Compounded SOFR Notes
If the applicable Pricing Supplement for any SOFR Note specifies the calculation method as being “Compounded SOFR,” then “Compounded SOFR,” with respect to any interest period, means the rate of return of a daily compounded interest investment calculated in accordance with the following formula:
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where:
“d0”, for any observation period, means the number of U.S. Government Securities Business Days in the relevant observation period;
“i” means a series of whole numbers from one to d0, each representing the relevant U.S. Government Securities Business Day in chronological order from, and including, the first U.S. Government Securities Business Day in the relevant observation period;
“SOFRi”, for any U.S. Government Securities Business Day “i” in the relevant observation period, is equal to SOFR in respect of that day “i”;
“ni”, for any U.S. Government Securities Business Day “i” in the relevant observation period, is the number of calendar days from, and including, such U.S. Government Securities Business Day “i” to, but excluding, the following U.S. Government Securities Business Day (“i+1”);
“d” means the number of calendar days in the relevant observation period;
“interest period” means each period (as specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement) from, and including, an interest payment date (or, in the case of the first interest period, the issue date) to, but excluding, the next interest payment date (or, in the case of the final interest period, the maturity date or earlier redemption or repayment date).
“observation period” means, in respect of each interest period, the period from, and including, the date that is two U.S. Government Securities Business Days (or such other number of U.S. Government Securities Business Days as the Company may specify in the applicable Pricing Supplement) preceding the first date in such interest period to, but excluding, the date that is two U.S. Government Securities Business Days (or such other number of U.S. government securities business days as the Company may specify in the applicable Pricing Supplement) preceding the interest payment date for such interest period;
“SOFR” means, with respect to any U.S. Government Securities Business Day:
(1) the Secured Overnight Financing Rate published for such U.S. Government Securities Business Day as such rate appears on the SOFR Administrator’s Website at 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the immediately following U.S. Government Securities Business Day (the “SOFR Determination Time”); or
(2) if the rate specified in (1) above does not so appear, unless both a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date (as each such term is defined below under “—Effect of Benchmark Transition Event and Related Benchmark Replacement Date”) have occurred, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate as published in respect of the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which the Secured Overnight Financing Rate was published on the SOFR Administrator’s Website; or
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