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OMB APPROVAL
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OMB Number 3235-0105
Expires: December 31, 1996
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM T-3
FOR APPLICATIONS FOR QUALIFICATION OF INDENTURES
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
RB ASSET, INC.
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(Name of applicant)
645 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10022
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(Address of principal executive offices)
SECURITIES TO BE ISSUED UNDER THE INDENTURE TO BE QUALIFIED
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Title of Class Amount
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Increasing Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2006 $36,316,000*
Approximate date of proposed
public offering: On or promptly after the date of acceptance of
shares of 15% Non-Cumulative Perpetual
Preferred Stock, Series A, par value $1.00,
pursuant to the Offering Circular dated
November 25, 1998, incorporated by reference
herein as Exhibit T3E1 hereto.
Name and address of
agent for service: Nelson L. Stephenson, President
RB Asset, Inc.
645 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10022
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* Plus such additional principal amount of Subordinated Notes as may be
issued in payment of interest on the Subordinated Notes from the date of
their initial issuance until the semi-annual interest period beginning on
January 16, 2002.
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The obligor hereby amends this application for qualification on such date or
dates as may be necessary to delay its effectiveness until: (i) the 20th day
after the filing of a further amendment which specifically states that it
shall supersede this amendment, or (ii) such date as the Commission, acting
pursuant to Section 307(c) of the Act, may determine upon the written request
of the obligor.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the
applicant, RB Asset, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of Delaware, has duly caused this amendment to application to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, and its seal to
be hereunto affixed and attested, all in the city of New York, and State of
New York, on the 9th day of December, 1998.
(SEAL)
RB ASSET, INC.
By /s/ Nelson L. Stephenson
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Name: Nelson L. Stephenson
Title: President and Chief
Executive Officer
Attest: /s/ Shiela Boyd
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Name: Shiela Boyd
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