Unless otherwise specified in the applicable pricing supplement, the principal financial
center of any country for the purpose of the foregoing definition means (1) the capital city of the country issuing the specified currency or (2) the capital city of the country to which the designated LIBOR currency relates, as
applicable, except, in the case of (1) or (2) above, that with respect to United States dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, euro, New Zealand dollars, South African rand and Swiss francs, the principal financial center
shall be The City of New York and (solely in the case of the specified currency) Sydney, Toronto, London (solely in the case of the designated LIBOR currency), Wellington, Johannesburg and Zurich, respectively.
Interest and Interest Rates
General
Each note will accrue interest from the date it is originally issued or from the last date in respect of which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, as the case may be, until the principal thereof is paid or deemed paid under the indenture. In the related pricing supplement, we will designate each note as a fixed rate note, a floating rate note, any combination of the foregoing, a
zero coupon note, an amortizing note, a renewable note, an extendible note or an indexed note and describe the method of determining the interest rate, including any spread and/or spread multiplier. For an indexed note, we will also describe in the
related pricing supplement the method for calculating and paying principal and interest. For a floating rate note or indexed note, we may also specify a maximum and a minimum interest rate in the related pricing supplement.
We may issue a note as a fixed rate note or a floating rate note or as a note that combines fixed and floating rate terms.
Interest rates on the notes that we offer may differ depending upon, among other things, the aggregate principal amount of notes purchased in
any single transaction. We may offer notes with similar variable terms but different interest rates, as well as notes with different variable terms, concurrently to different investors. We may, from time to time, change the interest rates or
formulas and other terms of notes, but no such change will affect any note already issued or as to which an offer to purchase has been accepted.
Interest will be payable to the person in whose name the note is registered at the close of business on the applicable record date; provided
that the interest payable upon maturity, redemption or repayment (whether or not the date of maturity, redemption or repayment is an interest payment date) will be payable to the person to whom principal is payable.
Unless otherwise specified in the applicable pricing supplement, the agent for payment, transfer and exchange of the notes, who will be
referred to in this prospectus supplement as the paying agent, is Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, acting through its corporate trust office in New York City, New York. Unless the applicable pricing supplement specifies otherwise, we will pay
the principal, interest, and premium, if any, at maturity or redemption in immediately available funds to DTC, as depositary, or its nominee, as the registered owner of the global notes representing the book-entry notes. But we may at our option,
pay interest on any certificated note, other than interest at maturity or upon redemption, by mailing a check to the address of the person or entity entitled to the payment shown on our security register at the close of business on the regular
record date related to the interest payment date.
Unless the applicable pricing supplement specified otherwise, a holder of U.S.
$1.0 million (or the equivalent) or more in aggregate principal amount of certificated notes (whether having identical or different terms and provisions) shall be entitled to receive payments of interest, other than interest at maturity or upon
redemption, by wire transfer of immediately available funds upon written request to the paying agent not later than 15 calendar days prior to the applicable interest payment date.
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