Company: MYI
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-198172
Chunk: 118

Company: BLACKROCK MUNIYIELD QUALITY FUND III, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 118
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 processing errors, communication errors, systems failures, cybersecurity incidents, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”), which may result in losses for the Acquiring Fund and its shareholders or impair the Acquiring Fund’s operations. These entities include, but are not limited to, the Acquiring Fund’s adviser,
administrator, distributor, other service providers (e.g., index and benchmark providers, accountants, custodians, and transfer agents), financial intermediaries, counterparties, market makers, authorized participants, listing exchanges, other
financial market operators, and governmental authorities. Operational and technology risks for the issuers in which the Acquiring Fund invests could also result in material adverse consequences for such issuers and may cause the Acquiring
Fund’s investments in such issuers to lose value. The Acquiring Fund may incur substantial costs in order to mitigate operational and technology risks.

Cybersecurity incidents can result from deliberate attacks or unintentional events against an issuer in which the Acquiring Fund invests, the
Acquiring Fund or any of its service providers. They include, but are not limited to, gaining unauthorized access to systems, misappropriating assets or sensitive information, corrupting or destroying data, and causing operational disruption.
Geopolitical tension may increase the scale and sophistication of deliberate attacks, particularly those from nation states or from entities with nation state backing. Cybersecurity incidents may result in any of the following: financial losses;
interference with the Acquiring Fund’s ability to calculate its NAV; disclosure of confidential information; impediments to trading; submission of erroneous trades by the Acquiring Fund or erroneous subscription or redemption orders; the
inability of the Acquiring Fund or its service providers to transact business; violations of applicable privacy and other laws; regulatory fines; penalties; reputational damage; reimbursement or other compensation costs; and other legal and
compliance expenses. Furthermore, cybersecurity incidents may render records of the Acquiring Fund, including records relating to its assets and transactions, shareholder ownership of Acquiring Fund shares, and other data integral to the Acquiring
Fund’s functioning, inaccessible, inaccurate or incomplete. Power outages, natural disasters, equipment malfunctions and processing errors that threaten information and technology systems relied upon by the Acquiring Fund or its service
providers, as well as market events that occur at a pace that overloads these systems, may also disrupt business operations or impact critical data. In

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addition, the risks of increased use of AI technologies, such as machine learning, include data risk