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Issuer:     COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/ (CBSH)
CIK:        0000022356
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-05-12T20:36:45+00:00
Accession:  0000022356-26-000137
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.88
Item codes: 8.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Commerce Bancshares gains $99M on Visa exchange; plans $911M bond repositioning with ~$95M loss
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- Visa accepted Commerce Bancshares' tender of 411,723 Visa Class B-2 shares; company records $99M pre-tax gain on Visa Class C mark-to-market.
- Company to sell ~$911M of low-yield (2.5%) available-for-sale debt securities, expecting ~$95M pre-tax loss.
- Proceeds from sale to be reinvested into assets yielding ~4.0%, targeting increased net interest income and reduced volatility.
- Cumulative impact of Visa gain and securities repositioning expected to be approximately neutral to Common Equity Tier 1 ratio.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235626000137/0000022356-26-000137-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235626000137/cbsh-20260512.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022356-26-000137

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