Royal Bank of Canada has announced (on June 10):
its intention to redeem all of its issued and outstanding Non-Viability Contingent Capital (NVCC) Non-Cumulative 5-Year Rate Reset First Preferred Shares, Series BB (Series BB shares) (TSX: RY.PR.H) on August 24, 2024, for cash at a redemption price of $25.00 per share to be paid on August 24, 2024.
There are 20,000,000 Series BB shares outstanding, representing $500 million of capital. The redemptions will be financed out of the general corporate funds of Royal Bank of Canada.
The final quarterly dividend of $0.228125 for each of the Series BB shares will be paid separately from the redemption price for each of the Series BB Shares and in the usual manner on August 23, 2024 to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 25, 2024. After such dividend payments, the holders of Series BB shares will cease to be entitled to dividends.
RY.PR.H was issued as a FixedReset, 3.90%+226, NVCC-Compliant issue that commenced trading 2014-6-3 after being announced 2014-5-23. The bank gave notice of extension on 2019-7-22. RY.PR.H reset at 3.65% effective 2019-8-24. I recommended against conversion and there was no conversion. The issue is tracked by HIMIPref™ and has been assigned to the FixedReset-Discount subindex.
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RY.PR.H To Be Redeemed
Royal Bank of Canada has announced (on June 10):
RY.PR.H was issued as a FixedReset, 3.90%+226, NVCC-Compliant issue that commenced trading 2014-6-3 after being announced 2014-5-23. The bank gave notice of extension on 2019-7-22. RY.PR.H reset at 3.65% effective 2019-8-24. I recommended against conversion and there was no conversion. The issue is tracked by HIMIPref™ and has been assigned to the FixedReset-Discount subindex.
Thanks to Assiduous Reader IrateAr for bringing this to my attention!
This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 at 8:26 pm and is filed under Issue Comments. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.