PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust Announces LIBOR Replacement Rate for its Series A and Series B Preferred Shares
August 25 2023 - 3:30PM
Business Wire
In March 2021, the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority announced
that after June 30, 2023, the USD LIBOR for a three-month tenor
would cease publication or no longer be representative. In
connection with the cessation of representative USD LIBOR, in March
2022, the U.S. Congress enacted the Adjustable Interest Rate
(LIBOR) Act (the "LIBOR Act”), and in December 2022 the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the "Federal Reserve")
issued a final rule thereunder (the "LIBOR Rule”). The LIBOR Rule
provides with respect to any reference in the terms of a security
requiring a poll or inquiries for quotes or information related to
USD LIBOR (“Polling Provisions”) contained in so called “fallback
provisions” applicable in the event USD LIBOR is not published,
such Polling Provisions shall be disregarded and deemed null and
void and without any force or effect.
In accordance with the Articles Supplementary for each of the
Series A Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred
Shares of Beneficial Interest (the “Series A Preferred Shares”) and
the Series B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred
Shares of Beneficial Interest (the “Series B Preferred Shares”),
and disregarding the Polling Provisions contained therein, the
applicable dividend rate for dividend periods from and after March
15, 2024, in the case of the Series A Preferred Shares, or June 15,
2024, in the case of the Series B Preferred Shares, shall be
calculated at the dividend rate in effect for the immediately
preceding dividend period. As a result, the Series A Preferred
Shares and Series B Preferred Shares will continue to accumulate
dividends from and after March 15, 2024, in the case of the Series
A Preferred Shares, or June 15, 2024, in the case of the Series B
Preferred Shares, at their current annual fixed rate and will not
transition to a floating reference rate.
About PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is a mortgage real estate
investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in residential
mortgage loans and mortgage-related assets. PMT is externally
managed by PNMAC Capital Management, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary
of PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: PFSI). Additional
information about PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is available
at pmt.pennymac.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, regarding management’s beliefs, estimates, projections
and assumptions with respect to, among other things, PennyMac
Mortgage Investment Trust’s (the “Company”) future dividend
payments, as well as industry and market conditions, all of which
are subject to change. Words like “believe,” “expect,”
“anticipate,” “promise,” “plan,” and other expressions or words of
similar meanings, as well as future or conditional verbs such as
“will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” or “may” are generally intended
to identify forward-looking statements. Actual results and
operations for any future period may vary materially from those
projected herein and from past results discussed herein. Factors
which could cause actual results to differ materially from
historical results or those anticipated include, but are not
limited to: changes in interest rates; the Company’s ability to
comply with various federal, state and local laws and regulations
that govern its business; changes in the Company’s investment
objectives or investment or operational strategies, including any
new lines of business or new products and services that may subject
it to additional risks; volatility in the Company’s industry, the
debt or equity markets, the general economy or the real estate
finance and real estate markets; events or circumstances which
undermine confidence in the financial and housing markets or
otherwise have a broad impact on financial and housing markets;
changes in general business, economic, market, employment and
domestic and international political conditions, or in consumer
confidence and spending habits from those expected; the degree and
nature of the Company’s competition; declines in real estate or
significant changes in housing prices or activity in the housing
market; the availability of, and level of competition for,
attractive risk-adjusted investment opportunities in mortgage loans
and mortgage-related assets that satisfy the Company’s investment
objectives; the inherent difficulty in winning bids to acquire
mortgage loans, and the Company’s success in doing so; the
concentration of credit risks to which the Company is exposed; the
Company’s dependence on its manager and servicer, potential
conflicts of interest with such entities and their affiliates, and
the performance of such entities; changes in personnel and lack of
availability of qualified personnel at its manager, servicer or
their affiliates; the availability, terms and deployment of
short-term and long-term capital; the adequacy of the Company’s
cash reserves and working capital; the Company’s ability to
maintain the desired relationship between its financing and the
interest rates and maturities of its assets; the timing and amount
of cash flows, if any, from the Company’s investments; the
Company’s substantial amount of indebtedness; the performance,
financial condition and liquidity of borrowers; the Company’s
exposure to risks of loss and disruptions in operations resulting
from adverse weather conditions, man-made or natural disasters,
climate change and pandemics; the ability of the Company’s
servicer, which also provides the Company with fulfillment
services, to approve and monitor correspondent sellers and
underwrite loans to investor standards; incomplete or inaccurate
information or documentation provided by customers or
counterparties, or adverse changes in the financial condition of
the Company’s customers and counterparties; the Company’s
indemnification and repurchase obligations in connection with
mortgage loans it purchases and later sells or securitizes; the
quality and enforceability of the collateral documentation
evidencing the Company’s ownership and rights in the assets in
which it invests; increased rates of delinquency, defaults and
forbearances and/or decreased recovery rates on the Company’s
investments; the performance of mortgage loans underlying
mortgage-backed securities in which the Company retains credit
risk; the Company’s ability to foreclose on its investments in a
timely manner or at all; increased prepayments of the mortgages and
other loans underlying the Company’s mortgage-backed securities or
relating to the Company’s mortgage servicing rights and other
investments; the degree to which the Company’s hedging strategies
may or may not protect it from interest rate volatility; the effect
of the accuracy of or changes in the estimates the Company makes
about uncertainties, contingencies and asset and liability
valuations when measuring and reporting upon the Company’s
financial condition and results of operations; the Company’s
ability to maintain appropriate internal control over financial
reporting; technologies for loans and the Company’s ability to
mitigate security risks and cyber intrusions; the Company’s ability
to detect misconduct and fraud; developments in the secondary
markets for the Company’s mortgage loan products; legislative and
regulatory changes that impact the mortgage loan industry or
housing market; regulatory or other changes that impact government
agencies or government-sponsored entities, or such changes that
increase the cost of doing business with such agencies or entities;
legislative and regulatory changes that impact the business,
operations or governance of mortgage lenders and/or publicly-traded
companies; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its issued
and future rules and the enforcement thereof; changes in government
support of homeownership; changes in government or
government-sponsored home affordability programs; limitations
imposed on the Company’s business and its ability to satisfy
complex rules for it to qualify as a REIT for U.S. federal income
tax purposes and qualify for an exclusion from the Investment
Company Act of 1940 and the ability of certain of the Company’s
subsidiaries to qualify as REITs or as taxable REIT subsidiaries
for U.S. federal income tax purposes; changes in governmental
regulations, accounting treatment, tax rates and similar matters;
the Company’s ability to make distributions to its shareholders in
the future; the Company’s failure to deal appropriately with issues
that may give rise to reputational risk; and the Company’s
organizational structure and certain requirements in its charter
documents. You should not place undue reliance on any
forward-looking statement and should consider all of the
uncertainties and risks described above, as well as those more
fully discussed in reports and other documents filed by the Company
with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. The
Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements or any other information contained
herein, and the statements made in this press release are current
as of the date of this release only.
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