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- Grupo Financiero Galicia - B (ADR) (Argentina, NASDAQ: GGAL, CUSIP: 399909100, Sedol: 2613570) shares will be increased by 14.9 million. In May 2004, the company issued new, non-voting preference shares as a part of its debt-restructuring plan with creditors. The new shares were recently converted to ordinary class ‘B’ shares. The company’s IWF will also be revised to 0.7892 to reflect the new shareholding structure. Based on pricing from September 12, 2005, the company’s weight in the S&P ADR Index would have increased to 0.010% from 0.007%.
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