price for the Series A Preferred Stock and warrant was $30.4 million in cash.  The Series A Preferred Stock qualifies as Tier 1 capital and originally paid cumulative dividends at a rate of 5% per annum.  In February 2014, the cumulative dividend rate on the Series A Preferred Stock increased to 9% per annum.  The Series A Preferred Stock may generally be redeemed by the Company at any time following consultation with its primary banking regulators.  The warrant issued to Treasury has a 10-year term and is immediately exercisable upon its issuance, with an exercise price, subject to anti-dilution adjustments, equal to $4.13 per share of the common stock.  As a result of the shareholders’ rights offering described below, the number of warrants to purchase the Company’s Class A common stock adjusted to 1,368,040 and the warrant exercise price decreased to $3.33 per share of the common stock.

We received approval from the Federal Reserve Bank to bid up to $14.0 million, which was raised in a private placement, to purchase shares of the Series A Preferred Stock in an auction of such shares conducted by the Treasury.  The auction closed on June 19, 2014.  The Series A Preferred Stock was priced in the auction at $1,207.11 per share for all 30,407 shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding. We were allocated 11,551 shares of Series A Preferred Stock for repurchase at the clearing price of $1,207.11. Closing for the sale of the Series A Preferred Stock by the Treasury, including the repurchase of 11,551 shares of Series A Preferred Stock by the Company, occurred on July 2, 2014. As part of this redemption, we eliminated nearly $3.5 million in preferred dividends in arrears.

2. Common Stock

Our Class A common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol RBPAA.  There is no market for our Class B common stock.  The Class B shares may not be transferred in any manner except to the holder’s immediate family.  Class B shares may be converted to Class A shares at the rate of 1.15 to 1.  Shareholders are entitled to one vote for each Class A share and ten votes for each Class B share held.  Holders of either class of common stock are entitled to conversion equivalent per share dividends when declared.

To fund the purchase of the Series A Preferred Stock, as described above, we sold 11,666,667 shares of our Class A common stock in a private placement transaction at a price of $1.20 per share.  Additionally, during the third quarter of 2014, we conducted a shareholder rights offering to existing shareholders to limit their ownership dilution from the sale of Class A common stock to the other investors in the private placement. We issued approximately 5.0 million shares at a price of $1.20 per share and received gross proceeds of approximately $6.0 million.

3. Payment of Dividends

Under the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law, the Company may pay dividends only if it is solvent and would not be rendered insolvent by the dividend payment. There are also restrictions set forth in the Pennsylvania Banking Code of 1965 (the “Code”) and in the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (“FDIA”) affecting the payment of dividends to the Company by Royal Bank.  Under the Code, no dividends may be paid by a bank except from “accumulated net earnings” (generally retained earnings).  In addition, dividends paid by Royal Bank to the Company would be prohibited if the effect thereof would cause Royal Bank’s capital to be reduced below applicable minimum capital requirements. 

On August 13, 2009, the Company’s Board suspended the regular quarterly cash dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock.  The Company’s Board took this action in consultation with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia as required by regulatory policy guidance.  In February 2014, the preferred cumulative dividend rate prospectively increased to 9%per annum.  As a result of the Company’s repurchase of 11,551 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, approximately $3.5 million of the Series A Preferred stockdividend in arrears was eliminated. As of September 30, 2015, the Series A Preferred stock dividend in arrears, which includes additional dividends on arrearages, was approximately $8.3 million and has not been recognized in the consolidated financial statements.  In the event we declared the preferred dividend in arrears our capital ratios would be negatively affected; however, they would remain above the required minimum ratios.  Under the Federal Reserve Bank MOU as described in “Note 2 — Regulatory Matters and Significant Risks or Uncertainties” to the Consolidated Financial Statements, the Company may not declare or pay any dividends without the prior written approval of the Federal Reserve Bank and the Director of the Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.