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customary financial practice, in pricing a new issue of corporate debt securities maturing on , 2021. "Independent Investment Banker- means one of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Merrill Lynch. Pierce. Fenner & Smith Incorporated. UBS Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, and their respective successors, appointed by

it for securities similar to the debentures. The rating agencies that currently publish a rating for us, including Moody's Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC business, and A.M. Best Company, Inc., may, from time to time in the future, change the way they analyze

NFLICTS OF INTEREST) The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, UBS Securities LLC and BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, as the representatives of the underwriters, have entered into an underwriting agreement dat

a whole. For example, in March 2015, Moody's Investors Service published its revised methodology for rating banks globally, and, in December 2015, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services ("M") removed the government support assumptions on the eight U.S. global systemically important banks, including us, which resulted in a one- notch

the Code or any applicable Similar Law, as described above. S-59 EFTA00613293 UNDERWRITING Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are acting as joint book-running managers of the offering and as representatives of the underwr

purchase price. The Series A Preferred Shares may not be rated and, if rated, their ratings could be lowered. We expect that Fitch Ratings Inc. and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services will assign ratings to the Series A Preferred Shares. Generally, rating agencies base their ratings on such material and information, and such of t