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Auctions Part of Treasury’s Continued Efforts to Wind Down TARP’s Bank Programs
Proceeds Deliver Additional Profit for Taxpayers on TARP’s Bank Programs
WASHINGTON – As part of the strategy it outlined for winding down its remaining Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bank investments, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it priced auctions of preferred stock (the “CPP Securities”) in the following eleven institutions at the following prices:
Issuer and Security | Price per share* | Number of shares to be sold | Aggregate |
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Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A | $755.00 | 12,000 | $9,060,000.00 |
912.11 | 547,266.00 | ||
| 9,607,266.00 | ||
First Gothenburg Bancshares, Inc., Gothenburg, NE | |||
Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Shares, Series A | 910.31 | 7,570 | 6,891,046.70 |
Blackhawk Bancorp Inc., Beloit, WI | 7,256,823.39 | ||
Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B | 910.00 | 10,000 | 9,100,000.00 |
950.00 | |||
9,575,000.00 | |||
Germantown Capital Corporation, Inc., Germantown, TN | |||
Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A | 910.13 | 4,967 | 4,520,615.71 |
966.11 | |||
4,760,210.99 | |||
CenterBank, Milford, OH | 825.00 | 2,250 | 1,856,250.00 |
965.11 | 109,057.43 | ||
1,965,307.43 | |||
Oak Ridge Financial Services, Inc., Oak Ridge, NC | 7,700 | ||
921.50 | 7,095,550.00 | ||
Congaree Bancshares Inc., Cayce, SC | |||
Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A | 825.26 | 3,285 | 2,710,979.10 |
801.00 | |||
| 2,842,343.10 | ||
Metro City Bank, Doraville, GA | 7,700 | 6,930,770.00 | |
900.10 | |||
970.61 | |||
| 7,304,454.85 | ||
Peoples Bancshares of TN, Inc., Madisonville, TN | 3,900 | 2,944,500.00 | |
755.00 | |||
755.00 | |||
| 3,091,725.00 | ||
The Little Bank, Incorporated, Kinston, NC | 7,500 | 7,359,000.00 | |
981.20 | |||
1,000.00 | |||
| 7,734,000.00 | ||
HomeTown Bankshares Corporation, Roanoke, VA | 10,000 | 9,185,000.00 | |
918.50 | |||
852.00 | |||
| 9,503,648.00 | ||
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*Reflects a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share.
The aggregate gross proceeds to Treasury from the auctions are expected to be approximately $70.7 million. At settlement, winning bidders will be required to pay the applicable clearing prices for the preferred stock plus accrued and unpaid dividends on the preferred stock.
“TARP's bank investments helped prevent a collapse of our financial system which could have led to another Great Depression, but now it is important that we move to get the federal government out of the business of owning interests in private banks,” said Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Timothy G. Massad. “These auctions are one part of our overall strategy to wind down this program and help community banks replace temporary government support with private capital.”
TARP’s bank programs have already earned a significant profit for taxpayers. Including the expected proceeds from the transactions announced today, Treasury has now recovered $267 billion from TARP’s bank programs through repayments, dividends, interest, and other income – compared to the $245 billion initially invested. Each additional dollar recovered from TARP’s bank programs is an additional dollar of profit for taxpayers.
These auctions are part of the strategy that Treasury outlined in May for winding down its remaining TARP bank investments in a way that protects taxpayer interests, promotes financial stability, and preserves the strength of our nation’s community banks. Treasury indicated that it intends to use a combination of repayments, restructurings, and sales to manage and recover those remaining investments.
The closings for the auctions are expected to occur on or about October 31, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions. The offerings were priced through modified Dutch auctions.
The CPP Securities were offered only to (1) domestic “qualified institutional buyers” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), (2) certain domestic institutional “accredited investors” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Act that have total assets of not less than $25,000,000 and (3) in certain cases, certain directors and executive officers of the issuers of the CPP Securities. The CPP Securities sold in the auctions may not be offered or sold absent registration under, or an applicable exemption from, applicable state securities law.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
For more details on Treasury’s lifetime cost estimates for TARP programs, please visit Treasury’s Monthly 105(a) Report to Congress on TARP at this link.
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