AmSouth Bancorporation Board Announces Quarterly Dividend; Dividend Yield at 3.8 Percent.BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- AmSouth Bancorporation AmSouth Bancorporation was a bank holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, operated as a subsidiary of Regions Financial Corporation. AmSouth was previously known as First National Bank of Birmingham first organized in 1872. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ASO ASO arteriosclerosis obliterans. ASO 1 Administrative services organization, see there 2 Allele-specific–oligonucleotide hybridization 3 Anti-streptolysin O, see there ) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $.26 per common share, payable April 3, 2006, to shareholders of record as of March 17, 2006. AmSouth's dividend yield as of Jan. 18, 2006, was 3.8 percent. AmSouth holds Mergent's "Dividend Achiever" designation for its record of increasing dividends for 35 consecutive years, an honor accorded just 3 percent of U.S.-listed, dividend-paying publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. . AmSouth also was named recently to Forbes magazine's Platinum 400 list, a prestigious ranking of the best big companies in America. About AmSouth AmSouth is a regional bank holding company with over $52 billion in assets, more than 680 branch banking offices and more than 1,200 ATMs. AmSouth operates in Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia. AmSouth is a leader among regional banks in the Southeast in several key business segments, including consumer and commercial banking, small business banking, mortgage lending, equipment leasing Equipment Leasing is a financing option to lease equipment for a certain amount of time. Leasing Benefits
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