Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Announces Visa Inc.’s Acceptance of Class B-1 Common Stock and Investment Securities Repositioning
Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBSH) announced today that Visa Inc. has accepted the company’s tender of its 823,447 shares of Visa Class B-1 common stock in exchange for a combination of Visa Class B-2 common stock and Visa Class C common stock.
- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBSH) announced today that Visa Inc. has accepted the company’s tender of its 823,447 shares of Visa Class B-1 common stock in exchange for a combination of Visa Class B-2 common stock and Visa Class C common stock.
- As a result of the exchange, Commerce marked its Visa Class C common stock to fair value and recorded a gain of $175.5 million based on the conversion privilege of the Visa Class C common stock and the closing price of Visa Class A common stock on May 3, 2024 of $268.49 per share.
- The company’s Visa Class C shares are expected to continue to be marked to fair value on a recurring basis using the Visa Class A shares as evidence of orderly transactions between market participants for similar securities issued by Visa.
- The company expects the repositioning to increase net interest income, reduce interest rate risk to lower rates, and improve the quality of the Company's pledgeable investment securities.