F.N.B. Corporation Declares Dividend of 12 Cents on Common Stock

PRESS RELEASE

August 17, 2016 - PITTSBURGH, PA

F.N.B. Corporation (NYSE: FNB) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of 12 cents per share on F.N.B. Corporation’s common stock.  The dividend is payable on September 15, 2016, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 1, 2016.

FNB announced its intent to merge with Yadkin Financial Corporation (Yadkin) in July 2016, creating a premier regional bank in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.  With the acquisition of Yadkin on a combined pro-forma basis, FNB will have nearly $30 billion in total assets and more than 400 full-service banking offices.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information 
This document contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which contain F.N.B.’s expectations or predictions of future financial or business performance or conditions. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as “believe”, “plan”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “outlook”, “estimate”, “forecast”, “will”, “should”, “project”, “goal”, and other similar words and expressions. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. In addition to factors previously disclosed in F.N.B.’s and Yadkin’s reports filed with the SEC, the following factors among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements or historical performance: failure to obtain all regulatory approvals and meet other closing conditions to the proposed merger between F.N.B. and Yadkin, including approval by the shareholders of F.N.B. and Yadkin, respectively, on the expected terms and time schedule; delay in closing the merger; potential risks and challenges attendant to the successful conversions of core data systems; difficulties and delays in integrating the F.N.B. and Yadkin businesses or fully realizing cost savings and other benefits; business disruption following the merger; changes in asset quality and credit risk; the inability to sustain revenue and earnings growth; changes in interest rates and capital markets; inflation; customer acceptance of F.N.B. products and services; potential difficulties encountered by F.N.B. in expanding into a new and remote geographic market; customer borrowing, repayment, investment and deposit practices; customer disintermediation; the introduction, withdrawal, success and timing of business initiatives; competitive conditions; the inability to realize cost savings or revenues or to implement integration plans and other consequences associated with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; economic conditions; and the impact, extent and timing of technological changes, capital management activities, and other actions of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and legislative and regulatory actions and reforms. F.N.B. does not undertake any obligation to revise these forward-looking statements or to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this document.

Additional Information About the Merger and Where to Find It
Communications in this document do not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval. In connection with the proposed merger, F.N.B. will file with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-4 that includes a Joint Proxy Statement of F.N.B. and Yadkin and a Prospectus of F.N.B., as well as other relevant documents concerning the proposed transaction. 

SHAREHOLDERS OF F.N.B. CORPORATION AND YADKIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND THE JOINT PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS REGARDING THE PROPOSED MERGER WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC, AS WELL AS ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS TO THOSE DOCUMENTS, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED MERGER.