The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation Common Stock (BNY)

Ripple, the leading provider of blockchain solutions across traditional and digital finance, and BNY (NYSE: BNY), a global financial services company, today announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration to broaden institutional digital asset custody capabilities and explore new institutional use cases for blockchain technology, including tokenized trade finance. The collaboration brings together Ripple’s digital asset solutions and the XRP Ledger (XRPL), a public blockchain, with BNY’s scale, servicing model and digital capabilities.

Alight (NYSE: ALIT), a leading benefits administration provider of health, wealth and leave solutions, today announced a collaboration with BNY (NYSE: BNY), a global financial services platforms company, to launch a retirement solution designed to offer defined contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors and participants deeper support for plan administration and investing.

BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today each of the closed-end funds named below (each, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”) have completed their reorganizations or mergers, as applicable (each, a “Reorganization” and collectively, the “Reorganizations”). Additionally, each of the Survivor Funds, as identified below, adopted a Discount Management Program that seeks to enhance long-term shareholder value via periodic liquidity events if certain conditions are met (see below for details).

Certain BlackRock municipal closed-end funds (the “Funds”) previously announced mergers or reorganizations (“Reorganizations”). The March distributions for the Surviving Funds below represents the distributions to be paid by the combined Funds post-Reorganization. The distributions for the Target Funds below represents only the pre-Reorganization distributions to be paid to Target Fund shareholders in January and February. Shareholders who continue to hold shares of the Surviving Fund as of the March record date, or who receive shares of the Surviving Fund in connection with the applicable Reorganization and hold such shares on the March record date, will be eligible for the March 13, 2026 Ex and Record Distribution in the Surviving Fund.

BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that, at shareholder meetings held on October 15, 2025 and November 20, 2025, shareholders of each of the closed-end funds named below (each, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”) have approved the following reorganizations or mergers, as applicable (each, a “Reorganization” and collectively, the “Reorganizations”):

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

The BlackRock municipal closed-end funds listed below (the “Funds”) announced today their July 2025 distribution payable date has been updated to 7/31/2025. The prior press release listed the payable date for the July 2025 distribution as 8/1/2025. No other changes are being made to the information announced in the prior press release.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that each of the Boards of Directors/Trustees of each of the closed-end funds named below (each, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”) has approved the following reorganizations and mergers (each, a “Reorganization” and collectively, the “Reorganizations”), as applicable:

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below.