UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) October 12, 2011

 

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Georgia   001-08918   58-1575035

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

303 Peachtree St., N.E., Atlanta, Georgia   30308
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (404) 588-7711

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

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Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

On October 12, 2011, SunTrust Banks, Inc. (the “Company”) as sponsor of SunTrust Preferred Capital I, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), provided notice to U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee of the Trust (the “Property Trustee”), of the remarketing (the “Remarketing”) of the Company’s Remarketable Junior Subordinated Notes due 2042 (the “Notes”), held by the Trust, which will begin on November 9, 2011. The Notes were originally issued to the Trust in connection with the offering of the Trust’s 5.853% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Normal PPS (the “Normal PPS”), which closed on October 25, 2006, and is described in the Final Prospectus filed by the Company and the Trust with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19, 2006.

In addition, the Company instructed the Property Trustee to notify the holders of the Normal PPS that the Company expects to repurchase and retire all of the Notes subject to the Remarketing.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

    SUNTRUST BANKS, INC.
Date: October 13, 2011     By:  

/s/ David A. Wisniewski

      David A. Wisniewski
      Group Vice President and Associate General Counsel