Bank of Montreal Announces Increase to Preferred Share Issue

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct. 13, 2016) -

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Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO)(NYSE:BMO) today announced that as a result of strong investor demand for its previously announced domestic public offering of $350 million of Non-Cumulative 5-Year Rate Reset Class B Preferred Shares Series 38 (Non-Viability Contingent Capital (NVCC)), the size of the offering has been increased to $600 million. As announced earlier today, the revised offering will be underwritten on a bought-deal basis by a syndicate led by BMO Capital Markets.

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