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

March 7, 2016

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

BB&T Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Commission file number : 1-10853

(336) 733-2000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

On March 7, 2016, BB&T Corporation, a North Carolina corporation (the “Company”), filed Articles of Amendment for the purpose of amending its Articles of Incorporation to fix the designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights of its Series H Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, par value $5.00 per share and a liquidation preference of $25,000 per share (the “Preferred Stock”). A copy of the Articles of Amendment is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

On March 9, 2016, the Company closed the sale of 17,000,000 depositary shares (the “Depositary Shares”), with each Depositary Share representing ownership of 1/1,000^th of a share of the Company’s Preferred Stock, which were registered pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 (SEC File No. 333-197375) which was automatically effective on July 11, 2014 (the “Registration Statement”). The following documents are being filed with this report on Form 8-K and shall be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement: (i) Underwriting Agreement, dated March 2, 2016, between the Company and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, BB&T Capital Markets, a division of BB&T Securities, LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the underwriters identified in Schedule II thereto; (ii) Articles of Amendment of the Company filed March 7, 2016; (iii) Deposit Agreement, dated as of March 9, 2016, between the Company and Computershare Inc. and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., jointly as depositary; (iv) form of Depositary Receipt; and (v) validity opinion with respect to the Depositary Shares and the Preferred Stock.

(d) Exhibits.

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 hereunto duly authorized.

Date: March 9, 2016

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