31 Dividend Increases: January 23-27, 2017 (Part 1: Financials And MLPs)

I like monitoring dividend increases for stocks on my watch list of dividend growth stocks because I consider such stocks to be candidates for further analysis. Companies can only raise their dividends regularly if earnings grow sufficiently.
In the past week, 31 companies on my watch list announced dividend increases. This is an unusually large number, so I'm splitting the article into two parts. Part 1 presents Financials sector companies and MLPs (master limited partnerships) that raised their dividends. Part 2 will present the non-Financials.
The summary table below is sorted by percentage increase, %Incr. Dividends are annualized and in US$, unless otherwise indicated. Yield is the new dividend yield for the market close Price on the date listed. Yrs are years of consecutive dividend increases, while 5-yr DGR is the compound annual growth rate of the dividend over a 5-year period. 1-yr %Incr is the percentage increase from the year-ago dividend. (Some companies increase their dividends more than once a year, so this puts the most recent dividend increase in context).
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