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Long-term Debt
Long-term debt consists of borrowings having an original maturity of one year or more. The table below presents the balance of long-term debt at December 31, 2011 and 2010, and the related contractual rates and maturity dates at December 31, 2011.
Bank of America Corporation, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and subsidiaries, and Bank of America, N.A. maintain various U.S. and non-U.S. debt programs to offer both senior and subordinated notes. The notes may be denominated in U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. At December 31, 2011 and 2010, the amount of foreign currency-denominated debt translated into U.S. dollars included in total long-term debt was $117.0 billion and $145.9 billion. Foreign currency contracts are used to convert certain foreign currency-denominated debt into U.S. dollars.
At December 31, 2011, long-term debt of consolidated VIEs included credit card, automobile, home equity and other VIEs of $33.1 billion, $2.9 billion, $3.1 billion and $10.0 billion, respectively. Long-term debt of VIEs is collateralized by the assets of the VIEs. For more information, see Note 8 – Securitizations and Other Variable Interest Entities. The majority of the floating rates are based on three- and six-month LIBOR.
At December 31, 2011 and 2010, Bank of America Corporation had approximately $69.8 billion and $88.4 billion of authorized, but unissued corporate debt and other securities under its existing U.S. shelf registration statements. At December 31, 2011 and 2010, Bank of America, N.A. had approximately $67.3 billion and $53.3 billion of authorized, but unissued bank notes under its existing $75 billion bank note program. Long-term bank notes issued and outstanding under the program totaled $6.3 billion and $7.1 billion at December 31, 2011 and 2010. At both December 31, 2011 and 2010, Bank of America, N.A. had approximately $20.6 billion of authorized, but unissued mortgage notes under its $30.0 billion mortgage bond program.
The weighted-average effective interest rates for total long-term debt (excluding senior structured notes), total fixed-rate debt and total floating-rate debt, were 4.35 percent, 5.17 percent and 1.38 percent, respectively, at December 31, 2011 and 3.96 percent, 5.02 percent and 1.09 percent, respectively, at December 31, 2010. The Corporation’s ALM activities maintain an overall interest rate risk management strategy that incorporates the use of interest rate contracts to manage fluctuations in earnings that are caused by interest rate volatility. The Corporation’s goal is to manage interest rate sensitivity so that movements in interest rates do not significantly adversely affect earnings and capital. The above weighted-average rates are the contractual interest rates on the debt and do not reflect the impacts of derivative transactions.
The weighted-average interest rate for debt, excluding senior structured notes, issued by Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and subsidiaries was 4.74 percent and 4.11 percent at December 31, 2011 and 2010. As of December 31, 2011, the Corporation has not assumed or guaranteed the $105.6 billion of long-term debt that was issued or guaranteed by Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. or its subsidiaries prior to the acquisition of Merrill Lynch by the Corporation. All existing Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. guarantees of securities issued by certain Merrill Lynch subsidiaries under various non-U.S. securities offering programs will remain in full force and effect as long as those securities are outstanding, and the Corporation has not assumed any of those prior Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. guarantees or otherwise guaranteed such securities.
Certain senior structured notes are accounted for under the fair value option. For more information on these senior structured notes, see Note 23 – Fair Value Option.
The table below represents the carrying value for aggregate annual maturities of long-term debt at December 31, 2011.
Included in the above table are certain structured notes that contain provisions whereby the borrowings are redeemable at the option of the holder (put options) at specified dates prior to maturity. Other structured notes have coupon or repayment terms linked to the performance of debt or equity securities, indices, currencies or commodities and the maturity may be accelerated based on the value of a referenced index or security. In both cases, the Corporation or a subsidiary may be required to settle the obligation for cash or other securities prior to the contractual maturity date. These borrowings are reflected in the above table as maturing at their earliest put or redemption date.
Trust Preferred and Hybrid Securities
Trust preferred securities (Trust Securities) are primarily issued by trust companies (the Trusts) that are not consolidated. These Trust Securities are mandatorily redeemable preferred security obligations of the Trusts. The sole assets of the Trusts generally are junior subordinated deferrable interest notes of the Corporation or its subsidiaries (the Notes). The Trusts generally are 100 percent-owned finance subsidiaries of the Corporation. Obligations associated with the Notes are included in the long-term debt table on page 216.
Certain of the Trust Securities were issued at a discount and may be redeemed prior to maturity at the option of the Corporation. The Trusts generally have invested the proceeds of such Trust Securities in the Notes. Each issue of the Notes has an interest rate equal to the corresponding Trust Securities distribution rate. The Corporation has the right to defer payment of interest on the Notes at any time or from time to time for a period not exceeding five years provided that no extension period may extend beyond the stated maturity of the relevant Notes. During any such extension period, distributions on the Trust Securities will also be deferred and the Corporation’s ability to pay dividends on its common and preferred stock will be restricted.
The Trust Securities generally are subject to mandatory redemption upon repayment of the related Notes at their stated maturity dates or their earlier redemption at a redemption price equal to their liquidation amount plus accrued distributions to the date fixed for redemption and the premium, if any, paid by the Corporation upon concurrent repayment of the related Notes.
Periodic cash payments and payments upon liquidation or redemption with respect to Trust Securities are guaranteed by the Corporation or its subsidiaries to the extent of funds held by the Trusts (the Preferred Securities Guarantee). The Preferred Securities Guarantee, when taken together with the Corporation’s other obligations including its obligations under the Notes, generally will constitute a full and unconditional guarantee, on a subordinated basis, by the Corporation of payments due on the Trust Securities.
Hybrid Income Term Securities (HITS) totaling $1.6 billion were issued by the Trusts to institutional investors during 2007. The BAC Capital Trust XIII Floating-Rate Preferred HITS had a distribution rate of three-month LIBOR plus 40 bps and the BAC Capital Trust XIV Fixed-to-Floating Rate Preferred HITS had an initial distribution rate of 5.63 percent. Both series of HITS represent beneficial interests in the assets of the respective capital trust, which consist of a series of the Corporation’s junior subordinated notes and a stock purchase contract for a specified series of the Corporation’s preferred stock. The Corporation will remarket the junior subordinated notes underlying each series of HITS on or about the five-year anniversary of the issuance to obtain sufficient funds for the capital trusts to buy the Corporation’s preferred stock under the stock purchase contracts. Following the successful remarketing of the notes and the subsequent purchase of the Corporation’s preferred stock under the stock purchase contracts, the preferred stock will constitute the sole asset of the applicable trust.
In connection with the HITS, the Corporation entered into two replacement capital covenants for the benefit of investors in certain series of the Corporation’s long-term indebtedness (Covered Debt). As of December 31, 2011, the Corporation’s 6.625% Junior Subordinated Notes due 2036 constitute the Covered Debt under the covenant corresponding to the Floating-Rate Preferred HITS and the Corporation’s 5.625% Junior Subordinated Notes due 2035 constitute the Covered Debt under the covenant corresponding to the Fixed-to-Floating Rate Preferred HITS. These covenants generally restrict the ability of the Corporation and its subsidiaries to redeem or purchase the HITS and related securities unless the Corporation has obtained the prior approval of the Federal Reserve if required under the Federal Reserve’s capital guidelines, the redemption or purchase price of the HITS does not exceed the amount received by the Corporation from the sale of certain qualifying securities, and such replacement securities qualify as Tier 1 capital and are not “restricted core capital elements” under the Federal Reserve’s guidelines.
In 2011, as part of the exchange agreements described in Note 15 – Shareholders’ Equity, the Corporation issued 282 million shares of common stock valued at $1.6 billion and senior notes valued at $1.5 billion in exchange for $3.8 billion aggregate liquidation amount of previously issued Trust Securities. Upon the exchange, the Corporation immediately surrendered the Trust Securities to the unconsolidated Trusts for cancellation, resulting in the cancellation of an equal amount of junior subordinated notes that had a carrying value of $4.3 billion, resulting in a gain on extinguishment of debt of $1.2 billion. In addition, the Corporation issued 26 million shares of common stock valued at $138 million and senior notes valued at $505 million in exchange for $917 million aggregate liquidation amount of HITS. Upon the exchange, the Corporation immediately surrendered the HITS to the unconsolidated Trusts for cancellation, resulting in the cancellation of an equal amount of junior subordinated notes that had a carrying value of $915 million, and the cancellation of a corresponding amount of the underlying stock purchase contract, resulting in a
$12 million loss on extinguishment of debt and an increase to additional paid-in capital of $284 million. For additional information regarding these exchanges, see Note 15 – Shareholders’ Equity.
The table below lists each series of Trust Securities or HITS, and the corresponding aggregate liquidation preference covered by the Exchange Agreements.
The Trust Securities Summary table details the outstanding Trust Securities, HITS and the related Notes previously issued which remained outstanding at December 31, 2011, as originated by Bank of America Corporation and its predecessor companies and subsidiaries, after consideration of the exchange agreements. For additional information on Trust Securities for regulatory capital purposes, see Note 18 – Regulatory Requirements and Restrictions.
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