New York Community Bancorp changes name to Flagstar Financial, ticker to FLG

New York Community Bancorp announced that its Board of Directors approved and adopted an amendment to the company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, changing the company’s name to Flagstar Financial. As a result of the Name Change, which will become effective on October 25, 2024, at 5:00 pm ET, the company expects that its common stock, which trades on the New York Stock Exchange, will cease trading under the ticker symbol “NYCB” and commence trading on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “FLG” effective as of the open of business on October 28, 2024. In addition, effective as of that same time, the company expects that the NYSE ticker symbol for the company’s Bifurcated Option Note Unit SecuritiESSM will change to “FLG PRU” from “NYCB-PU” and the ticker symbol for the Company’s Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of Series A Noncumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, will change to “FLG PRA” from “NYCB-PA”. No action is required by shareholders and the applicable CUSIPs will remain unchanged.