First BanCorp (FBP) announced that it is planning to conduct an exchange offer under which it will be offering to exchange newly issued shares of common stock for the issued and outstanding shares of publicly held Series A through E Noncumulative Perpetual Monthly Income Preferred Stock. The exchange offer will be conducted to improve its capital structure.
Through the exchange offer First BanCorp seeks to improve its Tier 1 common equity ratio.
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