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Five-year U.S. Treasury Rate means, as of any Reset Dividend Determination Date, as applicable,
(i) an interest rate (expressed as a decimal) determined to be the per annum rate equal to the arithmetic mean, for the immediately preceding week, of the daily yields to maturity for U.S. Treasury securities with a maturity of five years from
the next Reset Date and trading in the public securities markets or (ii) if the H.15 is not published during the week preceding the Reset Dividend Determination Date, or does not contain such yields, then the rate will be determined by
interpolation between the arithmetic mean, for the immediately preceding week, of the daily yields to maturity for each of the two series of U.S. Treasury securities trading in the public securities markets, (A) one maturing as close as
possible to, but earlier than, the Reset Date following the next succeeding Reset Dividend Determination Date, and (B) the other maturity as close as possible to, but later than, the Reset Date following the next succeeding Reset Dividend
Determination Date, in each case as published in the most recent H.15 under the caption Treasury Constant Maturities as the yield on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity. If the Corporation or its
designee, after consulting with the Corporation, determines on the relevant Reset Dividend Determination Date that the Five-Year U.S. Treasury Rate cannot be determined pursuant to the method described above, the Corporation or such designee, after
consulting with the Corporation, may determine whether there is an industry-accepted substitute or successor rate to the Five-Year U.S. Treasury Rate. If the Corporation or such designee, after consulting with the Corporation, determines there
is such a substitute or successor rate, then such rate will replace the Five-Year U.S. Treasury Rate for all purposes under the Series C Preferred Stock. If the Corporation or its designee, after consulting with the Corporation, have determined a
substitute or successor base rate in accordance with the foregoing, the Corporation or its designee, after consulting with the Corporation, may determine the business day convention, the definition of Business Day and the Reset Dividend
Determination Date to be used and any other relevant methodology for calculating such substitute or successor rate, including any adjustment factor needed to make such substitute or successor rate comparable to the Five-Year U.S. Treasury Rate, in a
manner that is consistent with industry-accepted practices for such substitute or successor rate. If the Corporation or its designee, after consulting with the Corporation, determines there is no such substitute or successor rate, then the
Five-Year U.S. Treasury Rate will be the same rate determined under clauses (i) or (ii) above for the |