UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 10-Q

 

 

 

xQUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015

or

 

¨TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission File Number 1-9861

 

 

M&T BANK CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

New York 16-0968385

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

One M & T Plaza

Buffalo, New York

 14203
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(716) 635-4000842-5445

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    x  Yes    ¨  No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    x  Yes    ¨  No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer x  Accelerated filer ¨
Non-accelerated filer ¨  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)  Smaller reporting company ¨

Indicate by checkmarkcheck mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    ¨  Yes    x  No

Number of shares of the registrant’s Common Stock, $0.50 par value, outstanding as of the close of business on October 31, 2014: 132,111,892April 30, 2015: 132,970,139 shares.

 

 

 


M&T BANK CORPORATION

FORM 10-Q

For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015

 

Table of Contents of Information Required in Report

  Page 

Part I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

  

Item 1.

  

Financial Statements.

  
  

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET - September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 20132014

   3  
  

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME - Three and nine months ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014 and 2013

   4  
  

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME - Three and nine months ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014 and 2013

   5  
  

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS - NineThree months ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014 and 2013

   6  
  

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY - NineThree months ended September  30,March  31, 2015 and 2014 and 2013

   7  
  

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

   8  

Item 2.

  

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

   5550  

Item 3.

  

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

   10291  

Item 4.

  

Controls and Procedures.

   10291  

Part II. OTHER INFORMATION

  

Item 1.

  

Legal Proceedings.

   10291  

Item 1A.

  

Risk Factors.

   10392  

Item 2.

  

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

   10493  

Item 3.

  

Defaults Upon Senior Securities.

   10493  

Item 4.

  

Mine Safety Disclosures.

   10493  

Item 5.

  

Other Information.

   10493  

Item 6.

  

Exhibits.

   10594  

SIGNATURES

   10595  

EXHIBIT INDEX

   10695  

 

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements.

 

 

M&T BANK CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET (Unaudited)

 

Dollars in thousands, except per share

Dollars in thousands, except per share

  September 30,
2014
 December 31,
2013
 

Dollars in thousands, except per share

  March 31,
2015
 December 31,
2014
 

Assets

       

Cash and due from banks

  $1,269,816   1,289,965  
  

Cash and due from banks

  $1,445,877   1,573,361    

Interest-bearing deposits at banks

   6,291,491   6,470,867  
  

Interest-bearing deposits at banks

   7,676,064   1,651,138    

Federal funds sold

   97,037   83,392  
  

Federal funds sold

   77,766   99,573    

Trading account

   363,085   308,175  
  

Trading account

   296,913   376,131    

Investment securities (includes pledged securities that can be sold or repledged of $1,611,069 at March 31, 2015; $1,631,267 at December 31, 2014)

   
  

Investment securities (includes pledged securities that can be sold or repledged of $1,634,682 at September 30, 2014; $1,696,438 at December 31, 2013)

     

Available for sale (cost: $10,425,720 at March 31, 2015; $8,919,324 at December 31, 2014)

   10,703,500   9,156,932  
  

Available for sale (cost: $9,175,295 at September 30, 2014; $4,444,365 at December 31, 2013)

   9,384,017   4,531,786    

Held to maturity (fair value: $3,411,834 at March 31, 2015; $3,538,282 at December 31, 2014)

   3,360,812   3,507,868  
  

Held to maturity (fair value: $3,621,391 at September 30, 2014; $3,860,127 at December 31, 2013)

   3,635,815   3,966,130    

Other (fair value: $328,958 at March 31, 2015; $328,742 at December 31, 2014)

   328,958   328,742  
  

Other (fair value: $328,536 at September 30, 2014; $298,581 at December 31, 2013)

   328,536  298,581      

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Total investment securities

 14,393,270   12,993,542  
  

Total investment securities

   13,348,368   8,796,497      

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Loans and leases

 67,328,490   66,899,369  
  

Loans and leases

   65,800,972   64,325,783  

Unearned discount

 (229,448 (230,413
  

Unearned discount

   (228,613)  (252,624    

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Loans and leases, net of unearned discount

 67,099,042   66,668,956  
  

Loans and leases, net of unearned discount

   65,572,359    64,073,159  

Allowance for credit losses

 (921,373 (919,562
  

Allowance for credit losses

   (918,633  (916,676    

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Loans and leases, net

 66,177,669   65,749,394  
  

Loans and leases, net

   64,653,726   63,156,483      

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Premises and equipment

 602,096   612,984  
  

Premises and equipment

   612,076    633,520  

Goodwill

 3,524,625   3,524,625  
  

Goodwill

   3,524,625    3,524,625  

Core deposit and other intangible assets

 28,234   35,027  
  

Core deposit and other intangible assets

   42,197    68,851  

Accrued interest and other assets

 5,630,460   5,617,564  
  

Accrued interest and other assets

   5,550,730   5,282,212      

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Total assets

$98,377,783   96,685,535  
  

Total assets

  $97,228,342   85,162,391      

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Liabilities

     

Noninterest-bearing deposits

$27,181,120   26,947,880  
  

Noninterest-bearing deposits

  $27,440,524    24,661,007  

NOW accounts

 2,149,537   2,307,815  
  

NOW accounts

   2,098,577    1,989,441  

Savings deposits

 41,138,792   41,085,803  
  

Savings deposits

   41,389,867    36,621,580  

Time deposits

 2,946,126   3,063,973  
  

Time deposits

   3,170,998    3,523,838  

Deposits at Cayman Islands office

 178,545   176,582  
  

Deposits at Cayman Islands office

   241,536    322,746      

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Total deposits

 73,594,120   73,582,053  
  

Total deposits

   74,341,502   67,118,612      

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Federal funds purchased and agreements to repurchase securities

 193,495   192,676  
  

Federal funds purchased and agreements to repurchase securities

   164,609    260,455  

Accrued interest and other liabilities

 1,552,724   1,567,951  
  

Accrued interest and other liabilities

   1,327,524    1,368,922  

Long-term borrowings

 10,509,143   9,006,959  
  

Long-term borrowings

   9,061,391    5,108,870      

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Total liabilities

 85,849,482   84,349,639  
  

Total liabilities

   84,895,026   73,856,859      

 

  

 

 
    

 

  

 

 

Shareholders’ equity

  

Preferred stock, $1.00 par, 1,000,000 shares authorized; Issued and outstanding: Liquidation preference of $1,000 per share: 731,500 shares at September 30, 2014; 381,500 shares at December 31, 2013; Liquidation preference of $10,000 per share: 50,000 shares at September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013

   1,231,500    881,500  

 

Preferred stock, $1.00 par, 1,000,000 shares authorized; Issued and outstanding: Liquidation preference of $1,000 per share: 731,500 shares at March 31, 2015 and at December 31, 2014; Liquidation preference of $10,000 per share: 50,000 shares at March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014

 1,231,500   1,231,500  
  

Common stock, $.50 par, 250,000,000 shares authorized, 132,100,384 shares issued at September 30, 2014; 130,516,364 shares issued at December 31, 2013

   66,050    65,258  

Common stock, $.50 par, 250,000,000 shares authorized, 132,909,718 shares issued at March 31, 2015; 132,312,931 shares issued at December 31, 2014

 66,455   66,157  
  

Common stock issuable, 41,261 shares at September 30, 2014; 47,231 shares at December 31, 2013

   2,590    2,915  

Common stock issuable, 36,360 shares at March 31, 2015; 41,330 shares at December 31, 2014

 2,310   2,608  
  

Additional paid-in capital

   3,377,714    3,232,014  

Additional paid-in capital

 3,445,707   3,409,506  
  

Retained earnings

   7,642,995    7,188,004  

Retained earnings

 7,934,820   7,807,119  
  

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net

   12,467    (64,159

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net

 (152,491 (180,994
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Total shareholders’ equity

   12,333,316   11,305,532  

Total shareholders’ equity

 12,528,301   12,335,896  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

  $97,228,342   85,162,391  

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

$98,377,783   96,685,535  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 

 

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M&T BANK CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME (Unaudited)

 

     Three months ended September 30 Nine months ended September 30      Three months ended March 31 

In thousands, except per share

In thousands, except per share

  2014 2013 2014 2013 

In thousands, except per share

  2015 2014 

Interest income

  

Loans and leases, including fees

  $647,280   683,482   $1,937,531   2,071,332    

Loans and leases, including fees

  $647,179   645,222  
  

Deposits at banks

   3,118   1,884  
  

Investment securities

       

Federal funds sold

   24   16  
  

Fully taxable

   91,036   55,746   250,145   141,799    

Trading account

   491   427  
  

Exempt from federal taxes

   1,271   1,617   4,068   5,223    

Investment securities

   
  

Deposits at banks

   3,198   1,650   7,617   3,372    

Fully taxable

   85,957   73,899  
  

Other

   238   191   904   1,142    

Exempt from federal taxes

   1,318   1,504  
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Total interest income

   743,023    742,686    2,200,265   2,222,868  

Total interest income

 738,087   722,952 
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 

Interest expense

  

NOW accounts

   394    333    1,021    976  

NOW accounts

 311   297  
  

Savings deposits

   11,532    13,733    34,314    41,560  

Savings deposits

 10,219   11,601  
  

Time deposits

   3,805    6,129    11,600    21,809  

Time deposits

 3,740   3,940  
  

Deposits at Cayman Islands office

   161    213    550    801  

Deposits at Cayman Islands office

 147   208  
  

Short-term borrowings

   19    58    76    385  

Short-term borrowings

 34   32  
  

Long-term borrowings

   58,053    49,112    158,098    150,592  

Long-term borrowings

 64,048   50,441  
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Total interest expense

   73,964    69,578    205,659   216,123  

Total interest expense

 78,499   66,519 
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Net interest income

   669,059    673,108    1,994,606    2,006,745  

Net interest income

 659,588   656,433  
  

Provision for credit losses

   29,000    48,000    91,000   143,000  

Provision for credit losses

 38,000   32,000  
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Net interest income after provision for credit losses

   640,059    625,108    1,903,606   1,863,745  

Net interest income after provision for credit losses

 621,588   624,433 
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 

Other income

  

Mortgage banking revenues

   93,532    64,731    269,237    249,096  

Mortgage banking revenues

 101,601   80,049  
  

Service charges on deposit accounts

   110,071    113,839    321,637    336,505  
  

Trust income

   128,671    123,801    379,816    370,132  
  

Brokerage services income

   17,416    16,871    51,403    49,840  
  

Trading account and foreign exchange gains

   6,988    8,987    21,477    27,138  
  

Gain on bank investment securities

   —      —      —      56,457  
  

Total other-than-temporary impairment (“OTTI”) losses

   —      —      —      (1,884

Service charges on deposit accounts

 102,344   104,198  
  

Portion of OTTI losses recognized in other comprehensive income (before taxes)

   —      —      —      (7,916

Trust income

 123,734   121,252  
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Brokerage services income

 15,461   16,500  
  

Net OTTI losses recognized in earnings

   —      —      —      (9,800

Trading account and foreign exchange gains

 6,231   6,447  
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Loss on bank investment securities

 (98 —    
  

Equity in earnings of Bayview Lending Group LLC

   (4,114  (3,881  (12,623  (9,990

Equity in earnings of Bayview Lending Group LLC

 (4,191 (4,454
  

Other revenues from operations

   98,547    153,040    296,683   349,581  

Other revenues from operations

 95,121   96,115  
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Total other income

   451,111    477,388    1,327,630   1,418,959  

Total other income

 440,203   420,107 
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 

Other expense

  

Salaries and employee benefits

   348,776    339,332    1,059,815    1,019,019  

Salaries and employee benefits

 389,893   371,326  
  

Equipment and net occupancy

   67,713    66,220    206,964    195,657  

Equipment and net occupancy

 66,470   71,167  
  

Printing, postage and supplies

   9,184    9,752    29,320    30,749  

Printing, postage and supplies

 9,590   10,956  
  

Amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets

   7,358    10,628    26,654    36,473  

Amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets

 6,793   10,062  
  

FDIC assessments

   13,193    14,877    43,836    52,010  

FDIC assessments

 10,660   15,488  
  

Other costs of operations

   233,060    217,817    696,160    558,905  

Other costs of operations

 202,969   211,235 
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Total other expense

   679,284    658,626    2,062,749   1,892,813  

Total other expense

 686,375   690,234 
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Income before taxes

   411,886    443,870    1,168,487    1,389,891  

Income before taxes

 375,416   354,306  
  

Income taxes

   136,542    149,391    379,790   472,833  

Income taxes

 133,803   125,289 
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Net income

  $275,344    294,479   $788,697   917,058  

Net income

$241,613   229,017 
    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Net income available to common shareholders

     

Net income available to common shareholders

  

Basic

  $251,905    275,336   $724,307    858,944  

Basic

$218,830   211,720  
  

Diluted

   251,917    275,356    724,344    859,000  

Diluted

 218,837   211,731  

Net income per common share

  

Net income per common share

     

Basic

$1.66   1.63  
  

Basic

  $1.92    2.13   $5.54    6.69  

Diluted

 1.65   1.61  
  

Diluted

   1.91    2.11    5.50    6.64  

Cash dividends per common share

$.70   .70  

Average common shares outstanding

  

Cash dividends per common share

  $.70    .70   $2.10    2.10  

Basic

 132,049   130,212  

Diluted

 132,769   131,126  
  

Average common shares outstanding

     
  

Basic

   131,265    129,171    130,782    128,369  
  

Diluted

   132,128    130,265    131,698    129,312  

 

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M&T BANK CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (Unaudited)

 

  Three months ended September 30   Nine months ended September 30   Three months ended March 31 

In thousands

  2014 2013   2014 2013   2015 2014 

Net income

  $275,344   294,479    $788,697   917,058    $241,613   $229,017  

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax and reclassification adjustments:

      

Net unrealized gains (losses) on investment securities

   (27,637 23,367     75,229   26,724  

Reclassification to income for amortization of gains on terminated cash flow hedges

   613    —       (98  —    

Other comprehensive income, net of tax and reclassification adjustments:

   

Net unrealized gains on investment securities

   25,339   38,214  

Cash flow hedges adjustments

   871    —    

Foreign currency translation adjustment

   (1,817 1,251     (1,504 205     (2,384 (136

Defined benefit plans liability adjustment

   1,000   5,091     2,999   15,273     4,677   820  
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

 

Total other comprehensive income (loss)

   (27,841  29,709     76,626    42,202  

Total other comprehensive income

 28,503   38,898  
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

 

Total comprehensive income

  $247,503    324,188    $865,323    959,260  $270,116  $267,915  
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

 

 

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M&T BANK CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited)

 

     Nine months ended September 30      Three months ended March 31 

In thousands

     2014 2013 

In thousands

  2015 2014 

Cash flows from operating activities

  

Net income

  $788,697   917,058    

Net income

  $241,613   229,017  
  

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities

     

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities

   
  

Provision for credit losses

   91,000   143,000    

Provision for credit losses

   38,000   32,000  
  

Depreciation and amortization of premises and equipment

   74,516   66,547    

Depreciation and amortization of premises and equipment

   24,178   24,708  
  

Amortization of capitalized servicing rights

   51,572   46,966    

Amortization of capitalized servicing rights

   12,199   17,792  
  

Amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets

   26,654   36,473    

Amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets

   6,793   10,062  
  

Provision for deferred income taxes

   33,777   93,229    

Provision for deferred income taxes

   37,052   42,256  
  

Asset write-downs

   5,114   16,204    

Asset write-downs

   2,379   1,117  
  

Net gain on sales of assets

   (3,771 (124,375  

Net gain on sales of assets

   (1,066 (852
  

Net change in accrued interest receivable, payable

   9,638   (2,819  

Net change in accrued interest receivable, payable

   (2,200 (3,185
  

Net change in other accrued income and expense

   (89,425 115,400    

Net change in other accrued income and expense

   (80,084 57,884  
  

Net change in loans originated for sale

   (224,425 (808,778  

Net change in loans originated for sale

   197,708   122,406  
  

Net change in trading account assets and liabilities

   11,163  4,772    

Net change in trading account assets and liabilities

   (18,206) 27,893  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Net cash provided by operating activities

   774,510   503,677  

Net cash provided by operating activities

 458,366  561,098  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities

  

Proceeds from sales of investment securities

   

Proceeds from sales of investment securities

  

Available for sale

   16    1,081,747  

Available for sale

 693   —    
  

Other

   23,309    12,994  

Other

 132   146  
  

Proceeds from maturities of investment securities

   

Proceeds from maturities of investment securities

  

Available for sale

   686,183    887,092  

Available for sale

 369,649   166,324  
  

Held to maturity

   337,677    216,627  

Held to maturity

 148,708   92,305  
  

Purchases of investment securities

   

Purchases of investment securities

  

Available for sale

   (5,310,246  (41,358

Available for sale

 (1,871,491 (1,709,847
  

Held to maturity

   (15,202  (1,586,425

Held to maturity

 (7,442 (3,238
  

Other

   (53,264  (8,825

Other

 (348 (258
  

Net (increase) decrease in loans and leases

   (1,420,572  905,491  

Net increase in loans and leases

 (666,220 (220,551
  

Net increase in interest-bearing deposits at banks

   (6,024,926  (1,795,866

Net (increase) decrease in interest bearing deposits at banks

 179,376   (1,648,047
  

Capital expenditures, net

   (50,400  (85,964

Capital expenditures, net

 (9,598 (16,725
  

Net increase in loan servicing advances

   (340,750  (185,507

Net (increase) decrease in loan servicing advances

 76,145   (122,910
  

Other, net

   38,707   37,860  

Other, net

 (21,940) 21,763  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Net cash used by investing activities

   (12,129,468)  (562,134

Net cash used by investing activities

 (1,802,336) (3,441,038
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities

  

Net increase in deposits

   7,225,487    604,311  

Net increase (decrease) in deposits

 (4,543 1,581,705  
  

Net decrease in short-term borrowings

   (95,846  (828,463

Net increase (decrease) in short-term borrowings

 819   (30,246
  

Proceeds from long-term borrowings

   4,345,478    799,760  

Proceeds from long-term borrowings

 1,500,000   1,498,688  
  

Payments on long-term borrowings

   (373,642  (258,937

Payments on long-term borrowings

 (1,797 (352,245
  

Proceeds from issuance of preferred stock

   346,500    —    

Proceeds from issuance of preferred stock

 —     346,500  
  

Dividends paid - common

   (278,118  (273,518

Dividends paid - common

 (93,631 (92,406
  

Dividends paid - preferred

   (46,966  (31,494

Dividends paid - preferred

 (17,368 (6,080
  

Other, net

   82,774   119,936  

Other, net

 (46,014) 24,208  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Net cash provided by financing activities

   11,205,667   131,595  

Net cash provided by financing activities

 1,337,466  2,970,124  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

   (149,291  73,138  

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

 (6,504 90,184  
  

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

   1,672,934    1,986,615  

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

 1,373,357   1,672,934  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 
  

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

  $1,523,643   2,059,753  

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

$1,366,853  1,763,118  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information

  

Interest received during the period

  $2,147,236    2,184,128  

Interest received during the period

$726,475   695,653  
  

Interest paid during the period

   185,377    226,335  

Interest paid during the period

 75,776   61,841  
  

Income taxes paid during the period

   329,621   331,117  

Income taxes paid during the period

 88,578  4,789  
    

 

  

 

     

 

  

 

 

Supplemental schedule of noncash investing and financing activities

  

Securitization of residential mortgage loans allocated to

   

Securitization of residential mortgage loans allocated to

  

Available for sale investment securities

  $110,971    1,807,180  

Available-for-sale investment securities

$12,920   29,785  
  

Held to maturity investment securities

   —      917,045  

Capitalized servicing rights

 143   372  
  

Capitalized servicing rights

   1,429    29,264  

Real estate acquired in settlement of loans

 10,846   8,886  
  

Real estate acquired in settlement of loans

   35,422    35,865  

 

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M&T BANK CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (Unaudited)

 

In thousands, except per share

  Preferred
stock
   Common
stock
   Common
stock
issuable
 Additional
paid-in
capital
 Retained
earnings
 Accumulated
other
comprehensive
income
(loss), net
 Total   Preferred
stock
   Common
stock
   Common
stock
issuable
 Additional
paid-in
capital
 Retained
earnings
 Accumulated
other
comprehensive
income
(loss), net
 Total 

2013

          

Balance - January 1, 2013

  $872,500     64,088     3,473   3,025,520   6,477,276   (240,264 10,202,593  

Total comprehensive income

   —       —       —      —     917,058   42,202   959,260  

Preferred stock cash dividends

   —       —       —      —     (40,088  —     (40,088

Amortization of preferred stock discount

   6,510     —       —      —     (6,510  —      —    

Exercise of 407,542 Series C stock warrants into 186,589 shares of common stock

   —       93     —     (93  —      —      —    

Exercise of 57,327 Series A stock warrants into 21,130 shares of common stock

   —       11     —     (11  —      —      —    

Stock-based compensation plans:

          

Compensation expense, net

   —       147     —     29,826    —      —     29,973  

Exercises of stock options, net

   —       747     —     133,981    —      —     134,728  

Directors’ stock plan

   —       6     —     1,223    —      —     1,229  

Deferred compensation plans, net, including dividend equivalents

   —       5     (584 568   (98  —     (109

Other

   —       —       —     1,967    —      —     1,967  

Common stock cash dividends - $2.10 per share

   —       —       —      —     (273,351  —     (273,351
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Balance - September 30, 2013

  $879,010    65,097    2,889    3,192,981   7,074,287    (198,062)  11,016,202  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

2014

                    

Balance - January 1, 2014

  $881,500     65,258     2,915    3,232,014    7,188,004    (64,159  11,305,532    $881,500     65,258     2,915   3,232,014   7,188,004   (64,159 11,305,532  

Total comprehensive income

   —       —       —      —      788,697    76,626    865,323     —       —       —      —     229,017   38,898   267,915  

Preferred stock cash dividends

   —       —       —      —      (55,560  —      (55,560   —       —       —      —     (14,674  —     (14,674

Issuance of Series E preferred stock

   350,000     —       —      (3,500  —      —      346,500     350,000     —       —     (3,500  —      —     346,500  

Exercise of 395,905 Series A stock warrants into 156,521 shares of common stock

   —       78     —      (78  —      —      —    

Stock-based compensation plans:

                    

Compensation expense, net

   —       128     —      34,117    —      —      34,245     —       123     —     13,999    —      —     14,122  

Exercises of stock options, net

   —       535     —      102,695    —      —      103,230     —       266     —     49,228    —      —     49,494  

Stock purchase plan

   —       43     —      9,545    —      —      9,588     —       43     —     9,545    —      —     9,588  

Directors’ stock plan

   —       5     —      1,266    —      —      1,271     —       2     —     439    —      —     441  

Deferred compensation plans, net, including dividend equivalents

   —       3     (325  335    (87  —      (74   —       2     (299 265   (29  —     (61

Other

   —       —       —      1,320    —      —      1,320     —       —       —     412    —      —     412  

Common stock cash dividends - $2.10 per share

   —       —       —      —      (278,059  —      (278,059

Common stock cash dividends - $.70 per share

   —       —       —      —     (92,406  —     (92,406
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Balance - September 30, 2014

  $1,231,500    66,050    2,590    3,377,714   7,642,995    12,467   12,333,316  

Balance - March 31, 2014

$1,231,500  65,694   2,616  3,302,402   7,309,912  (25,261 11,886,863  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

2015

Balance - January 1, 2015

$1,231,500   66,157   2,608   3,409,506   7,807,119   (180,994 12,335,896  

Total comprehensive income

 —     —     —     —     241,613   28,503   270,116  

Preferred stock cash dividends

 —     —     —     —     (20,318 —     (20,318

Exercise of 2,315 Series A stock warrants into 904 shares of common stock

 —     1   —     (1 —     —     —    

Stock-based compensation plans:

Compensation expense, net

 —     147   —     5,425   —     —     5,572  

Exercises of stock options, net

 —     101   —     19,378   —     —     19,479  

Stock purchase plan

 45   10,301   10,346  

Directors’ stock plan

 —     2   —     423   —     —     425  

Deferred compensation plans, net, including dividend equivalents

 —     2   (298 270   (25 —     (51

Other

 —     —     —     405   —     —     405  

Common stock cash dividends - $.70 per share

 —     —     —     —     (93,569 —     (93,569
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Balance - March 31, 2015

$1,231,500  66,455   2,310  3,445,707   7,934,820  (152,491 12,528,301  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

1.Significant accounting policies

The consolidated financial statements of M&T Bank Corporation (“M&T”) and subsidiaries (“the Company”) were compiled in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) using the accounting policies set forth in note 1 of Notes to Financial Statements included in the 20132014 Annual Report. Additionally, effective January 1, 2015 the Company made an accounting policy election in accordance with amended accounting guidance issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in January 2014 to account for investments in qualified affordable housing projects using the proportional amortization method. Under the proportional amortization method, the Company amortizes the initial cost of the investment in proportion to the tax credits and other tax benefits received and recognizes the net investment performance in the income statement as a component of income tax expense. The adoption of the amended guidance did not have a significant effect on the Company’s financial position or results of operation, but did result in the restatement of the consolidated statement of income for the three-month period ended March 31, 2014 to remove $12 million of losses associated with qualified affordable housing projects from “other costs of operations” and include the amortization of the initial cost of the investment in income tax expense. The cumulative effect adjustment associated with adopting the amended guidance was not material as of the beginning of any period presented in these consolidated financial statements. See note 11 for information regarding the Company’s investments in qualified affordable housing projects.

In the opinion of management, all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation have been made and, except as described above, were all of a normal recurring nature.

 

2.Acquisitions

On August 27, 2012, M&T announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. (“Hudson City”), headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey, under which Hudson City would be acquired by M&T. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Hudson City shareholders will receive consideration for each common share of Hudson City in an amount valued at .08403 of an M&T share in the form of either M&T common stock or cash, based on the election of each Hudson City shareholder, subject to proration as specified in the merger agreement (which provides for an aggregate split of total consideration of 60% common stock of M&T and 40% cash). As of September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015 total consideration to be paid was valued at approximately $5.4$5.5 billion.

At September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, Hudson City had $37.2$36.1 billion of assets, including $22.4$20.9 billion of loans and $8.4$8.3 billion of investment securities, and $32.3$31.3 billion of liabilities, including $20.0$18.9 billion of deposits. The merger has received the approval of the common shareholders of M&T and Hudson City. However, the merger is subject to a number of other conditions, including regulatory approvals.

On June 17, 2013, M&T and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (“M&T Bank”), M&T’s principal banking subsidiary, entered into a written agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“Federal Reserve Bank”). Under the terms of the agreement, M&T and M&T Bank are required to submit to the Federal Reserve Bank a revised compliance risk management program designed to ensure compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money-laundering laws and regulations and to take certain other steps to enhance their compliance practices. The Company has commenced a major initiative, including the hiring of outside consulting firms, intended to fully address the Federal Reserve Bank’s concerns. In view of the timeframe required to implement this initiative, demonstrate its efficacy to the satisfaction ofOn April 3, 2015, M&T was advised that the Federal Reserve BankBoard intends to act on the M&T and otherwise meet any other regulatory requirements that may be imposed in connection with these matters,Hudson City merger application no later than September 30, 2015. As a result, M&T and Hudson City extended the date after which either party may elect to terminate the merger agreement if the merger has not yet been completed from

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED

2.Acquisitions, continued

April 30, 2015 to DecemberOctober 31, 2014.2015. Nevertheless, there can be no assurances that the merger will be completed by that date.

In connection with the pending acquisition, the Company incurred merger-related expenses related to preparing for systems conversions and other costs of integrating and conforming acquired operations with and into the Company. Those expenses consisted largely of professional services and other temporary help fees associated with planning for the conversion of systems and/or integration of operations; initial marketing and promotion expenses designed to introduce M&T Bank to its new customers; travel costs; and printing, postage, supplies and other costs of planning for the transaction and commencing operations in new markets and offices.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED

2.Acquisitions, continued

A summary of merger-related expenses in 2013 associated with the pending Hudson City acquisition included in the consolidated statement of income is presented below. There were no merger-related expenses during the three-month or nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014, or during the three-month period ended September 30, 2013.

   Nine months ended
September 30, 2013
 
   (in thousands) 

Salaries and employee benefits

  $836  

Equipment and net occupancy

   690  

Printing, postage and supplies

   1,825  

Other costs of operations

   9,013  
  

 

 

 
  $12,364  
  

 

 

 

 

3.Investment securities

The amortized cost and estimated fair value of investment securities were as follows:

 

  Amortized
cost
   Gross
unrealized
gains
   Gross
unrealized
losses
   Estimated
fair value
   Amortized
cost
   Gross
unrealized
gains
   Gross
unrealized
losses
   Estimated
fair value
 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

September 30, 2014

        

March 31, 2015

        

Investment securities available for sale:

        

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

  $161,672     1,563     1    $163,234  

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   7,704     199     53     7,850  

Mortgage-backed securities:

        

Government issued or guaranteed

   10,008,191     265,739     8,709     10,265,221  

Privately issued

   96     2     3     95  

Collateralized debt obligations

   29,704     19,360     1,786     47,278  

Other debt securities

   138,366     1,909     19,002     121,273  

Equity securities

   79,987     18,999     437     98,549  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
 10,425,720   307,771   29,991   10,703,500  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Investment securities held to maturity:

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 148,698   2,178   350   150,526  

Mortgage-backed securities:

Government issued or guaranteed

 3,007,420   88,417   4,024   3,091,813  

Privately issued

 197,509   1,421   36,620   162,310  

Other debt securities

 7,185   —     —     7,185  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
 3,360,812   92,016   40,994   3,411,834  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Other securities

 328,958   —     —     328,958  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

$14,115,490   399,787   70,985  $14,444,292  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

December 31, 2014

Investment securities available for sale:

        

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

  $166,092     206     111    $166,187  $161,408   544   5  $161,947  

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   9,174     270     53     9,391   8,027   224   53   8,198  

Mortgage-backed securities:

        

Government issued or guaranteed

   8,751,108     145,708     2,765     8,894,051   8,507,571   223,889   337   8,731,123  

Privately issued

   112     4     4     112   104   2   3   103  

Collateralized debt obligations

   30,788     24,383     363     54,808   30,073   21,276   1,033   50,316  

Other debt securities

   138,278     2,304     15,183     125,399   138,240   1,896   18,648   121,488  

Equity securities

   79,743     54,732     406     134,069   73,901   11,020   1,164   83,757  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   9,175,295     227,607     18,885     9,384,017   8,919,324   258,851   21,243   9,156,932  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Investment securities held to maturity:

        

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   151,789     3,284     92     154,981   148,961   2,551   189   151,323  

Mortgage-backed securities:

        

Government issued or guaranteed

   3,269,344     50,477     18,196     3,301,625   3,149,320   78,485   7,000   3,220,805  

Privately issued

   206,695     —       49,897     156,798   201,733   1,143   44,576   158,300  

Other debt securities

   7,987     —       —       7,987   7,854   —     —     7,854  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   3,635,815     53,761     68,185     3,621,391   3,507,868   82,179   51,765   3,538,282  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Other securities

   328,536     —       —       328,536   328,742   —     —     328,742  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $13,139,646     281,368     87,070    $13,333,944  $12,755,934   341,030   73,008  $13,023,956  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED

 

3.Investment securities, continued

 

   Amortized
cost
   Gross
unrealized
gains
   Gross
unrealized
losses
   Estimated
fair value
 
   (in thousands) 

December 31, 2013

        

Investment securities available for sale:

        

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

  $37,396     382     2    $37,776  

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   10,484     333     6     10,811  

Mortgage-backed securities:

        

Government issued or guaranteed

   4,123,435     61,001     19,350     4,165,086  

Privately issued

   1,468     387     5     1,850  

Collateralized debt obligations

   42,274     21,666     857     63,083  

Other debt securities

   137,828     1,722     19,465     120,085  

Equity securities

   91,480     41,842     227     133,095  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
   4,444,365     127,333     39,912     4,531,786  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Investment securities held to maturity:

        

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   169,684     3,744     135     173,293  

Mortgage-backed securities:

        

Government issued or guaranteed

   3,567,905     16,160     65,149     3,518,916  

Privately issued

   219,628     —       60,623     159,005  

Other debt securities

   8,913     —       —       8,913  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
   3,966,130     19,904     125,907     3,860,127  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other securities

   298,581     —       —       298,581  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $8,709,076     147,237     165,819    $8,690,494  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

There were no significant gross realized gains or losses from the salesales of investment securities for the three-monthquarters ended March 31, 2015 and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 or for the three-month period ended September 30, 2013. Gross realized gains on investment securities were $116 million for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2013. During the second quarter of 2013, the Company sold its holdings of Visa Class B shares for a gain of approximately $90 million and its holdings of MasterCard Class B shares for a gain of $13 million. Gross realized losses on investment securities were $60 million for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2013. During the second quarter of 2013, the Company sold substantially all of its privately issued mortgage-backed securities that had been held in the available-for-sale investment securities portfolio. In total, $1.0 billion of such securities were sold for a net loss of approximately $46 million.

There were $10 million of pre-tax other-than-temporary impairment (“OTTI”) losses recognized during the first quarter of 2013 related to privately issued mortgage-backed securities. The impairment charges were recognized in light of deterioration of real estate values and a rise in delinquencies and charge-offs of underlying mortgage loans collateralizing those securities. The OTTI losses represented management’s estimate of credit losses inherent in the debt securities considering projected cash flows using assumptions for delinquency rates, loss severities, and other estimates for future collateral performance. The Company did not recognize any OTTI losses during the first nine months of 2014 or during the second and third quarters of 2013.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED

3.Investment securities, continued

Changes in credit losses associated with debt securities for which OTTI losses had been recognized in earnings for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2013 follow:

  Three months ended
September 30, 2013
  Nine months ended
September 30, 2013
 
  (in thousands) 

Beginning balance

 $794    197,809  

Additions for credit losses not previously recognized

  —      9,800  

Reductions for realized losses

  (626  (207,441
 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Ending balance

 $168    168  
 

 

 

  

 

 

 

There were no significant credit losses associated with debt securities held by the Company as of September 30, 2014 or December 31, 2013.2014.

At September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, the amortized cost and estimated fair value of debt securities by contractual maturity were as follows:

 

  Amortized
cost
   Estimated
fair value
 
  (in thousands)   Amortized
cost
   Estimated
fair value
 
  (in thousands) 

Debt securities available for sale:

        

Due in one year or less

  $12,359     12,439    $9,059     9,117  

Due after one year through five years

   164,546     164,995     163,114     165,027  

Due after five years through ten years

   4,322     4,456     3,272     3,314  

Due after ten years

   163,105     173,895     162,001     162,177  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   344,332     355,785   337,446   339,635  

Mortgage-backed securities available for sale

   8,751,220     8,894,163   10,008,287   10,265,316  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
  $9,095,552     9,249,948  $10,345,733   10,604,951  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Debt securities held to maturity:

    

Due in one year or less

  $21,190     21,354  $27,663   27,865  

Due after one year through five years

   80,804     82,554   87,320   88,357  

Due after five years through ten years

   49,795     51,073   33,715   34,304  

Due after ten years

   7,987     7,987   7,185   7,185  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   159,776     162,968   155,883   157,711  

Mortgage-backed securities held to maturity

   3,476,039     3,458,423   3,204,929   3,254,123  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
  $3,635,815     3,621,391  $3,360,812   3,411,834  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED

 

3.Investment securities, continued

 

A summary of investment securities that as of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 20132014 had been in a continuous unrealized loss position for less than twelve months and those that had been in a continuous unrealized loss position for twelve months or longer follows:

 

  Less than 12 months 12 months or more   Less than 12 months   12 months or more 
  Fair value   Unrealized
losses
 Fair value   Unrealized
losses
   Fair
value
   Unrealized
losses
   Fair
value
   Unrealized
losses
 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

September 30, 2014

       

Investment securities available for sale:

       

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

  $104,495     (111  —       —    

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   1,756     (52 323     (1

Mortgage-backed securities:

       

Government issued or guaranteed

   1,420,096     (2,560 8,006     (205

Privately issued

   —       —     72     (4

Collateralized debt obligations

   2,436     (340 5,871     (23

Other debt securities

   4,506     (58 95,497     (15,125

Equity securities

   2,264     (406  —       —    
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 
   1,535,553     (3,527  109,769     (15,358
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

Investment securities held to maturity:

       

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   15,456     (77  1,836     (15

Mortgage-backed securities:

       

Government issued or guaranteed

   180,033     (1,168  705,988     (17,028

Privately issued

   —       —      156,798     (49,897
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 
   195,489     (1,245  864,622     (66,940
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total

  $1,731,042     (4,772  974,391     (82,298
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

December 31, 2013

       

March 31, 2015

        

Investment securities available for sale:

               

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

  $745     (2  —       —      $4,681     (1   —       —    

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   —       —      558     (6   986     (4   1,524     (49

Mortgage-backed securities:

           

Government issued or guaranteed

   1,697,094     (19,225  5,815     (125   1,603,068     (8,597   4,138     (112

Privately issued

   —       —      98     (5   —       —       59     (3

Collateralized debt obligations

   —       —      6,257     (857   6,091     (1,255   5,220     (531

Other debt securities

   1,428     (4  103,602     (19,461   12,689     (443   92,304     (18,559

Equity securities

   159     (227  —       —       374     (437   —       —    
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   1,699,426     (19,458  116,330     (20,454 1,627,889   (10,737 103,245   (19,254
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Investment securities held to maturity:

       

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   13,517     (120  1,558     (15 35,272   (317 1,802   (33

Mortgage-backed securities:

       

Government issued or guaranteed

   2,629,950     (65,149  —       —     16,660   (85 266,979   (3,939

Privately issued

   —       —      159,005     (60,623 —     —     131,779   (36,620
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   2,643,467     (65,269  160,563     (60,638 51,932   (402 400,560   (40,592
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $4,342,893     (84,727  276,893     (81,092$1,679,821   (11,139 503,805   (59,846
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

December 31, 2014

Investment securities available for sale:

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

$6,505   (5 —     —    

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 1,785   (52 121   (1

Mortgage-backed securities:

Government issued or guaranteed

 39,001   (186 5,555   (151

Privately issued

 —     —     65   (3

Collateralized debt obligations

 2,108   (696 5,512   (337

Other debt securities

 14,017   (556 92,661   (18,092

Equity securities

 2,138   (1,164 —     —    
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
 65,554   (2,659 103,914   (18,584
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Investment securities held to maturity:

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 29,886   (184 268   (5

Mortgage-backed securities:

Government issued or guaranteed

 137,413   (361 446,780   (6,639

Privately issued

 —     —     127,512   (44,576
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
 167,299   (545 574,560   (51,220
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

$232,853   (3,204 678,474   (69,804
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED

 

3.Investment securities, continued

 

The Company owned 386294 individual investment securities with aggregate gross unrealized losses of $87$71 million at September 30, 2014.March 31, 2015. Based on a review of each of the securities in the investment securities portfolio at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, the Company concluded that it expected to recover the amortized cost basis of its investment. As of September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, the Company does not intend to sell nor is it anticipated that it would be required to sell any of its impaired investment securities at a loss. At September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, the Company has not identified events or changes in circumstances which may have a significant adverse effect on the fair value of the $329 million of cost method investment securities.

 

4.Loans and leases and the allowance for credit losses

The outstanding principal balance and the carrying amount of acquired loans that were recorded at fair value at the acquisition date andthat is included in the consolidated balance sheet follow:were as follows:

 

  September 30,
2014
   December 31,
2013
   March 31,
2015
   December 31,
2014
 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Outstanding principal balance

  $3,416,175     4,656,811    $2,837,256     3,070,268  

Carrying amount:

        

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

   299,161     580,685     207,884     247,820  

Commercial real estate

   1,094,030     1,541,368     869,700     961,828  

Residential real estate

   485,365     576,473     434,454     453,360  

Consumer

   1,013,238     1,308,926     888,985     933,537  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
  $2,891,794     4,007,452  $2,401,023   2,596,545  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Purchased impaired loans included in the table above totaled $237$184 million at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and $331$198 million at December 31, 2013,2014, representing less than 1% of the Company’s assets as of each date. A summary of changes in the accretable yield for acquired loans for the three monthsthree-month periods ended March 31, 2015 and nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013 follows:

 

  Three months ended September 30 
  2014 2013   Three months ended March 31, 2015 
  Purchased
impaired
 Other
acquired
 Purchased
impaired
 Other
acquired
   Purchased
impaired
   Other
acquired
   Total 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Balance at beginning of period

  $26,082   450,970   $55,149   622,093    $76,518     397,379     473,897  

Interest income

     (4,149   (39,019 (10,428   (60,786   (5,206   (41,277   (46,483

Reclassifications from nonaccretable balance, net

   129   9,673   172    —       110     183     293  

Other (a)

   —     1,870    —     6,254     —       1,610     1,610  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Balance at end of period

  $22,062    423,494   $44,893    567,561  $71,422   357,895   429,317  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

   Nine months ended September 30 
   2014  2013 
   Purchased
impaired
  Other
acquired
  Purchased
impaired
  Other
acquired
 
   (in thousands) 

Balance at beginning of period

  $37,230    538,633   $42,252    638,272  

Interest income

   (15,583  (135,105  (28,879  (190,072

Reclassifications from nonaccretable balance, net

   415    10,448    31,520    122,519  

Other (a)

   —      9,518    —      (3,158
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance at end of period

  $22,062    423,494   $44,893    567,561  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED

4.Loans and leases and the allowance for credit losses, continued

   Three months ended March 31, 2014 
   Purchased
impaired
   Other
acquired
   Total 
   (in thousands) 

Balance at beginning of period

  $37,230     538,633     575,863  

Interest income

   (6,328   (52,633   (58,961

Reclassifications from nonaccretable balance, net

   37     —       37  

Other (a)

   —       (838   (838
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at end of period

$30,939   485,162   516,101  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a)Other changes in expected cash flows including changes in interest rates and prepayment assumptions.

A summary of current, past due and nonaccrual loans as of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 were as follows:

       30-89   90 Days or
more past
due and accruing
   Purchased         
   Current   Days
past due
   Non-
acquired
   Acquired
(a)
   impaired
(b)
   Nonaccrual   Total 
       (in thousands)         

March 31, 2015

              

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

  $19,519,566     43,213     4,265     3,323     9,724     195,403     19,775,494  

Real estate:

              

Commercial

   22,225,088     116,465     27,261     17,187     45,752     142,007     22,573,760  

Residential builder and developer

   1,460,981     6,119     —       6,953     91,839     65,310     1,631,202  

Other commercial construction

   3,575,578     18,244     3,864     1,721     17,061     24,280     3,640,748  

Residential

   7,580,514     189,901     197,299     20,058     17,283     171,496     8,176,551  

Residential Alt-A

   241,467     11,831     —       —       —       74,270     327,568  

Consumer:

        

Home equity lines and loans

   5,783,865     35,478     —       13,298     2,359     87,985     5,922,985  

Automobile

   2,024,526     25,322     —       —       —       14,100     2,063,948  

Other

   2,921,142     28,407     3,932     17,570     —       15,735     2,986,786  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

$65,332,727   474,980   236,621   80,110   184,018   790,586   67,099,042  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED

 

4.Loans and leases and the allowance for credit losses, continued

A summary of current, past due and nonaccrual loans as of September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013 follows:

 

       30-89   90 Days or
more past
due and accruing
   Purchased         
   Current   Days
past due
   Non-
acquired
   Acquired
(a)
   impaired
(b)
   Nonaccrual   Total 
           (in thousands)             

September 30, 2014

              

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

  $18,855,986     41,296     3,278     5,422     14,777     191,250    $19,112,009  

Real estate:

              

Commercial

   21,646,276     101,671     36,688     24,196     62,739     173,285     22,044,855  

Residential builder and developer

   1,211,005     21,432     1,615     13,786     96,917     73,296     1,418,051  

Other commercial construction

   3,392,260     18,749     3,927     1,516     36,114     27,375     3,479,941  

Residential

   7,578,177     222,214     263,529     42,286     23,551     183,681     8,313,438  

Residential Alt-A

   254,188     15,765     —       —       —       80,017     349,970  

Consumer:

              

Home equity lines and loans

   5,909,631     36,408     —       28,320     2,564     85,122     6,062,045  

Automobile

   1,808,300     24,692     —       209     —       17,417     1,850,618  

Other

   2,869,863     34,863     3,953     16,412     —       16,341     2,941,432  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $63,525,686     517,090     312,990     132,147     236,662     847,784    $65,572,359  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

      30-89   90 Days or
more past
due and accruing
   Purchased               30-89   90 Days or
more past
due and accruing
   Purchased         
  Current   Days
past due
   Non-
acquired
   Acquired
(a)
   impaired
(b)
   Nonaccrual   Total   Current   Days
past due
   Non-
acquired
   Acquired
(a)
   impaired
(b)
   Nonaccrual   Total 
          (in thousands)                   (in thousands)         

December 31, 2013

              

December 31, 2014

              

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

  $18,489,474     77,538     4,981     6,778     15,706     110,739    $18,705,216    $19,228,265     37,246     1,805     6,231     10,300     177,445     19,461,292  

Real estate:

                            

Commercial

   21,236,071     145,749     63,353     35,603     88,034     173,048     21,741,858     22,208,491     118,704     22,170     14,662     51,312     141,600     22,556,939  

Residential builder and developer

   1,025,984     8,486     141     7,930     137,544     96,427     1,276,512     1,273,607     11,827     492     9,350     98,347     71,517     1,465,140  

Other commercial construction

   2,986,598     42,234     —       8,031     57,707     35,268     3,129,838     3,484,932     17,678     —       —       17,181     25,699     3,545,490  

Residential

   7,630,368     295,131     294,649     43,700     29,184     252,805     8,545,837     7,640,368     226,932     216,489     35,726     18,223     180,275     8,318,013  

Residential Alt-A

   283,253     18,009     —       —       —       81,122     382,384     249,810     11,774     —       —       —       77,704     339,288  

Consumer:

                            

Home equity lines and loans

   5,972,365     40,537     —       27,754     2,617     78,516     6,121,789     5,859,378     42,945     —       27,896     2,374     89,291     6,021,884  

Automobile

   1,314,246     29,144     —       366     —       21,144     1,364,900     1,931,138     30,500     —       133     —       17,578     1,979,349  

Other

   2,726,522     47,830     5,386     —       —       25,087     2,804,825     2,909,791     33,295     4,064     16,369     —       18,042     2,981,561  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $61,664,881     704,658     368,510     130,162     330,792     874,156    $64,073,159  $64,785,780   530,901   245,020   110,367   197,737   799,151   66,668,956  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

(a)Acquired loans that were recorded at fair value at acquisition date. This category does not include purchased impaired loans that are presented separately.
(b)Accruing loans that were impaired at acquisition date and were recorded at fair value.

One-to-four family residential mortgage loans held for sale were $423 million and $435 million at March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively. Commercial mortgage loans held for sale were $117 million at March 31, 2015 and $308 million at December 31, 2014.

Changes in the allowance for credit losses for the three months ended March 31, 2015 were as follows:

   Commercial,
Financial,
Leasing, etc.
  Real Estate           
    Commercial  Residential  Consumer  Unallocated   Total 
   (in thousands) 

Beginning balance

  $288,038    307,927    61,910    186,033    75,654     919,562  

Provision for credit losses

   1,442    15,542    960    19,574    482     38,000  

Net charge-offs

        

Charge-offs

   (12,350  (6,679  (3,118  (25,329  —       (47,476

Recoveries

   3,939    585    989    5,774    —       11,287  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net charge-offs

 (8,411 (6,094 (2,129 (19,555 —     (36,189
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ending balance

$281,069   317,375   60,741   186,052   76,136   921,373  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED

 

4.Loans and leases and the allowance for credit losses, continued

 

One-to-four family residential mortgage loans originated for sale were $466 million and $401 million at September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively. Commercial mortgage loans held for sale were $159 million at September 30, 2014 and $68 million at December 31, 2013.

Changes in the allowance for credit losses for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2014 were as follows:

 

   

Commercial,

Financial,

  Real Estate          
   Leasing, etc.  Commercial  Residential  Consumer  Unallocated  Total 
   (in thousands) 

Beginning balance

  $292,251    311,254    72,404    165,871    75,886   $917,666  

Provision for credit losses

   2,373    8,046    (3,187  21,815    (47  29,000  

Net charge-offs

       

Charge-offs

   (15,921  (1,666  (4,193  (21,312  —      (43,092

Recoveries

   7,849    1,267    2,498    3,445    —      15,059  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net charge-offs

   (8,072  (399  (1,695  (17,867  —      (28,033
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Ending balance

  $286,552    318,901    67,522    169,819    75,839   $918,633  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Changes in the allowance for credit losses for the three months ended September 30, 2013 were as follows:

   Commercial,
Financial,
  Real Estate           
   Leasing, etc.  Commercial  Residential  Consumer  Unallocated   Total 
   (in thousands) 

Beginning balance

  $268,867    324,264    85,311    174,291    74,332    $927,065  

Provision for credit losses

   20,209    12,139    315    14,935    402     48,000  

Allowance related to loans securitized and sold

   —      —      —      (11,000  —       (11,000

Net charge-offs

        

Charge-offs

   (30,931  (7,701  (5,320  (20,242  —       (64,194

Recoveries

   5,150    4,751    2,399    4,199    —       16,499  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net charge-offs

   (25,781  (2,950  (2,921  (16,043  —       (47,695
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ending balance

  $263,295    333,453    82,705    162,183    74,734    $916,370  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Changes in the allowance for credit losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 were as follows:

   Commercial,
Financial,
  Real Estate           
   Leasing, etc.  Commercial  Residential  Consumer  Unallocated   Total 
   (in thousands) 

Beginning balance

  $273,383    324,978    78,656    164,644    75,015    $916,676  

Provision for credit losses

   40,527    (4,067  (916  54,632    824     91,000  

Net charge-offs

        

Charge-offs

   (44,872  (7,966  (17,124  (62,407  —       (132,369

Recoveries

   17,514    5,956    6,906    12,950    —       43,326  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net charge-offs

   (27,358  (2,010  (10,218  (49,457  —       (89,043
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ending balance

  $286,552    318,901    67,522    169,819    75,839    $918,633  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

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4.Loans and leases and the allowance for credit losses, continued

Changes in the allowance for credit losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 were as follows:

  Commercial,
Financial,
 Real Estate           Commercial,
Financial,
Leasing, etc.
  Real Estate         
  Leasing, etc. Commercial Residential Consumer Unallocated   Total   Commercial Residential Consumer Unallocated   Total 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Beginning balance

  $246,759   337,101   88,807   179,418   73,775    $925,860    $273,383   324,978   78,656   164,644   75,015     916,676  

Provision for credit losses

   93,736   914   3,913   43,478   959     143,000     12,598   116   4,228   14,141   917     32,000  

Allowance related to loans securitized and sold

   —      —      —     (11,000  —       (11,000

Net charge-offs

            

Charge-offs

   (86,787 (21,493 (18,583 (62,905  —       (189,768   (14,809 (3,486 (7,453 (21,691  —       (47,439

Recoveries

   9,587   16,931   8,568   13,192    —       48,278     5,663   3,197   1,631   5,040    —       15,531  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Net charge-offs

   (77,200  (4,562  (10,015  (49,713  —       (141,490 (9,146 (289 (5,822 (16,651 —     (31,908
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Ending balance

  $263,295    333,453    82,705    162,183    74,734    $916,370  $276,835   324,805   77,062   162,134   75,932   916,768  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Despite the above allocation, the allowance for credit losses is general in nature and is available to absorb losses from any loan or lease type.

In establishing the allowance for credit losses, the Company estimates losses attributable to specific troubled credits identified through both normal and detailed or intensified credit review processes and also estimates losses inherent in other loans and leases on a collective basis. For purposes of determining the level of the allowance for credit losses, the Company evaluates its loan and lease portfolio by loan type. The amounts of loss components in the Company’s loan and lease portfolios are determined through aloan-by-loan loan by loan analysis of larger balance commercial loans and commercial real estate loans that are in nonaccrual status and by applying loss factors to groups of loan balances based on loan type and management’s classification of such loans under the Company’s loan grading system. Measurement of the specific loss components is typically based on expected future cash flows, collateral values and other factors that may impact the borrower’s ability to pay. In determining the allowance for credit losses, the Company utilizes a loan grading system which is applied to commercial and commercial real estate credits on an individual loan basis. Loan officers are responsible for continually assigning grades to these loans based on standards outlined in the Company’s Credit Policy. Internal loan grades are also monitored by the Company’s loan review department to ensure consistency and strict adherence to the prescribed standards. Loan grades are assigned loss component factors that reflect the Company’s loss estimate for each group of loans and leases. Factors considered in assigning loan grades and loss component factors include borrower-specific information related to expected future cash flows and operating results, collateral values, geographic location, financial condition and performance, payment status, and other information; levels of and trends in portfolio charge-offs and recoveries; levels of and trends in portfolio delinquencies and impaired loans; changes in the risk profile of specific portfolios; trends in volume and terms of loans; effects of changes in credit concentrations; and observed trends and practices in the banking industry. As updated appraisals are obtained on individual loans or other events in the market place indicate that collateral values have significantly changed, individual loan grades are adjusted as appropriate. Changes in other factors cited may also lead to loan grade changes at any time. Except for consumer and residential real estate loans that are considered smaller balance homogenous loans and acquired loans that are evaluated on an aggregated basis, the Company considers a loan to be impaired for purposes of applying GAAP when, based on current information and events, it is probable that the Company will be unable to

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collect all amounts according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement or the loan is delinquent 90 days. Regardless of loan type, the

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4.Loans and leases and the allowance for credit losses, continued

Company considers a loan to be impaired if it qualifies as a troubled debt restructuring. Modified loans, including smaller balance homogenous loans, that are considered to be troubled debt restructurings are evaluated for impairment giving consideration to the impact of the modified loan terms on the present value of the loan’s expected cash flows.

The following tables provide information with respect to loans and leases that were considered impaired as of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 20132014 and for the three monthsmonth periods ended March 31, 2015 and nine months ended September 30, 2014 and September 30, 2013.2014.

 

  September 30, 2014   December 31, 2013   March 31, 2015   December 31, 2014 
  Recorded
investment
   Unpaid
principal
balance
   Related
allowance
   Recorded
investment
   Unpaid
principal
balance
   Related
allowance
   Recorded
Investment
   Unpaid
Principal
Balance
   Related
Allowance
   Recorded
Investment
   Unpaid
Principal
Balance
   Related
Allowance
 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

With an allowance recorded:

                    

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

  $138,884     168,163     33,805     90,293     112,092     24,614    $108,870     130,029     19,335     132,340     165,146     31,779  

Real estate:

                    

Commercial

   94,124     112,373     16,172     113,570     132,325     19,520     99,729     122,098     15,836     83,955     96,209     14,121  

Residential builder and developer

   16,306     20,309     1,218     33,311     55,122     4,379     6,512     8,731     591     17,632     22,044     805  

Other commercial construction

   12,937     15,302     4,071     86,260     90,515     4,022     5,116     6,084     831     5,480     6,484     900  

Residential

   88,879     106,795     4,621     96,508     114,521     7,146     86,691     104,630     4,405     88,970     107,343     4,296  

Residential Alt-A

   105,489     119,616     9,000     111,911     124,528     14,000     97,984     110,835     11,000     101,137     114,565     11,000  

Consumer:

                    

Home equity lines and loans

   19,343     20,436     6,030     13,672     14,796     3,312     19,701     20,794     6,304     19,771     20,806     6,213  

Automobile

   31,843     31,843     8,516     40,441     40,441     11,074     27,122     27,122     6,983     30,317     30,317     8,070  

Other

   18,743     18,743     5,051     17,660     17,660     4,541     18,814     18,814     5,297     18,973     18,973     5,459  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   526,548     613,580     88,484     603,626     702,000     92,608   470,539   549,137   70,582   498,575   581,887   82,643  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

With no related allowance recorded:

            

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

   78,849     82,176     —       28,093     33,095     —     116,325   135,534   —     73,978   81,493   —    

Real estate:

            

Commercial

   88,258     97,806     —       65,271     84,333     —     51,734   59,235   —     66,777   78,943   —    

Residential builder and developer

   67,401     103,996     —       72,366     104,768     —     62,611   101,964   —     58,820   96,722   —    

Other commercial construction

   14,974     34,212     —       7,369     11,493     —     19,657   40,072   —     20,738   41,035   —    

Residential

   18,155     27,999     —       84,144     95,358     —     17,203   27,886   —     16,815   26,750   —    

Residential Alt-A

   25,110     45,705     —  ��    28,357     52,211     —     24,785   43,635   —     26,752   46,964   —    
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   292,747     391,894     —       285,600     381,258     —     292,315   408,326   —     263,880   371,907   —    
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total:

            

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

   217,733     250,339     33,805     118,386     145,187     24,614   225,195   265,563   19,335   206,318   246,639   31,779  

Real estate:

            

Commercial

   182,382     210,179     16,172     178,841     216,658     19,520   151,463   181,333   15,836   150,732   175,152   14,121  

Residential builder and developer

   83,707     124,305     1,218     105,677     159,890     4,379   69,123   110,695   591   76,452   118,766   805  

Other commercial construction

   27,911     49,514     4,071     93,629     102,008     4,022   24,773   46,156   831   26,218   47,519   900  

Residential

   107,034     134,794     4,621     180,652     209,879     7,146   103,894   132,516   4,405   105,785   134,093   4,296  

Residential Alt-A

   130,599     165,321     9,000     140,268     176,739     14,000   122,769   154,470   11,000   127,889   161,529   11,000  

Consumer:

            

Home equity lines and loans

   19,343     20,436     6,030     13,672     14,796     3,312   19,701   20,794   6,304   19,771   20,806   6,213  

Automobile

   31,843     31,843     8,516     40,441     40,441     11,074   27,122   27,122   6,983   30,317   30,317   8,070  

Other

   18,743     18,743     5,051     17,660     17,660     4,541   18,814   18,814   5,297   18,973   18,973   5,459  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $819,295     1,005,474     88,484     889,226     1,083,258     92,608  $762,854   957,463   70,582   762,455   953,794   82,643  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

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   Three months ended
September 30, 2014
   Three months ended
September 30, 2013
 
       Interest income
recognized
       Interest income
recognized
 
   Average
recorded
investment
   Total   Cash
basis
   Average
recorded
investment
   Total   Cash
basis
 
   (in thousands) 

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

  $228,749     611     611     149,357     516     516  

Real estate:

            

Commercial

   189,952     821     821     205,971     716     716  

Residential builder and developer

   90,493     18     18     130,855     213     188  

Other commercial construction

   58,500     251     251     95,486     208     208  

Residential

   104,516     1,328     776     180,995     1,391     865  

Residential Alt-A

   131,574     1,643     681     147,056     1,763     692  

Consumer:

            

Home equity lines and loans

   19,268     219     81     12,810     167     49  

Automobile

   33,666     528     67     42,957     710     127  

Other

   18,677     177     44     15,791     161     50  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $875,395       5,596       3,350        981,278       5,845       3,411  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

   Nine months ended
September 30, 2014
   Nine months ended
September 30, 2013
 
       Interest income
recognized
       Interest income
recognized
 
   Average
recorded
investment
   Total   Cash
basis
   Average
recorded
investment
   Total   Cash
basis
 
   (in thousands) 

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

  $171,227     1,379     1,379     164,877     6,358     6,358  

Real estate:

            

Commercial

   194,337     2,616     2,616     200,354     1,428     1,428  

Residential builder and developer

   94,453     131     131     159,308     871     637  

Other commercial construction

   74,531     1,694     1,694     97,268     3,322     3,322  

Residential

   132,606     7,784     6,146     184,719     4,795     3,188  

Residential Alt-A

   135,374     5,002     1,900     151,992     5,173     1,799  

Consumer:

            

Home equity lines and loans

   17,902     540     182     12,633     499     127  

Automobile

   36,560     1,742     228     45,075     2,226     404  

Other

   18,229     517     145     15,438     468     153  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $875,219     21,405     14,421     1,031,664     25,140     17,416  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

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   Three months ended
March 31, 2015
   Three months ended
March 31, 2014
 
       Interest income
recognized
       Interest income
recognized
 
   Average
recorded
investment
   Total   Cash
basis
   Average
recorded
investment
   Total   Cash
basis
 
   (in thousands) 

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

  $214,618     604     604     134,306     548     548  

Real estate:

            

Commercial

   153,070     1,102     1,102     185,425     926     926  

Residential builder and developer

   73,151     63     63     101,253     74     74  

Other commercial construction

   25,540     55     55     87,292     1,087     1,087  

Residential

   104,490     1,446     910     174,168     1,400     902  

Residential Alt-A

   125,654     1,610     647     139,651     1,626     559  

Consumer:

            

Home equity lines and loans

   19,683     201     48     15,676     121     29  

Automobile

   29,013     450     54     39,383     625     87  

Other

   18,861     174     33     17,700     174     52  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

$764,080   5,705   3,516   894,854   6,581   4,264  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

��  

 

 

 

In accordance with the previously described policies, the Company utilizes a loan grading system that is applied to all commercial loans and commercial real estate loans. Loan grades are utilized to differentiate risk within the portfolio and consider the expectations of default for each loan. Commercial loans and commercial real estate loans with a lower expectation of default are assigned one of ten possible “pass” loan grades and are generally ascribed lower loss factors when determining the allowance for credit losses. Loans with an elevated level of credit risk are classified as “criticized” and are ascribed a higher loss factor when determining the allowance for credit losses. Criticized loans may be classified as “nonaccrual” if the Company no longer expects to collect all amounts according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement or the loan is delinquent 90 days or more. All larger balance criticized commercial loans and commercial real estate loans are individually reviewed by centralized loan review personnel each quarter to determine the appropriateness of the assigned loan grade, including whether the loan should be reported as accruing or nonaccruing. Smaller balance criticized loans are analyzed by business line risk management areas to ensure proper loan grade classification. Furthermore, criticized nonaccrual commercial loans and commercial real estate loans are considered impaired and, as a result, specific loss allowances on such loans are established within the allowance for credit losses to the extent appropriate in each individual instance. The following table summarizes the loan grades applied to the various classes of the Company’s commercial loans and commercial real estate loans.

 

       Real Estate 
   Commercial,
Financial,
Leasing, etc.
   Commercial   Residential
Builder and
Developer
   Other
Commercial
Construction
 
   (in thousands) 

September 30, 2014

    

Pass

  $18,283,543     21,236,852     1,293,815     3,285,953  

Criticized accrual

   637,216     634,718     50,940     166,613  

Criticized nonaccrual

   191,250     173,285     73,296     27,375  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $19,112,009     22,044,855     1,418,051     3,479,941  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

December 31, 2013

    

Pass

  $17,894,592     20,972,257     1,107,144     3,040,106  

Criticized accrual

   699,885     596,553     72,941     54,464  

Criticized nonaccrual

   110,739     173,048     96,427     35,268  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $18,705,216     21,741,858     1,276,512     3,129,838  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

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       Real Estate 
   Commercial,
Financial,
Leasing, etc.
   Commercial   Residential
Builder and
Developer
   Other
Commercial
Construction
 
   (in thousands) 

March 31, 2015

    

Pass

  $18,880,311     21,755,661     1,522,471     3,466,705  

Criticized accrual

   699,780     676,092     43,421     149,763  

Criticized nonaccrual

   195,403     142,007     65,310     24,280  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

$19,775,494   22,573,760   1,631,202   3,640,748  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

December 31, 2014

Pass

$18,695,440   21,837,022   1,347,778   3,347,522  

Criticized accrual

 588,407   578,317   45,845   172,269  

Criticized nonaccrual

 177,445   141,600   71,517   25,699  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

$19,461,292   22,556,939   1,465,140   3,545,490  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

In determining the allowance for credit losses, residential real estate loans and consumer loans are generally evaluated collectively after considering such factors as payment performance and recent loss experience and trends, which are mainly driven by current collateral values in the market place as well as the amount of loan defaults. Loss rates on such loans are determined by reference to recent charge-off history and are evaluated (and adjusted if deemed appropriate) through consideration of other factors including near-term forecasted loss estimates developed by the Company’s Credit Department. In arriving at such forecasts, the Company considers the current estimated fair value of its collateral based on geographical adjustments for home price depreciation/appreciation and overall borrower repayment performance. With regard to collateral values, the realizability of such values by the Company contemplates repayment of the original balance of any first lien position prior to recovering amounts on a second lien position. However, residentialResidential real estate loans and outstanding balances of home equity loans and lines of credit that are more than 150 days past due are generally evaluated for collectibility on a loan-by-loan basis giving consideration to estimated collateral values. The carrying value of residential real estate loans and home equity loans and lines of credit for which a partial charge-off has been recognized aggregated $64$62 million and $18$20 million, respectively, at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and $58$63 million and $18 million, respectively, at December 31, 2013.

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2014. Residential real estate loans and home equity loans and lines of credit that were more than 150 days past due but did not require a partial charge-off because the net realizable value of the collateral exceeded the outstanding customer balance totaled $24 million and $29 million, respectively, at March 31, 2015 and $27 million and $28 million, respectively, at December 31, 2014.

The Company also measures additional losses for purchased impaired loans when it is probable that the Company will be unable to collect all cash flows expected at acquisition plus additional cash flows expected to be collected arising from changes in estimates after acquisition. The determination of the allocated portion of the allowance for credit losses is very subjective. Given that inherent subjectivity and potential imprecision involved in determining the allocated portion of the allowance for credit losses, the Company also provides an inherent unallocated portion of the allowance. The unallocated portion of the allowance is intended to recognize probable losses that are not otherwise identifiable and includes management’s subjective determination of amounts necessary to provide for the possible use of imprecise estimates in determining the allocated portion of the allowance. Therefore, the level of the unallocated portion of the allowance is primarily reflective of the inherent imprecision in the various calculations used in determining the allocated portion of the allowance for credit losses. Other factors that could also lead to changes in the unallocated portion include the effects of

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expansion into new markets for which the Company does not have the same degree of familiarity and experience regarding portfolio performance in changing market conditions, the introduction of new loan and lease product types, and other risks associated with the Company’s loan portfolio that may not be specifically identifiable.

The allocation of the allowance for credit losses summarized on the basis of the Company’s impairment methodology was as follows:

 

   Commercial,
Financial,
Leasing, etc.
   

 

Real Estate

         
     Commercial   Residential   Consumer   Total 
   (in thousands) 

September 30, 2014

          

Individually evaluated for impairment

  $33,805     21,148     13,602     19,597    $88,152  

Collectively evaluated for impairment

   247,951     297,169     52,206     149,430     746,756  

Purchased impaired

   4,796     584     1,714     792     7,886  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Allocated

  $286,552     318,901     67,522     169,819     842,794  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

Unallocated

       75,839  
          

 

 

 

Total

      $918,633  
          

 

 

 

December 31, 2013

      

Individually evaluated for impairment

  $24,614     27,563     21,127     18,927    $92,231  

Collectively evaluated for impairment

   246,096     296,781     55,864     144,210     742,951  

Purchased impaired

   2,673     634     1,665     1,507     6,479  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Allocated

  $273,383     324,978     78,656     164,644     841,661  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

Unallocated

       75,015  
          

 

 

 

Total

      $916,676  
          

 

 

 

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   Commercial,
Financial,
Leasing, etc.
   

 

Real Estate

         
    Commercial   Residential   Consumer   Total 
   (in thousands) 

March 31, 2015

  

Individually evaluated for impairment

  $19,335     16,921     14,811     18,584    $69,651  

Collectively evaluated for impairment

   258,028     299,262     43,547     166,296     767,133  

Purchased impaired

   3,706     1,192     2,383     1,172     8,453  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Allocated

$281,069   317,375   60,741   186,052   845,237  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

Unallocated

 76,136  
          

 

 

 

Total

$921,373  
          

 

 

 

December 31, 2014

Individually evaluated for impairment

$31,779   15,490   14,703   19,742  $81,714  

Collectively evaluated for impairment

 251,607   291,244   45,061   165,140   753,052  

Purchased impaired

 4,652   1,193   2,146   1,151   9,142  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Allocated

$288,038   307,927   61,910   186,033   843,908  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

Unallocated

 75,654  
          

 

 

 

Total

$919,562  
          

 

 

 

The recorded investment in loans and leases summarized on the basis of the Company’s impairment methodology was as follows:

 

  Commercial,
Financial,
Leasing, etc.
   

 

Real Estate

           Commercial,
Financial,
Leasing, etc.
   

 

Real Estate

         
  Commercial   Residential   Consumer   Total    Commercial   Residential   Consumer   Total 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

September 30, 2014

          

March 31, 2015

  

Individually evaluated for impairment

  $217,733     292,932     237,247     69,929    $817,841    $225,195     244,340     225,364     65,637    $760,536  

Collectively evaluated for impairment

   18,879,499     26,454,145     8,402,610     10,781,602     64,517,856     19,540,575     27,446,718     8,261,472     10,905,723     66,154,488  

Purchased impaired

   14,777     195,770     23,551     2,564     236,662     9,724     154,652     17,283     2,359     184,018  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $19,112,009     26,942,847     8,663,408     10,854,095    $65,572,359  $19,775,494   27,845,710   8,504,119   10,973,719  $67,099,042  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

December 31, 2013

          

December 31, 2014

Individually evaluated for impairment

  $118,386     376,339     320,360     71,773    $886,858  $206,318   252,347   232,398   69,061  $760,124  

Collectively evaluated for impairment

   18,571,124     25,488,584     8,578,677     10,217,124     62,855,509   19,244,674   27,148,382   8,406,680   10,911,359   65,711,095  

Purchased impaired

   15,706     283,285     29,184     2,617     330,792   10,300   166,840   18,223   2,374   197,737  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $18,705,216     26,148,208     8,928,221     10,291,514    $64,073,159  $19,461,292   27,567,569   8,657,301   10,982,794  $66,668,956  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

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During the normal course of business, the Company modifies loans to maximize recovery efforts. If the borrower is experiencing financial difficulty and a concession is granted, the Company considers such modifications as troubled debt restructurings and classifies those loans as either nonaccrual loans or renegotiated loans. The types of concessions that the Company grants typically include principal deferrals and interest rate concessions, but may also include other types of concessions.

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The tables below summarize the Company’s loan modification activities that were considered troubled debt restructurings for the three months ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and 2013:2014:

 

      Recorded investment   Financial effects of
modification
       Recorded investment   Financial effects of
modification
 

Three months ended September 30, 2014

  Number   Pre-
modification
   Post-
modification
   Recorded
investment
(a)
 Interest
(b)
 

Three months ended March 31, 2015

  Number   Pre-
modification
   Post-
modification
   Recorded
investment
(a)
 Interest
(b)
 
  (dollars in thousands)       (dollars in thousands) 

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

            

Principal deferral

   15    $1,305    $1,300    $(5 $—       21    $1,572    $1,557    $(15 $—    

Interest rate reduction

   1     99     99     —     (19

Combination of concession types

   3     9,155     6,989     (2,166  —    

Real estate:

            

Commercial

            

Principal deferral

   8     2,081     2,068     (13  —       7     3,792     3,776     (16  —    

Other

   1     650     —       (650  —    

Combination of concession types

   4     483     478     (5 (95   4     1,646     1,637     (9 (52

Residential builder and developer

            

Principal deferral

   1     241     241     —      —    

Other commercial construction

      

Principal deferral

   1     145     142     (3  —       1     1,398     1,398     —      —    

Residential

            

Principal deferral

   3     98     97     (1  —       7     721     742     21    —    

Combination of concession types

   8     1,100     1,136     36   (135   3     294     349     55   (34

Residential Alt-A

            

Combination of concession types

   3     349     369     20   (64   1     210     210     —     (4

Consumer:

            

Home equity lines and loans

            

Principal deferral

   1     21     21     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   5     519     519     —     (67   5     196     196     —     (13

Automobile

            

Principal deferral

   45     1,003     1,003     —      —       35     303     303     —      —    

Interest rate reduction

   3     30     30     —     (2   3     42     42     —     (3

Other

   7     96     96     —      —       10     20     20     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   19     348     348     —     (21   8     84     84     —     (7

Other

            

Principal deferral

   6     48     48     —      —       22     296     296     —      —    

Interest rate reduction

   1     2     2     —      —    

Other

   5     59     59     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   24     511     511     —     (121   13     224     224     —     (25
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

Total

   154    $9,009    $8,388    $(621 $(505 150  $20,132  $18,002  $(2,130$(157
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

 

(a)Financial effects impacting the recorded investment included principal payments or advances, charge-offs and capitalized escrow arrearages.
(b)Represents the present value of interest rate concessions discounted at the effective rate of the original loan.

 

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       Recorded investment   Financial effects of
modification
 

Three months ended September 30, 2013

  Number   Pre-
modification
   Post-
modification
   Recorded
investment
(a)
  Interest
(b)
 
   (dollars in thousands) 

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

      

Principal deferral

   14    $2,407    $2,266    $(141 $—    

Other

   2     1,773     2,067     294    —    

Combination of concession types

   3     374     374     —      (25

Real estate:

      

Commercial

      

Principal deferral

   10     4,160     4,134     (26  —    

Other

   2     449     475     26    —    

Combination of concession types

   6     1,868     2,264     396    (156

Residential builder and developer

      

Principal deferral

   1     249     241     (8  —    

Other commercial construction

      

Principal deferral

   1     226     158     (68  —    

Residential

      

Principal deferral

   6     860     912     52    —    

Combination of concession types

   14     1,258     1,308     50    (197

Residential Alt-A

      

Principal deferral

   5     764     773     9    —    

Combination of concession types

   4     332     496     164    (252

Consumer:

      

Home equity lines and loans

      

Principal deferral

   2     179     179     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   9     682     682     —      (79

Automobile

      

Principal deferral

   121     1,718     1,718     —      —    

Interest rate reduction

   2     19     19     —      (2

Other

   20     42     42     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   61     551     551     —      (33

Other

      

Principal deferral

   9     60     60     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   18     470     470     —      (86
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

   310    $18,441    $19,189    $748   $(830
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

(a)Financial effects impacting the recorded investment included principal payments or advances, charge-offs and capitalized escrow arrearages.
(b)Represents the present value of interest rate concessions discounted at the effective rate of the original loan.

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The tables below summarize the Company’s loan modification activities that were considered troubled debt restructurings for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013:

       Recorded investment   Financial effects of
modification
 

Nine months ended September 30, 2014

  Number   Pre-
modification
   Post-
modification
   Recorded
investment
(a)
  Interest
(b)
 
   (dollars in thousands) 

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

      

Principal deferral

   66    $20,673    $20,499    $(174 $—    

Other

   1     19,593     19,593     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   5     9,836     9,766     (70  (14

Real estate:

      

Commercial

      

Principal deferral

   32     17,452     17,384     (68  —    

Other

   1     650     —       (650  —    

Interest rate reduction

   1     255     252     (3  (48

Combination of concession types

   6     892     940     48    (208

Residential builder and developer

      

Principal deferral

   2     1,639     1,639     —      —    

Other commercial construction

      

Principal deferral

   4     6,703     6,611     (92  —    

Residential

      

Principal deferral

   19     1,842     1,926     84    —    

Interest rate reduction

   1     98     104     6    (32

Other

   1     188     188     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   30     4,211     4,287     76    (483

Residential Alt-A

      

Principal deferral

   5     828     900     72    —    

Combination of concession types

   19     3,101     3,134     33    (345

Consumer:

      

Home equity lines and loans

      

Principal deferral

   3     280     280     —      —    

Interest rate reduction

   5     341     341     —      (76

Combination of concession types

   41     4,147     4,147     —      (443

Automobile

      

Principal deferral

   168     2,599     2,599     —      —    

Interest rate reduction

   6     90     90     —      (5

Other

   26     204     204     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   65     939     939     —      (83

Other

      

Principal deferral

   21     141     141     —      —    

Interest rate reduction

   4     293     293     —      (63

Other

   1     45     45     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   57     1,883     1,883     —      (585
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

   590    $98,923    $98,185    $(738 $(2,385
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

(a)Financial effects impacting the recorded investment included principal payments or advances, charge-offs and capitalized escrow arrearages.
(b)Represents the present value of interest rate concessions discounted at the effective rate of the original loan.

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      Recorded investment   Financial effects of
modification
 

Nine months ended September 30, 2013

  Number   Pre-
modification
   Post-
modification
   Recorded
investment
(a)
 Interest
(b)
 

Three months ended March 31, 2014

  Number   Recorded investment   Financial effects of
modification
 
  Pre-
modification
   Post-
modification
   Recorded
investment
(a)
 Interest
(b)
 
  (dollars in thousands)   (dollars in thousands) 

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

               

Principal deferral

   53    $9,283    $9,070    $(213 $—       30    $14,954    $14,848    $(106 $—    

Other

   4     50,433     50,924     491    —    

Combination of concession types

   6     2,206     1,696     (510 (25   2     41     39     (2 (4

Real estate:

               

Commercial

               

Principal deferral

   23     38,187     38,027     (160  —       13     7,044     7,002     (42  —    

Other

   2     449     475     26    —    

Combination of concession types

   8     2,450     2,845     395   (212

Residential builder and developer

      

Principal deferral

   16     19,102     18,303     (799  —    

Other

   1     4,039     3,888     (151  —    

Combination of concession types

   3     15,580     15,514     (66 (535   1     346     401     55   (104

Other commercial construction

               

Principal deferral

   3     590     521     (69  —       1     151     151     —      —    

Residential

               

Principal deferral

   21     2,642     2,877     235    —       13     1,602     1,663     61    —    

Interest rate reduction

   1     98     104     6   (32

Other

   1     195     195     —      —       1     188     188     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   52     72,917     69,734     (3,183 (754   14     2,188     2,160     (28 (282

Residential Alt-A

               

Principal deferral

   6     863     875     12    —       2     166     202     36    —    

Combination of concession types

   17     2,426     2,715     289   (640   10     1,746     1,736     (10 (61

Consumer:

               

Home equity lines and loans

               

Principal deferral

   6     359     361     2    —       3     280     280     —      —    

Interest rate reduction

   1     99     99     —     (8

Other

   1     106     106     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   19     1,299     1,299     —     (176   15     1,856     1,856     —     (172

Automobile

               

Principal deferral

   359     4,933     4,933     —      —       80     993     993     —      —    

Interest rate reduction

   11     159     159     —     (17

Other

   65     274     274     —      —       11     61     61     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   184     2,148     2,148     —     (162   23     250     250     —     (26

Other

               

Principal deferral

   29     290     290     —      —       8     55     55     —      —    

Interest rate reduction

   1     12     12     —     (2

Other

   1     12     12     —      —       1     45     45     —      —    

Combination of concession types

   90     2,394     2,394     —     (587   14     466     466     —     (188
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

Total

   983    $233,447    $229,746    $(3,701 $(3,118 243  $32,530  $32,500  $(30$(869
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

 

(a)Financial effects impacting the recorded investment included principal payments or advances, charge-offs and capitalized escrow arrearages.
(b)Represents the present value of interest rate concessions discounted at the effective rate of the original loan.

Troubled debt restructurings are considered to be impaired loans and for purposes of establishing the allowance for credit losses are evaluated for impairment giving consideration to the impact of the modified loan terms on the present value of the loan’s expected cash flows. Impairment of troubled debt restructurings that have subsequently defaulted may also be measured based on the loan’s observable market price or the fair value of collateral if the loan is collateral-dependent. Charge-offs may also be recognized on troubled debt restructurings that have subsequently defaulted. Loans that were modified as troubled debt restructurings during the twelve months ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014 and for which there was a subsequent payment default during the nine-month periodthree-month periods ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, were $3 million. Loansnot material.

Effective January 1, 2015, the Company adopted amended accounting and disclosure guidance for reclassification of residential real estate collateralized consumer mortgage loans upon foreclosure. The amended guidance clarifies that were modified as troubled debt restructurings duringan in-substance repossession or foreclosure occurs and a creditor is considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan upon either (1) the twelve months ended September 30, 2013 and forcreditor obtaining legal title to the residential real estate property upon completion of a foreclosure or (2) the borrower conveying all interest in the residential real

 

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which there wasestate property to the creditor to satisfy that loan through completion of a subsequent payment default during the nine-month period ended September 30, 2013 were $20 million (largely commercialdeed in lieu of foreclosure or through a similar legal agreement. The adoption resulted in an insignificant increase in other real estate loans).owned. The amount of foreclosed residential real estate property held by the Company was $42 million and $44 million at March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively. At March 31, 2015, there were $158 million in loans secured by residential real estate that were in the process of foreclosure.

 

5.Borrowings

During February 2015, M&T Bank issued $1.5 billion of fixed rate senior notes pursuant to a Bank Note Program, of which $750 million have a 2.10% interest rate and mature in 2020 and $750 million have a 2.90% interest rate and mature in 2025.

M&T had $835$836 million of fixed and floating rate junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures (“Junior Subordinated Debentures”) outstanding at September 30, 2014 whichMarch 31, 2015 that are held by various trusts thatand were issued in connection with the issuance by those trusts of preferred capital securities (“Capital Securities”) and common securities (“Common Securities”). The proceeds from the issuances of the Capital Securities and the Common Securities were used by the trusts to purchase the Junior Subordinated Debentures. The Common Securities of each of those trusts are wholly owned by M&T and are the only class of each trust’s securities possessing general voting powers. The Capital Securities represent preferred undivided interests in the assets of the corresponding trust.

Under the Federal Reserve Board’s current risk-based capital guidelines, the Capital Securities are includable in M&T’s Tier 1 capital. However, in July 2013, the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a final rule to comprehensively revise the capital framework for the U.S. banking sector. Under that rule, trust preferred capital securities will be phased out from inclusion in Tier 1 capital such that in 2015 only 25% of then-outstanding securities will be included in Tier 1 capital and beginning in 2016 none of the securities will be included in Tier 1 capital.

Holders of the Capital Securities receive preferential cumulative cash distributions unless M&T exercises its right to extend the payment of interest on the Junior Subordinated Debentures as allowed by the terms of each such debenture, in which case payment of distributions on the respective Capital Securities will be deferred for comparable periods. During an extended interest period, M&T may not pay dividends or distributions on, or repurchase, redeem or acquire any shares of its capital stock. In general, the agreements governing the Capital Securities, in the aggregate, provide a full, irrevocable and unconditional guarantee by M&T of the payment of distributions on, the redemption of, and any liquidation distribution with respect to the Capital Securities. The obligations under such guarantee and the Capital Securities are subordinate and junior in right of payment to all senior indebtedness of M&T.

The Capital Securities will remain outstanding until the Junior Subordinated Debentures are repaid at maturity, are redeemed prior to maturity or are distributed in liquidation to the Trusts.trusts. The Capital Securities are mandatorily redeemable in whole, but not in part, upon repayment at the stated maturity dates (ranging from 2027 to 2033) of the Junior Subordinated Debentures or the earlier redemption of the Junior Subordinated Debentures in whole upon the occurrence of one or more events set forth in the indentures relating to the Capital Securities, and in whole or in part at any time after an optional redemption prior to contractual maturity contemporaneously with the optional redemption of the related Junior Subordinated Debentures in whole or in part, subject to possible regulatory approval.

On April 15, 2015, M&T redeemed all of the issued and outstanding Capital Securities issued by M&T Capital Trust I, M&T Capital Trust II and M&T Capital Trust III, and the related Junior Subordinated Debentures held by those respective trusts. In the aggregate, $323 million of Junior Subordinated Debentures were redeemed. In February 27, 2014, M&T redeemed all of the issued and outstanding 8.5% $350 million trust preferred securitiesCapital Securities issued by M&T Capital Trust IV and the related Junior Subordinated Debentures held by M&T Capital Trust IV.

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5.Borrowings, continued

Also included in long-term borrowings are agreements to repurchase securities of $1.4 billion at each of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013.2014. The agreements reflect various repurchase dates in 2016 and 2017 and are subject to legally enforceable master netting arrangements, however the Company has not offset any amounts related to these agreements in its consolidated financial statements. The Company posted collateral consisting primarily of government guaranteed mortgage-backed securities of $1.5 billion at September 30, 2014each of March 31, 2015 and $1.6 billion at December 31, 2013.

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2014.

 

6.Shareholders’ equity

M&T is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a $1.00 par value per share. Preferred shares outstanding rank senior to common shares both as to dividends and liquidation preference, but have no general voting rights.

Issued and outstanding preferred stock of M&T as of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 is presented below:

 

  Shares
issued and
outstanding
   Carrying
value
September 30, 2014
   Carrying
value
December 31, 2013
   Shares
issued and
outstanding
   Carrying value 
      (dollars in thousands)   (dollars in thousands) 

Series A (a)

          

Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, $1,000 liquidation preference per share

   230,000    $230,000    $230,000     230,000    $230,000  

Series C (a)

          

Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series C, $1,000 liquidation preference per share

   151,500     151,500     151,500     151,500    $151,500  

Series D (b)

          

Fixed Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series D, $10,000 liquidation preference per share

   50,000     500,000     500,000  

Fixed Rate Non-cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series D, $10,000 liquidation preference per share

   50,000    $500,000  

Series E (c)

          

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock Series E, $1,000 liquidation preference per share

   350,000     350,000     —    

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series E, $1,000 liquidation preference per share

   350,000    $350,000  

 

(a)Dividends, if declared, were paid quarterly at a rate of 5% per year through November 14, 2013 and are paid at 6.375% thereafter. M&T has agreed to not redeem the preferred shares until on or after November 15, 2018.. Warrants to purchase M&T common stock wereat $73.86 per share issued in connection with the Series A and C preferred stock (Series A – 1,218,522 common sharesexpire in 2018 and totaled 719,175 at $73.86 per share; Series C – 407,542 common sharesMarch 31, 2015 and 721,490 at $55.76 per share). In March 2013, the Series C warrants were exercised in a “cashless” exercise, resulting in the issuance of 186,589 common shares. During the nine months ended September 30, 2014, 395,905 of the Series A warrants were exercised in “cashless” exercises, resulting in the issuance of 156,521 common shares. Remaining outstanding Series A warrants were 753,490 at September 30,December 31, 2014.
(b)Dividends, if declared, will beare paid semi-annually at a rate of 6.875% per year. The shares are redeemable in whole or in part on or after June 15, 2016. Notwithstanding M&T’s option to redeem the shares, if an event occurs such that the shares no longer qualify as Tier 1 regulatory capital, M&T may redeem all of the shares within 90 days following that occurrence.

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6.Shareholders’ equity, continued

(c)Dividends, if declared, will beare paid semi-annually at a rate of 6.45% through February 14, 2024 and thereafter will be paid quarterly at a rate of the three-month London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) plus 361 basis points (hundredths of one percent). The shares are redeemable in whole or in part on or after February 15, 2024. Notwithstanding M&T’s option to redeem the shares, if an event occurs such that the shares no longer qualify as Tier 1 regulatory capital, M&T may redeem all of the shares within 90 days following that occurrence.

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6.Shareholders’ equity, continued

In addition to the Series A and Series C warrants mentioned in (a) above, a warrant to purchase 95,383 shares of M&T common stock at $518.96 per share was outstanding at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013.2014. The obligation under that warrant was assumed by M&T in an acquisition.

 

7.Pension plans and other postretirement benefits

The Company provides defined benefit pension and other postretirement benefits (including health care and life insurance benefits) to qualified retired employees. Net periodic defined benefit cost for defined benefit plans consisted of the following:

 

   Pension
benefits
  Other
postretirement
benefits
 
   Three months ended September 30 
   2014  2013  2014  2013 
   (in thousands) 

Service cost

  $5,130    6,090    151    186  

Interest cost on projected benefit obligation

   17,290    15,032    695    673  

Expected return on plan assets

   (22,892  (21,838  —      —    

Amortization of prior service cost

   (1,638  (1,639  (340  (340

Amortization of net actuarial loss

   3,624    10,269    —      90  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net periodic benefit cost

  $1,514    7,914    506    609  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

  Pension
benefits
 Other
postretirement
benefits
   Pension
benefits
   Other
postretirement
benefits
 
  Nine months ended September 30   Three months ended March 31 
  2014 2013 2014 2013   2015   2014   2015   2014 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Service cost

  $15,390   18,270   453   557    $6,000     5,100     200     150  

Interest cost on projected benefit obligation

   51,871   45,097   2,084   2,018     17,775     17,250     650     675  

Expected return on plan assets

   (68,676 (65,515  —      —       (23,575   (22,925   —       —    

Amortization of prior service cost

   (4,914 (4,917 (1,019 (1,019

Amortization of prior service credit

   (1,525   (1,650   (350   (350

Amortization of net actuarial loss

   10,871   30,807    —     270     11,175     3,350     25     —    
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Net periodic benefit cost

  $4,542    23,742    1,518    1,826  $9,850   1,125   525   475  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Expense incurred in connection with the Company’s defined contribution pension and retirement savings plans totaled $13,558,000$16,750,000 and $12,440,000$15,732,000 for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, and 2013, respectively, and $41,963,000 and $40,757,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

 

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8.Earnings per common share

The computations of basic earnings per common share follow:

 

  Three months ended
September 30
 Nine months ended
September 30
   Three months ended
March 31
 
  2014 2013 2014 2013   2015   2014 
  (in thousands, except per share)   

(in thousands,

except per share)

 

Income available to common shareholders:

       

Net income

  $275,344   294,479   $788,697   917,058    $241,613     229,017  

Less: Preferred stock dividends (a)

   (20,443 (13,363 (55,560 (40,088   (20,318   (14,674

Amortization of preferred stock discount (a)

   —     (2,235  —     (6,575
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Net income available to common equity

   254,901    278,881    733,137    870,395   221,295   214,343  

Less: Income attributable to unvested stock-based compensation awards

   (2,996  (3,545  (8,830  (11,451 (2,465 (2,623
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Net income available to common shareholders

  $251,905    275,336   $724,307    858,944  $218,830   211,720  

Weighted-average shares outstanding:

     

Common shares outstanding (including common stock issuable) and unvested stock-based compensation awards

   132,832    130,836    132,372    130,088   133,542   131,800  

Less: Unvested stock-based compensation awards

   (1,567  (1,665  (1,590  (1,719 (1,493 (1,588
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Weighted-average shares outstanding

   131,265    129,171    130,782    128,369   132,049   130,212  

Basic earnings per common share

  $1.92    2.13   $5.54    6.69  $1.66   1.63  

 

(a)Including impact of not as yet declared cumulative dividends.

 

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8.Earnings per common share, continued

 

The computations of diluted earnings per common share follow:

 

  

Three months ended

September 30

 Nine months ended
September 30
   Three months ended
March 31
 
  2014 2013 2014 2013   2015   2014 
  (in thousands, except per share)   (in thousands,
except per share)
 

Net income available to common equity

  $254,901   278,881   $733,137   870,395    $221,295     214,343  

Less: Income attributable to unvested stock-based compensation awards

   (2,984 (3,525 (8,793 (11,395   (2,458   (2,612
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Net income available to common shareholders

  $251,917    275,356   $724,344    859,000  $218,837   211,731  

Adjusted weighted-average shares outstanding:

     

Common and unvested stock-based compensation awards

   132,832    130,836    132,372    130,088   133,542   131,800  

Less: Unvested stock-based compensation awards

   (1,567  (1,665  (1,590  (1,719 (1,493 (1,588

Plus: Incremental shares from assumed conversion of stock-based compensation awards and warrants to purchase common stock

   863    1,094    916    943  

Plus: Incremental shares from assumed conversion of stock-based compensation awards

 720   914  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Adjusted weighted-average shares outstanding

   132,128    130,265    131,698    129,312   132,769   131,126  

Diluted earnings per common share

  $1.91    2.11   $5.50    6.64  $1.65   1.61  

GAAP defines unvested share-based awards that contain nonforfeitable rights to dividends or dividend equivalents (whether paid or unpaid) as participating securities that shall be included in the computation of earnings per common share pursuant to the two-class method. The Company has issued stock-based compensation awards in the form of restricted stock and restricted stock units, which, in accordance with GAAP, are considered participating securities.

Stock-based compensation awards and warrants to purchase common stock of M&T representing approximately 1.72.7 million and 3.13.0 million common shares during the three-month periods ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, and 2013, respectively, and 2.1 million and 4.1 million common shares during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively, were not included in the computations of diluted earnings per common share because the effect on those periods would have been antidilutive.

 

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9.Comprehensive income

The following table displaystables display the components of other comprehensive income (loss) and amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to net income:

 

  Investment Securities               Investment Securities             
  With
OTTI
   All
other
   Defined
benefit
plans
 Other Total
amount
before tax
 Income
tax
 Net   With
OTTI (a)
   All
other
   Defined
benefit
plans
 Other Total
amount
before tax
 Income
tax
 Net 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Balance – January 1, 2014

  $37,255     18,450     (161,617 115   $(105,797 41,638   $(64,159

Balance – January 1, 2015

  $7,438     201,828     (503,027 (4,082 $(297,843 116,849   $(180,994

Other comprehensive income before reclassifications:

                    

Unrealized holding gains, net

   12,038     109,263     —      —     121,301   (47,615 73,686     8,011     32,063     —      —     40,074   (15,247 24,827  

Foreign currency translation adjustment

   —       —       —     (2,314 (2,314 810   (1,504   —       —       —     (3,732 (3,732 1,348   (2,384

Unrealized losses on cash flow hedges

   —       —       —     (162 (162 64   (98

Gains on cash flow hedges

   —       —       —     1,453   1,453   (568 885  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total other comprehensive income before reclassifications

   12,038     109,263     —      (2,476  118,825    (46,741  72,084   8,011   32,063   —     (2,279 37,795   (14,467 23,328  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income that (increase)decrease net income:

          

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income that (increase) decrease net income:

Accretion of unrealized holding losses on held-to-maturity (“HTM”) securities

   1     2,539     —      —      2,540 (a)   (997  1,543   —     739   —     —     739 (b)  (289 450  

Losses realized in net income

 —     98   —     —     98 (c)  (36 62  

Accretion of gain on terminated cash flow hedges

 —     —     —     (24 (24) (d)  10   (14

Amortization of prior service credit

   —       —       (5,933  —      (5,933)(d)   2,328    (3,605 —     —     (1,875 —     (1,875) (e)  934   (941

Amortization of actuarial losses

   —       —       10,871    —      10,871 (d)   (4,267  6,604   —     —     11,200   —     11,200 (e)  (5,582 5,618  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total reclassifications

   1     2,539     4,938    —      7,478    (2,936  4,542   —     837   9,325   (24 10,138   (4,963 5,175  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total gain (loss) during the period

   12,039     111,802     4,938    (2,476  126,303    (49,677  76,626   8,011   32,900   9,325   (2,303 47,933   (19,430 28,503  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Balance – September 30, 2014

  $49,294     130,252     (156,679  (2,361 $20,506    (8,039 $12,467  

Balance – March 31, 2015

$15,449   234,728   (493,702 (6,385$(249,910 97,419  $(152,491
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

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9.Comprehensive income, continued

 

  Investment Securities             Investment Securities             
  With
OTTI
 All
other
 Defined
benefit
plans
 Other Total
amount
before tax
 Income
tax
 Net   With
OTTI (a)
   All
other
   Defined
benefit
plans
 Other Total
amount
before tax
 Income
tax
 Net 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Balance – January 1, 2013

  $(91,835 152,199   (455,590 (431 $(395,657 155,393   $(240,264

Balance – January 1, 2014

  $37,255     18,450     (161,617 115   $(105,797 41,638   $(64,159

Other comprehensive income before reclassifications:

                  

Unrealized holding gains (losses), net

   59,523   (61,706  —      —     (2,183 814   (1,369

Unrealized holding gains, net

   19,968     42,119     —      —     62,087   (24,374 37,713  

Foreign currency translation adjustment

   —      —      —     296   296   (91 205     —       —       —     (234 (234 98   (136
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total other comprehensive income before reclassifications

   59,523    (61,706  —      296    (1,887  723    (1,164 19,968   42,119   —     (234 61,853   (24,276 37,577  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income that (increase) decrease net income:

        

Accretion of unrealized holding losses on HTM securities

   230    3,127    —      —      3,357 (a)   (1,318  2,039   2   823   —     —     825 (b)  (324 501  

OTTI charges recognized in net income

   9,800    —      —      —      9,800 (b)   (3,847  5,953  

Losses (gains) realized in net income

   41,217    (8,129  —      —      33,088 (c)   (12,987  20,101  

Amortization of prior service credit

   —      —      (5,936  —      (5,936)(d)   2,330    (3,606 —     —     (2,000 —     (2,000) (e)  785   (1,215

Amortization of actuarial losses

   —      —      31,077    —      31,077 (d)   (12,198  18,879   —     —     3,350   —     3,350 (e)  (1,315 2,035  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total reclassifications

   51,247    (5,002  25,141    —      71,386    (28,020  43,366   2   823   1,350   —     2,175   (854 1,321  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total gain (loss) during the period

   110,770    (66,708  25,141    296    69,499    (27,297  42,202   19,970   42,942   1,350   (234 64,028   (25,130 38,898  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Balance – September 30, 2013

  $18,935    85,491    (430,449  (135 $(326,158  128,096   $(198,062

Balance – March 31, 2014

$57,225   61,392   (160,267 (119$(41,769 16,508  $(25,261
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

(a)Other-than-temporary impairment
(b)Included in interest income
(b)Included in OTTI losses recognized in earnings
(c)Included in gain (loss)loss on bank investment securities
(d)Included in interest expense
(e)Included in salaries and employee benefits expense

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net consisted of the following:

 

   Investment securities   Defined
benefit
plans
  Other  Total 
   With OTTI   All other     
   (in thousands) 

Balance – December 31, 2013

  $22,632     11,294     (98,182  97   $(64,159

Net gain (loss) during period

   7,314     67,915     2,999    (1,602  76,626  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance – September 30, 2014

  $29,946     79,209     (95,183  (1,505 $12,467  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 
   Investment securities   Defined
benefit
       
   With OTTI   All other   plans  Other  Total 
   (in thousands) 

Balance – December 31, 2014

  $4,518     122,683     (305,589  (2,606 $(180,994

Net gain (loss) during period

   4,898     20,441     4,677    (1,513  28,503  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance – March 31, 2015

$9,416   143,124   (300,912 (4,119$(152,491
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

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10.Derivative financial instruments

As part of managing interest rate risk, the Company enters into interest rate swap agreements to modify the repricing characteristics of certain portions of the Company’s portfolios of earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities. The Company designates interest rate swap agreements utilized in the management of interest rate risk as either fair value hedges or cash flow hedges. Interest rate swap agreements are generally entered into with counterparties that meet established credit standards and most contain master netting and collateral provisions protecting the at-risk party. Based on adherence to the Company’s credit standards and the presence of the netting and collateral provisions, the Company believes that the credit risk inherent in these contracts iswas not significant as of September 30, 2014.March 31, 2015.

The net effect of interest rate swap agreements was to increase net interest income by $11 million for each of the three-month periods ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and 2013, and $34 million and $30 million for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively.2014.

At September 30, 2014, interest rate swap agreements were used as fair value hedges for approximately $1.4 billion of outstanding fixed rate long-term borrowings. Information about interest rate swap agreements entered into for interest rate risk management purposes summarized by type of financial instrument the swap agreements were intended to hedge follows:

 

  Notional
amount
   Average
maturity
   Weighted-
average rate
   Notional
amount
   Average
maturity
   Weighted-
average rate
 
  Fixed Variable    Fixed Variable 
  (in thousands)   (in years)         (in thousands)   (in years)       

September 30, 2014

       

March 31, 2015

       

Fair value hedges:

              

Fixed rate long-term borrowings (a)

  $1,400,000     2.9     4.42 1.19  $1,400,000     2.4     4.42 1.22
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

December 31, 2013

       

December 31, 2014

Fair value hedges:

       

Fixed rate long-term borrowings (a)

  $1,400,000     3.7     4.42  1.20$1,400,000   2.7   4.42 1.19
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

 

(a)Under the terms of these agreements, the Company receives settlement amounts at a fixed rate and pays at a variable rate.

The use of cash flow hedges to manage the variability of cash flows associated with the then-forecasted issuance of long-term debt did not have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position or results of operations.

The Company utilizes commitments to sell residential and commercial real estate loans to hedge the exposure to changes in the fair value of real estate loans held for sale. Such commitments have generally been designated as fair value hedges. The Company also utilizes commitments to sell real estate loans to offset the exposure to changes in fair value of certain commitments to originate real estate loans for sale.

Derivative financial instruments used for trading account purposes included interest rate contracts, foreign exchange and other option contracts, foreign exchange forward and spot contracts, and financial futures. Interest rate contracts entered into for trading account purposes had notional values of $17.2$17.1 billion and $17.4$17.6 billion at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. The notional amounts of foreign currency and other option and futures contracts entered into for trading account purposes aggregated $1.0$1.4 billion and $1.4$1.3 billion at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively.

 

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Information about the fair values of derivative instruments in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet and consolidated statement of income follows:

 

  Asset derivatives   Liability derivatives   Asset derivatives   Liability derivatives 
  Fair value   Fair value   Fair value   Fair value 
  September 30,
2014
   December 31,
2013
   September 30,
2014
   December 31,
2013
   March 31,
2015
   December 31,
2014
   March 31,
2015
   December 31,
2014
 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Derivatives designated and qualifying as hedging instruments

                

Fair value hedges:

                

Interest rate swap agreements (a)

  $76,249     102,875    $—       —      $72,855     73,251    $—       —    

Commitments to sell real estate loans (a)

   1,454     6,957     2,438     487     662     728     3,529     4,217  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  73,517   73,979   3,529   4,217  
   77,703     109,832     2,438     487  

Derivatives not designated and qualifying as hedging instruments

        

Mortgage-related commitments to originate real estate loans for sale (a)

   16,732     7,616     240     3,675   26,295   17,396   65   49  

Commitments to sell real estate loans (a)

   1,387     6,120     3,157     230   1,571   754   8,552   4,330  

Trading:

        

Interest rate contracts (b)

   203,779     274,864     165,065     234,455   246,819   215,614   204,484   173,513  

Foreign exchange and other option and futures contracts (b)

   17,049     15,831     16,677     15,342   37,957   31,112   35,684   29,950  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   238,947     304,431     185,139     253,702   312,642   264,876   248,785   207,842  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total derivatives

  $316,650     414,263    $187,577     254,189  $386,159   338,855  $252,314   212,059  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

(a)Asset derivatives are reported in other assets and liability derivatives are reported in other liabilities.
(b)Asset derivatives are reported in trading account assets and liability derivatives are reported in other liabilities.

 

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   Amount of unrealized gain (loss) recognized 
   Three months ended
September 30, 2014
   Three months ended
September 30, 2013
 
   Derivative  Hedged item   Derivative  Hedged item 
   (in thousands) 

Derivatives in fair value hedging relationships

      

Interest rate swap agreements:

      

Fixed rate long-term borrowings (a)

  $(16,792  16,380    $(86  (20
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments

      

Trading:

      

Interest rate contracts (b)

  $132     $2,778   

Foreign exchange and other option and futures contracts (b)

   (781    (862 
  

 

 

    

 

 

  

Total

  $(649   $1,916   
  

 

 

    

 

 

  

  Amount of unrealized gain (loss) recognized   Amount of unrealized gain (loss) recognized 
  Nine months ended
September 30, 2014
   Nine months ended
September 30, 2013
   Three months ended
March 31, 2015
   Three months ended
March 31, 2014
 
  Derivative Hedged item   Derivative Hedged item   Derivative   Hedged item   Derivative   Hedged item 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Derivatives in fair value hedging relationships

              

Interest rate swap agreements:

              

Fixed rate long-term borrowings (a)

  $(26,627 25,658    $(29,097 27,733    $(396   161    $(8,160   7,920  
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments

      

Trading:

      

Interest rate contracts (b)

  $1,214     $5,974   $660  $(302

Foreign exchange and other option and futures contracts (b)

   (6,597    (2,469  (167 (5,030
  

 

    

 

    

 

     

 

   

Total

  $(5,383   $3,505   $493  $(5,332
  

 

    

 

    

 

     

 

   

 

(a)Reported as other revenues from operations.
(b)Reported as trading account and foreign exchange gains.

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In addition, the Company also has commitments to sell and commitments to originate residential and commercial real estate loans that are considered derivatives. The Company designates certain of the commitments to sell real estate loans as fair value hedges of real estate loans held for sale. The Company also utilizes commitments to sell real estate loans to offset the exposure to changes in the fair value of certain commitments to originate real estate loans for sale. As a result of these activities, net unrealized pre-tax gains related to hedged loans held for sale, commitments to originate loans for sale and commitments to sell loans were approximately at $31 million and $28 million and $23 million at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. Changes in unrealized gains and losses are included in mortgage banking revenues and, in general, are realized in subsequent periods as the related loans are sold and commitments satisfied.

The Company does not offset derivative asset and liability positions in its consolidated financial statements. The Company’s exposure to credit risk by entering into derivative contracts is mitigated through master netting agreements and collateral posting requirements. Master netting agreements covering interest rate and foreign exchange contracts with the same party include a right to set-off that becomes enforceable in the event of default, early termination or under other specific conditions.

The aggregate fair value of derivative financial instruments in a liability position, which are subject to enforceable master netting arrangements, was $149$174 million and $194$161 million at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. After consideration of such netting arrangements, the net liability positions with counterparties aggregated $89$114 million and $107$103 million at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. The Company was required to post collateral relating to those positions of $81$102 million and $95$90 million, at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. Certain of the Company’s derivative financial instruments contain provisions that require the Company to maintain specific credit ratings from credit rating agencies to avoid higher collateral

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posting requirements. If the Company’s debt rating were to fall below specified ratings, the counterparties toof the derivative financial instruments could demand immediate incremental collateralization on those instruments in a net liability position. The aggregate fair value of all derivative financial instruments with such credit-risk-relatedcredit risk-related contingent features in a net liability position on September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 was $26$22 million, for which the Company had posted collateral of $18$15 million in the normal course of business. If the credit-risk-relatedcredit risk-related contingent features had been triggered on September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, the maximum amount of additional collateral the Company would have been required to post towith counterparties was $8$7 million.

The aggregate fair value of derivative financial instruments in an asset position, which are subject to enforceable master netting arrangements, was $134$106 million and $183$104 million at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. After consideration of such netting arrangements, the net asset positions with counterparties aggregated $74 million and $95$46 million at September 30, 2014each of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013, respectively.2014. Counterparties posted collateral relating to those positions of $74$47 million and $93$46 million at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. Trading account interest rate swap agreements entered into with customers are subject to the Company’s credit risk standards and often contain collateral provisions.

In addition to the derivative contracts noted above, the Company clears certain derivative transactions through a clearinghouse rather than directly with counterparties. Those transactions cleared through a clearinghouse require initial margin collateral and additional collateral for contracts in a net liability position. The net fair values of derivative financial instruments

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cleared through clearinghouses at eachMarch 31, 2015 was a net liability position of September 30, 2014$65 million and at December 31, 2013 were not material.2014 was a net liability position of $35 million. Collateral posted with clearinghouses was $34$97 million and $14$61 million at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013, respectively, and was predominantly related to initial margin requirements.2014, respectively.

 

11.Variable interest entities and asset securitizations

InDuring the thirdfirst quarter of 2013,2015, the Company securitized approximately $1.8 billion$13 million of one-to-four family residential real estate loans in guaranteed mortgage securitizations with the Government National Mortgage Association (“Ginnie Mae”). Approximately $1.0 billion of such loans were formerly held in the Company’s loan portfolio, whereas the remaining $811 million of the loans were newly originated. The Company recognized gains of $35 million related to loans previously held for investment, which was recorded in “other revenues from operations,” and gains of $15 million on newly originated loans, which was reflected in “mortgage banking revenues.” In total, the Company securitized approximately $2.8 billion of one-to-four family residential real estate loans in guaranteed mortgage securitizations with Ginnie Mae during the nine months ended September 30, 2013. Approximately $1.4 billion of such loans were formerly held in the Company’s loan portfolio, whereas the remaining $1.4 billion were newly originated. For the nine months ended September 30, 2013, the Company recognized pre-tax gains of $42 million related to loans previously held for investment, which were recorded in “other revenues from operations,” and pre-tax gains of $25 million on newly originated loans, which were reflected in “mortgage banking revenues.” As a result of the securitization structure, the Company does not have effective control over the underlying loans and expects no material credit-related losses on the retained securities as a result of the guarantees by Ginnie Mae. In similar transactions for the nine months ended September 30, 2014, the Company securitized $110 million ofone-to-four family residential real estate loans that had been originated for sale in guaranteed mortgage securitizations with the Government National Mortgage Association (“Ginnie MaeMae”) and retained the resulting securities in its investment securities portfolio. Pre-tax gains on suchIn similar transactions for the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company securitized $29 million of one-to-four family residential real estate loans. Gains associated with those transactions were not material. In the third quarter of 2013, the Company securitized and sold approximately $1.4 billion of automobile loans held in its loan portfolio. The Company recognized gains of $21 million related to the sale, which was recorded in “other revenues from operations.” The Company has securitized loans to improve its regulatory capital ratios and strengthen its liquidity and risk profile as a result of changing regulatory liquidity and capital requirements.significant.

In accordance with GAAP, the Company determined that it was the primary beneficiary of a residential mortgage loan securitization trust considering its role as servicer and its retained subordinated interests in the trust. As a result, the Company has included the one-to-four family residential mortgage loans that were included in the trust in its consolidated financial statements. At September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, the carrying values of the loans in the securitization trust were $105$93 million and $121$98 million, respectively. The outstanding principal amount of mortgage-backed securities issued by the qualified special purpose trust that was held by parties unrelated to M&T at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 20132014 was $16$14 million and $18$15 million, respectively. Because the transaction was non-recourse, the Company’s maximum exposure to loss as a result of its association with the trust at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 is limited to realizing the carrying value of the loans less the amount of the mortgage-backed securities held by the third parties.

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As described in note 5, M&T has issued junior subordinated debentures payable to various trusts that have issued Capital Securities. M&T owns the common securities of those trust entities. The Company is not considered to be the primary beneficiary of those entities and, accordingly, the trusts are not included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. At September 30,

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2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, the Company included the junior subordinated debentures as “long-term borrowings” in its consolidated balance sheet. The Company has recognized $34 million in other assets for its “investment” in the common securities of the trusts that will be concomitantly repaid to M&T by the respective trust from the proceeds of M&T’s repayment of the junior subordinated debentures associated with preferred capital securitiesCapital Securities described in note 5.

The Company has invested as a limited partner in various partnerships that collectively had total assets of approximately $1.3$1.2 billion at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013, respectively.2014. Those partnerships generally construct or acquire properties for which the investing partners are eligible to receive certain federal income tax credits in accordance with government guidelines. Such investments may also provide tax deductible losses to the partners. The partnership investments also assist the Company in achieving its community reinvestment initiatives. As a limited partner, there is no recourse to the Company by creditors of the partnerships. However, the tax credits that result from the Company’s investments in such partnerships are generally subject to recapture should a partnership fail to comply with the respective government regulations. The Company’s maximum exposure to loss ofon its investments in such partnerships was $257$303 million, including $71$88 million of unfunded commitments, at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and $236$243 million, including $45$56 million of unfunded commitments, at December 31, 2013.2014. Contingent commitments to provide additional capital contributions to these partnerships were not material at March 31, 2015. The Company has not provided financial or other support to the partnerships that was not contractually required. Management currently estimates that no material losses are probable as a result of the Company’s involvement with such entities. The Company, in its position as a limited partner, does not direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of the partnerships and, therefore, in accordance with the accounting provisions for variable interest entities, the partnership entities are not included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. As described in note 1, effective January 1, 2015 the Company retrospectively adopted for all periods presented amended accounting guidance on the accounting for investments in qualified affordable housing projects whereby the Company’s investment cost is amortized to income taxes in the consolidated statement of income as tax credits and other tax benefits resulting from deductible losses associated with the projects are received. The Company amortized $10 million and $12 million of its investments in qualified affordable housing projects to income tax expense during the three-month periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, and recognized $14 million and $17 million of tax credits and other tax benefits during those respective periods.

 

12.Fair value measurements

GAAP permits an entity to choose to measure eligible financial instruments and other items at fair value. The Company has not made any fair value elections at September 30, 2014.March 31, 2015.

Pursuant to GAAP, fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. A three-level hierarchy exists in GAAP for fair value measurements based upon the inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability.

 

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Level 1 Valuation is based on quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities.

 

Level 2 Valuation is determined from quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active or by model-based techniques in which all significant inputs are observable in the market.

 

Level 3 Valuation is derived from model-based and other techniques in which at least one significant input is unobservable and which may be based on the Company’s own estimates about the assumptions that market participants would use to value the asset or liability.

When available, the Company attempts to use quoted market prices in active markets to determine fair value and classifies such items as Level 1 or Level 2. If quoted market prices in active markets are not available, fair value is often determined using model-based techniques incorporating various

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assumptions including interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit losses. Assets and liabilities valued using model-based techniques are classified as either Level 2 or Level 3, depending on the lowest level classification of an input that is considered significant to the overall valuation. The following is a description of the valuation methodologies used for the Company’s assets and liabilities that are measured on a recurring basis at estimated fair value.

Trading account assets and liabilities

Trading account assets and liabilities consist primarily of interest rate swap agreements and foreign exchange contracts with customers who require such services with offsetting positions with third parties to minimize the Company’s risk with respect to such transactions. The Company generally determines the fair value of its derivative trading account assets and liabilities using externally developed pricing models based on market observable inputs and, therefore, classifies such valuations as Level 2. Mutual funds held in connection with deferred compensation arrangements have been classified as Level 1 valuations. Valuations of investments in municipal and other bonds can generally be obtained through reference to quoted prices in less active markets for the same or similar securities or through model-based techniques in which all significant inputs are observable and, therefore, such valuations have been classified as Level 2.

Investment securities available for sale

The majority of the Company’s available-for-sale investment securities have been valued by reference to prices for similar securities or through model-based techniques in which all significant inputs are observable and, therefore, such valuations have been classified as Level 2. Certain investments in mutual funds and equity securities are actively traded and, therefore, have been classified as Level 1 valuations.

The Company sold substantially all of its privately issued mortgage-backed securities classified as available for sale during the second quarter of 2013. In prior periods, the Company generally used model-based techniques to value such securities because the Company was significantly restricted in the level of market observable assumptions that could be relied upon. Specifically, market assumptions regarding credit adjusted cash flows and liquidity influences on discount rates were difficult to observe at the individual bond level. Because of the inactivity in the markets and the lack of observable valuation inputs, the Company classified the valuation of privately issued mortgage-backed securities as Level 3.

Included in collateralized debt obligations are securities backed by trust preferred securities issued by financial institutions and other entities. The Company could not obtain pricing indications for many of these securities from its two primary independent pricing sources. The Company, therefore, performed internal modeling to estimate the cash flows and fair value of its portfolio of securities backed by trust preferred securities at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013.2014. The modeling techniques included estimating cash flows using bond-specific assumptions about future collateral defaults and related loss severities. The resulting cash flows were then discounted by reference to market yields observed in the single-name trust preferred securities market. In determining a market yield applicable to the estimated cash flows, a margin over LIBOR ranging from 4%5% to 10%, with a weighted-average of 7%8%, was used. Significant unobservable inputs used in the determination of estimated fair value of collateralized debt obligations are included in the accompanying table of

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significant unobservable inputs to Level 3 measurements. At September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, the total amortized cost and fair value of securities backed by trust preferred securities issued by financial institutions and other entities were $31$30 million and $55$47 million, respectively, and at December 31, 20132014 were $42$30 million

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and $63$50 million, respectively. Privately issued mortgage-backed securities and securitiesSecurities backed by trust preferred securities issued by financial institutions and other entities constituted substantially all of the available-for-sale investment securities classified as Level 3 valuations.

The Company ensures an appropriate control framework is in place over the valuation processes and techniques used for significant Level 3 fair value measurements. Internal pricing models used for significant valuation measurements have generally been subjected to validation procedures including testingreview of mathematical constructs, review of valuation methodology and significant assumptions used.

Real estate loans held for sale

The Company utilizes commitments to sell real estate loans to hedge the exposure to changes in fair value of real estate loans held for sale. The carrying value of hedged real estate loans held for sale includes changes in estimated fair value during the hedge period. Typically, the Company attempts to hedge real estate loans originatedheld for sale from the date of close through the sale date. The fair value of hedged real estate loans held for sale is generally calculated by reference to quoted prices in secondary markets for commitments to sell real estate loans with similar characteristics and, accordingly, such loans have been classified as a Level 2 valuation.

Commitments to originate real estate loans for sale and commitments to sell real estate loans

The Company enters into various commitments to originate real estate loans for sale and commitments to sell real estate loans. Such commitments are considered to be derivative financial instruments and, therefore, are carried at estimated fair value on the consolidated balance sheet. The estimated fair values of such commitments were generally calculated by reference to quoted prices in secondary markets for commitments to sell real estate loans to certain government-sponsored entities and other parties. The fair valuations of commitments to sell real estate loans generally result in a Level 2 classification. The estimated fair value of commitments to originate real estate loans for sale are adjusted to reflect the Company’s anticipated commitment expirations. The estimated commitment expirations are considered significant unobservable inputs contributing to the Level 3 classification of commitments to originate real estate loans for sale. Significant unobservable inputs used in the determination of estimated fair value of commitments to originate real estate loans for sale are included in the accompanying table of significant unobservable inputs to Level 3 measurements.

Interest rate swap agreements used for interest rate risk management

The Company utilizes interest rate swap agreements as part of the management of interest rate risk to modify the repricing characteristics of certain portions of its portfolios of earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities. The Company generally determines the fair value of its interest rate swap agreements using externally developed pricing models based on market observable inputs and, therefore, classifies such valuations as Level 2. The Company has considered counterparty credit risk in the valuation of its interest rate swap agreement assets and has considered its own credit risk in the valuation of its interest rate swap agreement liabilities.

 

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The following tables present assets and liabilities at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 20132014 measured at estimated fair value on a recurring basis:

 

  Fair value
measurements at
September 30,
2014
   Level 1 (a)   Level 2 (a)   Level 3   Fair value
measurements at
March 31,
2015
   Level 1 (a)   Level 2 (a)   Level 3 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Trading account assets

  $296,913     50,757     246,156     —      $363,085     48,978     314,107     —    

Investment securities available for sale:

                

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

   166,187     —       166,187     —       163,234     —       163,234     —    

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   9,391     —       9,391     —       7,850     —       7,850     —    

Mortgage-backed securities:

                

Government issued or guaranteed

   8,894,051     —       8,894,051     —       10,265,221     —       10,265,221     —    

Privately issued

   112     —       —       112     95     —       —       95  

Collateralized debt obligations

   54,808     —       —       54,808     47,278     —       —       47,278  

Other debt securities

   125,399     —       125,399     —       121,273     —       121,273     —    

Equity securities

   134,069     70,401     63,668     —       98,549     71,804     26,745     —    
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   9,384,017     70,401     9,258,696     54,920   10,703,500   71,804   10,584,323   47,373  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Real estate loans held for sale

   625,258     —       625,258     —     540,546   —     540,546   —    

Other assets (b)

   95,822     —       79,090     16,732   101,383   —     75,088   26,295  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total assets

  $10,402,010     121,158     10,209,200     71,652  $11,708,514   120,782   11,514,064   73,668  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Trading account liabilities

  $181,742     —       181,742     —    $240,168   —     240,168   —    

Other liabilities (b)

   5,835     —       5,595     240   12,146   —     12,081   65  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total liabilities

  $187,577     —       187,337     240  $252,314   —     252,249   65  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

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  Fair value
measurements at
December 31,
2013
   Level 1 (a)   Level 2 (a)   Level 3   Fair value
measurements at
December 31,
2014
   Level 1 (a)   Level 2 (a)   Level 3 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Trading account assets

  $376,131     51,386     324,745     —      $308,175     51,416     256,759     —    

Investment securities available for sale:

                

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

   37,776     —       37,776     —       161,947     —       161,947     —    

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   10,811     —       10,811     —       8,198     —       8,198     —    

Mortgage-backed securities:

                

Government issued or guaranteed

   4,165,086     —       4,165,086     —       8,731,123     —       8,731,123     —    

Privately issued

   1,850     —       —       1,850     103     —       —       103  

Collateralized debt obligations

   63,083     —       —       63,083     50,316     —       —       50,316  

Other debt securities

   120,085     —       120,085     —       121,488     —       121,488     —    

Equity securities

   133,095     82,450     50,645     —       83,757     64,841     18,916     —    
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
   4,531,786     82,450     4,384,403     64,933   9,156,932   64,841   9,041,672   50,419  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Real estate loans held for sale

   468,650     —       468,650     —     742,249   —     742,249   —    

Other assets (b)

   123,568     —       115,952     7,616   92,129   —     74,733   17,396  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total assets

  $5,500,135     133,836     5,293,750     72,549  $10,299,485   116,257   10,115,413   67,815  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Trading account liabilities

  $249,797     —       249,797     —    $203,464   —     203,464   —    

Other liabilities (b)

   4,392     —       717     3,675   8,596   —     8,547   49  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total liabilities

  $254,189     —       250,514     3,675  $212,060   —     212,011   49  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

(a)There were no significant transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy during the three months ended March 31, 2015 and nine monthsthe year ended September 30, 2014 and 2013.December 31, 2014.
(b)Comprised predominantly of interest rate swap agreements used for interest rate risk management (Level 2), commitments to sell real estate loans (Level 2) and commitments to originate real estate loans to be held for sale (Level 3).

 

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The changes in Level 3 assets and liabilities measured at estimated fair value on a recurring basis during the three months ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 were as follows:

 

  Investment securities available for sale     Investment securities available for sale Other assets
and other
liabilities
 
  Privately issued
mortgage-backed
securities
 Collateralized
debt
obligations
 Other assets
and other
liabilities
   Privately issued
mortgage-backed
securities
   Collateralized
debt
obligations
 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Balance – June 30, 2014

  $119   $56,200   $22,023  

Balance – January 1, 2015

  $103    $50,316   $17,347  

Total gains (losses) realized/unrealized:

         

Included in earnings

   —      —     9,657(b)    —       —     29,770 (a) 

Included in other comprehensive income

   —     2,201 (e)   —       —       (2,004) (d)   —    

Settlements

   (7 (3,593  —       (8   (1,034  —    

Transfers in and/or out of Level 3 (c)

   —      —     (15,188)(d) 

Transfers in and/or out of Level 3 (b)

   —       —     (20,887) (c) 
  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

Balance – September 30, 2014

  $112   $54,808   $16,492  

Balance – March 31, 2015

$95  $47,278  $26,230  
  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

Changes in unrealized gains (losses) included in earnings related to assets still held at September 30, 2014

  $—     $—     $12,421(b) 

Changes in unrealized gains included in earnings related to assets still held at March 31, 2015

$—    $—    $22,636 (a) 
  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

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The changes in Level 3 assets and liabilities measured at estimated fair value on a recurring basis during the three months ended September 30, 2013 were as follows:

   Investment securities available for sale    
   Privately issued
mortgage-backed
securities
  Collateralized
debt
obligations
  Other assets
and other
liabilities
 
   (in thousands) 

Balance – June 30, 2013

  $5,272   $59,916   $7,408  

Total gains (losses) realized/unrealized:

    

Included in earnings

   —      —      24,440(b) 

Included in other comprehensive income

   400 (e)   213 (e)   —    

Settlements

   (1,856  (826  —    

Transfers in and/or out of Level 3 (c)

   —      —      (18,773)(d) 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance – September 30, 2013

  $3,816   $59,303   $13,075  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Changes in unrealized gains (losses) included in earnings related to assets still held at September 30, 2013

  $—     $—     $(1,727)(b) 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

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The changes in Level 3 assets and liabilities measured at estimated fair value on a recurring basis during the nine months ended September 30,March 31, 2014 were as follows:

 

   Investment securities available for sale    
   Privately issued
mortgage-backed
securities
  Collateralized
debt
obligations
  Other assets
and other
liabilities
 
   (in thousands) 

Balance – January 1, 2014

  $1,850   $63,083   $3,941  

Total gains (losses) realized/unrealized:

    

Included in earnings

   —      —      63,557 (b) 

Included in other comprehensive income

   272 (e)   11,333 (e)   —    

Settlements

   (2,010  (19,608  —    

Transfers in and/or out of Level 3 (c)

   —      —      (51,006)(d) 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance – September 30, 2014

  $112   $54,808   $16,492  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Changes in unrealized gains (losses) included in earnings related to assets still held at September 30, 2014

  $—     $—     $17,773 (b) 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

The changes in Level 3 assets and liabilities measured at estimated fair value on a recurring basis during the nine months ended September 30, 2013 were as follows:

   Investment securities available for sale    
   Privately issued
mortgage-backed
securities
  Collateralized
debt
obligations
  Other assets
and other
liabilities
 
   (in thousands) 

Balance – January 1, 2013

  $1,023,886   $61,869   $47,859  

Total gains (losses) realized/unrealized:

    

Included in earnings

   (56,102)(a)   —      83,252(b) 

Included in other comprehensive income

   116,984 (e)   (324)(e)   —    

Sales

   (978,608  —      —    

Settlements

   (102,344  (2,242  —    

Transfers in and/or out of Level 3 (c)

   —      —      (118,036)(d) 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance – September 30, 2013

  $3,816   $59,303   $13,075  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Changes in unrealized gains (losses) included in earnings related to assets still held at September 30, 2013

  $—     $—     $925 (b) 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

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   Investment securities available for sale  Other assets
and other
liabilities
 
   Privately issued
mortgage-backed
securities
  Collateralized
debt
obligations
  
   (in thousands) 

Balance – January 1, 2014

  $1,850   $63,083   $3,941  

Total gains (losses) realized/unrealized:

    

Included in earnings

   —      —      22,383 (a) 

Included in other comprehensive income

   67 (d)   4,646 (d)   —    

Settlements

   (1,221  (5,961  —    

Transfers in and/or out of Level 3 (b)

   —      —      (13,735) (c) 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance – March 31, 2014

$696  $61,768  $12,589  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Changes in unrealized gains included in earnings related to assets still held at March 31, 2014

$—    $—    $15,050 (a) 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

(a)Reported as an OTTI loss or as gain (loss) on bank investment securities in the consolidated statement of income.
(b)Reported as mortgage banking revenues in the consolidated statement of income and includes the fair value of commitment issuances and expirations.
(c)(b)The Company’s policy for transfers between fair value levels is to recognize the transfer as of the actual date of the event or change in circumstances that caused the transfer.
(d)(c)Transfers out of Level 3 consist of interest rate locks transferred to closed loans.
(e)(d)Reported as net unrealized gains (losses) on investment securities in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income.

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The Company is required, on a nonrecurring basis, to adjust the carrying value of certain assets or provide valuation allowances related to certain assets using fair value measurements. The more significant of those assets follow.

Loans

Loans are generally not recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. Periodically, the Company records nonrecurring adjustments to the carrying value of loans based on fair value measurements for partial charge-offs of the uncollectible portions of those loans. Nonrecurring adjustments also include certain impairment amounts for collateral-dependent loans when establishing the allowance for credit losses. Such amounts are generally based on the fair value of the underlying collateral supporting the loan and, as a result, the carrying value of the loan less the calculated valuation amount does not necessarily represent the fair value of the loan. Real estate collateral is typically valued using appraisals or other indications of value based on recent comparable sales of similar properties or assumptions generally observable in the marketplace and the related nonrecurring fair value measurement adjustments have generally been classified as Level 2, unless significant adjustments have been made to the valuation that are not readily observable by market participants. Non-real estate collateral supporting commercial loans generally consists of business assets such as receivables, inventory and equipment. Fair value estimations are typically determined by discounting recorded values of those assets to reflect estimated net realizable value considering specific borrower facts and circumstances and the experience of credit personnel in their dealings with similar borrower collateral liquidations. Such discounts were generally in the range of 20%10% to 90%80% at September 30, 2014.March 31, 2015. As these discounts are not readily observable and are considered significant, the valuations have been classified as Level 3. Loans subject to nonrecurring fair value measurement were $196$101 million at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 ($11267 million and $84$34 million of which were classified as Level 2 and Level 3, respectively), $222$173 million at December 31, 20132014 ($17394 million and $49$79 million of which were classified as Level 2 and Level 3, respectively) and $247$161 million at September 30, 2013March 31, 2014 ($163100 million and $84$61 million of which were classified as Level 2 and Level 3, respectively). Changes in fair value recognized for partial charge-offs of loans and loan impairment reserves on loans held by the Company on September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014 were decreases of $23$8 million and $46$15 million for the three- and nine-monththree-month periods ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. Changes in fair value recognized for partial charge-offs of loans and loan impairment reserves on loans held by the Company on September 30, 2013 were decreases of $33 million and $82 million for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2013, respectively.

Assets taken in foreclosure of defaulted loans

Assets taken in foreclosure of defaulted loans are primarily comprised of commercial and residential real property and are generally measured at the lower of cost or fair value less costs to sell. The fair value of the real property is generally determined using appraisals or other indications of value based on recent comparable sales of similar properties or assumptions generally observable

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in the marketplace, and the related nonrecurring fair value measurement adjustments have generally been classified as Level 2. Assets taken in foreclosure of defaulted loans subject to nonrecurring fair value measurement were $21 million and $20$11 million at September 30, 2014each of March 31, 2015 and September 30, 2013, respectively.March 31, 2014. Changes in fair value recognized for those foreclosed assets held by the Company were not material during the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and 2013.2014.

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Significant unobservable inputs to Level 3 measurements

The following tables present quantitative information about the significant unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurements for Level 3 assets and liabilities at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013.2014:

 

   Fair value at
September 30, 2014
   

Valuation

technique

  

Unobservable

input/assumptions

  Range
(weighted-
average)
 
   (in thousands)           

Recurring fair value measurements

        

Privately issued mortgage–backed securities

  $112    

Two independent pricing quotes

  —     —    

Collateralized debt obligations

   54,808    

Discounted cash flow

  

Probability of default

   14%-57% (37%)  
      

Loss severity

   100%  

Net other assets (liabilities)(a)

   16,492    

Discounted cash flow

  

Commitment expirations

   0%-95% (20%)  

  Fair value at
 December 31, 2013 
   

Valuation

technique

  

Unobservable

input/assumptions

  Range
(weighted-
average)
   Fair value at
March 31, 2015
   Valuation
technique
  Unobservable
input/assumptions
   

Range

(weighted-

average)

  (in thousands)             (in thousands)           

Recurring fair value measurements

                

Privately issued mortgage–backed securities

  $1,850    

Two independent pricing quotes

  —     —      $95    Two
independent
pricing
quotes
   —      —  

Collateralized debt obligations

   63,083    

Discounted cash flow

  

Probability of default

   17%-55% (39%)     47,278    Discounted
cash flow
   
 
Probability
of default
  
  
  12%-57% (45%)
      

Loss severity

   100%         Loss severity    100%

Net other assets (liabilities)(a)

   3,941    

Discounted cash flow

  

Commitment expirations

   0%-90% (20%)  

Net other assets (liabilities) (a)

   26,230    Discounted
cash flow
   
 
Commitment
expirations
  
  
  0%-96% (19%)
  Fair value at
December 31,
2014
   Valuation
technique
  Unobservable
input/assumptions
   

Range

(weighted-

average)

  (in thousands)           

Recurring fair value measurements

        

Privately issued mortgage–backed securities

  $103    Two
independent
pricing
quotes
   —      —  

Collateralized debt obligations

   50,316    Discounted
cash flow
   
 
Probability
of default
  
  
  12%-57% (36%)
       Loss severity    100%

Net other assets (liabilities) (a)

   17,347    Discounted
cash flow
   
 
Commitment
expirations
  
  
  0%-96% (17%)

 

(a)Other Level 3 assets (liabilities) consist of commitments to originate real estate loans.

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Sensitivity of fair value measurements to changes in unobservable inputs

An increase (decrease) in the probability of default and loss severity for collateralized debt securities would generally result in a lower (higher) fair value measurement.

An increase (decrease) in the estimate of expirations for commitments to originate real-estatereal estate loans would generally result in a lower (higher) fair value measurement. Estimated commitment expirations are derived considering loan type, changes in interest rates and remaining length of time until closing.

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Disclosures of fair value of financial instruments

The carrying amounts and estimated fair value for financial instrument assets (liabilities) are presented in the following table:

 

  September 30, 2014   March 31, 2015 
  Carrying
amount
 Estimated
fair value
 Level 1   Level 2 Level 3   Carrying
amount
 Estimated
fair value
 Level 1   Level 2 Level 3 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Financial assets:

              

Cash and cash equivalents

  $1,523,643   $1,523,643   $1,444,153    $79,490   $—      $1,366,853   $1,366,853   $1,311,917    $54,936   $—    

Interest-bearing deposits at banks

   7,676,064   7,676,064    —       7,676,064    —       6,291,491   6,291,491    —       6,291,491    —    

Trading account assets

   296,913   296,913   50,757     246,156    —       363,085   363,085   48,978     314,107    —    

Investment securities

   13,348,368   13,333,944   70,401     13,051,825   211,718     14,393,270   14,444,292   71,804     14,162,805   209,683  

Loans and leases:

              

Commercial loans and leases

   19,112,009   18,838,297    —       —     18,838,297     19,775,494   19,484,920    —       —     19,484,920  

Commercial real estate loans

   26,942,847   26,831,373    —       158,938   26,672,435     27,845,710   27,746,166    —       117,366   27,628,800  

Residential real estate loans

   8,663,408   8,686,180    —       5,389,134   3,297,046     8,504,119   8,609,248    —       5,119,739   3,489,509  

Consumer loans

   10,854,095   10,763,554    —       —     10,763,554     10,973,719   10,880,895    —       —     10,880,895  

Allowance for credit losses

   (918,633  —      —       —      —       (921,373  —      —       —      —    
  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

 

Loans and leases, net

   64,653,726    65,119,404    —       5,548,072    59,571,332   66,177,669   66,721,229   —     5,237,105   61,484,124  

Accrued interest receivable

   243,779    243,779    —       243,779    —     244,079   244,079   —     244,079   —    

Financial liabilities:

       

Noninterest-bearing deposits

  $(27,440,524 $(27,440,524 $—      $(27,440,524 $—    $(27,181,120$(27,181,120$—    $(27,181,120$—    

Savings deposits and NOW accounts

   (43,488,444  (43,488,444  —       (43,488,444  —     (43,288,329 (43,288,329 —     (43,288,329 —    

Time deposits

   (3,170,998  (3,192,395  —       (3,192,395  —     (2,946,126 (2,967,329 —     (2,967,329 —    

Deposits at Cayman Islands office

   (241,536  (241,536  —       (241,536  —     (178,545 (178,545 —     (178,545 —    

Short-term borrowings

   (164,609  (164,609  —       (164,609  —     (193,495 (193,495 —     (193,495 —    

Long-term borrowings

   (9,061,391  (9,214,644  —       (9,214,644  —     (10,509,143 (10,641,367 —     (10,641,367 —    

Accrued interest payable

   (74,278  (74,278  —       (74,278  —     (77,903 (77,903 —     (77,903 —    

Trading account liabilities

   (181,742  (181,742  —       (181,742  —     (240,168 (240,168 —     (240,168 —    

Other financial instruments:

       

Commitments to originate real estate loans for sale

  $16,492   $16,492   $—      $—     $16,492  $26,230  $26,230  $—    $—    $26,230  

Commitments to sell real estate loans

   (2,754  (2,754  —       (2,754  —     (9,848 (9,848 —     (9,848 —    

Other credit-related commitments

   (114,405  (114,405  —       —      (114,405 (112,511 (112,511 —     —     (112,511

Interest rate swap agreements used for interest rate risk management

   76,249    76,249    —       76,249    —     72,855   72,855   —     72,855   —    

 

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  December 31, 2013   December 31, 2014 
  Carrying
amount
 Estimated
fair value
 Level 1   Level 2 Level 3   Carrying
amount
 Estimated
fair value
 Level 1   Level 2 Level 3 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Financial assets:

              

Cash and cash equivalents

  $1,672,934   $1,672,934   $1,596,877    $76,057   $—      $1,373,357   $1,373,357   $1,296,923    $76,434   $—    

Interest-bearing deposits at banks

   1,651,138   1,651,138    —       1,651,138    —       6,470,867   6,470,867    —       6,470,867    —    

Trading account assets

   376,131   376,131   51,386     324,745    —       308,175   308,175   51,416     256,759    —    

Investment securities

   8,796,497   8,690,494   82,450     8,384,106   223,938     12,993,542   13,023,956   64,841     12,750,396   208,719  

Loans and leases:

              

Commercial loans and leases

   18,705,216   18,457,288    —       —     18,457,288     19,461,292   19,188,574    —       —     19,188,574  

Commercial real estate loans

   26,148,208   26,018,195    —       67,505   25,950,690     27,567,569   27,487,818    —       307,667   27,180,151  

Residential real estate loans

   8,928,221   8,867,872    —       5,432,207   3,435,665     8,657,301   8,729,056    —       5,189,086   3,539,970  

Consumer loans

   10,291,514   10,201,087    —       —     10,201,087     10,982,794   10,909,623    —       —     10,909,623  

Allowance for credit losses

   (916,676  —      —       —      —       (919,562  —      —       —      —    
  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

 

Loans and leases, net

   63,156,483    63,544,442    —       5,499,712    58,044,730   65,749,394   66,315,071   —     5,496,753   60,818,318  

Accrued interest receivable

   222,558    222,558    —       222,558    —     227,348   227,348   —     227,348   —    

Financial liabilities:

       

Noninterest-bearing deposits

  $(24,661,007 $(24,661,007 $—      $(24,661,007 $—    $(26,947,880$(26,947,880$—    $(26,947,880$—    

Savings deposits and NOW accounts

   (38,611,021  (38,611,021  —       (38,611,021  —     (43,393,618 (43,393,618 —     (43,393,618 —    

Time deposits

   (3,523,838  (3,542,789  —       (3,542,789  —     (3,063,973 (3,086,126 —     (3,086,126 —    

Deposits at Cayman Islands office

   (322,746  (322,746  —       (322,746  —     (176,582 (176,582 —     (176,582 —    

Short-term borrowings

   (260,455  (260,455  —       (260,455  —     (192,676 (192,676 —     (192,676 —    

Long-term borrowings

   (5,108,870  (5,244,902  —       (5,244,902  —     (9,006,959 (9,139,789 —     (9,139,789 —    

Accrued interest payable

   (43,419  (43,419  —       (43,419  —     (63,372 (63,372 —     (63,372 —    

Trading account liabilities

   (249,797  (249,797  —       (249,797  —     (203,464 (203,464 —     (203,464 —    

Other financial instruments:

       

Commitments to originate real estate loans for sale

  $3,941   $3,941   $—      $—     $3,941  $17,347  $17,347  $—    $—    $17,347  

Commitments to sell real estate loans

   12,360    12,360    —       12,360    —     (7,065 (7,065 —     (7,065 —    

Other credit-related commitments

   (118,886  (118,886  —       —      (118,886 (119,079 (119,079 —     —     (119,079

Interest rate swap agreements used for interest rate risk management

   102,875    102,875    —       102,875    —     73,251   73,251   —     73,251   —    

With the exception of marketable securities, certain off-balance sheet financial instruments and one-to-four family residential mortgagereal estate loans originated for sale, the Company’s financial instruments are not readily marketable and market prices do not exist. The Company, in attempting to comply with the provisions of GAAP that require disclosures of fair value of financial instruments, has not attempted to market its financial instruments to potential buyers, if any exist. Since negotiated prices in illiquid markets depend greatly upon the then present motivations of the buyer and seller, it is reasonable to assume that actual sales prices could vary widely from any estimate of fair value made without the benefit of negotiations. Additionally, changes in market interest rates can dramatically impact the value of financial instruments in a short period of time. The following assumptions methods and calculations were used in determining the estimated fair value of financial instruments not measured at fair value in the consolidated balance sheet.financial statements.

Cash and cash equivalents, interest-bearing deposits at banks, deposits at Cayman Islands office, short-term borrowings, accrued interest receivable and accrued interest payable

Due to the nature of cash and cash equivalents and the near maturity of interest-bearing deposits at banks, deposits at Cayman Islands office, short-term borrowings, accrued interest receivable and accrued interest payable, the Company estimated that the carrying amount of such instruments approximated estimated fair value.

 

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Investment securities

Estimated fair values of investments in readily marketable securities were generally based on quoted market prices. Investment securities that were not readily marketable were assigned amounts based on estimates provided by outside parties or modeling techniques that relied upon discounted calculations of projected cash flows or, in the case of other investment securities, which include capital stock of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, at an amount equal to the carrying amount.

Loans and leases

In general, discount rates used to calculate values for loan products were based on the Company’s pricing at the respective period end. A higher discount rate was assumed with respect to estimated cash flows associated with nonaccrual loans. Projected loan cash flows were adjusted for estimated credit losses. However, such estimates made by the Company may not be indicative of assumptions and adjustments that a purchaser of the Company’s loans and leases would seek.

Deposits

Pursuant to GAAP, the estimated fair value ascribed to noninterest-bearing deposits, savings deposits and NOW accounts must be established at carrying value because of the customers’ ability to withdraw funds immediately. Time deposit accounts are required to be revalued based upon prevailing market interest rates for similar maturity instruments. As a result, amounts assigned to time deposits were based on discounted cash flow calculations using prevailing market interest rates based on the Company’s pricing at the respective date for deposits with comparable remaining terms to maturity.

The Company believes that deposit accounts have a value greater than that prescribed by GAAP. The Company feels, however, that the value associated with these deposits is greatly influenced by characteristics of the buyer, such as the ability to reduce the costs of servicing the deposits and deposit attrition which often occurs following an acquisition.

Long-term borrowings

The amounts assigned to long-term borrowings were based on quoted market prices, when available, or were based on discounted cash flow calculations using prevailing market interest rates for borrowings of similar terms and credit risk.

Other commitments and contingencies

As described in note 13, in the normal course of business, various commitments and contingent liabilities are outstanding, such as loan commitments, credit guarantees and letters of credit. The Company’s pricing of such financial instruments is based largely on credit quality and relationship, probability of funding and other requirements. Loan commitments often have fixed expiration dates and contain termination and other clauses which provide for relief from funding in the event of significant deterioration in the credit quality of the customer. The rates and terms of the Company’s loan commitments, credit guarantees and letters of credit are competitive with other financial institutions operating in markets served by the Company. The Company believes that the carrying amounts, which are included in other liabilities, are reasonable estimates of the fair value of these financial instruments.

The Company does not believe that the estimated information presented herein is representative of the earnings power or value of the Company. The preceding analysis, which is inherently limited in depicting fair value, also does not consider any value associated with existing customer relationships nor the ability of the Company to create value through loan origination, deposit gathering or fee generating activities.

 

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Many of the estimates presented herein are based upon the use of highly subjective information and assumptions and, accordingly, the results may not be precise. Management believes that fair value estimates may not be comparable between financial institutions due to the wide range of permitted valuation techniques and numerous estimates which must be made. Furthermore, because the disclosed fair value amounts were estimated as of the balance sheet date, the amounts actually realized or paid upon maturity or settlement of the various financial instruments could be significantly different.

 

13.Commitments and contingencies

In the normal course of business, various commitments and contingent liabilities are outstanding. The following table presents the Company’s significant commitments. Certain of these commitments are not included in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.

 

  September 30,
2014
   December 31,
2013
   March 31,
2015
   December 31,
2014
 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Commitments to extend credit

        

Home equity lines of credit

  $6,213,108     6,218,823    $6,219,783     6,194,516  

Commercial real estate loans to be sold

   141,446     62,386     346,664     212,257  

Other commercial real estate and construction

   5,224,757     3,919,545     5,161,878     4,834,699  

Residential real estate loans to be sold

   557,326     469,869     661,132     432,352  

Other residential real estate

   473,697     384,617     581,384     524,399  

Commercial and other

   11,037,757     10,419,545     11,493,613     11,080,856  

Standby letters of credit

   3,524,483     3,600,528     3,648,095     3,706,888  

Commercial letters of credit

   52,329     53,284     42,291     46,965  

Financial guarantees and indemnification contracts

   2,518,989     2,457,633     2,535,609     2,490,050  

Commitments to sell real estate loans

   1,127,641     854,656     1,322,998     1,237,294  

Commitments to extend credit are agreements to lend to customers, generally having fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses that may require payment of a fee. Standby and commercial letters of credit are conditional commitments issued to guarantee the performance of a customer to a third party. Standby letters of credit generally are contingent upon the failure of the customer to perform according to the terms of the underlying contract with the third party, whereas commercial letters of credit are issued to facilitate commerce and typically result in the commitment being funded when the underlying transaction is consummated between the customer and a third party. The credit risk associated with commitments to extend credit and standby and commercial letters of credit is essentially the same as that involved with extending loans to customers and is subject to normal credit policies. Collateral may be obtained based on management’s assessment of the customer’s creditworthiness.

 

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13.Commitments and contingencies, continued

 

Financial guarantees and indemnification contracts are oftentimes similar to standby letters of credit and include mandatory purchase agreements issued to ensure that customer obligations are fulfilled, recourse obligations associated with sold loans, and other guarantees of customer performance or compliance with designated rules and regulations. Included in financial guarantees and indemnification contracts are loan principal amounts sold with recourse in conjunction with the Company’s involvement in the Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting and Servicing program. The Company’s maximum credit risk for recourse associated with loans sold under this program totaled approximately $2.3$2.4 billion at each of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013.2014.

Since many loan commitments, standby letters of credit, and guarantees and indemnification contracts expire without being funded in whole or in part, the contract amounts are not necessarily indicative of future cash flows.

The Company utilizes commitments to sell real estate loans to hedge exposure to changes in the fair value of real estate loans held for sale. Such commitments are considered derivatives and along with commitments to originate real estate loans to be held for sale are generally recorded in the consolidated balance sheet at estimated fair market value.

The Company also has commitments under long-term operating leases and an agreement with the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League whereby the Company obtained the naming rights to a football stadium in Baltimore, Maryland through 2027.

The Company reinsures credit life and accident and health insurance purchased by consumer loan customers. The Company also enters into reinsurance contracts with third party insurance companies who insure against the risk of a mortgage borrower’s payment default in connection with certain mortgage loans originated by the Company. When providing reinsurance coverage, the Company receives a premium in exchange for accepting a portion of the insurer’s risk of loss. The outstanding loan principal balances reinsured by the Company were approximately $12 million at September 30, 2014. Management believes that any reinsurance losses that may be payable by the Company will not be material to the Company’s consolidated financial position.leases.

The Company is contractually obligated to repurchase previously sold residential real estate loans that do not ultimately meet investor sale criteria related to underwriting procedures or loan documentation. When required to do so, the Company may reimburse loan purchasers for losses incurred or may repurchase certain loans. The Company reduces residential mortgage banking revenues by an estimate for losses related to its obligations to loan purchasers. The amount of those charges is based on the volume of loans sold, the level of reimbursement requests received from loan purchasers and estimates of losses that may be associated with previously sold loans. At September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, management believes that any further liability arising out of the Company’s obligation to loan purchasers is not material to the Company’s consolidated financial position.

M&T and its subsidiaries are subject in the normal course of business to various pending and threatened legal proceedings in which claims for monetary damages are asserted. On an on-going basis management, after consultation with legal counsel, assesses the Company’s liabilities and contingencies in connection with such legal proceedings. For those matters where it is probable that the Company will incur losses and the amounts of the losses can be reasonably estimated, the Company records an expense and corresponding liability in its consolidated financial statements. To the extent the pending or threatened litigation could result in exposure in excess of that liability, the amount of such excess is not currently estimable. Although not considered probable, the range of reasonably possible further losses for such matters in the

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aggregate, beyond the existing recorded liability, was between $0 and $40 million. Although the Company does not believe that the outcome of pending litigations will be material to the Company’s consolidated financial position, it cannot rule out the possibility that such outcomes will be material to the consolidated results of operations for a particular reporting period in the future.

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14.Segment information

Reportable segments have been determined based upon the Company’s internal profitability reporting system, which is organized by strategic business unit. Certain strategic business units have been combined for segment information reporting purposes where the nature of the products and services, the type of customer and the distribution of those products and services are similar. The reportable segments are Business Banking, Commercial Banking, Commercial Real Estate, Discretionary Portfolio, Residential Mortgage Banking and Retail Banking.

The financial information of the Company’s segments was compiled utilizing the accounting policies described in note 22 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2013.2014. The management accounting policies and processes utilized in compiling segment financial information are highly subjective and, unlike financial accounting, are not based on authoritative guidance similar to GAAP. As a result, the financial information of the reported segments is not necessarily comparable with similar information reported by other financial institutions. Furthermore, changes in management structure or allocation methodologies and procedures may result in changes in reported segment financial data. Effective January 1, 2015, the Company made certain changes to its methodology for measuring segment profit and loss. Those changes in the measurement of segment profitability were largely the result of updated funds transfer pricing and various cost allocation reviews. The most significant changes to the funds transfer pricing resulted from ascribing a longer duration to non-maturity deposits, which significantly benefitted the Retail Banking segment. The cost allocation review having the largest impact related to a branch cost study. That study consisted of transaction reviews and time studies which resulted in a higher cost allocation from the Retail Banking segment to the Business Banking segment. As a result of the changes, prior period financial information has been restated to provide segment information on a comparable basis, as noted below:

   Three months ended March 31, 2014 
   Net income (loss) as
previously reported
   Impact of
changes
   Net income (loss)
as restated
 
   (in thousands) 

Business Banking

  $28,598     (3,625   24,973  

Commercial Banking

   99,765     (924   98,841  

Commercial Real Estate

   74,561     (2,009   72,552  

Discretionary Portfolio

   11,279     81     11,360  

Residential Mortgage Banking

   19,411     (831   18,580  

Retail Banking

   29,711     39,323     69,034  

All Other

   (34,308   (32,015   (66,323
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

$229,017   —     229,017  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

As also described in note 22 to the Company’s 20132014 consolidated financial statements, neither goodwill nor core deposit and other intangible assets (and the amortization charges associated with such assets) resulting from acquisitions of financial institutions have been allocated to the Company’s reportable segments, but are included in the “All Other” category. The Company does, however, assign such intangible assets to business units for purposes of testing for impairment.

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Information about the Company’s segments is presented in the following table:

 

  Three months ended September 30   Three months ended March 31 
  2014 2013   2015 2014 
  Total
revenues(a)
   Inter-
segment
revenues
 Net
income
(loss)
 Total
revenues(a)
   Inter-
segment
revenues
 Net
income
(loss)
   Total
revenues (a)
   Inter-
segment
revenues
 Net
income
(loss)
 Total
revenues (a)
   Inter-
segment
revenues
 Net
income
(loss)
 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Business Banking

  $107,410     1,082   30,905   107,887     1,237   26,552    $108,560     1,045   24,811   $111,770     1,057   24,973  

Commercial Banking

   249,124     1,281   101,740   257,317     1,383   97,221     246,581     1,085   96,423   249,349     1,197   98,841  

Commercial Real Estate

   167,383     442   78,581   171,094     399   79,450     163,320     82   80,086   157,323     348   72,552  

Discretionary Portfolio

   17,881     (5,478 8,279   44,040     (19,584 25,182     15,474     (5,443 5,954   24,657     (5,039 11,360  

Residential Mortgage Banking

   110,237     12,875   25,021   92,505     15,241   12,731     111,458     11,387   31,965   93,765     9,748   18,580  

Retail Banking

   274,117     3,735   32,901   314,273     3,351   53,965     300,391     3,137   68,888   306,780     3,505   69,034  

All Other

   194,018     (13,937 (2,083 163,380     (2,027 (622   154,007     (11,293 (66,514 132,896     (10,816 (66,323
  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

 

Total

  $1,120,170     —      275,344    1,150,496     —      294,479  $1,099,791   —     241,613  $1,076,540   —     229,017  
  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

 

 

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   Nine months ended September 30 
   2014  2013 
   Total
revenues(a)
   Inter-
segment
revenues
  Net
income
(loss)
  Total
revenues(a)
   Inter-
segment
revenues
  Net
income
(loss)
 
   (in thousands) 

Business Banking

  $314,397     3,359    87,263    319,791     3,750    89,675  

Commercial Banking

   750,206     3,834    306,863    760,074     4,048    291,828  

Commercial Real Estate

   490,655     1,315    230,668    524,160     2,505    245,826  

Discretionary Portfolio

   72,450     (15,799  34,538    41,972     (38,200  18,992  

Residential Mortgage Banking

   315,576     34,395    72,144    324,168     55,528    81,235  

Retail Banking

   804,499     11,137    94,646    898,295     10,206    157,815  

All Other

   574,453     (38,241  (37,425  557,244     (37,837  31,687  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

  $3,322,236     —      788,697    3,425,704     —      917,058  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

  Average total assets   Average total assets 
  

Nine months ended

September 30

   

Year ended

December 31

   Three months ended
March 31
   Year ended
December 31
 
  2014   2013   2013   2015   2014   2014 
  (in millions)   (in millions) 

Business Banking

  $5,287     5,041     5,080    $5,300     5,242     5,281  

Commercial Banking

   22,805     21,554     21,655     23,683     22,523     22,892  

Commercial Real Estate

   16,941     17,112     17,150     18,019     16,937     17,113  

Discretionary Portfolio

   20,306     16,224     16,480     22,714     18,581     20,798  

Residential Mortgage Banking

   3,262     2,783     2,858     3,512     3,157     3,333  

Retail Banking

   10,348     11,304     10,997     10,788     10,155     10,449  

All Other

   11,003     9,082     9,442     11,876     10,070     12,277  
  

 

   

 

   

 

 
  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $89,952     83,100     83,662  $95,892   86,665   92,143  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

(a)

Total revenues are comprised of net interest income and other income. Net interest income is the difference between taxable-equivalent interest earned on assets and interest paid on liabilities owed by a segment and a funding charge (credit) based on the Company’s internal funds transfer pricing and allocation methodology. Segments are charged a cost to fund any assets (e.g. loans) and are paid a funding credit for any funds provided (e.g.

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(e.g. deposits). The taxable-equivalent adjustment aggregated $5,841,000$5,838,000 and $6,105,000$5,945,000 for the three-month periods ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, and 2013, respectively, and $17,635,000 and $18,772,000 for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and is eliminated in “All Other” total revenues. Intersegment revenues are included in total revenues of the reportable segments. The elimination of intersegment revenues is included in the determination of “All Other” total revenues.

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15.Relationship with Bayview Lending Group LLC and Bayview Financial Holdings, L.P.

M&T holds a 20% minority interest in Bayview Lending Group LLC (“BLG”), a privately-held commercial mortgage company. M&T recognizes income or loss from BLG using the equity method of accounting. The carrying value of that investment was $51$43 million at September 30, 2014.March 31, 2015.

Bayview Financial Holdings, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Bayview Financial”), a privately-held specialty mortgage finance company, is BLG’s majority investor. In addition to their common investment in BLG, the Company and Bayview Financial conduct other business activities with each other. The Company has obtained loan servicing rights for mortgage loans from BLG and Bayview Financial having outstanding principal balances of $5.0$4.6 billion and $5.5$4.8 billion at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. Revenues from those servicing rights were $6 million and $7 million during the three monthsthree-month periods ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, and 2013, respectively, and $20 million and $23 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. The Company sub-services residential real estatemortgage loans for Bayview Financial having outstanding principal balances totaling $43.2$39.5 billion and $45.6$41.3 billion at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. Revenues earned for sub-servicing loans for Bayview Financial were $29$35 million and $8$26 million for the three-month periods ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, and 2013, respectively, and $82 million and $12 million for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. In addition, the Company held $207$198 million and $220$202 million of mortgage-backed securities in its held-to-maturity portfolio at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively, that were securitized by Bayview Financial.

 

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Item 2.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

Overview

Net income for M&T Bank Corporation (“M&T”) recorded net income in the thirdfirst quarter of 2014 was $2752015 of $242 million or $1.91$1.65 of diluted earnings per common share, compared with $294$229 million or $2.11$1.61 of diluted earnings per common share in the year-earlierinitial 2014 quarter. During the secondfourth quarter of 2014, net income totaled $284$278 million or $1.98$1.92 of diluted earnings per common share. Basic earnings per common share were $1.92$1.66 in the recent quarter, compared with $2.13$1.63 and $1.93 in the third quarter of 2013first and $1.99 in the second quarter of 2014. For the first nine monthsfourth quarters of 2014, net income was $789 million or $5.50 of diluted earnings per common share, compared with $917 million or $6.64 of diluted earnings per common share during the similar period of 2013. Basic earnings per common share were $5.54 and $6.69 for the first nine months of 2014 and 2013, respectively.

The annualized rate of return on average total assets for M&T and its consolidated subsidiaries (“the Company”) in the recentinitial 2015 quarter was 1.17%1.02%, compared with 1.39%1.07% in the thirdyear-earlier quarter of 2013 and 1.27%1.12% in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. The annualized rate of return on average common shareholders’ equity was 9.18% in the third quarter of 2014, compared with 11.06% and 9.79% in the year-earlier quarter and in 2014’s second quarter, respectively. During the nine-month period ended September 30, 2014, the annualized rates of return on average assets and average common shareholders’ equity were 1.17% and 9.07%, respectively, compared with 1.48% and 11.98%, respectively,7.99% in the first ninethree months of 2013.

Reflected in the results for the third quarter of 2013 were after-tax gains from loan securitization transactions of $34 million ($56 million pre-tax), or $.26 per diluted common share. During that quarter, the Company securitized approximately $1.0 billion of one-to-four family residential real estate loans previously held in the Company’s loan portfolio into guaranteed mortgage-backed securities2015, compared with the Government National Mortgage Association (“Ginnie Mae”)8.22% and recognized gains of $35 million. The Company retained the substantial majority of those securities in its investment securities portfolio. In addition, the Company securitized and sold in September 2013 approximately $1.4 billion of automobile loans held in its loan portfolio, resulting in a gain of $21 million.

In addition to the securitization gains realized in the third quarter of 2013, results for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2013 included certain other noteworthy items. During the second quarter of 2013, the Company sold the majority of its privately issued mortgage-backed securities that had been held in the available-for-sale investment securities portfolio for an after-tax loss of $28 million ($46 million pre-tax), or $.22 per diluted common share. The Company’s holdings of Visa and MasterCard shares were also sold during that quarter for an after-tax gain of $62 million ($103 million pre-tax), or $.48 per diluted common share. Finally, during 2013’s second quarter the Company reversed an accrual for a contingent compensation obligation assumed in the May 2011 acquisition of Wilmington Trust Corporation that expired, resulting in a $26 million reduction of “other expense – other costs of operations” having an after-tax impact of $15 million, or $.12 of diluted earnings per common share. The gains on securitization transactions in 2013’s third quarter and the noteworthy items in the second quarter of 2013 increased net income by $83 million, or $.64 per diluted common share,9.10% in the first nine monthsand fourth quarters of 2013. There2014, respectively.

On March 12, 2015, M&T announced that the Federal Reserve did not object to M&T’s proposed 2015 Capital Plan. Accordingly, M&T may maintain a quarterly common stock dividend of $.70 per share; pay dividends and interest on other equity and debt instruments included in regulatory capital, including preferred stock, trust preferred securities and subordinated debt that were no similar significant noteworthy items reflectedoutstanding at December 31, 2014, consistent with the contractual terms of those instruments; repurchase up to $200 million of common shares during the first half of 2016; and redeem or repurchase up to $310 million of trust preferred securities. Common and preferred dividends are subject to approval by M&T’s Board of Directors in the Company’s resultsordinary course of business. On April 15, 2015, M&T redeemed $310 million of trust preferred securities in accordance with the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014.2015 Capital Plan.

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On August 27, 2012, M&T announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. (“Hudson City”), headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey, under which Hudson City would be acquired by M&T. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Hudson City common shareholders wouldwill receive consideration for each common share of Hudson City in an amount valued at .08403 of an M&T share in the form of either M&T common stock or cash, based on the election of each Hudson City shareholder, subject to proration as specified in the merger agreement (which provides for an aggregate split of total consideration of 60% common stock of M&T and 40% cash). The estimated purchase price considering the closing price of M&T’s common stock of $123.29$127.00 on September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 was $5.4$5.5 billion.

As of September 30, 2014,At March 31, 2015, Hudson City had $37.2reported $36.1 billion of assets, including $22.4$20.9 billion of loans (predominantly residential real estate loans) and $8.4$8.3 billion of investment securities, and $32.3$31.3 billion of liabilities, including $20.0$18.9 billion of deposits. The merger has received the approval of the common shareholders of M&T and Hudson City. However, the merger is subject to a number of other conditions, including regulatory approvals.

On June 17, 2013, M&T and M&T Bank the principal bank subsidiary of M&T, entered into a written agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Under the terms of the agreement, M&T and M&T Bank are required to submit to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York a revised compliance risk management program designed to ensure compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money-laundering laws and regulations (“BSA/AML”) and to take certain other steps to enhance their compliance practices. The Company commenced a major initiative, including the hiring of outside consulting firms, intended to fully address those regulator concerns. M&T and M&T Bank continue to make progress towards completing this initiative. In view ofOn April 3, 2015, M&T was advised by the timeframe requiredFederal Reserve that the Federal Reserve Board intends to implement this initiative, demonstrate its efficacy toact on the satisfaction of the regulatorsM&T and otherwise meet any other regulatory requirements that may be imposed in connection with these matters,Hudson City merger application no later than September 30, 2015. As a result, M&T and Hudson City extended the date after

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which either party may elect to terminate the merger agreement if the merger has not yet been completed from April 30, 2015 to DecemberOctober 31, 2014.2015. Nevertheless, M&T’s pending acquisition of Hudson City still remains subject to regulatory approval, including approval by the Federal Reserve, and certain other closing conditions and, as a result, there can be no assurances that the merger will be completed by that date.

Effective January 1, 2015, the Company elected to account for its investments in qualified affordable housing projects using the proportional amortization method as allowed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”). Under the proportional amortization method, an entity amortizes the initial cost of the investment in proportion to the tax credits and other tax benefits received and recognizes the net investment performance in the income statement as a component of income tax expense. The adoption is required to be applied retrospectively. As a result, financial statements for periods prior to 2015 have been restated. The adoption did not have a significant effect on the Company’s financial position or results of operations, but the restatement of the consolidated statement of income for the three-month period ended March 31, 2014 resulted in the removal of $12 million of losses associated with qualified affordable housing projects from “other costs of operations” and added the amortization of the initial cost of the investment of a similar amount to income tax expense. The similar restatement for the second, third and fourth quarters of 2014 each reflected approximately $14 million of amortization.

Recent Legislative Developments

As discussed in M&T’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013,2014, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) that was signed into law on July 21, 2010 has and will continue to significantly change the bank regulatory structure and affect the lending, deposit, investment, trading and operating activities of financial institutions and their holding companies, and the system of regulatory oversight of the Company. The Dodd-Frank Act requires various federal agencies to adopt a broad range of new implementing rules and regulations, and to prepare numerous studies and reports for Congress, manyCongress. Not all of which are not yet completedthe rules required or implemented. Theexpected to be implemented under the Dodd-Frank Act could have been proposed or adopted, and certain of the rules that have been proposed or adopted under the Dodd-Frank Act are subject to phase-in or transitional periods. The implications of the Dodd-Frank Act for the Company’s businesses continue to depend to a material adverse impactlarge extent on the financial services industry as a whole, as well as on M&T’s business, resultsimplementation of operations, financial conditionthe legislation by the Federal Reserve and liquidity.other agencies.

A discussion of the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act is included in Part I, Item 1 of M&T’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013.

On July 31, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs in a case challenging certain provisions of the Federal Reserve’s rule concerning electronic debit card transaction fees and network exclusivity arrangements

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(the “Current Rule”) that were adopted to implement Section 1075 of the Dodd-Frank Act – the so-called “Durbin Amendment.” The Court held that, in adopting the Current Rule, the Federal Reserve violated the Durbin Amendment’s provisions concerning which costs are allowed to be taken into account for purposes of setting fees that are “reasonable and proportional to the costs incurred by the issuer” and therefore the Current Rule’s maximum permissible fees were too high. In addition, the Court held that the Current Rule’s network non-exclusivity provisions concerning unaffiliated payment networks for debit cards also violated the Durbin Amendment. The Court vacated the Current Rule. The Court’s judgment was stayed in September 2013 pending appeal by the Federal Reserve. In March 2014, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the U.S. District Court’s ruling almost in its entirety, remanding to the Federal Reserve Board for further consideration or explanation of the issue of its treatment of transactions-monitoring costs.2014.

In July 2013, the Federal Reserve, Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation approved final rules (the “New Capital Rules”) establishing a new comprehensive capital framework for U.S. banking organizations. These rules went into effect as to M&T on January 1, 2015. The New Capital Rules generally implement the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (the “Basel Committee”) December 2010 final capital framework referredfor strengthening international capital standards (referred to as “Basel III” for strengthening international) and are intended to ensure that banking organizations have adequate capital standards.levels given the risk levels of assets and off-balance sheet obligations. The New Capital Rules substantially revise the risk-based capital requirements applicable to bank holding companies and their depository institution subsidiaries, including M&T and M&T Bank, as compared to the current U.S. general risk-based capital rules.rules that were applicable to M&T and M&T Bank through December 31, 2014.

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The New Capital Rules also preclude certain hybrid securities, such as trust preferred securities, from inclusion in bank holding companies’ Tier 1 capital, subject to phase-out in the case of bank holding companies, such as M&T, that had $15 billion or more in total consolidated assets as of December 31, 2009. As a result, beginning in 2015 25% of M&T’s trust preferred securities will beare includable in Tier 1 capital, and in 2016 and thereafter, none of M&T’s trust preferred securities will be includable in Tier 1 capital. Trust preferred securities no longer included in M&T’s Tier 1 capital may nonetheless be included as a component of Tier 2 capital on a permanent basis without phase-out and irrespective of whether such securities otherwise meet the revised definition of Tier 2 capital set forth in the New Capital Rules. In the first quarter of 2014, M&T redeemed $350 million of 8.50% junior subordinated debentures associated with the trust preferred capital securities of M&T Capital Trust IV and issued a like amount of 6.45% preferred stock that qualifies as Tier 1 regulatory capital. On April 15, 2015, in accordance with its 2015 Capital Plan M&T redeemed the junior subordinated debentures associated with $310 million of trust preferred securities of M&T Capital Trust I, II and III. A detailed discussion of the New Capital Rules is included in Part I, Item 1 of M&T’sthe Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 20132014 under the heading “Capital Requirements.”

Management believes that the Company will be able to comply with the revised capital adequacy requirements upon their implementation. More specifically, management estimates that A further discussion of the Company’s ratio of Common Equity Tier 1 (“CET1”) to risk-weighted assetsregulatory capital ratios is presented herein under the New Capital Rules (and as defined therein) on a fully phased-in basis was approximately 9.50% as of September 30, 2014, reflecting a good faith estimate of the computation of CET1 and the Company’s risk-weighted assets under the methodologies set forth in the New Capital Rules.heading “Capital.”

On December 10, 2013, the Federal Reserve, Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted the final version of the Volcker Rule, which was mandated under Dodd-Frank. Thethe Dodd-Frank Act. Pursuant to the Volcker Rule, is intended to reduce risks posed to banking entities from proprietary trading activities and investments in or relationships with covered funds. Banking

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entities are generally prohibited from engaging in proprietary trading. Under the rule, the Company was required to be in compliance with the prohibition on proprietary trading and the requirement to develop an extensive compliance program by July 2015; however, in December 2014, the Federal Reserve extended the compliance period to July 2016 for investments in and relationships with covered funds that were in place prior to December 31, 2013. The Federal Reserve has indicated that it intends to further extend the compliance period to July 2017.

The Company does not believe that it engages in any significant amount of “proprietary trading”proprietary trading as defined in the Volcker Rule and that any impact would be minimal. In addition, a review of the Company’s investments was undertaken to determine if any meet the Volcker Rule’s definition of “covered funds.” Based on that review, the Company believes that any impact related to investments considered to be covered funds would not have a significantmaterial effect on the Company’s financial condition or its results of operations. Nevertheless, the Company may be required to divest certain investments subject to the Volcker Rule by mid-2015.Rule.

On September 3, 2014, the Federal Reserve Board and other banking regulators adopted final rules (“Final LCR Rule”) implementing a U.S. version of the Basel Committee’s Liquidity Coverage Ratio requirement (“LCR”). The LCR, including the modified version applicable to bank holding companies, such as M&T, with $50 billion or more in total consolidated assets that are not “advanced approaches” institutions, requiresinstitutions. The LCR is intended to ensure that banks hold a banking organization to maintain ansufficient amount of unencumbered “high-qualityso-called “high quality liquid assets” equal(“HQLA”) to cover the anticipated net cash outflows during a hypothetical acute 30-day stress scenario. The LCR is the ratio of an institution’s amount of its totalHQLA (the numerator) over projected net cash outflows over the 30-day horizon (the denominator), in each case, as calculated pursuant to the Final LCR Rule. Once fully phased-in, a 30-day stress period.subject institution must maintain an LCR equal to at least 100% in order to satisfy this regulatory requirement. Only specific classes of assets, including U.S. Treasury securities, other U.S. government obligations and agency mortgage-backed securities, qualify under the rule as high-quality assets (the numerator of the ratio),HQLA, with riskier classes of assets deemed relatively less liquid and/or subject to greater degree of credit risk subject to certain haircuts and caps. The total net cash outflow amount (the denominatorcaps for purposes of calculating the ratio) is determinednumerator under the rule by applying outflow and inflow rates, which reflect certain standardized stressed assumptions, against the balances of the banking organization’s funding sources, obligations, transactions and assets over the 30-day stress period. Inflows that can be included to offset outflows are limited to 75% of outflows (which effectively means that banking organizations must hold high-quality liquid assets equal to 25% of outflows even if outflows perfectly match inflows over the stress period). The total net cash outflow amount for the modifiedFinal LCR applicable to M&T is capped at 70% of the outflow rate that applies to the full LCR.Rule.

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The initial compliance date for the modified LCR will beis January 2016, with the requirement fully phased-in by January 2017. In anticipation ofThe Company intends to comply with the adoptionLCR when it becomes effective. A detailed discussion of the LCR and its requirements is included in Part I, Item 1 of M&T’s Form 10-K for the Company has added Ginnie Mae and Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) mortgage-backed securities to its investment portfolio during 2013 andyear ended December 31, 2014 that will qualify as high-quality liquid assets under the LCR rule through purchase and securitization transactions. The LCR is a minimum requirement, and the Federal Reserve Board can impose additional liquidity requirements as a supervisory matter.heading “Liquidity Ratios under Basel III.”

Supplemental Reporting of Non-GAAP Results of Operations

M&T consistently provides supplemental reporting of its results on a “net operating” or “tangible” basis, from which M&T excludes the after-tax effect of amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets (and the related goodwill, core deposit intangible and other intangible asset balances, net of applicable deferred tax amounts) and gains and expenses associated with merging acquired operations into the Company, since such items are considered by management to be “nonoperating” in nature. As a result of business combinations and other acquisitions, the Company had intangible assets consisting of goodwill and core deposit and other intangible assets totaling $3.6 billion at each of September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2013.2014. Included in such intangible assets was goodwill of $3.5 billion at each of those dates. Amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets, after tax effect, totaledwas $4 million during each of the quarters ended March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 ($.03 per diluted common share) during the third quarter of 2014,, compared with $6 million ($.05 per diluted common share) during the year-earlier quarter and $6 million ($.04 per diluted common share) during the secondfirst quarter of 2014. For the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets, after tax effect, totaled $16 million ($.12 per

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diluted common share) and $22 million ($.17 per diluted share), respectively. The after-tax impact of merger-related expenses in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2013 was $8 million ($12 million pre-tax). There were no merger-related gains or expenses duringin the third quarterfirst quarters of 20132015 and 2014 or in the first nine monthsfinal quarter of 2014. The merger-related expenses in 2013 were associated with M&T’s pending acquisition of Hudson City. Although “net operating income” as defined by M&T is not a GAAP measure, M&T’s management believes that this information helps investors understand the effect of acquisition activity in reported results.

Net operating income was $280aggregated $246 million in the recentinitial quarter of 2015, compared with $301$235 million in the thirdfirst quarter of 2013.2014. Diluted net operating earnings per common share for the thirdrecent quarter of 2014 were $1.94,$1.68, compared with $2.16$1.66 in the year-earlier quarter. Net operating income and diluted net operating earnings per common share were $290$282 million and $2.02,$1.95, respectively, in the second quarter of 2014. For the first nine months offinal 2014 net operating income and diluted net operating earnings per common share were $805 million and $5.62, respectively, compared with $947 million and $6.87, respectively, in the corresponding 2013 period.quarter.

Net operating income in the recentfirst quarter of 2015 expressed as an annualized rate of return on average tangible assets was 1.24%1.08%, compared with 1.48%1.15% and 1.18% in the year-earlier quarterfirst and 1.35% in the second quarterfourth quarters of 2014.2014, respectively. Net operating income represented an annualized return on average tangible common equity of 13.80%11.90% in the recently completedrecent quarter, compared with 17.64%12.76% in the thirdyear-earlier quarter and 13.55% in the fourth quarter of 2013 and 14.92% in 2014’s second quarter. For the first nine months of 2014, net operating income represented an annualized return on average tangible assets and average tangible common shareholders’ equity of 1.25% and 13.84%, respectively, compared with 1.59% and 19.66%, respectively, in the similar period of 2013.2014.

Reconciliations of GAAP amounts with corresponding non-GAAP amounts are providedpresented in table 2.

Taxable-equivalent Net Interest Income

Taxable-equivalent net interest income totaled $675was $665 million in the thirdfirst quarter of 2014, compared with $6792015, up from $662 million in the year-earlier quarter. That modest decrease reflectedperiod. The impact of higher average earning assets, which rose $8.9 billion, or 12%, to $85.2 billion from $76.3 billion in the first quarter of 2014, was largely offset by a 3835 basis point (hundredths of one percent) narrowing of the Company’s net interest margin, or taxable-equivalent net interest income expressed as an annualized percentage of average earning assets, to 3.23% in the recent quarter offset, in part, by an $8.1 billion, or 11%, increase inassets. The higher level of average earning assets including $5.8reflected a $4.1 billion rise in average balances of average investment securities, balances. Taxable-equivalent net interest income was also $675 million in the second quarter of 2014. A 17 basis point decline of the net interest margin in the recent quarter from 3.40% in the linked quarter was offset by a $3.2$2.8 billion increase in average earning assets, includingloans and leases and a $1.8$2.0 billion riseincrease in average investment securities. In each quarterly comparison, the decline in the net interest margin was attributable to increased lower-yielding balances of investment securities and deposits held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York combined with downward pressure on yields earned on loans. The growth in investment securities resulted from actions taken by M&T in response to new regulatory liquidity requirements that were recently finalized and will become effective in January 2016.

For the first three quarters of 2014, taxable-equivalent net interest income was $2.01 billion, down 1% from $2.03 billion in the similar period of 2013. That decline was attributable to a 30 basis point narrowing of the net interest margin to 3.38% in 2014 from 3.68% in 2013 that reflected lower yields on average loans outstanding, predominantly offset by higher average earning assets, which rose $5.9 billion or 8% to $79.6 billion in the first nine months

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of 2014. Contributing to the growth in average earning assets were higher balances of investment securities and interest-bearing deposits at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, partially offset byYork. The increase in investment securities resulted from purchases of Ginnie Mae and Fannie Mae mortgage-

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backed securities. Taxable-equivalent net interest income in the recent quarter was below the $688 million recorded in the fourth quarter of 2014, reflecting two less days in the recent quarter, lower average balances of loans outstanding.interest-bearing deposits at banks and the net impact of actions taken in response to liquidity requirements that take effect in 2016.

Average loans and leases totaled $64.8rose $2.8 billion or 4% to $66.6 billion in the initial 2015 quarter from $63.8 billion in the first quarter of 2014. Commercial loans and leases averaged $19.5 billion in the recent quarter, compared with $64.9 billion in the third quarter of 2013. Commercial loans and leases averaged $18.9 billion in the third quarter of 2014, up $1.1$1.0 billion or 6%5% from $17.8$18.5 billion in the year-earlier quarter. Average commercial real estate loans averaged $26.5rose $1.5 billion or 6% to $27.6 billion in the recentfirst quarter compared withof 2015 from $26.1 billion in the thirdcorresponding quarter of 2013.2014. Average residential real estate loans outstanding declined $1.0 billion or 10%decreased $272 million to $8.6 billion in 2014’s thirdthe first quarter of 2015 from $9.6$8.8 billion in the year-earliersimilar 2014 quarter. Included in that portfolio were loans originatedheld for sale, which averaged $424$387 million in the recently completed quarter, compared with $1.1 billion in the third quarter of 2013. Excluding loans held for sale, average residential real estate loans decreased $336 million from the third quarter of 2013 to the third quarter of 2014. That decrease was largely due to securitization activity during the third quarter of 2013. During the second quarter of 2013, the Company securitized approximately $296 million of residential real estate loans and during the third quarter of 2013 approximately $1.0 billion of residential real estate loans were securitized. The residential real estate loans were guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) and a substantial majority of the resulting Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed investment securities were retained by the Company in the investment securities portfolio. Consumer loans averaged $10.8 billion in the recent quarter, $542compared with $329 million or 5% lower than $11.3in the year-earlier quarter. Average consumer loans and leases totaled $11.0 billion in the thirdinitial quarter of 2013. That decline2015, $662 million or 6% higher than $10.3 billion in the first quarter of 2014. The predominant factor for the higher consumer loans was predominantly due to lowera 41% increase in average balances of automobile loans. In September 2013, the Company securitized and sold approximately $1.4 billion of automobile loans held in its loan portfolio. The Company securitized loans to improve its regulatory capital ratiosthat is reflective of consumer demand, higher industry sales and strengthen its liquidity and risk profile, including the ability to pledge any of the retained assets, as a result of changing regulatory requirements.generally favorable interest rates.

Average loan balances in the recentfirst quarter rose $420of 2015 increased $820 million or 1%, from the secondfourth quarter of 2014. Average commercial real estate loans increased $348 million, or 1%, from 2014’s second quarter, average balances of consumer loans rose $275 million, or 3%, while average outstanding commercial loan and lease balances declined $89rose $340 million, andor 2%, average balances of commercial real estate loans increased $532 million, or 2%, average residential real estate loan balances were down $82 million and average outstanding consumer loans decreased $113increased $29 million or 1%.from the final 2014 quarter. The accompanying table summarizes quarterly changes in the major components of the loan and lease portfolio.

AVERAGE LOANS AND LEASES

(net of unearned discount)

Dollars in millions

 

       Percent increase
(decrease) from
 
   3rd Qtr.
2014
   3rd Qtr.
2013
  2nd Qtr.
2014
 

Commercial, financial, etc.

  $18,889     6  —  

Real estate – commercial

   26,487     1    1  

Real estate – consumer

   8,634     (10  (1

Consumer

     

Automobile

   1,768     (25  13  

Home equity lines

   5,751     —      —    

Home equity loans

   304     (22  (6

Other

   2,930     5    3  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total consumer

   10,753     (5  3  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

  $64,763     —    1
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

For the first nine months of 2014, average loans and leases aggregated $64.3 billion, down $1.3 billion or 2% from $65.6 billion in the corresponding 2013 period. The most significant factors contributing to that decline were the 2013 loan securitizations noted earlier.

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       Percent increase
(decrease) from
 
   1st Qtr.
2015
   1st Qtr.
2014
  4th Qtr.
2014
 

Commercial, financial, etc.

  $19,457     5  2

Real estate – commercial

   27,596     6    2  

Real estate – consumer

   8,572     (3  (1

Consumer

     

Automobile

   2,024     41    5  

Home equity lines

   5,704     (1  (1

Home equity loans

   264     (23  (7

Other

   2,970     7    —    
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total consumer

 10,962   6   —    
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

$66,587   4 1
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

The investment securities portfolio averaged $12.8$13.4 billion in the recent quarter, up $5.8$4.1 billion or 83%44% from $7.0$9.3 billion in the thirdinitial quarter of 20132014 and $1.8 billion or 17%$397 million above the $11.0$13.0 billion averaged in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. ForThe increase from the first nine months of 2014 and 2013, investment securities averaged $11.0 billion and $6.0 billion, respectively. Each of those increasesyear-earlier quarter reflects the net effect of purchases, securitization transactions and sales during 2013 and purchases during the first nine months of 2014, partially offset by maturities and pay-downspaydowns of mortgage-backed securities. Beginning in the second quarter of 2013, the Company undertook certain actions to improve its regulatory capital and liquidity positions in response to evolving regulatory requirements. As a result, in the second quarter of 2013 approximately $1.0 billion of privately issued mortgage-backed securities held in the available-for-sale portfolio were sold, as were the Company’s holdings of Visa and MasterCard common stock. In the second and third quarters of 2013, the Company securitized approximately $1.3 billion of residential real estate loans guaranteed by the FHA that were held in its loan portfolio. A substantial majority of the Ginnie Mae securities resulting from those securitizations were retained by the Company. During the second quarter of 2013, the Company also began originating FHA residential real estate loans for purposes of securitizing such loans into Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities to be retained in the Company’s investment securities portfolio. Approximately $1.6 billion of such loans were originated and securitized during 2013. Finally, beginning in May 2013 theThe Company purchased approximately $1.9$4.6 billion of GinnieFannie Mae securities and $250$602 million of FannieGinnie Mae securities that were added to the investment securities portfolio during 2013,2014, and another $4.6$1.4 billion of Fannie Mae securities and $571$470 million of Ginnie Mae securities were purchased during the first nine monthsquarter of 2014. The Company has2015. Those purchases reflect increased its holdings of investment securities to satisfy the requirements of the LCR that will become effective in response to changing regulatory requirements.January 2016.

The investment securities portfolio is largely comprised of residential mortgage-backed securities, debt securities issued by municipalities, trust preferred securities issued by certain financial institutions, and shorter-term

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U.S. Treasury and federal agency notes. When purchasing investment securities, the Company also considers its liquidity position and its overall interest-rate risk profile as well as the adequacy of expected returns relative to the risks assumed, including prepayments. In managing its investment securities portfolio, the Company occasionally sells investment securities as a result of changes in interest rates and spreads, actual or anticipated prepayments, credit risk associated with a particular security, or as a result of restructuring its investment securities portfolio in connection with a business combination.

The Company regularly reviews its investment securities for declines in value below amortized cost that might be characterized as “other than temporary.” Nevertheless, thereThere were no other-than-temporary impairment charges recognized duringin either of the first nine monthsquarters of 2015 and 2014 or the second and third quarters of 2013. During the first quarter of 2013, the Company recognized other-than-temporary impairment charges of $10 million. Those impairment charges related to certain privately issued mortgage-backed securities. Persistently high unemployment, loan delinquencies and foreclosures that led to a backlog of homes held for sale by financial institutions and others were significant factors contributing to the recognition of the other-than-temporary impairment charges related to those securities. Substantially all of the privately issued mortgage-backed securities held in the available-for-sale investment securities portfolio were sold late in the second quarter of 2013. The impairment charge in the initial quarter of 2013 related to a subset of those securities.final 2014 quarter. Additional information about the investment securities portfolio is included in notes 3 and 12 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Other earning assets include interest-earninginterest-bearing deposits at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and other banks, trading account assets, federal funds

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sold and agreements to resell securities. Those other earning assets in the aggregate averaged $5.2 billion in the recentrecently completed quarter, compared with $2.8$3.3 billion and $4.3$9.2 billion in the third quarter of 2013first and the second quarterfourth quarters of 2014, respectively. Interest-bearing deposits at banks averaged $5.1 billion, in$3.1 billion and $9.1 billion during the third quarter of 2014, compared with $2.6 billion in the year-earlier quarter and $4.1 billion in 2014’s second quarter. For the nine-monththree-month periods ended September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 and 2013, average balances of other earning assets were $4.3 billion and $2.1 billion, respectively, including $4.1 billion and $1.9 billion, respectively, of interest-bearing deposits at banks.December 31, 2014, respectively. The higher level ofrise in average interest-bearing deposits at banks in the second and third quartersfourth quarter of 2014 and in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2014initial 2015 quarter as compared with the 2013 periodsfirst quarter of 2014 was due, in part, to liquidity provided through long-term borrowings from the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) of New York and M&T Bank’s Bank Note Program to meet changing regulatory liquidity requirements.higher Wilmington Trust-related customer deposits. The amounts of investment securities and other earning assets held by the Company are influenced by such factors as demand for loans, which generally yield more than investment securities and other earning assets, ongoing repayments, the levels of deposits, and management of liquidity and balance sheet size and resulting capital ratios.

As a result of the changes described herein, average earning assets aggregated $82.8totaled $85.2 billion in the thirdfirst quarter of 2014,2015, compared with $74.7$76.3 billion in the year-earlier quarter and $79.6$88.0 billion in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. Average earning assets totaled $79.6 billion and $73.7 billion during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

The most significant source of funding for the Company is core deposits. The Company considers noninterest-bearing deposits, interest-bearing transaction accounts, savings deposits and time deposits of $250,000 or less as core deposits. The Company’s branch network is its principal source of core deposits, which generally carry lower interest rates than wholesale funds of comparable maturities. CoreAverage core deposits averaged $69.1totaled $70.1 billion in the thirdfirst quarter of 2014, up 8% from $64.12015, compared with $65.6 billion in the year-earlier quarter and 2% higher than $67.8$73.8 billion in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. The growth in core deposits since the thirdfirst quarter of 20132014 was due, in part, to higher deposits of trust customers and to the lack of attractive alternative investments available to the Company’s customers resulting from lower interest rates and from the economic environment in the U.S. The decline in average core deposits as compared with the fourth quarter of 2014 reflects lower deposits of trust customers. The low interest rate environment has resulted in a shift in customer savings trends, as average time deposits have continued to decline, while average noninterest-bearing deposits and savings deposits have generally increased. The following table summarizesprovides an analysis of quarterly changes in the components of average core deposits. For the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, core deposits averaged $67.5 billion and $63.2 billion, respectively.

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AVERAGE CORE DEPOSITS

Dollars in millions

 

      Percent increase
(decrease) from
       Percent increase
(decrease) from
 
  3rd Qtr.
2014
   3rd Qtr.
2013
 2nd Qtr.
2014
   1st Qtr.
2015
   1st Qtr.
2014
 4th Qtr.
2014
 

NOW accounts

  $1,017     12 2  $1,101     14 4

Savings deposits

   40,042     12   4     40,561     8   (3

Time deposits

   2,867     (15 (3

Time deposits $250,000 or less

   2,670     (13 (4

Noninterest-bearing deposits

   25,127     5   (1   25,811     7   (8
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

Total

  $69,053     8  2$70,143   7 (5)% 
  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

 

AdditionalThe Company has additional funding sources, for the Company includedincluding branch-related time deposits over $250,000, deposits associated with the Company’s Cayman Islands office, and brokered deposits. Time deposits over $250,000 excluding brokered certificates of deposit, averaged $361$347 million in the thirdrecent quarter, of 2014, compared with $333$371 million and $378$354 million in the third quarter of 2013first and the second quarterfourth quarters of 2014, respectively. Cayman Islands office

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deposits averaged $325$224 million, $392$380 million and $339$265 million for the three-month periods ended September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and June 30,December 31, 2014, respectively. Brokered time deposits averaged $229 million in the third quarter of 2013 but less than $5 million in each of the second and third quarters of 2014. The Company also had brokered NOW and brokered money-market deposit accounts, which in the aggregate averaged approximately $1.0 billion duringin each of the recent quarter, compared with $1.2 billionfirst quarters of 2015 and 2014 and $1.1 billion duringin the thirdfourth quarter of 2013 and the second quarter of 2014, respectively.2014. The levels of brokered NOW and brokered money-market deposit accounts reflect the demand for such deposits, largely resulting from the desire of brokerage firms to earn reasonable yields while ensuring that customer deposits are fully insured. The level of Cayman Islands office deposits are also reflective of customer demand. Additional amounts of Cayman IslandIslands office deposits or brokered deposits may be added in the future depending on market conditions, including demand by customers and other investors for those deposits, and the cost of funds available from alternative sources at the time.

The Company also uses borrowings from banks, securities dealers, various Federal Home Loan Banks, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and others as sources of funding. Average short-term borrowings totaled $181$196 million in the recentfirst quarter of 2015, compared with $299$264 million in the thirdyear-earlier quarter of 2013 and $220$195 million in the secondfinal quarter of 2014. Such borrowings were largely comprised of unsecured federal funds borrowings, which generally mature on the next business day.

Long-term borrowings averaged $8.5$9.8 billion in the recent quarter, compared with $5.0$5.9 billion in the thirdyear-earlier quarter of 2013 and $6.5$9.0 billion in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. Included in average long-term borrowingsDuring 2013, M&T Bank initiated a Bank Note Program whereby M&T Bank may offer unsecured senior and subordinated notes. Average balances of the unsecured senior notes issued under that program were subordinated capital$4.9 billion, $1.8 billion and $4.0 billion during the three-month periods ended March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2014, respectively. During February 2015, M&T Bank issued $1.5 billion of senior notes of $1.6 billionwhich $750 million mature in each2020 and $750 million mature in 2025. The proceeds of those quarters. Junior subordinated debentures associated with trust preferred securitiesthe issuances of borrowings under the Bank Note Program have been predominantly utilized to purchase high-quality liquid assets that werewill meet the requirements of the LCR. Also included in average long-term borrowings were $834 millionamounts borrowed from the Federal Home Loan Banks of New York, Atlanta and Pittsburgh of $1.2 billion in each of the two most recent quarters, compared with $1.2 billioninitial 2015 quarter and fourth quarter of 2014 and $29 million in the thirdfirst quarter of 2013. Additional information regarding junior subordinated debentures is provided in note 5 of Notes to Financial Statements.2014. During the second quarter of 2014, M&T Bank borrowed approximately $1.1 billion from the FHLBFederal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) of New York. Those borrowings were split between three-year and five-year terms at fixed rates of interest. Long-termSubordinated capital notes included in long-term borrowings fromaveraged $1.5 billion during the FHLBs of New York, Atlantatwo most recent quarters and Pittsburgh averaged $1.2$1.6 billion in the recent quarter, comparedinitial 2014 quarter. On November 1, 2014, M&T Bank redeemed $50 million of 9.50% subordinated notes that were due to mature in 2018. Junior subordinated debentures associated with $29 million and $396trust preferred securities that were included in average long-term borrowings were $835 million in each of the thirdfirst quarter

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of 2015 and the final 2014 quarter and $1.1 billion in the first quarter of 2013 and2014. M&T redeemed $350 million of 8.50% junior subordinated debentures associated with trust preferred securities in the secondfirst quarter of 2014, respectively.2014. In addition, in accordance with its 2015 Capital Plan M&T redeemed on April 15, 2015 the junior subordinated debentures associated with the $310 million of trust preferred securities of M&T Capital Trusts I, II and III. Those borrowings had a weighted-average interest rate of 8.24%. Further information regarding junior subordinated debentures is provided in note 5 of Notes to Financial Statements. Also included in long-term borrowings were agreements to repurchase securities, which averaged $1.4 billion during each of the thirdfirst quarters of 2015 and 2014 and 2013 and the secondfourth quarter of 2014. The agreements have various repurchase dates through 2017, however, the contractual maturities of the underlying securities extend beyond such repurchase dates. During the first quarter of 2013, M&T Bank initiated a Bank Note Program whereby M&T Bank may offer up to $5 billion of unsecured senior and subordinated notes. During March 2013, three-year floating rate senior notes due March 2016 were issued for $300 million and five-year 1.45% fixed rate senior notes due March 2018 were issued for $500 million. In January 2014, M&T Bank issued $1.5 billion of senior notes as follows: $250 million of three-year floating rate notes due January 2017; $500 million of three-year 1.25% fixed rate notes due January 2017; and $750 million of five-year 2.30% fixed rate notes due January 2019. During July 2014, M&T Bank issued an additional $1.7 billion of senior notes as follows: $300 million of three-year floating rate notes due in 2017; $750 million of three-year 1.40% fixed rate notes due in 2017; and $650 million of five-year 2.25% fixed rate notes due in 2019. The proceeds of the issuances have been predominantly utilized to purchase additional liquid investments that will meet the regulatory liquidity requirements. The Company has utilized interest rate swap agreements to modify the repricing characteristics of certain components of long-term debt. As of September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, interest

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rate swap agreements were used to hedge approximately $1.4 billion of outstanding fixed rate long-term borrowings. During the second quarter of 2014, the Company had entered into forward-starting interest rate swap agreements to hedge the variability in the interest payments anticipated to be made upon the future issuance of $300 million of the senior notes. Those forward-starting interest rate swaps were terminated upon the issuance of such notes in July 2014. Further information on interest rate swap agreements is provided in note 10 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Changes in the composition of the Company’s earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, as discussed herein, as well as changes in interest rates and spreads, can impact net interest income. Net interest spread, or the difference between the taxable-equivalent yield on earning assets and the rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities, was 3.05%2.97% in the thirdrecent quarter of 2014, compared with 3.40%and 3.32% in the third quarter of 2013 and 3.22% in the secondfirst quarter of 2014. The yield on earning assets during the recentinitial 2015 quarter was 3.59%3.54%, down 3933 basis points from 3.98%3.87% in the year-earlier quarter, while the rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities declined 4increased 2 basis points to .54%.57% from .58% in..55%. In the thirdfourth quarter of 2013. In2014, the second quarter of 2014,net interest spread was 2.92%, the yield on earning assets was 3.73%3.44% and the rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities was .51%.52%. For the first nine monthsThe narrowing of 2014, the net interest spread in the recent quarter as compared with the first quarter of 2014 reflects higher average balances of investment securities and interest-bearing deposits held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that have substantially lower yields than loans. The 5 basis point improvement in the net interest spread as compared with the final 2014 quarter was 3.19%, down 27 basis points fromlargely due to the year-earlier period. The yield on earning assetslower average balances of interest-bearing deposits held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, partially offset by higher average balances of investment securities and long-term borrowings and the rate paidimpact of accelerated accretion of premiums on interest-bearing liabilities for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2014 were 3.72% and .53%, respectively, compared with 4.07% and .61%, respectively, in the first nine months of 2013.mortgage-backed securities due to higher than originally expected prepayments.

Net interest-free funds consist largely of noninterest-bearing demand deposits and shareholders’ equity, partially offset by bank owned life insurance and non-earning assets, including goodwill and core deposit and other intangible assets. Net interest-free funds averaged $28.4$29.3 billion in the recentfirst quarter of 2015, compared with $27.1$26.9 billion and $31.4 billion in the third quarterfirst and fourth quarters of 2013 and $28.6 billion in the second quarter of 2014.2014, respectively. The increaseincreases in average net interest-free funds in the two most recent quarterquarters as compared with the thirdfirst quarter of 2013 was2014 were predominantly the result of higher average balances of noninterest-bearing deposits. Such deposits averaged $25.1 billion, $24.0 billion and $25.5$25.8 billion in the recent quarter, compared with $24.1 billion and $28.1 billion in the first and fourth quarters ended September 30, 2014, September 30, 2013 and June 30,of 2014, respectively. DuringThe decline in average noninterest-bearing deposits from the first nine monthsfourth quarter of 2014 and 2013, average net interest-free funds were $28.0 billion and $26.4 billion, respectively. That increaseto the initial 2015 quarter was also reflective of higher average balances of noninterest-bearinglargely due to a decline in trust-related customer deposits. Goodwill and core deposit and other intangible assets averaged $3.6 billion during each of the quarters ended September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and June 30,December 31, 2014. The cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance averaged $1.7 billion in each of the two most recent quartersthree-month periods ended March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 and $1.6 billion in the third quarter of 2013.December 31, 2014. Increases in the cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance and benefits received are not included in interest income, but rather are recorded in “other revenues from operations.” The contribution of net interest-free funds to net interest

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margin was .18%.20% in each of the two recentfirst quarters of 2015 and 2014, compared with .21%.18% in the thirdfourth quarter of 2013. That contribution for the first nine months of 2014 and 2013 was .19% and .22%, respectively.2014.

Reflecting the changes to the net interest spread and the contribution of net interest-free funds as described herein, the Company’s net interest margin was 3.23%3.17% in the recent quarter,first three months of 2015, compared with 3.61%3.52% in the thirdyear-earlier period and 3.10% in the fourth quarter of 2013 and 3.40% in the second quarter of 2014. During the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, the net interest margin was 3.38% and 3.68%, respectively. Future changes in market interest rates or spreads, as well as changes in the composition of the Company’s portfolios of earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities that result in reductions in spreads, could adversely impact the Company’s net interest income and net interest margin. In particular, the relatively low interest rate environment

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continues to exert downward pressure on yields on loans, investment securities and other earning assets.

Management assesses the potential impact of future changes in interest rates and spreads by projecting net interest income under several interest rate scenarios. In managing interest rate risk, the Company has utilized interest rate swap agreements to modify the repricing characteristics of certain portions of its portfolios of earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities. Periodic settlement amounts arising from these agreements are generally reflected in either the yields earned on assets or the rates paid on interest-bearing liabilities. The notional amount of interest rate swap agreements entered into for interest rate risk management purposes was $1.4 billion at each of September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2013, compared with $1.7 billion at June 30, 2014. Under the terms of the $1.4 billion ofthose interest rate swap agreements, that are designated as fair value hedges of certain fixed rate long-term borrowings, the Company received payments based on the outstanding notional amount at fixed rates and made payments at variable rates. Under the terms of the additional $300 million of swap agreements outstanding at June 30, 2014 that were designated as cash flow hedges related to the forecasted issuance of senior note borrowings in July 2014, the Company was to pay a fixed rate of interest and receive a variable rate. Those forward-starting interest rate swap agreements were terminated upon issuancedesignated as fair value hedges of the senior note borrowings in July 2014.certain fixed rate long-term borrowings.

In a fair value hedge, the fair value of the derivative (the interest rate swap agreement) and changes in the fair value of the hedged item are recorded in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet with the corresponding gain or loss recognized in current earnings. The difference between changes in the fair value of the interest rate swap agreements and the hedged items represents hedge ineffectiveness and is recorded in “other revenues from operations” in the Company’s consolidated statement of income. In a cash flow hedge, unlike in a fair value hedge, the effective portion of the derivative’s gain or loss is initially reported as a component of other comprehensive income and subsequently reclassified into earnings when the forecasted transaction affects earnings. The ineffective portion of the gain or loss is reported in “other revenues from operations” immediately. The amounts of hedge ineffectiveness recognized during the quarters ended September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 and 2013 and the quarter ended June 30,December 31, 2014 were not material to the Company’s results of operations. The estimated aggregate fair value of interest rate swap agreements designated as fair value hedges represented gains of approximately $76$73 million at September 30,each of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 $114and $95 million at September 30, 2013, $93 million at June 30, 2014 and $103 million at DecemberMarch 31, 2013.2014. The fair values of such interest rate swap agreements were substantially offset by changes in the fair values of the hedged items. The changes in the fair values of the interest rate swap agreements and the hedged items primarily result from the effects of changing interest rates and spreads. The Company’s credit exposure as of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 with respect to the estimated fair value of interest rate swap agreements used for managing interest rate risk has been substantially mitigated through master netting arrangements with trading account interest rate contracts with the same counterparty as well as counterparty postings of $74$49 million of collateral with the Company.

The weighted-average rates to be received and paid under interest rate swap agreements currently in effect were 4.42% and 1.19%1.22%, respectively, at September 30, 2014.March 31, 2015. The average notional amounts of interest rate swap agreements entered into for interest rate risk management purposes, the related effect on net interest income and margin, and the weighted-average interest rates paid or received on those swap agreements are presented in the accompanying table. Additional information about the Company’s use of interest rate swap agreements and other derivatives is included in note 10 of Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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INTEREST RATE SWAP AGREEMENTS

Dollars in thousands

 

   Three months ended September 30 
   2014  2013 
   Amount  Rate (a)  Amount  Rate (a) 

Increase (decrease) in:

     

Interest income

  $—      —   $—      —  

Interest expense

   (11,227  (.08  (11,088  (.09
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

Net interest income/margin

  $11,227    .05 $11,088    .06
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Average notional amount

  $1,547,826    $1,400,000   
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

Rate received (b)

    4.00   4.39

Rate paid (b)

    1.07   1.24
   

 

 

   

 

 

 

  Nine months ended September 30   Three months ended March 31 
  2014 2013   2015 2014 
  Amount Rate (a) Amount Rate (a)   Amount   Rate (a) Amount   Rate (a) 

Increase (decrease) in:

            

Interest income

  $—     —   $—     —    $—       —   $—       —  

Interest expense

   (33,783 (.09 (30,180 (.09   (11,277   (.08 (11,292   (.09
  

 

   

 

    

 

    

 

   

Net interest income/margin

  $33,783    .06 $30,180    .06$11,277   .06$11,292   .06
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

Average notional amount

  $1,457,143    $1,079,487   $1,400,000  $1,400,000  
  

 

   

 

    

 

    

 

   

Rate received (b)

    4.25   5.31 4.42 4.42

Rate paid (b)

    1.14   1.57 1.20 1.19
   

 

   

 

     

 

    

 

 

 

(a)Computed as an annualized percentage of average earning assets or interest-bearing liabilities.
((b)b)Weighted-average rate paid or received on interest rate swap agreements in effect during the period.

As a financial intermediary, the Company is exposed to various risks, including liquidity and market risk. Liquidity refers to the Company’s ability to ensure that sufficient cash flow and liquid assets are available to satisfy current and future obligations, including demands for loans and deposit withdrawals, funding operating costs, and other corporate purposes. Liquidity risk arises whenever the maturities of financial instruments included in assets and liabilities differ. M&T’s banking subsidiaries have access to additional funding sources through borrowings from the FHLB of New York, lines of credit with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the previously noted Bank Note Program, and other available borrowing facilities. The Company has, from time to time, issued subordinated capital notes to provide liquidity and enhance regulatory capital ratios. Such notes generally qualify under Federal Reserve Board’s risk-based capital guidelines for inclusion in the Company’s capital. However, pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the Company’s junior subordinated debentures associated with trust preferred securities will beare being phased-out of the definition of Tier 1 capital. Effective January 1, 2015, 75% of such securities will bejunior subordinated debentures are excluded from the Company’s Tier 1 capital, and beginning January 1, 2016, 100% will be excluded. The amounts excluded from Tier 1 capital will beare includable in total capital.

The Company has informal and sometimes reciprocal sources of funding available through various arrangements for unsecured short-term borrowings from a wide group of banks and other financial institutions. Short-term federal funds borrowings totaled $114 million, $158 million and $169were $155 million at September 30,March 31, 2015, $180 million at March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and $135 million at December 31, 2013, respectively.2014. In general, those borrowings were unsecured and matured on the next business day. In addition to satisfying customer demand, Cayman Islands

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office deposits may be used by the Company as an alternative to short-term borrowings. Cayman Islands office deposits totaled $242$179 million, $248 million and $177 million at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 $317 million at September 30, 2013 and $323 million at December 31, 2013.2014, respectively. The Company has brokered NOW and brokered money-market deposit accounts which aggregated $1.0approximately $1.1 billion at each of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013 and $1.22014, compared with $1.0 billion at September 30, 2013.March 31, 2014. Brokered time deposits were not a significant source of funding as of those dates.

The Company’s ability to obtain funding from these or other sources could be negatively impacted should the Company experience a substantial deterioration in its financial condition or its debt ratings, or should the availability of short-term funding become restricted due to a disruption in the financial markets. The Company attempts to quantify such credit-event risk by modeling scenarios that estimate the liquidity impact resulting from a short-term ratings downgrade over various grading levels. Such impact is estimated by attempting to measure the effect on available unsecured lines of

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credit, available capacity from secured borrowing sources and securitizable assets. In addition to deposits and borrowings, other sources of liquidity include maturities of investment securities and other earning assets, repayments of loans and investment securities, and cash generated from operations, such as fees collected for services.

Certain customers of the Company obtain financing through the issuance of variable rate demand bonds (“VRDBs”). The VRDBs are generally enhanced by letters of credit provided by M&T Bank. M&T Bank oftentimes acts as remarketing agent for the VRDBs and, at its discretion, may from time-to-time own some of the VRDBs while such instruments are remarketed. When this occurs, the VRDBs are classified as trading account assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. Nevertheless, M&T Bank is not contractually obligated to purchase the VRDBs. The value of VRDBs in the Company’s trading account totaled $2$11 million and $14$4 million at September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, and 2013, respectively, and $25 millionwhile there were no outstanding VRDBs in the Company’s trading account at December 31, 2013.2014. The total amount of VRDBs outstanding backed by M&T Bank letters of credit was $1.9 billion at March 31, 2015, compared with $1.7 billion at each of September 30,March 31, 2014 and $2.0 billion at December 31, 2013, and $1.8 billion at September 30, 2013.2014. M&T Bank also serves as remarketing agent for most of those bonds.

The Company enters into contractual obligations in the normal course of business which require future cash payments. Such obligations include, among others, payments related to deposits, borrowings, leases, and other contractual commitments. Off-balance sheet commitments to customers may impact liquidity, including commitments to extend credit, standby letters of credit, commercial letters of credit, financial guarantees and indemnification contracts, and commitments to sell real estate loans. Because many of these commitments or contracts expire without being funded in whole or in part, the contract amounts are not necessarily indicative of future cash flows. Further discussion of these commitments is provided in note 13 of Notes to Financial Statements.

M&T’s primary source of funds to pay for operating expenses, shareholder dividends and treasury stock repurchases has historically been the receipt of dividends from its banking subsidiaries, which are subject to various regulatory limitations. Dividends from any banking subsidiary to M&T are limited by the amount of earnings of the banking subsidiary in the current year and the two preceding years. For purposes of that test, at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 approximately $1.3$1.2 billion was available for payment of dividends to M&T from banking subsidiaries. These historic sources of cash flow have been augmented in the past by the issuance of trust preferred securities and senior notes payable. Information regarding trust preferred securities and the related junior subordinated debentureslong-term debt obligations of M&T is included in note 5 of Notes to Financial Statements.

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Management closely monitors the Company’s liquidity position on an ongoing basis for compliance with internal policies and believes that available sources of liquidity are adequate to meet funding needs anticipated in the normal course of business. Management does not anticipate engaging in any activities, either currently or in the long-term, for which adequate funding would not be available and would therefore result in a significant strain on liquidity at either M&T or its subsidiary banks. Banking regulators have finalized rules requiring a banking company to maintain a minimum amount of liquid assets to withstand a standardized supervisory liquidity stress scenario. The effective date offor those rules for the Company is January 1, 2016, subject to a two year phase-in period. The Company has taken steps as noted herein to enhance its liquidity and will take further action, as necessary, to comply with the final regulations when they take effect.

Market risk is the risk of loss from adverse changes in the market prices and/or interest rates of the Company’s financial instruments. The primary market risk the Company is exposed to is interest rate risk. Interest rate risk arises from the Company’s core banking activities of lending and deposit-taking, because assets and liabilities reprice at different times and by different amounts as interest rates change. As a

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result, net interest income earned by the Company is subject to the effects of changing interest rates. The Company measures interest rate risk by calculating the variability of net interest income in future periods under various interest rate scenarios using projected balances for earning assets, interest-bearing liabilities and derivatives used to hedge interest rate risk. Management’s philosophy toward interest rate risk management is to limit the variability of net interest income. The balances of financial instruments used in the projections are based on expected growth from forecasted business opportunities, anticipated prepayments of loans and investment securities, and expected maturities of investment securities, loans and deposits. Management uses a “value of equity” model to supplement the modeling technique described above. Those supplemental analyses are based on discounted cash flows associated with on- and off-balance sheet financial instruments. Such analyses are modeled to reflect changes in interest rates and provide management with a long-term interest rate risk metric.

The Company’s Asset-Liability Committee, which includes members of senior management, monitors the sensitivity of the Company’s net interest income to changes in interest rates with the aid of a computer model that forecasts net interest income under different interest rate scenarios. In modeling changing interest rates, the Company considers different yield curve shapes that consider both parallel (that is, simultaneous changes in interest rates at each point on the yield curve) and non-parallel (that is, allowing interest rates at points on the yield curve to vary by different amounts) shifts in the yield curve. In utilizing the model, market-implied forward interest rates over the subsequent twelve months are generally used to determine a base interest rate scenario for theprojections of net interest income simulation. That calculated base net interest income is then compared to the income calculated under the varying interest rate scenarios.scenarios are compared to a base interest rate scenario that is reflective of current interest rates. The model considers the impact of ongoing lending and deposit-gathering activities, as well as interrelationships in the magnitude and timing of the repricing of financial instruments, including the effect of changing interest rates on expected prepayments and maturities. When deemed prudent, management has taken actions to mitigate exposure to interest rate risk through the use of on- or off-balance sheet financial instruments and intends to do so in the future. Possible actions include, but are not limited to, changes in the pricing of loan and deposit products, modifying the composition of earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, and adding to, modifying or terminating existing interest rate swap agreements or other financial instruments used for interest rate risk management purposes.

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The accompanying table as of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 20132014 displays the estimated impact on net interest income from non-trading financial instruments in the base scenario described above resulting from parallel changes in interest rates across repricing categories during the first modeling year.

SENSITIVITY OF NET INTEREST INCOME

TO CHANGES IN INTEREST RATES

Dollars in thousands

 

  

Calculated increase (decrease)

in projected net interest income

   Calculated increase (decrease)
in projected net interest income
 

Changes in interest rates

  September 30, 2014 December 31, 2013   March 31, 2015   December 31, 2014 

+200 basis points

  $256,644   245,089    $234,291     246,028  

+100 basis points

   141,087   134,188     129,404     134,393  

–100 basis points

   (97,979 (72,755

–200 basis points

   (128,736 (100,543

-100 basis points

   (54,132   (74,634

-200 basis points

   (89,402   (109,261

The Company utilized many assumptions to calculate the impact that changes in interest rates may have on net interest income. The more significant of those assumptions included the rate of prepayments of mortgage-related assets, cash flows from derivative and other financial instruments held for non-trading account purposes, loan and deposit volumes and pricing, and deposit maturities. In the scenarios presented, the Company also assumed gradual changes in interest rates during a twelve-month period of 100 and 200 basis points, as compared with the assumed base scenario. In the event

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that a 100 or 200 basis point rate change cannot be achieved, the applicable rate changes are limited to lesser amounts such that interest rates cannot be less than zero. The assumptions used in interest rate sensitivity modeling are inherently uncertain and, as a result, the Company cannot precisely predict the impact of changes in interest rates on net interest income. Actual results may differ significantly from those presented due to the timing, magnitude and frequency of changes in interest rates and changes in market conditions and interest rate differentials (spreads) between maturity/repricing categories, as well as any actions, such as those previously described, which management may take to counter such changes.

Changes in fair value of the Company’s financial instruments can also result from a lack of trading activity for similar instruments in the financial markets. That impact is most notable on the values assigned to some of the Company’s investment securities. Information about the fair valuation of investmentsuch securities is presented herein under the heading “Capital” and in notes 3 and 12 of Notes to Financial Statements.

The Company engages in trading account activities to meet the financial needs of customers and to fund the Company’s obligations under certain deferred compensation plans. Financial instruments utilized in trading account activities consist predominantly of interest rate contracts, such as swap agreements, and forward and futures contracts related to foreign currencies. The Company generally mitigates the foreign currency and interest rate risk associated with trading account activities by entering into offsetting trading positions that are also included in the trading account. The fair values of the offsetting positions associated with interest rate contracts and foreign currency and other option and futures contracts are presented in note 10 of Notes to Financial Statements. The amounts of gross and net positions, as well as the type of trading account activities conducted by the Company, are subject to a well-defined series of potential loss exposure limits established by management and approved by M&T’s Board of Directors. However, as with any non-government guaranteed financial instrument, the Company is exposed to credit risk associated with counterparties to the Company’s trading account activities.

The notional amounts of interest rate contracts entered into for trading account purposes aggregated $17.2$17.1 billion at September 30,each of March 31, 2015 and 2014 compared with

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$15.9 billion at September 30, 2013 and $17.4$17.6 billion at December 31, 2013.2014. The notional amounts of foreign currency and other option and futures contracts entered into for trading account purposes totaled $1.0 billion, $904 million and $1.4 billion at September 30, 2014, September 30, 2013March 31, 2015, compared with $1.0 billion and $1.3 billion at March 31 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. Although the notional amounts of these contracts are not recorded in the consolidated balance sheet, the fair values of all financial instruments used for trading account activities are recorded in the consolidated balance sheet. The fair values of all trading account assets and liabilities totaled $297were $363 million and $182$240 million, respectively, at September 30, 2014, $371March 31, 2015, $315 million and $261$216 million, respectively, at September 30, 2013,March 31, 2014, and $376$308 million and $250$203 million, respectively, at December 31, 2013.2014. Included in trading account assets at September 30, 2014 were assets related to deferred compensation plans totaling $25 million at March 31, 2015, compared with $26 million compared withat March 31, 2014 and $27 million at September 30, 2013 and $29 million at December 31, 2013.2014. Changes in the fair value of such assets are recorded as “trading account and foreign exchange gains” in the consolidated statement of income. Included in “other liabilities” in the consolidated balance sheet at each of September 30, 2014 and 2013March 31, 2015 were $30$29 million of liabilities related to deferred compensation plans, compared with $31$30 million at each of March 31 and December 31, 2013.2014. Changes in the balances of such liabilities due to the valuation of allocated investment options to which the liabilities are indexed are recorded in “other costs of operations” in the consolidated statement of income.

Given the Company’s policies, limits and positions, management believes that the potential loss exposure to the Company resulting from market risk associated with trading account activities was not material, however, as

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previously noted, the Company is exposed to credit risk associated with counterparties to transactions related toassociated with the Company’s trading account activities. Additional information about the Company’s use of derivative financial instruments in its trading account activities is included in note 10 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Provision for Credit Losses

The Company maintains an allowance for credit losses that in management’s judgment appropriately reflects losses inherent in the loan and lease portfolio. A provision for credit losses is recorded to adjust the level of the allowance as deemed necessary by management. The provision for credit losses in the thirdfirst quarter of 20142015 was $29$38 million, compared with $48$32 million in the year-earlier quarter and $30$33 million in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. For the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, the provision for credit losses was $91 million and $143 million, respectively. Net loan charge-offs were $28$36 million in the recent quarter, down from $48compared with $32 million in each of the third quarter of 2013first and $29 million in the second quarterfourth quarters of 2014. Net charge-offs as an annualized percentage of average loans and leases were .17%.22% in the thirdinitial 2015 quarter, compared with .20% in the first quarter of 2014 compared with .29% and .18%.19% in the third quarter of 2013 and the second quarter offinal 2014 respectively. Net charge-offs for the nine-month periods ended September 30 aggregated $89 million in 2014 and $141 million in 2013, representing annualized rates of .19% and .29%, respectively, of average loans and leases.quarter. A summary of net charge–offscharge-offs by loan type is presented in the table that follows.

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NET CHARGE-OFFS (RECOVERIES)

BY LOAN/LEASE TYPE

In thousands

 

  2014 
  1st Qtr.   2nd Qtr.   3rd Qtr.   Year
to-date
   First Quarter
2015
   First Quarter
2014
   Fourth Quarter
2014
 

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

  $9,146     10,140     8,072     27,358    $8,411     9,146     9,397  

Real estate:

              

Commercial

   289     1,322     399     2,010     6,094     289     1,262  

Residential

   5,822     2,701     1,695     10,218     2,129     5,822     2,554  

Consumer

   16,651     14,939     17,867     49,457     19,555     16,651     18,858  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 
  $31,908     29,102     28,033     89,043  $36,189   31,908   32,071  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

   2013 
   1st Qtr.   2nd Qtr.  3rd Qtr.   Year
to-date
 

Commercial, financial, leasing, etc.

  $6,788     44,631    25,781     77,200  

Real estate:

       

Commercial

   8,773     (7,161  2,950     4,562  

Residential

   3,721     3,373    2,921     10,015  

Consumer

   17,461     16,209    16,043     49,713  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 
  $36,743     57,052    47,695     141,490  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Included in net charge-offs of commercial loans in the second and third quarters of 2013 were $30 million and $19 million, respectively, of charge-offs for a relationship with a motor vehicle-related parts wholesaler. Reflected in net recoveries of commercial real estate loans during the second quarter of 2013 were net recoveries of previously charged-off loans to residential homebuilders and developers of $9 million. Included in net charge-offs of consumer loans and leases were net charge-offs during the quarters ended September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and June 30,December 31, 2014, respectively, of: automobile loans of $3$4 million $2 million and $2 million;in each respective period; recreational vehicle loans of $2$3 million, $3$4 million and $3 million; and home equity loans and lines of credit, including Alt-A second lien loans, of $5$6 million, $4 million and $5$4 million. Alt-A loans represent loans secured by residential real estate that at origination typically included some form of limited borrower documentation requirements as compared with more traditional loans. Loans in the Company’s Alt-A portfolio were originated by the Company prior to 2008.

Loans acquired in connection with acquisition transactions subsequent to 2008 were recorded at fair value with no carry-over of any previously recorded allowance for credit losses. Determining the fair value of the acquired loans required estimating cash flows expected to be collected on the loans and discounting those cash flows at then-current interest rates. The excess of expected cash flows over the carrying value of the loans is recognized as interest income over the lives of loans. The difference between contractually required payments and the cash flows expected to be collected is referred to as the nonaccretable balance and is not recorded on the consolidated balance sheet. The nonaccretable balance reflects estimated future credit losses and other contractually required payments that the Company does not expect to collect. The Company regularly evaluates the reasonableness of its cash flow projections. Any decreases to the expected cash flows require the Company to evaluate the need for an additional allowance for credit losses and could lead to charge-offs of acquired loan balances. Any significant increases in expected cash flows result in additional interest income to be recognized over the then-remaining lives of

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the loans. The carrying amount of loans obtained in acquisitions subsequent to 2008 was $2.9$2.4 billion, $4.6 billion, $4.0$3.7 billion and $3.2$2.6 billion at September 30,March 31, 2015,

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March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013,and December 31, 2013 and June 30, 2014, respectively. The portion of the nonaccretable balance related to remaining principal losses as well as life-to-date principal losses charged against the nonaccretable balance as of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 20132014 are presented in the accompanying table.

 

  Nonaccretable balance – principal   Nonaccretable balance - principal 
  Remaining balance   Life-to-date charges   Remaining balance   Life-to-date charges 
  September 30,
2014
   December 31,
2013
   September 30,
2014
   December 31,
2013
   March 31,
2015
   December 31,
2014
   March 31,
2015
   December 31,
2014
 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Commercial, financing, leasing, etc.

  $21,518     31,931     78,267     69,772    $19,961     19,589     78,084     78,736  

Commercial real estate

   98,239     110,984     278,192     277,222     75,451     70,261     271,490     276,681  

Residential real estate

   20,007     23,201     56,853     54,177     15,104     15,958     60,381     59,552  

Consumer

   30,696     33,989     76,755     74,039     27,701     29,582     79,700     77,819  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $170,460     200,105     490,067     475,210  $138,217   135,390   489,655   492,788  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Nonaccrual loans totaled $848$791 million or 1.29%1.18% of total loans and leases outstanding at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, compared with $916$891 million or 1.44% at September 30, 2013, $8741.39% a year earlier and $799 million or 1.36%1.20% at December 31, 2013 and $880 million or 1.36% at June 30, 2014. The declinedeclines in nonaccrual loans at the two most recent quarter-endquarter-ends as compared with DecemberMarch 31, 2013 and June 30, 2014 waswere largely due to lower commercial loans and residentialcommercial real estate loans in nonaccrual status.

Accruing loans past due 90 days or more (excluding acquired loans) were $313$237 million or .48%.35% of total loans and leases at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, compared with $340$307 million or .53%.48% at September 30, 2013, $369March 31, 2014 and $245 million or .58%.37% at December 31, 2013 and $289 million or .45% at June 30, 2014. Those loans included loans guaranteed by government-related entities of $265$194 million, $291 million and $218 million at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 $321 million at September 30, 2013, $298 million atand December 31, 2013 and $276 million at June 30, 2014.2014, respectively. Such guaranteed loans included one-to-four family residential real estatemortgage loans serviced by the Company that were repurchased to reduce associated servicing costs, including a requirement to advance principal and interest payments that had not been received from individual mortgagors. Despite the loans being purchased by the Company, the insurance or guarantee by the applicable government-related entity remains in force. The outstanding principal balances of the repurchased loans that are guaranteed by government-related entities totaled $237$178 million, $251 million and $196 million at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 $281and December 31, 2014, respectively. The remaining accruing loans past due 90 days or more not guaranteed by government-related entities were loans considered to be with creditworthy borrowers that were in the process of collection or renewal. Acquired accruing loans past due 90 days or more are loans that could not be specifically identified as impaired as of the acquisition date, but were recorded at estimated fair value as of such date. Such loans totaled $80 million at September 30, 2013, $255March 31, 2015, compared with $121 million at March 31, 2014 and $110 million at December 31, 2013 and $238 million at June 30, 2014.

Purchased impaired loans are loans obtained in acquisition transactions subsequent to 2008 that as of the acquisition date were specifically identified as displaying signs of credit deterioration and for which the Company did not expect to collect all outstanding principal and contractually required interest payments. Those loans were impaired at the date of acquisition, were recorded at estimated fair value and were generally delinquent in payments, but, in accordance with GAAP, the Company continues to accrue interest income on such loans based on the estimated expected cash flows associated with the loans. The carrying amount of such loans was $237$184 million at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, or less than 1%approximately .3% of total loans. Purchased impaired loans totaled $357$303 million and $331$198 million at September 30March 31 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. The declinesdecline in such loans from the respective 2013 dates wereMarch 31, 2014 was predominantly the result of payments received from customers.

 

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Acquired accruing loans past due 90 days or more are loans that could not be specifically identified as impaired as of the acquisition date, but were recorded at estimated fair value as of such date. Such loans totaled $132 million at September 30, 2014, compared with $154 million at September 30, 2013 and $130 million at December 31, 2013.

In an effort to assist borrowers, the Company modified the terms of select loans. If the borrower was experiencing financial difficulty and a concession was granted, the Company considersconsidered such modifications as troubled debt restructurings. Loan modifications included such actions as the extension of loan maturity dates and the lowering of interest rates and monthly payments. The objective of the modifications was to increase loan repayments by customers and thereby reduce net charge-offs. In accordance with GAAP, the modified loans are included in impaired loans for purposes of determining the level of the allowance for credit losses. Information about modifications of loans that are considered troubled debt restructurings is included in note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Residential real estate loans modified under specified loss mitigation programs prescribed by government guarantors have not been included in renegotiated loans because the loan guarantee remains in full force and, accordingly, the Company has not granted a concession with respect to the ultimate collection of the original loan balance. Such loans aggregated $142$153 million, $211$224 million and $206$149 million at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively.

Nonaccrual commercial loans and leases totaled $191aggregated $195 million at September 30, 2014, $111March 31, 2015, $138 million at each of September 30, 2013March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, and $192$177 million at June 30,December 31, 2014. The increases in such loans since 2013 in commercial loans and leases in nonaccrual statusMarch 31, 2014 were not concentrated in any particular industry group. Commercial real estate loans classified as nonaccrual aggregated $274totaled $232 million at September 30,March 31, 2015, $291 million at March 31, 2014 $348 million a year earlier, $305and $239 million at December 31, 20132014. The decreases in such loans at the two most recent quarter-ends as compared with March 31, 2014 was due, in part, to improving economic conditions and $296reflected lower loans in nonaccrual status to residential builders and developers. Loans to residential builders and developers in nonaccrual status aggregated $65 million and $90 million at June 30, 2014. Included in those amounts were nonaccrual loans to residential homebuildersMarch 31, 2015 and developers of $73 million2014, respectively, and $113 million at September 30, 2014 and September 30, 2013, respectively, $96$72 million at December 31, 2013 and $84 million at June 30, 2014. Information about the location of nonaccrual and charged-off loans to residential real estate builders and developers as of and for the three-month period ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 is presented in the accompanying table.

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RESIDENTIAL BUILDER AND DEVELOPER LOANS, NET OF UNEARNED DISCOUNT

 

  September 30, 2014 Quarter ended
September 30, 2014
   March 31, 2015 Quarter ended
March 31, 2015
 
      Nonaccrual Net charge-offs
(recoveries)
       Nonaccrual Net charge-offs
(recoveries)
 
  Outstanding
balances (a)
   Balances   Percent of
outstanding
balances
 Balances Annualized
percent of
average
outstanding
balances
   Outstanding
balances (a)
   Balances   Percent of
outstanding
balances
 Balances Annualized
percent of
average
outstanding
balances
 
  (dollars in thousands)   (dollars in thousands) 

New York

  $568,577    $8,447     1.49 $(4 —    $751,974    $8,571     1.14 $134   .09

Pennsylvania

   138,556     41,396     29.88   4   .01     137,105     36,538     26.65   (2 (.01

Mid-Atlantic

   421,034     25,666     6.10   (193 (.17   400,934     21,909     5.46   11   .01  

Other

   315,037     239     .08    —      —       365,634     1,504     .41    —      —    
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $1,443,204    $75,748     5.25 $(193  (.05)% $1,655,647  $68,522   4.14$143   .04
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

(a)Includes approximately $25$24 million of loans not secured by real estate, of which approximately $2$3 million wereare in nonaccrual status.

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Residential real estate loans in nonaccrual status at March 31, 2015 were $246 million, compared with $338 million at March 31, 2014 and $258 million at December 31, 2014. The decrease in residential real estate loans classified as nonaccrual from March 31, 2014 was largely related to the payoff during the second quarter of 2014 of $64 million of loans to one customer that were $264 million at September 30, 2014, compared with $334 million at each of September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2013, and $278 million at June 30, 2014.secured by residential real estate. Included in residential real estate loans classified as nonaccrual were Alt-A loans of $80$74 million, $79 million and $78 million at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 compared with $81 million at each of September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2013 and $79 million at June 30, 2014.2014, respectively. Residential real estate loans past due 90 days or more and accruing interest (excluding acquired loans) totaled $264$197 million at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, compared with $318$285 million at September 30, 2013, $295a year earlier and $216 million at December 31, 2013 and $270 million at June 30, 2014. A substantial portion of such amounts related to guaranteed loans guaranteed byrepurchased from government-related entities. Information about the location of nonaccrual and charged-off residential real estate loans as of and for the quarter ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 is presented in the accompanying table.

Nonaccrual consumer loans totaled $119 million and $123aggregated $118 million at September 30,March 31, 2015, compared with $124 million at March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, compared with $125 million at December 31, 2013 and $114 million at June 30, 2014. Included in nonaccrual consumer loans and leases at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013,and December 31, 2013 and June 30, 2014 werewere: automobile loans of $17$14 million, $22 million, $21$16 million and $16$18 million, respectively; recreational vehicle loans of $10$9 million, $11 million $12 million and $8$11 million, respectively; and outstanding balances of home equity loans and lines of credit, including junior lien Alt-A loans, of $85$88 million, $78 million, $79$83 million and $84$89 million, respectively. Information about the location of nonaccrual and charged-off home equity loans and lines of credit as of and for the quarter ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 is presented in the accompanying table.

 

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SELECTED RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE-RELATED LOAN DATA

 

  September 30, 2014 Quarter ended
September 30, 2014
   March 31, 2015 Quarter ended
March 31, 2015
 
      Nonaccrual Net charge-offs
(recoveries)
       Nonaccrual Net charge-offs
(recoveries)
 
  Outstanding
balances
   Balances   Percent of
outstanding
balances
 Balances Annualized
percent of
average
outstanding
balances
   Outstanding
balances
   Balances   Percent of
outstanding
balances
 Balances Annualized
percent of
average
outstanding
balances
 
  (dollars in thousands)   (dollars in thousands) 

Residential mortgages:

        

New York

  $3,525,185    $64,111     1.82 $145   .02  $3,456,314    $63,978     1.85 $757   .09

Pennsylvania

   1,152,488     19,579     1.70   (21 (.01   1,106,917     19,210     1.74   50   .02  

Mid-Atlantic

   2,091,162     33,965     1.62   342   .06     2,026,129     30,854     1.52   705   .14  

Other

   1,508,451     64,056     4.25   563   .15     1,557,014     55,732     3.58   186   .05  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $8,277,286    $181,711     2.20 $1,029    .05$8,146,374  $169,774   2.08$1,698   .08
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Residential construction:

    

Residential construction loans:

New York

  $7,387    $153     2.07 $(4  (.22)% $5,999  $144   2.41$—     —  

Pennsylvania

   3,011     649     21.57    —      —     3,249   734   22.58   (1 (.11

Mid-Atlantic

   10,068     34     .34    —      —     9,730   —     —     —     —    

Other

   15,686     1,134     7.23    3    .07   11,199   844   7.54   66   2.14  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $36,152    $1,970     5.45 $(1  (.01)% $30,177  $1,722   5.71$65   .81
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Alt-A first mortgages:

    

New York

  $58,522    $17,321     29.60 $(1  (.01)% $55,606  $18,263   32.84$166   1.20

Pennsylvania

   10,747     2,979     27.72    32    1.19   10,451   2,910   27.84   61   2.34  

Mid-Atlantic

   69,265     11,762     16.98    227    1.28   65,192   9,670   14.83   10   .06  

Other

   211,436     47,955     22.68    409    .76   196,319   43,427   22.12   129   .26  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $349,970    $80,017     22.86 $667    .75$327,568  $74,270   22.67$366   .44
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Alt-A junior lien:

    

New York

  $1,151    $91     7.91 $53    17.88$1,066  $56   5.24$107   40.21

Pennsylvania

   382     58     15.18    —      —     353   34   9.76   —     —    

Mid-Atlantic

   3,099     129     4.16    193    24.01   2,801   141   5.02   (1 (.08

Other

   7,147     644     9.02    147    7.91   6,595   508   7.70   282   17.00  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $11,779    $922     7.83 $393    12.87$10,815  $739   6.83$388   14.21
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

First lien home equity loans:

    

New York

  $19,785    $1,899     9.60 $10    .18$16,684  $1,648   9.88$194   4.55

Pennsylvania

   63,700     3,433     5.39    136    .81   54,773   3,282   5.99   87   .62  

Mid-Atlantic

   83,070     931     1.12    50    .23   72,624   848   1.17   78   .42  

Other

   2,809     456     16.23    —      —     1,155   —     —     (2 (.50
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $169,364    $6,719     3.97 $196    .44$145,236  $5,778   3.98$357   .96
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

First lien home equity lines:

    

New York

  $1,383,863    $13,598     .98 $527    .15$1,358,769  $15,112   1.11$463   .14

Pennsylvania

   845,800     5,594     .66    374    .18   838,591   5,922   .71   373   .18  

Mid-Atlantic

   873,224     3,101     .36    258    .12   857,883   3,959   .46   184   .09  

Other

   35,525     1,354     3.81    150    1.72   37,985   1,515   3.99   —     —    
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $3,138,412    $23,647     .75 $1,309    .17$3,093,228  $26,508   .86$1,020   .13
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Junior lien home equity loans:

    

New York

  $16,500    $4,438     26.89 $16    .37$13,923  $4,590   32.97$(165 (4.72)% 

Pennsylvania

   19,931     1,128     5.66    7    .14   17,731   998   5.63   (18 (.39

Mid-Atlantic

   67,815     1,847     2.72    134    .76   59,825   1,510   2.52   3   .02  

Other

   8,218     763     9.29    508    23.84   7,398   856   11.57   344   18.01  
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $112,464    $8,176     7.27 $665    2.27$98,877  $7,954   8.04$164   .65
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Junior lien home equity lines:

    

New York

  $958,988    $30,661     3.20 $1,245    .52$940,262  $30,449   3.24$1,903   .81

Pennsylvania

   393,384     4,371     1.11    360    .37   387,109   4,484   1.16   717   .74  

Mid-Atlantic

   1,208,161     8,971     .74    629    .21   1,179,393   10,267   .87   1,816   .62  

Other

   69,493     1,655     2.38    43    .25   68,065   1,806   2.65   (27 (.16
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $2,630,026    $45,658     1.74 $2,277    .34$2,574,829  $47,006   1.83$4,409   .69
  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

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Real estate and other foreclosed assets totaled $63 million and $59 million at March 31, 2015 and March 31, 2014, and $64 million at December 31, 2014. At March 31, 2015, foreclosed assets included $42 million of residential real estate properties.

A comparative summary of nonperforming assets and certain past due loan data and credit quality ratios as of the end of the periods indicated is presented onin the accompanying table.

NONPERFORMING ASSET AND PAST DUE, RENEGOTIATED AND IMPAIRED LOAN DATA

Dollars in thousands

 

  2014 Quarters 2013 Quarters   2015 2014 Quarters 
  Third Second First Fourth Third   First Quarter Fourth Third Second First 

Nonaccrual loans

  $847,784   880,134   890,893   874,156   915,871    $790,586   799,151   847,784   880,134   $890,893  

Real estate and other foreclosed assets

   67,629   59,793   59,407   66,875   89,203     62,578   63,635   67,629   59,793   59,407  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total nonperforming assets

  $915,413    939,927    950,300    941,031    1,005,074  $853,164   862,786   915,413   939,927  $950,300  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Accruing loans past due 90 days or more (a)

  $312,990    289,016    307,017    368,510    339,792  $236,621   245,020   312,990   289,016  $307,017  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Government guaranteed loans included in totals above:

      

Nonaccrual loans

  $68,586    81,817    75,959    63,647    68,519  $60,508   69,095   68,586   81,817  $75,959  

Accruing loans past due 90 days or more

   265,333    275,846    291,418    297,918    320,732   193,618   217,822   265,333   275,846   291,418  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Renegotiated loans

  $209,099    270,223    257,889    257,092    259,301  $198,911   202,633   209,099   270,223  $257,889  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Acquired accruing loans past due 90 days or more (b)

  $132,147    134,580    120,996    130,162    153,585  $80,110   110,367   132,147   134,580  $120,996  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Purchased impaired loans (c):

      

Outstanding customer balance

  $429,915    504,584    534,331    579,975    648,118  $335,079   369,080   429,915   504,584  $534,331  

Carrying amount

   236,662    282,517    303,388    330,792    357,337   184,018   197,737   236,662   282,517   303,388  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Nonaccrual loans to total loans and leases, net of unearned discount

   1.29  1.36  1.39  1.36  1.44 1.18 1.20 1.29 1.36 1.39

Nonperforming assets to total net loans and leases and real estate and other foreclosed assets

   1.39  1.45  1.48  1.47  1.58 1.27 1.29 1.39 1.45 1.48

Accruing loans past due 90 days or more (a) to total loans and leases, net of unearned discount

   .48  .45  .48  .58  .53 .35 .37 .48 .45 .48
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

(a)Excludes acquired loans. Predominantly residential mortgage loans.
(b)Acquired loans that were recorded at fair value at acquisition date. This category does not include purchased impaired loans that are presented separately.
(c)Accruing loans that were impaired at acquisition date and recorded at fair value.

Real estate and other foreclosed assets were $68 million at September 30, 2014, compared with $89 million at September 30, 2013, $67 million at December 31, 2013 and $60 million at June 30, 2014. At September 30, 2014, the Company’s holding of residential real estate-related properties comprised 80% of foreclosed assets.

Management determined the allowance for credit losses by performing ongoing evaluations of the loan and lease portfolio, including such factors as the differing economic risks associated with each loan category, the financial

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condition of specific borrowers, the economic environment in which borrowers operate, the level of delinquent loans, the value of any collateral and, where applicable, the existence of any guarantees or indemnifications.

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Management evaluated the impact of changes in interest rates and overall economic conditions on the ability of borrowers to meet repayment obligations when quantifying the Company’s exposure to credit losses and the allowance for such losses as of each reporting date. Factors also considered by management when performing its assessment, in addition to general economic conditions and the other factors described above, included, but were not limited to: (i) the impact of residential real estate values on the Company’s portfolio of loans to residential real estate builders and developers and other loans secured by residential real estate; (ii) the concentrations of commercial real estate loans in the Company’s loan portfolio; (iii) the amount of commercial and industrial loans to businesses in areas of New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area and in central Pennsylvania that have historically experienced less economic growth and vitality than the vast majority of other regions of the country; (iv) the repayment performance associated with the Company’s first and second lien loans secured by residential real estate; and (v) the size of the Company’s portfolio of loans to individual consumers, which historically have experienced higher net charge-offs as a percentage of loans outstanding than other loan types. The level of the allowance is adjusted based on the results of management’s analysis.

Management cautiously and conservatively evaluated the allowance for credit losses as of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 in light of: (i) residential real estate values and the level of delinquencies of loans secured by residential real estate; (ii) economic conditions in the markets served by the Company; (iii) continuing weakness in industrial employment in upstate New York and central Pennsylvania; (iv) the significant subjectivity involved in many commercial real estate valuations; and (v) the amount of loan growth experienced by the Company. While there has been general improvement in economic conditions, concerns continue to exist about the strength and sustainability of such improvements; the slowly strengthening housing market; the troubled state of financial and credit markets;markets, including the impact international economic conditions could have on the U.S. economy; Federal Reserve positioning of monetary policy; highlow levels of unemployment;workforce participation; and continued stagnant population growth in the upstate New York and central Pennsylvania regions (approximately 60% of the Company’s loans are to customers in New York State and Pennsylvania).

The Company utilizes a loan grading system which is applied to all commercial loans and commercial real estate loans. Loan grades are utilized to differentiate risk within the portfolio and consider the expectations of default for each loan. Commercial loans and commercial real estate loans with a lower expectation of default are assigned one of ten possible “pass” loan grades and are generally ascribed lower loss factors when determining the allowance for credit losses. Loans with an elevated level of credit risk are classified as “criticized” and are ascribed a higher loss factor when determining the allowance for credit losses. Criticized loans may be classified as “nonaccrual” if the Company no longer expects to collect all amounts according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement or the loan is delinquent 90 days or more. Criticized commercial loans and commercial real estate loans were $2.0 billion at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, compared with $2.2 billion at September 30, 2013 and $1.8 billion at each of March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013 and June 30, 2014. The riseincrease since December 31, 2014 included approximately $129 million related to commercial loans to customers operating in criticized loans from June 30, 2014 resulted largely from higher commercial real estate construction loans in this classification.varied industries. Loan officers with the support of loan review personnel in different geographic locations are responsible to continuously review and reassign loan grades to pass and criticized loans based on their detailed knowledge of individual borrowers and their judgment of the impact on such borrowers resulting from changing conditions in their respective geographic regions. On a quarterly basis, the Company’s centralized loan review department reviews all criticized commercial loans and commercial real estate loans greater than $1 million to determine the appropriateness of the assigned loan grade,

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including whether the loan should be reported as accruing or nonaccruing. For criticized nonaccrual loans, additional meetings are held with loan officers and their

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managers, workout specialists and senior management to discuss each of the relationships. In analyzing criticized loans, borrower-specific information is reviewed, including operating results, future cash flows, recent developments and the borrower’s outlook, and other pertinent data. The timing and extent of potential losses, considering collateral valuation and other factors, and the Company’s potential courses of action are reviewed. To the extent that these loans are collateral-dependent, they are evaluated based on the fair value of the loan’s collateral as estimated at or near the financial statement date. As the quality of a loan deteriorates to the point of classifying the loan as “criticized,” the process of obtaining updated collateral valuation information is usually initiated, unless it is not considered warranted given factors such as the relative size of the loan, the characteristics of the collateral or the age of the last valuation. In those cases where current appraisals may not yet be available, prior appraisals are utilized with adjustments, as deemed necessary, for estimates of subsequent declines in value as determined by line of business and/or loan workout personnel in the respective geographic regions. Those adjustments are reviewed and assessed for reasonableness by the Company’s loan review department. Accordingly, for real estate collateral securing larger commercial loans and commercial real estate loans, estimated collateral values are based on current appraisals and estimates of value. For non-real estate loans, collateral is assigned a discounted estimated liquidation value and, depending on the nature of the collateral, is verified through field exams or other procedures. In assessing collateral, real estate and non-real estate values are reduced by an estimate of selling costs. With regard to residential real estate loans, the Company’s loss identification and estimation techniques make reference to loan performance and house price data in specific areas of the country where collateral that was securing the Company’s residential real estate loans was located. For residential real estate-related loans, including home equity loans and lines of credit, the excess of the loan balance over the net realizable value of the property collateralizing the loan is charged-off when the loan becomes 150 days delinquent. That charge-off is based on recent indications of value from external parties that are generally obtained shortly after a loan becomes nonaccrual. At September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, approximately 55% of the Company’s home equity portfolio consisted of first lien loans and lines of credit. Of the remaining junior lien loans in the portfolio, approximately 74%73% (or approximately 33%32% of the aggregate home equity portfolio) consisted of junior lien loans that were behind a first lien mortgage loan that was not owned or serviced by the Company. To the extent known by the Company, if a senior lien loan would be on nonaccrual status because of payment delinquency, even if such senior lien loan was not owned by the Company, the junior lien loan or line that is owned by the Company is placed on nonaccrual status. At September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, the balance of junior lien loans and lines that were in nonaccrual status solely as a result of first lien loan performance was $26$22 million, compared with $32$30 million at September 30, 2013, $30March 31, 2014 and $24 million at December 31, 2013 and $29 million at June 30, 2014. In monitoring the credit quality of its home equity portfolio for purposes of determining the allowance for credit losses, the Company reviews delinquency and nonaccrual information and considers recent charge-off experience. Additionally, the Company generally evaluates home equity loans and lines of credit that are more than 150 days past due for collectibility on a loan-by-loan basis and the excess of the loan balance over the net realizable value of the property collateralizing the loan is charged-off at that time. In determining the amount of such charge-offs, if the Company does not know the amount of the remaining first lien mortgage loan (typically because the Company does not own or service the first lien loan), the Company assumes that the first lien mortgage loan has had no principal amortization since the origination of the junior lien loan. Similarly, data used in estimating incurred losses for purposes of determining the allowance for credit losses also assumes no reductions in outstanding principal of first lien loans since the origination of the junior lien loan. Home equity line of

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credit terms vary but such lines are generally originated with an open draw period of ten years followed by an

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amortization period of up to twenty years. At September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, approximately 93%92% of all outstanding balances of home equity lines of credit related to lines that were still in the draw period, the weighted-average remaining draw periods were approximately five years, and approximately 14%22% were making contractually allowed payments that do not include any repayment of principal.

Factors that influence the Company’s credit loss experience include overall economic conditions affecting businesses and consumers, generally, but also residential and commercial real estate valuations, in particular, given the size of the Company’s real estate loan portfolios. Commercial real estate valuations can be highly subjective, as they are based upon many assumptions. Such valuations can be significantly affected over relatively short periods of time by changes in business climate, economic conditions, interest rates and, in many cases, the results of operations of businesses and other occupants of the real property. Similarly, residential real estate valuations can be impacted by housing trends, the availability of financing at reasonable interest rates, and general economic conditions affecting consumers.

In determining the allowance for credit losses, the Company estimates losses attributable to specific troubled credits identified through both normal and detailed or intensified credit review processes and also estimates losses inherent in other loans and leases. In quantifying incurred losses, the Company considers the factors and uses the techniques described herein and in note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements. For purposes of determining the level of the allowance for credit losses, the Company segments its loan and lease portfolio by loan type. The amount of specific loss components in the Company’s loan and lease portfolios is determined through a loan-by-loan analysis of commercial loans and commercial real estate loans in nonaccrual status. Measurement of the specific loss components is typically based on expected future cash flows, collateral values or other factors that may impact the borrower’s ability to pay. Losses associated with residential real estate loans and consumer loans are generally determined by reference to recent charge-off history and are evaluated (and adjusted if deemed appropriate) through consideration of other factors including near-term forecasted loss estimates developed by the Company’s credit department. These forecasts give consideration to overall borrower repayment performance and current geographic region changes in collateral values using third party published historical price indices or automated valuation methodologies. With regard to collateral values, the realizability of such values by the Company contemplates repayment of any first lien position prior to recovering amounts on a junior lien position. Approximately 45% of the Company’s home equity portfolio consists of junior lien loans and lines of credit. The Company generally evaluates residential real estate loans and home equity loans and lines of credit that are more than 150 days past due for collectibility on a loan-by-loan basis and the excess of the loan balance over the net realizable value of the property collateralizing the loan is charged-off at that time. Except for consumer loans and residential real estate loans that are considered smaller balance homogeneous loans and are evaluated collectively and loans obtained in acquisition transactions, the Company considers a loan to be impaired when, based on current information and events, it is probable that the Company will be unable to collect all amounts according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement or the loan is delinquent 90 days or more and has been placed in nonaccrual status. Those impaired loans are evaluated for specific loss components. Modified loans, including smaller balance homogenous loans, that are considered to be troubled debt restructurings are evaluated for impairment giving consideration to the impact of the modified loan terms on the present value of the loan’s expected cash flows. Loans less than 90 days delinquent are deemed to have a minimal delay in payment and are generally not considered to be impaired. Loans acquired in connection with acquisition transactions subsequent to 2008 were recorded at fair value with no carry-over of any previously recorded allowance

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for credit losses. Determining the fair value of the acquired loans required estimating cash flows expected to be collected on the loans and discounting those cash flows at then-current interest rates. The impact of estimated future credit losses represents the predominant difference between contractually required payments at acquisition and the cash flows expected to be collected at acquisition. Subsequent decreases to those expected cash flows require the Company to evaluate the need for an additional allowance for credit losses and could lead to charge-offs of acquired loan balances. Additional

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information regarding the Company’s process for determining the allowance for credit losses is included in note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Management believes that the allowance for credit losses at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 appropriately reflected credit losses inherent in the portfolio as of that date. The allowance for credit losses was $919$921 million, or 1.40%1.37% of total loans and leases at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, compared with $916 million or 1.44% at September 30, 2013, $917 million or 1.43% at March 31, 2014 and $920 million or 1.38% at December 31, 20132014. The ratio of the allowance to total loans and $918 million or 1.42%leases at June 30, 2014.each respective date reflects the impact of loans obtained in acquisition transactions subsequent to 2008 that had been recorded at estimated fair value based on estimated future cash flows expected to be received on those loans. Those cash flows include the impact of expected defaults on customer repayment performance. As noted earlier, GAAP prohibits any carry-over of an allowance for credit losses for acquired loans recorded at fair value. The level of the allowance reflects management’s evaluation of the loan and lease portfolio using the methodology and considering the factors as described herein. Should the various credit factors considered by management in establishing the allowance for credit losses change and should management’s assessment of losses inherent in the loan portfolioportfolios also change, the level of the allowance as a percentage of loans could increase or decrease in future periods. The ratio of the allowance for credit losses to nonaccrual loans was 108%117% at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, compared with 100% at September 30, 2013, 105%103% a year earlier and 115% at December 31, 2013 and 104% at June 30, 2014. Given the Company’s general position as a secured lender and its practice of charging offcharging-off loan balances when collection is deemed doubtful, that ratio and changes in that ratio are generally not an indicative measure of the adequacy of the Company’s allowance for credit losses, nor does management rely upon that ratio in determiningassessing the adequacy of the allowance. The level of the allowance reflects management’s evaluation of the loan and lease portfolio as of each respective date.

Other Income

Other income totaled $451$440 million in the thirdfirst quarter of 2014,2015, compared with $477$420 million in the year-earlier quarter and $456$452 million in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. ReflectedThe predominant factor contributing to the improvement from the first quarter of 2014 was a $22 million increase in mortgage banking revenues. As compared with the fourth quarter of 2014, the decline in other income reflected a decrease in the third quarter of 2013 were gains from loan securitization activities of $56 million. Excluding such gains, othersyndication fees and declines in service charges on deposit accounts and trust income, in that quarterpartially offset by higher mortgage banking revenues.

Mortgage banking revenues totaled $421 million. The improvement$102 million in the recent quarter, as compared with $80 million in the year-earlier quarter, exclusive of the securitization gains, resulted predominantly from higher residential mortgage banking revenues associated with loan servicing activities. As compared with the secondinitial quarter of 2014 lower revenue associated with loan sales activities was the most significant contributor to the recent quarter decline in other income.

Mortgage banking revenues wereand $94 million in the recently completed quarter, up 44% from $65 million in the third quarter of 2013, but 2% below $96 million in the second quarter of 2014.final 2014 quarter. Mortgage banking revenues are comprised of both residential and commercial mortgage banking activities. The Company’s involvement in commercial mortgage banking activities includes the origination, sales and servicing of loans under the multifamilymulti-family loan programs of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Residential mortgage banking revenues, consisting of realized gains from sales of residential real estate loans and loan servicing rights, unrealized gains and losses on residential mortgagereal estate loans held for sale and related commitments, residential real estate loan servicing fees, and other residential real estate loan-related fees and income, were $73$79 million in the thirdfirst quarter of 2014,2015, compared with $50$65 million in the thirdyear-earlier quarter of 2013

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and $78$71 million in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. The higher level of residential mortgage banking revenues in the recent quarter as compared with the year-earlier quarter resulted predominantly from increased revenues from servicing residential real estate loans for others. As compared with the second quarter of 2014, the recent quarter’s declineimprovement in residential mortgage banking revenues reflects lower levels of origination activity and the sale of re-performing government guaranteed loans in 2014’s second quarter. Loans originated for sale include the impactfrom each of the Company’s involvementfirst and fourth quarters of 2014 to the recent quarter reflects an increase in commitments to originate loans for sale. The higher volumes in the U.S. Government’s Home Affordable Refinance Program (“HARP 2.0”), which allows homeownersrecent quarter largely resulted from increased refinancing activity by consumers due to refinance their Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac mortgages whena decline in interest rates early in the value of their home has fallen such that they have little or no equity. The HARP 2.0 program was set to expire December 31, 2013, but was extended and will now be available to borrowers through December 31, 2015. Nevertheless, volumes associated with the HARP 2.0 refinancing program have declined since 2013.quarter.

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New commitments to originate residential real estate loans to be sold were approximately $878$936 million in 2015’s initial quarter, compared with $728 million in the recentyear-earlier quarter compared with $1.1 billion and $905$735 million in the thirdfinal quarter of 2013 and the second quarter of 2014, respectively. Included in those commitments to originate residential real estate loans to be sold were HARP 2.0 commitments of $102 million, $131 million and $69 million in the quarters ended September 30, 2014, September 30, 2013 and June 30, 2014, respectively.2014. Realized gains from sales of residential real estate loans and loan servicing rights (net of the impact of costs associated with obligations to repurchase real estate loans originated for sale) and recognized net unrealized gains and losses attributable to residential real estate loans held for sale, commitments to originate loans for sale and commitments to sell loans totaled to a gaingains of $19$21 million in the recently completedfirst quarter of 2015, compared with gains of $17$15 million and $27$14 million in the third quarter of 2013first and the second quarterfourth quarters of 2014, respectively.

The Company is contractually obligated to repurchase previously sold loans that do not ultimately meet investor sale criteria related to underwriting procedures or loan documentation. When required to do so, the Company may reimburse loan purchasers for losses incurred or may repurchase certain loans. The Company reduces residential mortgage banking revenues for losses related to its obligations to loan purchasers. The amount of those charges varies based on the volume of loans sold, the level of reimbursement requests received from loan purchasers and estimates of losses that may be associated with previously sold loans. Residential mortgage banking revenues during each of the first quarter of 2015 and the final quarter of 2014 were reduced by $1 million related to the actual or anticipated settlement of repurchase obligations. Similar reductions in the initial 2014 quarter were less than $1 million during the recent quarter, compared with similar reductions of $3 million in each of the third quarter of 2013 and the second quarter of 2014.million.

Loans held for sale that arewere secured by residential real estate totaled $466$423 million and $292 million at September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, $667 million at September 30, 2013respectively, and $401$435 million at December 31, 2013.2014. Commitments to sell residential real estate loans and commitments to originate residential real estate loans for sale at pre-determined rates were $827$859 million and $557$661 million, respectively, at September 30, 2014, $1.1 billion and $648 million, respectively, at September 30, 2013 and $725March 31, 2015, compared with $655 million and $470$522 million at March 31, 2014, and $717 million and $432 million, respectively, at December 31, 2013.2014. Net recognized unrealized gains on residential real estate loans held for sale, commitments to sell loans, and commitments to originate loans for sale were $20$21 million and $17 million at each of September 30,March 31, 2015 and March 31, 2014, respectively, and $19 million at December 31, 2013 and $22 million at September 30, 2013.2014. Changes in such net unrealized gains and losses are recorded in mortgage banking revenues and resulted in a net increasesincrease in revenuesrevenue of less than $1$2 million in the most recent quarter, and $3compared with net decreases in revenue of $2 million in each of the second quarterfirst and fourth quarters of 2014, and a net decrease in revenues of $23 million in the third quarter of 2013.2014.

Revenues from servicing residential real estate loans for others were $54$58 million in the recent quarter, compared with $32$50 million inand $56 million during the third quarter of 2013quarters ended March 31, 2014 and $51 million in the second quarter of 2014.December 31, 2014, respectively. Residential

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mortgage real estate loans serviced for others totaled $69.7$65.0 billion at September 30, 2014, $72.2March 31, 2015, $73.0 billion at September 30, 2013, $72.4March 31, 2014 and $67.2 billion at December 31, 2013 and $71.0 billion at June 30, 2014, including certain small balance commercial real estate loans of $2.9 billion at the recent quarter-end, $3.4 billion at September 30, 2013, $3.2 billion at December 31, 2013 and $3.0 billion at June 30, 2014. Reflected in residential real estate loans serviced for others were loans sub-serviced for others of $44.4$40.4 billion, $47.4 billion and $42.1 billion at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 $46.5 billion at September 30, 2013, $46.6 billion atand December 31, 20132014, respectively. Revenues earned for sub-servicing loans were $35 million in the first quarter of 2015, $26 million in the year-earlier quarter and $45.5 billion at June 30,$33 million in the fourth quarter of 2014. The contractual servicing rights associated with loans sub-serviced by the Company were predominantly held by affiliates of Bayview Lending Group LLC (“BLG”). Revenues earned for sub-servicing loans were $30 million and $8 million for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $27 million for the three-month period ended June 30, 2014.

Capitalized servicing rights consist largely of servicing associated with loans sold by the Company. Capitalized residential mortgage loan servicing assets totaled $114$111 million at September 30,each of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, compared with $131$123 million at September 30, 2013 and $129 million at DecemberMarch 31, 2013.2014.

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Commercial mortgage banking revenues were $20$23 million in each of the third quarter of 2014,two most recent quarters, compared with $15 million in the year-earlier period and $18 million in the secondfirst quarter of 2014. Included in such amounts were revenues from loan origination and sales activities of $11$13 million in each of the recentfirst quarter of 2015 and fourth quarter of 2014, compared with $7 million in the third quarter of 2013 and $9 million in the secondfirst quarter of 2014. Commercial real estate loans originated for sale to other investors totaled $513approximately $455 million in the recentfirst quarter of 2015, compared with $370$136 million and $312$570 million in the third quarter of 2013first and the second quarterfourth quarters of 2014, respectively. Loan servicing revenues were $9$10 million in each of the two most recent quarters, andcompared with $8 million in the thirdinitial quarter of 2013.2014. Capitalized commercial mortgage servicing assets totaled $73aggregated $74 million at September 30, 2014, $69March 31, 2015, $71 million at September 30, 2013March 31, 2014 and $72$73 million at December 31, 2013.2014. Commercial real estate loans serviced for other investors totaled $11.4 billion, $11.2 billion and $11.3 billion $11.1 billion and $11.4 billion at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively, and included $2.4 billion, $2.3 billion $2.2 billion and $2.3$2.4 billion, respectively, of loan balances for which investors had recourse to the Company if such balances are ultimately uncollectible. Commitments to sell commercial real estate loans and commitments to originate commercial real estate loans for sale were $300$464 million and $141$347 million, respectively, at September 30, 2014, $212March 31, 2015, $190 million and $60$152 million, respectively, at September 30, 2013March 31, 2014 and $130$520 million and $62$212 million, respectively, at December 31, 2013.2014. Commercial real estate loans held for sale at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and December 31, 20132014 were $159$117 million, $152$38 million, and $68$308 million, respectively.

Service charges on deposit accounts totaled $110$102 million in the thirdfirst quarter of 2014,2015, compared with $114$104 million in the year-earlier quarter and $107$106 million in the second quarter of 2014.final 2014 quarter. The lower level of fees in the two most recent quartersquarter’s decline as compared with the third quarter of 2013earlier periods was largely due to lower consumer deposit service fees.

Trust income includes fees related to two significant businesses. The Institutional Client Services (“ICS”) business provides a variety of trustee, agency, investment management and administrative services for corporations and institutions, investment bankers, corporate tax, finance and legal executives, and other institutional clients who: (i) use capital markets financing structures; (ii) use independent trustees to hold retirement plan and other assets; and (iii) need investment and cash management services. The Wealth Advisory Services (“WAS”) business helps high net worth clients grow their wealth, protect it, and transfer it to their heirs. A comprehensive array of wealth management services are offered, including asset management, fiduciary services and family office services. Revenues associated with the ICS business were

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approximately $63$61 million, $58$57 million and $61$63 million during the quarters ended September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and June 30,December 31, 2014, respectively. In the first quarter of 2015, the Company announced that it had agreed to sell the trade processing business within the retirement services division of ICS that was acquired with Wilmington Trust. That divestiture occurred on April 10, 2015. The portion of the business that was ultimately sold in April generated revenues of approximately $34 million in 2014 and $9 million during the first quarter of 2015. After considering related expenses, including the portion of those revenues paid to sub-advisors, net income attributable to the business that was sold was not material to the consolidated results of operations of the Company. Revenues attributable to WAS were approximately $56 million and $53 million for each of the three-month periods ended September 30,March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, and 2013, and $60$55 million for the three-month period ended June 30,December 31, 2014. In total, trust income aggregated $129$124 million in the thirdrecent quarter, of 2014, compared with $124$121 million and $130$128 million in the year-earlier quarterfirst and the second quarterfourth quarters of 2014, respectively. Total trust assets, which include assets under management and assets under administration, aggregated $276.6$293.4 billion at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, compared with $255.1$270.5 billion and $287.9 billion at September 30, 2013March 31, 2014 and $266.1 billion at December 31, 2013.2014, respectively. Trust assets under management were $67.7$69.4 billion, $63.2$65.9 billion and $65.1$68.2 billion at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively. The Company’s proprietary mutual funds

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had assets of $12.4$12.8 billion, $13.2$13.0 billion and $12.7$13.3 billion at September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2013,2014, respectively.

Brokerage services income, which includes revenues from the sale of mutual funds and annuities and securities brokerage fees, totaled $15 million in the recent quarter, compared with $17 million in each of the third quarters of 2014year-earlier quarter and 2013 and$16 million in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. Gains from trading account and foreign exchange activity were $7totaled $6 million during the most recent quarter, $9 million during the year-earlier quarter,initial quarters of 2015 and 2014, compared with $8 million in the second quarter of 2014.final 2014 quarter. Information about the notional amount of interest rate, foreign exchange and other contracts entered into by the Company for trading account purposes is included in note 10 of Notes to Financial Statements and herein under the heading “Taxable-equivalent Net Interest Income.”

M&T’s share of the operating resultslosses of BLG was $4 million in each of the two most recent quartersfirst quarter of 2015, the year-earlier quarter and in 2013’s thirdthe fourth quarter was a loss of $4 million.2014. The operating losses of BLG in the respective quarters reflect provisions for losses associated with securitized loans and other loans held by BLG and loan servicing and other administrative costs. Under GAAP, such losses are required to be recognized by BLG despite the fact that many of the securitized loan losses will ultimately be borne by the underlying third party bond-holders.bondholders. As these loan losses are realized through later foreclosure and still later sale of real estate collateral, the underlying bonds will be charged-down leading to BLG’s future recognition of debt extinguishment gains. The timing of such debt extinguishment is difficult to predict and given ongoing loan loss provisioning, it is not possible to project when BLG will return to profitability. As a result of credit and liquidity disruptions, BLG ceased its originations of small-balance commercial real estate loans in 2008. However, as a result of past securitization activities, BLG is entitled to cash flows from mortgage assets that it owns or that are owned by its affiliates and is also entitled to receive distributions from affiliates that provide asset management and other services. Accordingly, the Company believes that BLG is capable of realizing positive cash flows that could be available for distribution to its owners, including M&T, despite a lack of positive GAAP-earnings from its core mortgage activities. To this point, BLG’s affiliates have largely reinvested their earnings to generate additional servicing and asset management activities, further contributing to the value of those affiliates. Information about the Company’s relationship with BLG and its affiliates is included in note 15 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Other revenues from operations totaled $99$95 million in the recentfirst quarter of 2015, compared with $153$96 million in the thirdyear-earlier quarter of 2013 and $102$103 million in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. Reflected in other revenues from operations inThe recent quarter’s decline as compared with the thirdfinal 2014 quarter of 2013 were gains from securitization transactions which totaled $56 million. During that quarter, the Company securitized approximately $1.0 billion of one-to-four family residential real estate loans held in the Company’swas largely attributable to lower fees for providing loan portfolio in guaranteed mortgage

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securitizations with Ginnie Maesyndication, underwriting and recognized gains of $35 million. Also during that quarter, the Company securitized and sold approximately $1.4 billion of automobile loans held in its loan portfolio, resulting in a gain of $21 million. The Company securitized those loans to improve its regulatory capital ratios and strengthen its liquidity and risk profile as a result of changing regulatory requirements. Also includedadvisory services. Included in other revenues from operations were the following significant components: lettercomponents. Letter of credit and other credit-related fees totaled $29$26 million in the thirdrecent quarter, compared with $32 million in the first quarter of 2014 and $35$33 million in each of the thirdfourth quarter of 2013 and the second quarter of 2014; tax-exempt2014. Tax-exempt income from bank owned life insurance, which includes increases in the cash surrender value of life insurance policies and benefits received, aggregatedtotaled $11 million during the recent quarter, compared with $12 million in the initial quarter of 2014 and $13 million in each of the third quarters of 2014 and 2013 and the secondfinal quarter of 2014; revenues2014. Revenues from merchant discount and credit card fees were $25$24 million in the recent quarter ended March 31, 2015, compared with $21$22 million and $26 million in the third quarter of 2013quarters ended March 31, 2014 and $24 million in 2014’s second quarter; and insurance-relatedDecember 31, 2014, respectively. Insurance-related sales commissions and other revenues totaled $10 million in each of the third quarters of 2014 and 2013 and $11 million in the secondinitial quarter of 2014.

Other income totaled $1.33 billion in the first nine months of 2014,2015, compared with $1.42 billion in the corresponding 2013 period. Gains and losses on bank investment securities (including other-than-temporary impairment losses) totaled to net gains of $47 million in 2013. There were no gains or losses on investment securities in 2014. Also reflected in other income in 2013 were gains from securitization transactions of $63 million. Excluding gains and losses from bank investment securities and gains from securitization activities, other income in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2013 aggregated $1.31 billion.

Mortgage banking revenues were $269 million for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2014, up 8% from $249$12 million in the year-earlier period. Residential mortgage banking revenues rose 13% to $216 million during the first nine months of 2014 from $191quarter and $9 million in the similar 2013 period. New commitments to originate residential real estate loans to be soldfourth quarter of 2014. Other miscellaneous revenues and the changes in such revenues from period-to-period were $2.5 billion and $4.7 billion during the first nine months of 2014 and 2013, respectively. Realized gains from sales of residential real estate loans and loan servicing rights (net of the impact of costs associated with obligations to repurchase real estate loans originated for sale) and recognized unrealized gains and losses on residential real estate loans held for sale, commitments to originate loans for sale and commitments to sell loans totaled to gains of $61 million and $108 million during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Residential mortgage banking revenues during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013 were reduced by $3 million and $13 million, respectively, related to actual or anticipated settlements of repurchase obligations. Revenues from servicing residential mortgage loans for others were $155 million and $83 million for the first nine-months of 2014 and 2013, respectively. That increase was largely attributable to increased sub-servicing revenues that totaled $83 million and $14 million in the 2014 and 2013 periods, respectively. Commercial mortgage banking revenues totaled $53 million and $58 million during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. That decline resulted largely from lower origination activity. Commercial real estate loans originated for sale to others were $1.1 billion in the first nine months of 2014, compared with $1.4 billion in the comparable 2013 period.

Service charges on deposit accounts aggregated $322 million and $337 million during the first nine months of 2014 and 2013, respectively. That decline resulted from lower consumer service charges, largely overdraft fees. Trust income rose 3% to $380 million from $370 million a year earlier. Brokerage services income totaled $51 million during the first nine months of 2014, compared with $50 million in the year-earlier period. Trading accountnot individually significant.

 

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and foreign exchange activity resulted in gains of $21 million and $27 million for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. That decline reflected lower income from new interest rate swap activity conducted on behalf of customers. M&T’s investment in BLG resulted in losses of $13 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2014, compared with losses of $10 million in the year-earlier period.

Gains and losses on investment securities totaled to net gains of $47 million in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2013. Reflected in that amount were other-than-temporary impairment losses of $10 million. Those losses related to a subset of the privately issued mortgage-backed securities that were sold in the second quarter of 2013. During the second quarter of 2013, the Company sold privately issued mortgage-backed securities held in its available-for-sale portfolio having an amortized cost of approximately $1.0 billion, resulting in a net pre-tax loss of $46 million. The Company sold the privately issued mortgage-backed securities in order to improve its regulatory capital and liquidity position through reduced exposure to such relatively higher risk, less liquid, securities in favor of lower risk, highly liquid, Ginnie Mae securities. Also in 2013’s second quarter, the Company realized a $103 million pre-tax gain from the sale of its holdings of Visa and MasterCard common stock that it had received at no cost as part of the restructuring of those companies several years earlier. There were no gains or losses on investment securities in 2014.

Other revenues from operations were $297 million in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2014, compared with $350 million in the similar year-earlier period. Reflected in such revenues in 2013 were the $63 million of gains from securitization activities previously discussed. Also included in other revenues from operations during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013 were the following significant components: letter of credit and other credit related fees of $96 million and $99 million, respectively; income from bank owned life insurance of $37 million and $44 million, respectively; merchant discount and credit card fees of $70 million and $62 million, respectively; and insurance-related sales commissions and other revenues of $33 million and $32 million, respectively.

Other Expense

OtherEffective January 1, 2015, M&T adopted amended guidance from the FASB for accounting for investments in qualified affordable housing projects under which the initial cost of such investments is amortized to income tax expense aggregated $679in proportion to the tax benefit received. The adoption of this accounting guidance did not have a significant effect on the Company’s financial position or results of operations, but did result in the restatement of the consolidated financial statements for 2014 and earlier years to remove net costs associated with qualified affordable housing projects from other expense and include the amortization of the investments in income tax expense. As a result, the amortization included in income tax expense was $10 million and $12 million in the first quarters of 2015 and 2014, respectively. Similarly, losses removed from other costs of operations and amortization amounts now included in income tax expense were $14 million in each of the second, third and fourth quarters of 2014.

Reflecting the application of the new accounting guidance, other expense totaled $686 million in the first quarter of 2014, up 3% from $6592015, compared with $690 million in the year-earlier period, but down from $681quarter and $666 million in 2014’s second quarter.the final quarter of 2014. Included in those amounts are expenses considered by management to be “nonoperating” in nature consisting of amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets of $7 million in each of the two most recent quarters and $11$10 million in the third quarters of 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $9 million in the secondfirst quarter of 2014. There were no merger-related expenses during those respective quarters. Exclusive of these nonoperating expenses, noninterest operating expenses were $672totaled $680 million in each of the two most recentfirst quarters compared with $648of 2015 and 2014 and $659 million in the thirdfourth quarter of 2013. The most significant factors for the higher level of2014. Operating expenses in the recent quartersquarter as compared with 2013’s third quarter were higherthe year-earlier period reflected lower costs for professional services, FDIC assessments and salaries associated with BSA/AML activities, compliance, capital planningequipment and stress testing, risk management, and other operational initiatives. The comparison of the third and second quarters of 2014 reflectsnet occupancy expenses that were offset by higher salaries and employee benefits expenses. The rise in noninterest operating expenses from the most recent quarter resulting from an additional compensation day and higher incentive compensation, offset by lower litigation-related costs that had been elevated in 2014’s second quarter to provide for a pre-acquisition contingency associated with Wilmington Trust Corporation, a subsidiary of M&T. In the thirdfourth quarter of 2014 Wilmington Trust Corporation paid $18.5 millionwas largely due to settle claimsseasonally higher stock-based compensation and employee benefits expenses offset, in part, by the SEC that Wilmington Trust Corporation had not correctly reported certain of its financial statement information prior to being acquired by M&T.

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Wilmington Trust Corporation did not admit to the allegations in settling this matter. That settlement had no impact on the Company’s expenses in the third quarter of 2014.

Other expense for the first nine months of 2014 aggregated $2.06 billion, up $170 million or 9% from $1.89 billion in the year-earlier period. Included in those amounts are expenses considered to be “nonoperating” in nature consisting of amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets of $27 million in 2014 and $36 million in 2013, and merger-related expenses of $12 million in 2013. The merger-related expenses were incurred in connection with the pending Hudson City acquisition. Those expenses consisted largely oflower professional services and other temporary help fees associated with the planned conversion of systems and/or integration of operations; initial marketing and promotion expenses designed to introduce M&T Bank to its new customers; travel costs; and printing, postage, supplies and other costs. Exclusive of these nonoperating expenses, noninterest operating expenses through the first nine months of 2014 increased $192 million or 10% to $2.04 billion from $1.84 billion in the corresponding 2013 period. The most significant factors contributing to that increase were higher costs for professional services and salaries associated with the BSA/AML activities, compliance, capital planning and stress testing, risk management, and other operational initiatives, and the reversal in the second quarter of 2013 of a contingent compensation obligation that expired. Table 2 provides a reconciliation of other expense to noninterest operating expense.

Salaries and employee benefits expense totaled $349$390 million in 2015’s initial quarter, compared with $371 million in the thirdyear-earlier quarter of 2014, compared with $339and $345 million in the third quarter of 2013 and $340 million in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. ForAs compared with the first three quartersyear-earlier period, the recent quarter reflects the impact of annual merit increases for employees, higher incentive compensation costs and higher pension expense. The increase in pension expense is predominantly attributable to an increase in the amortization of unrecognized actuarial losses. Cumulative unrecognized actuarial losses increased from $191 million at December 31, 2013 to $512 million at December 31, 2014 due predominantly to a 75 basis point reduction in the discount rate and revised mortality tables released in 2014 by the Society of Actuaries used to determine the pension benefit obligation. In accordance with GAAP, net unrecognized gains or losses that exceed ten percent of the greater of the projected benefit obligation or the market-related value of plan assets are required to be amortized over the expected service period of active employees, and are included as a component of net pension cost. In addition to higher pension expense and merit increases, seasonally higher stock-based compensation, unemployment insurance, payroll-related taxes and the Company’s contributions for retirement savings plan benefits related to annual incentive compensation payments also contributed to the rise in salaries and employee benefits expense totaled $1.06 billion, up 4% from $1.02 billion in the year-earlier period. Suchrecent quarter as compared with the fourth quarter of 2014. The Company, in accordance with GAAP, has accelerated the recognition of compensation costs for stock-based awards granted to retirement-eligible employees and employees who will become retirement-eligible prior to full vesting of the award. As a result, stock-based compensation expense during the first quarters of 2015 and 2014 included $14 million and $16 million, respectively, that would have been recognized over the normal vesting period

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if not for the accelerated expense recognition provisions of GAAP. That acceleration had no effect on the value of stock-based compensation awarded to employees. Salaries and employee benefits expense included stock-based compensation of $11$28 million $9and $30 million in the quarters ended March 31, 2015 and March 31, 2014, respectively, and $12 million duringin the quarter ended December 31, 2014. The number of full-time equivalent employees was 15,263 at March 31, 2015, compared with 15,316 and 15,312 at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2014, respectively.

Excluding the nonoperating expenses described earlier from each quarter, nonpersonnel operating expenses were $290 million and $309 million in the quarters ended September 30, 2014, September 30, 2013March 31, 2015 and June 30,March 31, 2014, respectively, and $54$314 million and $47 million forin the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively.fourth quarter of 2014. The higher expense levels duringdecrease in such expenses in the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014recent quarter as compared with the corresponding periodsyear-earlier quarter and the final quarter of 2014 reflected a lower level of professional services costs. Professional services costs include legal expenses, which were elevated in 2013 reflectthe fourth quarter of 2014. Other professional services costs were lower in the initial quarter of 2015 as certain projects were either completed or reached significant milestones. Professional services costs related to BSA/AML activities, compliance, capital planning and stress testing, risk management and other operational initiatives. The increase in the recent quarter as compared with the immediately preceding quarter reflects an additional compensation day and higher incentive compensation. The number of full-time equivalent employees was 15,260 at September 30, 2014, 15,409 at September 30, 2013, 15,368 at December 31, 2013 and 15,387 at June 30,initiatives were elevated throughout 2014.

Excluding the nonoperating expense items described earlier from each period, nonpersonnel operating expenses were $323 million in the third quarter of 2014, compared with $309 million and $332 million in the year-earlier quarter and the second quarter of 2014, respectively. On the same basis, such expenses were $976 million and $826 million during the first nine months of 2014 and 2013, respectively. The recent quarter increase as compared with the third quarter of 2013 was predominantly due to higher costs for professional services. As compared with the secondfirst quarter of 2014, the lower level of expenses in the recent quarter was largely attributableaddition to the $12 million increasedecline in professional services costs, lower FDIC assessments and equipment and net occupancy expenses also contributed to the Company’s litigation reserves in the second quarter. The risedecrease in nonpersonnel operating expenses in the first nine months of 2014 as compared with the year-earlier period was due largely to higher professional services expenses of $78 million, increases in litigation contingency-related costs of $19 million, and the reversal in 2013 of a $26 million accrual for a contingent compensation obligation assumed in the May 2011 acquisition of Wilmington Trust that expired and was no longer payable. The higher level of professional services costs in the 2014 periods as compared with the 2013 periods was attributable to costs incurred related to

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BSA/AML activities, compliance, capital planning and stress testing, and risk management and other operational initiatives.

initial 2015 quarter. The efficiency ratio or noninterest operating expenses (as defined above) divided by the sum of taxable-equivalent net interest income and noninterest income (exclusive of gains and losses from bank investment securities), measures the relationship of noninterest operating expenses to revenues. The Company’s efficiency ratio was 59.7% during61.5% in the recentfirst quarter of 2015, compared with 56.0% and 59.4%62.8% in the year-earlier quarterperiod and 57.8% in the secondfourth quarter of 2014, respectively. The efficiency ratios for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013 were 61.0% and 54.3%, respectively.2014.

Income Taxes

The provision for income taxes for the thirdfirst quarter of 20142015 was $137$134 million, compared with $149 million and $130$125 million in the year-earlier quarter and second$157 million in the fourth quarter of 2014, respectively.2014. The effective tax rates were 33.2%35.6%, 33.7%35.4% and 31.4%36.1% for the quarters ended September 30,March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 September 30, 2013 and June 30,December 31, 2014, respectively. ForAs noted earlier, effective January 1, 2015 M&T adopted amended guidance from the nine-month periods ended September 30,FASB for accounting for investments in qualified affordable housing projects, which resulted in the restatement of the consolidated financial statements for 2014 and 2013,earlier years. The adoption of the provision for income taxes was $380 million and $473 million, respectively, and theguidance resulted in higher effective tax rates were 32.5% and 34.0%, respectively. During the second quarter of 2014, the Company resolved with tax authorities previously uncertain tax positions associated with pre-acquisition activities of M&T’s Wilmington Trust entities, resulting in a reduction of the provision for income taxes in that quarter of $8 million. Excluding that reduction of income tax expense, the effective tax rates for the three-month period ended June 30, 2014 and the nine-month period ended September 30, 2014 would have been 33.3% and 33.2%, respectively.than existed prior to such adoption. The effective tax rate is affected by the level of income earned that is exempt from tax relative to the overall level of pre-tax income, the level of income allocated to the various state and local jurisdictions where the Company operates, because tax rates differ among such jurisdictions, and the impact of any large but infrequently occurring items.

The Company’s effective tax rate in future periods will be affected by the results of operations allocated to the various tax jurisdictions within which the Company operates, any change in income tax laws or regulations within those jurisdictions, and interpretations of income tax regulations that differ from the Company’s interpretations by any of various tax authorities that may examine tax returns filed by M&T or any of its subsidiaries.

Capital

Shareholders’ equity was $12.3$12.5 billion at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, representing 12.68%12.73% of total assets, compared with $11.0$11.9 billion or 13.05% of total assets a year earlier13.43% at March 31, 2014 and $11.3$12.3 billion or 13.28%12.76% at December 31, 2013.2014.

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Included in shareholders’ equity was preferred stock with a financial statement carrying valuesvalue of $1.2 billion at September 30,each of March 31, 2015, March 31, 2014 $879 million at September 30, 2013 and $882 million at December 31, 2013. On February 11, 2014, M&T issued 350,000 shares of Series E Perpetual Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $1.00 per share and liquidation preference of $1,000 per share. Dividends, if declared, will be paid semi-annually at a rate of 6.45% through February 14, 2024 and thereafter will be paid quarterly at a rate of the three-month London Interbank Offered Rate plus 361 basis points. The shares are redeemable in whole or in part on or after February 15, 2024. Notwithstanding M&T’s option to redeem the shares, if an event occurs such that the shares no longer qualify as Tier 1 regulatory

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capital, M&T may redeem all of the shares within 90 days following that occurrence.2014. Further information concerning M&T&T’s preferred stock can be found in note 6 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Common shareholders’ equity wasaggregated $11.3 billion, or $84.95 per share, at March 31, 2015, compared with $10.7 billion, or $81.05 per share, at March 31, 2014 and $11.1 billion, or $83.99 per share, at September 30, 2014, compared with $10.1 billion, or $77.81 per share, at September 30, 2013 and $10.4 billion, or $79.81$83.88 per share, at December 31, 2013.2014. Tangible equity per common share, which excludes goodwill and core deposit and other intangible assets and applicable deferred tax balances, was $57.10$58.29 at the end of the recent quarter, compared with $50.32 a year earlierMarch 31, 2015, $53.92 at March 31, 2014 and $52.45$57.06 at December 31, 2013.2014. The Company’s ratio of tangible common equity to tangible assets was 8.05%8.17% at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, compared with 8.11%8.34% a year earlier and 8.39%8.11% at December 31, 2013.2014. Reconciliations of total common shareholders’ equity and tangible common equity and total assets and tangible assets as of each of those respective dates are presented in table 2.

Shareholders’ equity reflects accumulated other comprehensive income or loss, which includes the net after-tax impact of unrealized gains or losses on investment securities classified as available for sale, unrealized losses on held-to-maturity securities for which an other-than-temporary impairment charge has been recognized, gains or losses associated with interest rate swap agreements designated as cash flow hedges, foreign currency translation adjustments and adjustments to reflect the funded status of defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans. Net unrealized gains on investment securities, reflected in shareholders’ equity, net of applicable tax effect, were $109$153 million, or $.83$1.15 per common share, at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, compared with net unrealized gains of $64$72 million, or $.49$.55 per common share, at September 30, 2013March 31, 2014 and $34$127 million, or $.26$.96 per common share, at December 31, 2013.2014. Information about unrealized gains and losses as of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 20132014 is included in note 3 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Reflected in net unrealized gains at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 were pre-tax effect unrealized losses of $19$30 million on available-for-sale investment securities with an amortized cost of $1.7 billion and pre-tax effect unrealized gains of $228$308 million on securities with an amortized cost of $7.5$8.7 billion. The pre-tax effect unrealized losses reflect $15$19 million of losses on trust preferred securities issued by financial institutions having an amortized cost of $115$124 million and an estimated fair value of $100$105 million (generally considered Level 2 valuations). Further information concerning the Company’s valuations of available-for-sale investment securities is provided in note 12 of Notes to Financial Statements.

In the second quarter of 2013, the Company sold substantially all of its privately issued residential mortgage-backed securities that were classified as available for sale and recorded a pre-tax loss of $46 million. Those privately issued mortgage-backed securities previously held by the Company were generally collateralized by prime and Alt-A residential mortgage loans. The sales, which were in response to changing regulatory capital and liquidity standards, resulted in improved liquidity and regulatory capital ratios for the Company. Further information on the sales is provided in note 3 of Notes to Financial Statements.

The Company assesses impairment losses on privately issued mortgage-backed securities in the held-to-maturity portfolio by performing internal modeling to estimate bond-specific cash flows thatconsidering recent performance of the mortgage loan collateral and utilizing assumptions about future defaults and loss severity. These bond-specific cash flows also reflect the placement of the bond in the overall securitization structure and the remaining subordination levels. As a result, the Company did not recognize any other-than-temporary impairment charge related to mortgage-backed securities in the held-to-maturity portfolio during the third quarter of 2014. In total, at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2013,2014, the Company had in its held-to-maturity portfolio privately issued mortgage-backed securities with an amortized cost basis of $207$198 million and $220$202 million, respectively, and a fair value of $157$162 million

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and $159$158 million, respectively. At September 30, 2014, 90%March 31, 2015, 87% of the mortgage-backed securities were in the most senior tranche of the securitization structure with 32%28% being independently rated as investment grade. The mortgage-backed securities are generally collateralized by residential and small-balance commercial real estate loans originated between 2004 and 2008 and had a weighted-average credit enhancement of 19%16% at September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, calculated by dividing the remaining unpaid principal balance of bonds subordinate to the bonds owned by the Company plus any overcollateralization remaining in the securitization structure by the remaining unpaid principal balance of all bonds in the securitization structure. All mortgage-backed securities in the held-to-maturity portfolio had a current payment status as of September 30, 2014.March 31, 2015.

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The weighted-average default percentage and loss severity assumptions utilized in the Company’s internal modeling were 33% and 74%, respectively. The Company has concluded that as of March 31, 2015, its privately issued mortgage-backed securities were not other-than-temporarily impaired. Nevertheless, it is possible that adverse changes in the future performance of mortgage loan collateral underlying such securities could impact the Company’s conclusions.

As of September 30, 2014,March 31, 2015, based on a review of each of the remaining securities in the investment securities portfolio, the Company concluded that the declines in the values of any securities containing an unrealized loss were temporary and that any additional other-than-temporary impairment charges were not appropriate. It is likely that the Company will be required to sell certain of its collateralized debt obligations backed by trust preferred securities held in the available-for-sale portfolio to comply with the provisions of the Volcker Rule. However, the amortized cost and fair value of those collateralized debt obligations were $26$25 million and $35$30 million, respectively, at September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 and the Company did not expect that it would realize any material losses if it ultimately was required to sell such securities. As of that date, the Company did not intend to sell nor is it anticipated that it would be required to sell any of its other impaired securities, that is, where fair value is less than the cost basis of the security. The Company intends to continue to closely monitor the performance of its securities because changes in their underlying credit performance or other events could cause the cost basis of those securities to become other-than-temporarily impaired. However, because the unrealized losses on available-for-sale investment securities have generally already been reflected in the financial statement values for investment securities and shareholders’ equity, any recognition of an other-than-temporary decline in value of those investment securities would not have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial condition. Any other-than-temporary impairment charge related to held-to-maturity securities would result in reductions in the financial statement values for investment securities and shareholders’ equity. Additional information concerning fair value measurements and the Company’s approach to the classification of such measurements is included in note 12 of the Notes to Financial Statements.

Adjustments to reflect the funded status of defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans, net of applicable tax effect, reduced accumulated other comprehensive income by $95$301 million, or $.72$2.26 per common share, at September 30, 2014, $261March 31, 2015, $306 million, or $2.01 per common share, at September 30, 2013 and $98 million, or $.75$2.31 per common share, at December 31, 2013.2014, and $97 million, or $.74 per common share, at March 31, 2014. The increase in such adjustment at March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 as compared with March 31, 2014 was the result of two main factors: a 75 basis point decrease in the discount rate used to measure the benefit obligations of the defined benefit plans and the use of updated mortality tables for the U.S. published in 2014 by the Society of Actuaries.

Cash dividends declared on M&T’s common stock during the quarter ended March 31, 2015 totaled approximately$94 million, compared with $92 million and $93 million in the two most recent quarters compared with $92 million in the third quarter of 2013,ended March 31 and December 31, 2014, respectively, and represented a quarterly dividend payment of $.70 per common share in each of those three quarters. Common stock dividends during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014 and 2013 were $278 million and $273 million, respectively.

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Cash dividends declared on preferred stock are detailed in the table that follows. There were as follows:no cash dividends declared in the first quarter of 2014 on the Series E Preferred Stock issued in February 2014.

 

   1st Qtr.   2nd Qtr.   3rd Qtr.   Year-to-date 
   (in thousands) 

Series A – 2014

  $3,666     3,666     3,666     10,998  

Series A – 2013

   2,875     2,875     2,875     8,625  

Series C – 2014

   2,414     2,414     2,414     7,242  

Series C – 2013

   1,894     1,894     1,894     5,682  

Series D – 2014

   8,594     8,593     8,594     25,781  

Series D – 2013

   8,594     8,593     8,594     25,781  

Series E – 2014

   —       5,770     5,769     11,539  

Series E – 2013

   —       —       —       —    
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Totals – 2014

  $14,674     20,443     20,443     55,560  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Totals – 2013

  $13,363     13,362     13,363     40,088  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

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PREFERRED STOCK DIVIDENDS

Dollars in thousands

   First Quarter
2015
   First Quarter
2014
   Fourth Quarter
2014
 

Series A

  $3,666     3,666     3,666  

Series C

   2,414     2,414     2,414  

Series D

   8,594     8,594     8,594  

Series E

   5,644     —       5,644  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

$20,318   14,674   20,318  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

The Company did not repurchase any shares of its common stock under a previously announced program during 20132014 or the first nine monthsquarter of 2014.2015.

M&T and its subsidiary banks are required to comply with applicable capital adequacy standards established by the federal banking agencies. In July 2013, the Federal regulators generally requireReserve Board, the OCC and the FDIC approved New Capital Rules establishing a new comprehensive capital framework for U.S. banking institutions under the current Basel Iorganizations. These rules went into effect as to maintain “TierM&T and its subsidiary banks on January 1, capital”2015, subject to phase-in periods for certain components and “total capital” ratios of at least 4% and 8%, respectively, of risk-adjusted total assets. In addition toother provisions.

The New Capital Rules substantially revise the risk-based measures, Federal bank regulators have also implemented a minimum “leverage” ratio guideline of 3% of the quarterly average of total assets forcapital requirements applicable to bank holding companies and member bankstheir depository institution subsidiaries, including M&T and its subsidiaries, M&T Bank and Wilmington Trust, N.A., as compared to the U.S. general risk-based capital rules that either havewere applicable to the highest supervisory ratingCompany through December 31, 2014. The New Capital Rules revise the definitions and the components of regulatory capital, as well as address other issues affecting the numerator in banking institutions’ regulatory capital ratios. The New Capital Rules also address asset risk weights and other matters affecting the denominator in banking institutions’ regulatory capital ratios. In addition, the New Capital Rules implement certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, including the requirements of Section 939A to remove references to credit ratings from the federal agencies’ rules.

Among other matters, the New Capital Rules: (i) introduce a new capital measure called “Common Equity Tier 1” (“CET1”) and related regulatory capital ratio of CET1 to risk-weighted assets; (ii) specify that Tier 1 capital consists of CET1 and “Additional Tier 1 capital” instruments meeting certain revised requirements; (iii) mandate that most deductions/adjustments to regulatory capital measures be made to CET1 and not to the other components of capital; and (iv) expand the scope of the deductions from and adjustments to capital as compared to the previous regulations. Under the New Capital Rules, for most banking organizations, including M&T, the most common form of Additional Tier 1 capital is non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock and the most common forms of Tier 2 capital are subordinated notes and a portion of the allowance for loan and lease losses, in each case, subject to the New Capital Rules’ specific requirements.

Pursuant to the New Capital Rules, the minimum capital ratios as of January 1, 2015 are as follows:

4.5% CET1 to risk-weighted assets;

6.0% Tier 1 capital (that is, CET1 plus Additional Tier 1 capital) to risk-weighted assets;

8.0% Total capital (that is, Tier 1 capital plus Tier 2 capital) to risk-weighted assets; and

4.0% Tier 1 capital to average consolidated assets as reported on consolidated financial statements (known as the “leverage ratio”).

Pursuant to the New Capital Rules, non-advanced approaches banking organizations, including M&T, may make a one-time permanent election to exclude the effects of certain accumulated other comprehensive income or have implementedloss

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items reflected in shareholders’ equity under U.S. GAAP. M&T made that election during the appropriate federal regulatory authority’s risk-adjusted measure for market risk, and 4% for all otherfirst quarter of 2015. The New Capital Rules also preclude certain hybrid securities, such as trust preferred securities, from inclusion in bank holding companies’ Tier 1 capital, subject to phase-out in the case of bank holding companies, and member banks.such as M&T, that had $15 billion or more in total consolidated assets as of December 31, 2009. As a result, beginning in 2015 25% of September 30, 2014,M&T’s trust preferred securities became includable in Tier 1 capital, included trust preferred securitiesand in 2016, none of approximately $800 million as described in note 5 of Notes to Financial Statements and total capital further included subordinated capital notes of $1.3 billion. As previously noted, pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act,M&T’s trust preferred securities will be phased-outincludable in Tier 1 capital. Trust preferred securities no longer included in M&T’s Tier 1 capital may nonetheless be included as a component of Tier 2 capital on a permanent basis without phase-out and irrespective of whether such securities otherwise meet the revised definition of Tier 2 capital set forth in the New Capital Rules. A detailed discussion of the new regulatory capital rules is included in Part I, Item 1 capital of bank holding companies beginning in 2015. On February 27, 2014, M&T redeemed $350 million of 8.50% Enhanced Trust Preferred Securities andForm 10-K for the associated junior subordinated debentures.year ended December 31, 2014.

The regulatory capital ratios of the Company, M&T Bank and Wilmington Trust, N.A., as of September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 are presented in the accompanying table.

REGULATORY CAPITAL RATIOS

September 30, 2014March 31, 2015

 

  M&T
(Consolidated)
 M&T
Bank
 Wilmington
Trust, N.A.
   M&T
(Consolidated)
 M&T
Bank
 Wilmington
Trust, N.A.
 

Common equity Tier 1

   9.78 10.33 57.32

Tier 1 capital

   12.45 10.39 56.89   11.68 10.33 57.32

Total capital

   15.40 13.20 57.45   14.92 12.88 57.87

Tier 1 leverage

   10.56 8.85 21.52   10.17 9.02 19.61

As described herein under the heading “Recent Legislative and Regulatory Developments,” in July 2013On March 12, 2015, M&T announced that the Federal Reserve adopteddid not object to M&T’s proposed 2015 Capital Plan. Accordingly, M&T may maintain a final rulequarterly common stock dividend of $.70 per share; continue to pay dividends and interest on other equity and debt instruments included in regulatory capital, including preferred stock, trust preferred securities and subordinated debt that revises risk-basedwere outstanding at December 31, 2014, consistent with the contractual terms of those instruments; repurchase up to $200 million of common shares during the first half of 2016; and leverage capital requirements for banking organizations, includingredeem or repurchase up to $310 million of trust preferred securities. Common and preferred dividends are subject to approval by M&T’s Board of Directors in the Company.ordinary course of business. As noted earlier, M&T redeemed $310 million of trust preferred securities on April 15, 2015.

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Segment Information

As required by GAAP, the Company’s reportable segments have been determined based upon its internal profitability reporting system, which is organized by strategic business unit. Financial information about the Company’s segments is presented in note 14 of Notes to Financial Statements. During 2015, certain methodology changes were made and, accordingly, the financial information for the Company’s reportable segments for 2014 have been restated to conform with the methods and assumptions used in 2015. As described in note 14 of Notes to Financial Statements, the methodology changes were largely the result of updated funds transfer pricing and various cost allocations. Additionally, the segment financial data also reflect the Company’s adoption of amended guidance for accounting for investments in qualified affordable housing projects.

The Business Banking segment recorded net incomeearned $25 million in each of $31the first quarters of 2015 and 2014, compared with $26 million during the quarter ended September 30, 2014, 16% higher than the $27 million earned in the year-earlier quarter and 11% above the $28 million earned in the secondfourth quarter of 2014. The improvement in net income asAs compared with the thirdfirst quarter of 2013 reflects2014, a $4 million decrease in net interest income in the provision for credit losses, due to lower net charge-offs, andrecent quarter was largely offset by higher merchant discount and credit card fees and a lower FDIC assessment of $1 million each, partially offset bynoninterest operating expenses. The lower net interest income reflects a narrowing of $2 million.the net

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interest margin on deposits of 26 basis points, partially offset by a $444 million increase in average outstanding deposit balances. The declinemodest decrease in net income in the recent quarter as compared with the immediately preceding quarter resulted from a $4 million decrease in net interest income, was attributable to a 19 basis point narrowing of the net interest margin on depositspartially offset in part, by increases in average deposit (predominantly noninterest-bearing) and loan balances of $325 million and $184 million, respectively. As compared with the second quarter of 2014, the improved results were largely attributable to a $2 million increase in net interest income, mainly the result of a $339 million increase in average deposit balances (predominantly noninterest-bearing), and a $2 million decrease in the provision for credit losses, reflecting lower net charge-offs. Net income recorded by the Business Banking segment totaled $87 million for the first nine months of 2014, 3% below the $90 million earned in the similar 2013 period. That decline resulted from lower net interest income of $7 million and increased costs associated with the allocation of expenses related to BSA/AML compliance, risk management, and other operational initiatives across the Company,Company. The decline in net interest income resulted largely from a 4 basis point narrowing of the net interest margin on loans and a $346 million decline in average outstanding deposit balances.

Net income earned by the Commercial Banking segment totaled $96 million in the first quarter of 2015, compared with $99 million for each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2014. The 2% decline in net income as compared with the first quarter of 2014 resulted largely from a $3 million decrease in net interest income and a $4 million decrease in credit-related fees. The decline in net interest income was the result of a narrowing of the net interest margin on loans and deposits of 11 basis points and 17 basis points, respectively, partially offset by higher average outstanding loan and deposit balances of $1.2 billion and $912 million, respectively. The recent quarter’s decline in net income as compared with 2014’s fourth quarter was largely due to a $4 million decrease in net interest income, a $4 million increase in the provision for credit losses and a $2 million decrease in credit-related fees, partially offset by lower FDIC assessments and other operating expenses. The lower net interest income reflected a narrowing of the net interest margin on loans of 3 basis points and lower average deposit balances of $107 million offset, in part, by higher average outstanding loans of $574 million.

The Commercial Real Estate segment’s net income aggregated $80 million for the first quarter of 2015, up 10% from the $73 million earned in the first three months of 2014, but down 4% from the $83 million recorded in 2014’s fourth quarter. The improvement from the year-earlier quarter reflects a $3$7 million increase in mortgage banking revenues and a $4 million decrease in the provision for credit losses, the result of lowerrecoveries of previously charged off loans in the recent quarter, partially offset by higher personnel-related expenses of $2 million. The increase in mortgage banking revenues was largely due to higher loan origination and sales activities. The decline in net charge-offs.income as compared with the final 2014 quarter was largely due to a $4 million decrease in credit-related fees and a $4 million decline in net interest income. The lower net interest income was due to a 26narrowing of the net interest margin on loans and deposits of 4 basis points each, partially offset by increases in average outstanding loan and deposit (predominantly noninterest-bearing) balances of $331 million and $106 million, respectively.

The Discretionary Portfolio segment recorded net income of $6 million during the three-month period ended March 31, 2015, compared with $11 million in the year-earlier period and $9 million in the fourth quarter of 2014. The decline in net income as compared with the first quarter of 2014 reflects a $9 million decrease in net interest income that was largely attributable to a 32 basis point narrowing of the net interest margin on deposits,investment securities, partially offset by increasesa $4.1 billion increase in average loan and deposit balances of $244 million and $374 million, respectively.

Net income recorded by the Commercial Banking segment aggregated $102 million in the third quarter of 2014, 5% higher than the $97 million earned in the year-earlier quarter, but 3% below the $105 million recorded in the second quarter of 2014. The recent quarter’s improvement as compared with 2013’s third quarter was largelyinvestment securities due to an $18 million decrease in the provisionpurchases of Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities to meet new liquidity requirements that are scheduled to become effective for credit losses, reflecting lower net charge-offs, offset, in part, by a $6 million decline in letter of credit and other credit-related fees and lower net interest income of $4 million. The higher net charge-offs recorded in the third quarter of 2013 resulted from $19 million of loans charged-off for a relationship with a motor vehicle-related parts wholesaler. The decline in net interest income was attributable to the narrowing of the net interest marginM&T on deposits and loans of 26 basis points and 11 basis points, respectively, partially offset by higher average deposit and loan balances of $1.4 billion and $1.2 billion, respectively.January 1, 2016. The recent quarter’s unfavorable performance as compared with the immediately preceding quarter resulted mainlylargely from a $6 million decrease in letter of credit and other credit-related fees, offset, in part, by a $4 million increase in net interest income. The higher net interest income was predominantly due to higher average deposit balances of $1.3 billion. Net income for the Commercial Banking segment was $307 million during the first nine months of 2014, 5% above the $292 million earned in the year-earlier period. That improvement was predominantly due to a $40 million decrease in the provision for credit losses, reflecting lower net charge-offs, partially offset by a $13 million decline in net interest income. The decline in net charge-offsthat resulted from $49 million of loans charged-off in the 2013 period related to the relationship with the motor vehicle-related parts wholesaler. The lower net interest income reflects a narrowing of the net interest margin on deposits and loans of 2917 basis points and 9 basis points, respectively,

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partially offset by higher average deposit and loan balances of $819 million and $1.3 billion, respectively.

The Commercial Real Estate segment earned $79 million in each of the third quarters of 2014 and 2013, respectively, compared with $78 million in the second quarter of 2014. As compared with the third quarter of 2013, a $5 million increase in mortgage banking revenues and a $2 million decrease in the provision for credit losses were offset by an $8 million decline in net interest income. The lower net interest income in the recent quarter was attributable to a narrowing of the net interest margin on deposits and loans of 29 basis points and 15 basis points, respectively, partially offset by a $431 million increase in average deposit balances (predominantly noninterest-bearing). The main factor contributing to the modest improvement in net income in the recent quarter as compared with the immediately preceding quarter was a $2 million increase in mortgage banking revenues. Net income for the Commercial Real Estate segment was $231 million and $246 million for the first nine months of 2014 and 2013, respectively. That decline was due to a $28 million decrease in net interest income and a decrease in mortgage banking revenues of $5 million, offset, in part, by a $4 million decline in the provision for credit losses, the result of lower net charge-offs. The lower net interest income reflects the narrowing of the net interest margin on deposits and loans of 34 basis points and 14 basis points, respectively, partially offset by a $471 million increase in average deposit balances (predominantly noninterest-bearing).

The Discretionary Portfolio segment contributed net income of $8 million in the recent quarter, compared with $25 million in the year-earlier quarter and $15 million in the second quarter of 2014. The decline in net income as compared with the year-earlier period was predominantly due to $35 million of gains recognized in the third quarter of 2013 related to the securitization of approximately $1.0 billion of one-to-four family residential real estate loans held in the Company’s loan portfolio. As compared with the second quarter of 2014, the lower net income in the recent quarter was predominantly due to a $12 million decrease in net interest income, resulting from thepoint narrowing of the net interest margin on investment securities, of 44 basis points, partially offset by a $1.8 billion$399 million increase in average outstanding investment securities balances. Year-to-date net

Net income for thisof the Residential Mortgage Banking segment totaled $35rose 72% to $32 million in 2014 andthe recent quarter from $19 million in 2013.the first quarter of 2014,

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and was 43% higher than the $22 million earned in 2014’s fourth quarter. The improved performance from the year-earlier period was largely attributable to net pre-tax losses of $46the following favorable factors: a $9 million increase in revenues from the sale in the second quarter of 2013 of approximately $1.0 billion of privately issued mortgage-backed securities that were held in the available-for-sale investment securities portfolio. Adjustedmortgage origination and sales activities (including intersegment revenues), due to exclude the impact of those securities losses and pre-tax other-than-temporary impairment charges of $10 million (relating to a subset of the privately issued mortgage-backed securities that were sold) recorded in the first quarter of 2013, this segment recorded net income of $52 million in the first nine months of 2013. On that basis, the most significant factor contributing to the decline in net income in 2014 as compared with the first nine months of 2013 was the $35 million of gains recognized in the third quarter of 2013 related to the securitization of one-to-four family residential real estate loans.

Net income from the Residential Mortgage Banking segment totaled $25 million in the recent quarter, compared with $13 million in the third quarter of 2013 and $28 million in 2014’s second quarter. The recent quarter’s improved performance as compared with the year-earlier quarter reflected a $22higher origination volumes; an $8 million increase in revenues from servicing residential real estate loans, predominantly the result of increasedhigher sub-servicing activities, partially offset by lower net interest incomefees; and reduced amortization of $3 million.capitalized servicing assets reflecting reduced prepayment speeds associated with serviced loans. The decrease inmain factors contributing to the recent quarter’s increased net income as compared with the secondfinal quarter of 2014 reflected lower gains of $5was an $8 million from the origination and sale of loans and a $2 million increase in salaries and benefits expense, offset, in part, by a $4 million

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increase in revenues from servicing residential real estate loans. Year-to-date net income for this segment totaled $72 million in 2014 and $81 million in 2013. That 11% decrease was due to the following factors: a $70 million decrease in loanmortgage origination and sales revenuesactivities (including intersegment revenues), due to higher origination volumes, and lower origination volumes; a $9operating expenses, including reduced personnel and professional services costs and lower amortization of capitalized servicing assets.

Net income earned by the Retail Banking segment totaled $69 million increasein each of the first quarters of 2015 and 2014, compared with $59 million in the provision for credit losses, asfourth quarter of 2014. As compared with the year-earlier period includedfirst quarter of 2014, a $9$3 million recovery of a previously charged-off loan to a residential real estate builder and developer; and a $6 million decline in net interest income. The declinedecrease in net interest income was attributable toand lower service charges on deposit accounts were offset by lower personnel, equipment and occupancy expenses. The decrease in net interest income reflected a 1910 basis point narrowing of the net interest margin on deposits and a $733$120 million decrease in average loans,outstanding deposit balances, partially offset in part, by a 50 basis point widening of the net interest margin on loans. Largely offsetting those unfavorable factors was a $69$652 million riseincrease in revenues from servicing residential real estate loans, predominantly the result of sub-servicing activities.

Net contribution from the Retail Banking segment totaled $33 million in the third quarter of 2014, compared with $54 million in the year-earlier quarter and $32 million in the second quarter of 2014.average outstanding loan balances. The most significant factors contributing to the recent quarter’s decline16% improvement in net income as compared with the year-earlier period included: a $21 million gain recognized in the third quarter of 2013 on the securitization and sale of approximately $1.4 billion of automobile loans previously held in the Company’s loan portfolio; a $16 million decline in net interest income, reflecting a 17 basis point narrowing of the net interest margin on deposits and a decrease in average loans of $635 million, offset, in part, by an 11 basis point widening of the net interest margin on loans; and a $6 million reduction in fees earned for providing deposit account services. The modest increase in the recent quarter’s net income as compared with the secondfourth quarter of 2014 reflected a $10 million decrease in advertising and promotional expenses largely associated with the offsetting impactlaunch of the new brand campaign throughout the Company’s footprint during the final 2014 quarter, a $3 million increasedecrease in net interest incomepersonnel expenses and an increase inlower operating expenses related to the provision for credit losses in a like amount. The increase in net interest income reflects a $265 million increase in average loans,allocation of the costs of Company-wide operational initiatives, offset, in part, by a $478$6 million decreaseseasonal decline in average deposits. Year-to-date net income for this segment was $95 million in 2014service charges on deposit accounts and $158 million in 2013. That year-over-year decline was attributable to the following significant factors: a $63$4 million decrease in net interest income, reflecting a 22 basis point narrowing of the net interest margin on deposits and a $953 million decrease in the average loan balances, partially offset by a 14 basis point widening of the net interest margin on loans; the $21 million gain on the securitization of automobile loans recognized in 2013; an $18 million decline in service charges on deposit accounts; and higher noninterest operating expenses related to the Company-wide operational initiatives.balances.

The “All Other” category reflects other activities of the Company that are not directly attributable to the reported segments. Reflected in this category are the amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets resulting from the acquisitions of financial institutions, M&T’s share of the operating losses of BLG, merger-related gains and expenses resulting fromrelated to acquisitions of financial institutions and the net impact of the Company’s allocation methodologies for internal transfers for funding charges and credits associated with the earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities of the Company’s reportable segments and the provision for credit losses. The “All Other” category also includes the trust activitiesincome of the Company.Company that reflects the ICS and WAS business activities. The various components of the “All Other” category resulted in a net loss of $2losses totaling $67 million for the three monthsquarter ended September 30,March 31, 2015, $66 million in the first quarter of 2014 and $22 million in the fourth quarter of 2014. As compared with net lossesthe first quarter of $1 million for each of the three months ended September 30, 2013 and June 30, 2014, respectively. Largely offsetting factors reflectedhigher personnel-related expenses in the recent quarter’s unfavorable performancequarter due to BSA/AML and other company-wide initiatives and a $4 million increase in advertising, promotion and travel expenses were largely offset by lower professional services costs of $11 million, a $3 million decrease in amortization of core deposit intangibles and declines in other operating expenses. The most significant factors contributing to the increased net loss in the recent quarter as compared with the year-earlier periodimmediately preceding quarter were: a $51 million increase in personnel costs, largely related to seasonally higher personnel-relatedstock-based compensation, payroll-related taxes and professional service costs due to BSA/AML staffingemployer contributions for retirement savings plans recorded in the first quarter of 2015; an $8 million increase in advertising, promotion, and initiativestravel expenses; a decline in trust income of $5 million; and higher incentive compensation, partially offset by the favorableunfavorable impact from the Company’s allocation methodologies for internal transfers for funding charges and credits associated with the

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earning assets and the interest-bearing liabilities of the Company’s reportable segments and an increase in trust income of $5 million. As compared with the second quarter of 2014, recent quarter results reflected a $7 million increase in personnel costs that was largely offset by a $4 million decrease in occupancy expense and a $2 million decline in FDIC assessments. The “All Other” category recorded a net loss of $37 million for the first nine months of 2014, compared with net income of $32 million for the corresponding 2013 period. Results for the 2013 period included realized gains on the sale of Visa and MasterCard common stock totaling $103 million and the reversal of an accrual for a contingent compensation obligation assumed in the May 2011 acquisition of Wilmington Trust in the amount of $26 million that expired offset, in part, by the favorable impact from the Company’s allocation methodologies for internal transfers for funding charges and credits associated with the earning assets and the interest-bearing liabilities of the Company’s reportable segments. Also contributing to the unfavorable performance in 2014 as compared with 2013 were increases in personnel-related and professional service costs due to BSA/AML initiatives.

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Recent Accounting Developments

In August 2014,As previously noted, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issuedCompany adopted amended accounting guidance for investments in qualified affordable housing projects under which the initial cost of investments in qualified affordable housing projects is amortized in proportion to the tax credits and other tax benefits received from such projects and recognized in the income statement as a component of income tax expense. As required, the guidance was applied retrospectively to all periods presented. The adoption of this guidance did not have a significant effect on the Company’s financial position or results of operations, but did result in the restatement of the consolidated statement of income for the three-month period ended March 31, 2014 to remove $12 million of losses associated with qualified affordable housing projects from “other costs of operations” and include the amortization of the initial cost of the investment in income tax expense. The Company amortized $10 million of its investments in qualified affordable housing projects to income tax expense during the three-month period ended March 31, 2015.

In the first quarter of 2015, the Company adopted amended accounting guidance from the FASB related to the classification of certain government-guaranteed mortgage loans upon foreclosure. This guidance requires that a mortgage loan be derecognized and that a separate other receivable be recognized upon foreclosure if the following conditions are met: (1) the loan has a government guarantee that is not separable from the loan before foreclosure; (2) at the time of foreclosure, the creditor has the intent to convey the real estate property to the guarantor and make a claim on the guarantee, and the creditor has the ability to recover under that claim; and (3) at the time of foreclosure, any amount of the claim that is determined on the basis of the fair value of the real estate is fixed. Upon foreclosure, the separate other receivable should be measured based upon the amount of the loan balance (principal and interest) expected to be recovered from the guarantor. The adoption of this guidance did not have a significant effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position or results of operations.

Effective January 1, 2015, the Company adopted amended accounting guidance for repurchase-to-maturity transactions and repurchase financings. The adoption had no impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position or results of operations. The Company has made the required disclosures in note 5 of Notes to Financial Statements.

In January 2015, the Company also adopted amended accounting and disclosure guidance for reclassification of residential real estate collateralized consumer mortgage loans upon foreclosure. The amended guidance clarifies that an in-substance repossession or foreclosure occurs and a creditor is considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan upon either (1) the creditor obtaining legal title to the residential real estate property upon completion of a foreclosure or (2) the borrower conveying all interest in the residential real estate property to the creditor to satisfy that loan through completion of a deed in lieu of foreclosure or through a similar legal agreement. The amended guidance also requires interim and annual disclosure of both (1) the amount of foreclosed residential real estate property held by the creditor and (2) the recorded investment in consumer mortgage loans collateralized by residential real estate that are in the process of foreclosure according to local requirements of the applicable jurisdiction. The Company’s adoption of this guidance on January 1, 2015 did not have a significant effect on the Company’s financial position or results of operations. The Company has made the required disclosures in note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements.

In April 2015, the FASB issued amended accounting guidance for debt issuance costs. The amended guidance requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a

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direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability. This guidance is effective for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 15, 2014. This guidance should be applied using a prospective transition method or a modified retrospective transition method.2015. The Company does not expect that the guidance will have a material impact onchange in the presentation of its financial position upon adoption of this amended guidance.

In February 2015, the FASB issued amended accounting guidance relating to the consolidation of variable interest entities to modify the evaluation of whether limited partnerships and similar legal entities are variable interest entities or resultsvoting interest entities and to eliminate the presumption that a general partner should consolidate a limited partnership. The amended guidance also eliminates certain conditions in the assessment of operations.whether fees paid by a legal entity to a decision maker or a service provider represent a variable interest in the legal entity and reduces the extent to which related party arrangements cause an entity to be considered a primary beneficiary. The new guidance eliminates the indefinite deferral of existing consolidation guidance for certain investment funds, but provides a scope exception for reporting entities with interests in legal entities that are required to comply with or operate in accordance with requirements similar to those in Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 for registered money market funds. This guidance is effective for annual and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015. The Company is still evaluating the impact the guidance could have on its consolidated financial statements.

In June 2014, the FASB issued amended accounting guidance for share-based payments when the terms of an award provide that a performance target could be achieved after the requisite service period. The amended guidance requires that a performance target that affects vesting and that could be achieved after the requisite service period be treated as a performance condition. The performance target should not be reflected in estimating the grant-date fair value of the award. Compensation cost should be recognized in the period in which it becomes probable that the performance target will be achieved and should represent the compensation cost attributable to the period(s) for which the requisite service has already been rendered. If the performance target becomes probable of being achieved before the end of the requisite service period, the remaining unrecognized compensation cost should be recognized prospectively over the remaining requisite service period. The total amount of compensation cost recognized during and after the requisite service period should reflect the number of awards that are expected to vest and should be adjusted to reflect those awards that ultimately vest. The requisite service period ends when the employee can cease rendering service and still be eligible to vest in the award if the performance target is achieved. This guidance is effective for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 31, 2015, with earlier adoption permitted. The Company does not expect the amended guidance published by the FASB to have a material impact on its financial position or results of operations.

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In June 2014, the FASB issued amended accounting guidance for repurchase-to-maturity transactions and repurchase financings. The amended accounting guidance changes the accounting for repurchase-to-maturity transactions to secured borrowing accounting, which is consistent with the accounting for other repurchase agreements. Further, for repurchase financing arrangements, the amendments require separate accounting for a transfer of a financial asset executed contemporaneously with a repurchase agreement with the same counterparty, which will result in secured borrowing accounting for the repurchase agreement. The amendments require new disclosures on transfers accounted for as sales in transactions that are economically similar to repurchase agreements and about the types of collateral pledged in repurchase agreements and similar transactions accounted for as secured borrowings. The accounting changes in this guidance are effective for the first interim or annual period beginning after December 15, 2014. Changes in accounting for transactions outstanding on the effective date should be presented as a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the period of adoption. The disclosure guidance for certain transactions accounted for as a sale is required to be presented for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2014, and the disclosure guidance for repurchase agreements, securities lending transactions, and repurchase-to-maturity transactions accounted for as secured borrowings is required to be presented for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2014, and for interim periods beginning after March 15, 2015. The Company does not currently have repurchase-to-maturity transactions or transfers of a financial asset executed contemporaneously with a repurchase agreement with the same counterparty. The Company will make the required disclosures when the guidance becomes effective.

In May 2014, the FASB issued amended accounting and disclosure guidance for revenue from contracts with customers. The core principle of the accounting guidance is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. To achieve that core principle, an entity should apply the following steps: (1) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (2) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (3) determine the transaction price; (4) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; (5) recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation. The guidance also specifies the accounting for some costs to obtain or fulfill a contract with a customer. The amended disclosure guidance requires sufficient information to enable users of financial statements to understand the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. The amended guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning

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after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within that reporting period. The guidance should be applied either retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented or retrospectively with the cumulative effect of initially applying this guidance recognized at the date of initial application. The Company is still evaluating the impact the guidance could have on its consolidated financial statements.

In January 2014, the FASB issued amended accounting and disclosure guidance for reclassification of residential real estate collateralized consumer mortgage loans upon foreclosure. The amended guidance clarifies that an in-substance repossession or foreclosure occurs, and a creditor is considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan, upon either (1) the creditor obtaining legal title to the residential real estate property upon completion of a foreclosure or (2) the borrower conveying all interest in the residential real estate property to the creditor to satisfy that loan through completion of a deed in lieu of foreclosure or through a similar legal agreement. The amended guidance also requires interim and annual disclosure of both (1) the amount of foreclosed residential real estate property held by the creditor and (2) the recorded investment in consumer mortgage loans collateralized by residential

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real estate that are in the process of foreclosure according to local requirements of the applicable jurisdiction. This guidance is effective for annual periods, and interim periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2014. This guidance should be applied using a prospective transition method or a modified retrospective transition method. The Company does not expect that the guidance will have a material impact on its financial position or results of operations.

In January 2014, the FASB issued amended accounting guidance permitting an accounting policy election to account for investments in qualified affordable housing projects using the proportional amortization method if certain conditions are met. Under the proportional amortization method, an entity amortizes the initial cost of the investment in proportion to the tax credits and other tax benefits received and recognizes the net investment performance in the income statement as a component of income tax expense. The decision to apply the proportional amortization method of accounting is an accounting policy election that should be applied consistently to all qualifying affordable housing project investments. This guidance is effective for annual periods, and interim reporting periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2014. This guidance should be applied retrospectively to all periods presented. The Company does not expect that the guidance will have a material impact on its financial position.

Forward-Looking Statements

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and other sections of this quarterly report contain forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company’s business, management’s beliefs and assumptions made by management. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “target,” “estimate,” “continue,” “positions,” “prospects” or “potential,” by future conditional verbs such as “will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” or “may,” or by variations of such words or by similar expressions. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions (“Future Factors”) which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and the Company assumes no duty to update forward-looking statements.

Future Factors include changes in interest rates, spreads on earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, and interest rate sensitivity; prepayment speeds, loan originations, credit losses and market values of loans, collateral securing loans and other assets; sources of liquidity; common shares outstanding; common stock price volatility; fair value of and number of stock-based compensation awards to be issued in future periods; the impact of changes in market values on trust-related revenues; legislation and/or regulation affecting the financial services industry as a whole, and M&T and its subsidiaries individually or collectively, including tax legislation or regulation; regulatory supervision and oversight, including monetary policy and capital requirements; changes in accounting policies or procedures as may be required by the FASB or other regulatory agencies; increasing price and product/service competition by competitors, including new entrants; rapid technological developments and changes; the ability to continue to introduce competitive new products and services on a timely, cost-effective basis; the mix of products/services; containing costs and expenses; governmental and public policy changes; protection and validity of intellectual property rights; reliance on large customers; technological, implementation and cost/financial risks in large, multi-year contracts; the outcome of pending and future litigation and governmental proceedings,

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including tax-related examinations and other matters; continued availability of financing; financial resources in the amounts, at the times and on the terms required to support M&T and its subsidiaries’ future businesses; and material differences in the actual financial results of merger, acquisition and investment activities compared with M&T’s initial expectations, including the full realization of anticipated cost savings and revenue enhancements.

These are representative of the Future Factors that could affect the outcome of the forward-looking statements. In addition, such statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates, general economic and political conditions, either nationally or in the states in which M&T and its subsidiaries do business, including interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations, changes and trends in the securities markets, and other Future Factors.

 

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Table 1

QUARTERLY TRENDS

 

 2014 Quarters 2013 Quarters   2015 2014 Quarters 
 Third Second First Fourth Third Second First   First Quarter Fourth Third Second First 

Earnings and dividends

             

Amounts in thousands, except per share

             

Interest income (taxable-equivalent basis)

 $748,864   740,139   728,897   740,665   748,791   756,424   736,425    $743,925   762,619   748,864   740,139   728,897  

Interest expense

 73,964  65,176  66,519  67,982  69,578  72,620  73,925    78,499  74,772  73,964  65,176  66,519 
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net interest income

  674,900    674,963    662,378    672,683    679,213    683,804    662,500   665,426   687,847   674,900   674,963   662,378  

Less: provision for credit losses

  29,000    30,000    32,000    42,000    48,000    57,000    38,000   38,000   33,000   29,000   30,000   32,000  

Other income

  451,111    456,412    420,107    446,246    477,388    508,689    432,882   440,203   451,643   451,111   456,412   420,107  

Less: other expense

  679,284   681,194   702,271   743,072   658,626   598,591   635,596  686,375  666,221  665,359  667,660  690,234 
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Income before income taxes

  417,727    420,181    348,214    333,857    449,975    536,902    421,786   381,254   440,269   431,652   433,715   360,251  

Applicable income taxes

  136,542    129,996    113,252    106,236    149,391    182,219    141,223   133,803   156,713   150,467   143,530   125,289  

Taxable-equivalent adjustment

  5,841    5,849    5,945   6,199   6,105    6,217    6,450   5,838   6,007  5,841   5,849   5,945  
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net income

 $275,344   284,336   229,017   221,422   294,479   348,466   274,113 $241,613  277,549  275,344  284,336  229,017 
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net income available to common shareholders-diluted

 $251,917    260,695    211,731    203,451    275,356    328,557    255,096  $218,837   254,239   251,917   260,695   211,731  

Per common share data

       

Basic earnings

 $1.92    1.99    1.63    1.57    2.13    2.56    2.00  $1.66   1.93   1.92   1.99   1.63  

Diluted earnings

  1.91    1.98    1.61    1.56    2.11    2.55    1.98   1.65   1.92   1.91   1.98   1.61  

Cash dividends

 $.70    .70    .70    .70    .70    .70    .70  $.70   .70   .70   .70   .70  

Average common shares outstanding

       

Basic

  131,265    130,856    130,212    129,497    129,171    128,252    127,669   132,049   131,450   131,265   130,856   130,212  

Diluted

  132,128   131,828   131,126   130,464   130,265   129,017   128,636  132,769  132,278  132,128  131,828  131,126 
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Performance ratios, annualized

       

Return on

       

Average assets

  1.17  1.27  1.07  1.03  1.39  1.68  1.36 1.02 1.12 1.17 1.27 1.07

Average common shareholders’ equity

  9.18  9.79  8.22  7.99  11.06  13.78  11.10 7.99 9.10 9.18 9.79 8.22

Net interest margin on average earning assets (taxable-equivalent basis)

  3.23  3.40  3.52  3.56  3.61  3.71  3.71 3.17 3.10 3.23 3.40 3.52

Nonaccrual loans to total loans and leases, net of unearned discount

  1.29  1.36  1.39  1.36  1.44  1.46  1.60 1.18 1.20 1.29 1.36 1.39
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net operating (tangible) results (a)

       

Net operating income (in thousands)

 $279,838    289,974    235,162    227,797    300,968    360,734    285,136  $245,776   281,929   279,838   289,974   235,162  

Diluted net operating income per common share

  1.94    2.02    1.66    1.61    2.16    2.65    2.06   1.68   1.95   1.94   2.02   1.66  

Annualized return on

       

Average tangible assets

  1.24  1.35  1.15  1.11  1.48  1.81  1.48 1.08 1.18 1.24 1.35 1.15

Average tangible common shareholders’ equity

  13.80  14.92  12.76  12.67  17.64  22.72  18.71 11.90 13.55 13.80 14.92 12.76

Efficiency ratio (b)

  59.67  59.39  63.95  65.48  56.03  50.92  55.88 61.46 57.84 58.44 58.20 62.83
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Balance sheet data

       

In millions, except per share

       

Average balances

       

Total assets (c)

 $93,245    89,873    86,665    85,330    84,011    83,352    81,913  $95,892   98,644   93,245   89,873   86,665  

Total tangible assets (c)

  89,689    86,311    83,096    81,754    80,427    79,760    78,311   92,346   95,093   89,689   86,311   83,096  

Earning assets

  82,776    79,556    76,288    75,049    74,667    73,960    72,339   85,212   87,965   82,776   79,556   76,288  

Investment securities

  12,780    10,959    9,265    8,354    6,979    5,293    5,803   13,376   12,978   12,780   10,959   9,265  

Loans and leases, net of unearned discount

  64,763    64,343    63,763    63,550    64,858    65,979    65,852   66,587   65,767   64,763   64,343   63,763  

Deposits

  70,772    69,659    67,327    67,212    66,232    65,680    64,540   71,698   75,515   70,772   69,659   67,327  

Common shareholders’ equity (c)

  11,015    10,808    10,576    10,228    10,003    9,687    9,448   11,227   11,211   11,015   10,808   10,576  

Tangible common shareholders’ equity (c)

  7,459   7,246   7,007   6,652   6,419   6,095   5,846  7,681  7,660  7,459  7,246  7,007 
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

At end of quarter

       

Total assets (c)

 $97,228    90,835    88,530    85,162    84,427    83,229    82,812  $98,378   96,686   97,228   90,835   88,530  

Total tangible assets (c)

  93,674    87,276    84,965    81,589    80,847    79,641    79,215   94,834   93,137   93,674   87,276   84,965  

Earning assets

  86,751    80,062    77,950    74,706    74,085    73,927    73,543   87,959   86,278   86,751   80,062   77,950  

Investment securities

  13,348    12,120    10,364    8,796    8,310    5,211    5,661   14,393   12,994   13,348   12,120   10,364  

Loans and leases, net of unearned discount

  65,572    64,748    64,135    64,073    63,659    65,972    65,924   67,099   66,669   65,572   64,748   64,135  

Deposits

  74,342    69,829    68,699    67,119    66,552    65,661    65,090   73,594   73,582   74,342   69,829   68,699  

Common shareholders’ equity, net of undeclared cumulative preferred dividends (c)

  11,099    10,934    10,652    10,421    10,133    9,836    9,545   11,294   11,102   11,099   10,934   10,652  

Tangible common shareholders’ equity (c)

  7,545    7,375    7,087    6,848    6,553    6,248    5,948   7,750   7,553   7,545   7,375   7,087  

Equity per common share

  83.99    82.86    81.05    79.81    77.81    75.98    73.99   84.95   83.88   83.99   82.86   81.05  

Tangible equity per common share

  57.10   55.89   53.92   52.45   50.32   48.26   46.11  58.29  57.06  57.10  55.89  53.92 
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Market price per common share

       

High

 $128.69    125.90    123.04    117.29    119.54    112.01    105.90  $129.58   128.96   128.69   125.90   123.04  

Low

  118.51    116.10    109.16    109.23    109.47    95.68    99.59   111.78   112.42   118.51   116.10   109.16  

Closing

  123.29   124.05   121.30   116.42   111.92   111.75   103.16  127.00  125.62  123.29  124.05  121.30 
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

(a)Excludes amortization and balances related to goodwill and core deposit and other intangible assets and merger-related gains and expenses which, except in the calculation of the efficiency ratio, are net of applicable income tax effects. A reconciliation of net income and net operating income appears in Table 2.
(b)Excludes impact of merger-related gains and expenses and net securities transactions.
(c)The difference between total assets and total tangible assets, and common shareholders’ equity and tangible common shareholders’ equity, represents goodwill, core deposit and other intangible assets, net of applicable deferred tax balances. A reconciliation of such balances appears in Table 2.

 

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Table 2

RECONCILIATION OF QUARTERLY GAAP TO NON-GAAP MEASURES

 

  2014 Quarters 2013 Quarters   2015 2014 Quarters 
  Third Second First Fourth Third Second First   First Quarter Fourth Third Second First 

Income statement data

              

In thousands, except per share

              

Net income

              

Net income

  $275,344   284,336   229,017   221,422   294,479   348,466   274,113    $241,613   277,549   275,344   284,336   229,017  

Amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets (a)

   4,494   5,638   6,145   6,375   6,489   7,632   8,148     4,163   4,380   4,494   5,638   6,145  

Merger-related expenses (a)

   —      —      —      —      —     4,636   2,875  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net operating income

  $279,838   289,974   235,162   227,797   300,968   360,734   285,136 $245,776  281,929  279,838  289,974  235,162 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Earnings per common share

        

Diluted earnings per common share

  $1.91    1.98    1.61    1.56    2.11    2.55    1.98  $1.65   1.92   1.91   1.98   1.61  

Amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets (a)

   .03    .04    .05    .05    .05    .06    .06   .03   .03   .03   .04   .05  

Merger-related expenses (a)

   —      —      —      —      —      .04    .02  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Diluted net operating earnings per common share

  $1.94   2.02   1.66   1.61   2.16   2.65   2.06 $1.68  1.95  1.94  2.02  1.66 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Other expense

        

Other expense

  $679,284    681,194    702,271    743,072    658,626    598,591    635,596  $686,375   666,221   665,359   667,660   690,234  

Amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets

   (7,358  (9,234  (10,062  (10,439  (10,628  (12,502  (13,343 (6,793 (7,170 (7,358 (9,234 (10,062

Merger-related expenses

   —      —      —      —      —      (7,632  (4,732
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Noninterest operating expense

  $671,926   671,960   692,209   732,633   647,998   578,457   617,521 $679,582  659,051  658,001  658,426  680,172 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Merger-related expenses

        

Salaries and employee benefits

  $—      —      —      —      —      300    536  

Equipment and net occupancy

   —      —      —      —      —      489    201  

Printing, postage and supplies

   —      —      —      —      —      998    827  

Other costs of operations

   —      —      —      —      —      5,845   3,168 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $—      —      —      —      —      7,632   4,732 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Efficiency ratio

        

Noninterest operating expense (numerator)

  $671,926   671,960   692,209   732,633   647,998   578,457   617,521 $679,582  659,051  658,001  658,426  680,172 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Taxable-equivalent net interest income

   674,900    674,963    662,378    672,683    679,213    683,804    662,500   665,426   687,847   674,900   674,963   662,378  

Other income

   451,111    456,412    420,107    446,246    477,388    508,689    432,882   440,203   451,643   451,111   456,412   420,107  

Less: Gain on bank investment securities

   —      —      —      —      —      56,457    —    

Net OTTI losses recognized in earnings

   —      —      —      —      —      —      (9,800)

Less: Loss on bank investment securities

 (98) —     —     —     —    
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Denominator

  $1,126,011   1,131,375   1,082,485   1,118,929   1,156,601   1,136,036   1,105,182 $1,105,727  1,139,490  1,126,011  1,131,375  1,082,485 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Efficiency ratio

   59.67  59.39  63.95  65.48  56.03  50.92  55.88 61.46 57.84 58.44 58.20 62.83
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Balance sheet data

        

In millions

        

Average assets

        

Average assets

  $93,245    89,873    86,665    85,330    84,011    83,352    81,913  $95,892   98,644   93,245   89,873   86,665  

Goodwill

   (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525

Core deposit and other intangible assets

   (45  (53  (64  (74  (84  (95  (109 (31 (38 (45 (53 (64

Deferred taxes

   14   16   20   23   25   28   32  10  12  14  16  20 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Average tangible assets

  $89,689   86,311   83,096   81,754   80,427   79,760   78,311 $92,346  95,093  89,689  86,311  83,096 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Average common equity

        

Average total equity

  $12,247    12,039    11,648    11,109    10,881    10,563    10,322  $12,459   12,442   12,247   12,039   11,648  

Preferred stock

   (1,232  (1,231  (1,072  (881  (878  (876  (874 (1,232 (1,231 (1,232 (1,231 (1,072
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Average common equity

   11,015   10,808   10,576   10,228   10,003   9,687   9,448  11,227  11,211  11,015  10,808  10,576 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Goodwill

   (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525

Core deposit and other intangible assets

   (45  (53  (64  (74  (84  (95  (109 (31 (38 (45 (53 (64

Deferred taxes

   14   16   20   23   25   28   32  10  12  14  16  20 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Average tangible common equity

  $7,459   7,246   7,007   6,652   6,419   6,095   5,846 $7,681  7,660  7,459  7,246  7,007 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

At end of quarter

        

Total assets

        

Total assets

  $97,228    90,835    88,530    85,162    84,427    83,229    82,812  $98,378   96,686   97,228   90,835   88,530  

Goodwill

   (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525

Core deposit and other intangible assets

   (42  (49  (59  (69  (79  (90  (102 (28 (35 (42 (49 (59

Deferred taxes

   13   15   19   21   24   27   30  9  11  13  15  19 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total tangible assets

  $93,674   87,276   84,965   81,589   80,847   79,641   79,215 $94,834  93,137  93,674  87,276  84,965 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total common equity

        

Total equity

  $12,333    12,169    11,887    11,306    11,016    10,716    10,423  $12,528   12,336   12,333   12,169   11,887  

Preferred stock

   (1,232  (1,232  (1,232  (882  (879  (877  (875 (1,232 (1,231 (1,232 (1,232 (1,232

Undeclared dividends - cumulative preferred stock

   (2  (3  (3  (3  (4  (3  (3 (2 (3 (2 (3 (3
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Common equity, net of undeclared cumulative preferred dividends

   11,099    10,934    10,652    10,421    10,133    9,836    9,545   11,294   11,102  11,099  10,934  10,652  
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Goodwill

   (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525  (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525 (3,525

Core deposit and other intangible assets

   (42  (49  (59  (69  (79  (90  (102 (28 (35 (42 (49 (59

Deferred taxes

   13   15   19   21   24   27   30  9  11  13  15  19 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total tangible common equity

  $7,545   7,375   7,087   6,848   6,553   6,248   5,948 $7,750  7,553  7,545  7,375  7,087 
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

(a)After any related tax effect.

 

- 9988 -


 

M&T BANK CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

Table 3

AVERAGE BALANCE SHEETS AND ANNUALIZED TAXABLE-EQUIVALENT RATES

 

   2014 Third Quarter  2014 Second Quarter  2014 First Quarter 

Average balance in millions; interest in thousands

  Average
Balance
  Interest   Average
Rate
  Average
Balance
  Interest   Average
Rate
  Average
Balance
  Interest   Average
Rate
 

Assets

             

Earning assets

             

Loans and leases, net of unearned discount*

             

Commercial, financial, etc.

  $18,889   $156,440     3.29  18,978    157,891     3.34  18,476    153,529     3.37

Real estate - commercial

   26,487    283,476     4.19    26,140    278,596     4.22    26,143    287,584     4.40  

Real estate - consumer

   8,634    90,023     4.17    8,746    95,439     4.36    8,844    92,533     4.19  

Consumer

   10,753    122,408     4.52    10,479    118,157     4.52    10,300    116,631     4.59  
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total loans and leases, net

   64,763    652,347    4.00   64,343    650,083     4.05   63,763    650,277     4.14 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Interest-bearing deposits at banks

   5,083    3,198     .25    4,080    2,535     .25    3,089    1,884     .25  

Federal funds sold and agreements to resell securities

   80    14     .07    90    16     .07    100    16     .07  

Trading account

   70    287     1.65    84    264     1.25    71    477     2.68  

Investment securities**

             

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

   11,817    82,475     2.77    9,984    74,046     2.97    8,286    64,814     3.17  

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   162    1,897     4.65    166    1,986     4.82    177    2,269     5.20  

Other

   801    8,646     4.28    809    11,209     5.56    802    9,160     4.63  
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total investment securities

   12,780    93,018    2.89   10,959    87,241     3.19   9,265    76,243     3.34 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total earning assets

   82,776    748,864    3.59   79,556    740,139     3.73   76,288    728,897     3.87 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Allowance for credit losses

   (924     (922     (923   

Cash and due from banks

   1,273       1,224       1,322     

Other assets

   10,120       10,015       9,978     
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Total assets

  $93,245       89,873       86,665     
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Liabilities and shareholders’ equity

             

Interest-bearing liabilities

             

Interest-bearing deposits

             

NOW accounts

  $1,037    394     .15    1,026    330     .13    988    297     .12  

Savings deposits

   41,056    11,532     .11    39,478    11,181     .11    38,358    11,601     .12  

Time deposits

   3,227    3,805     .47    3,350    3,855     .46    3,460    3,940     .46  

Deposits at Cayman Islands office

   325    161     .20    339    181     .21    380    208     .22  
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total interest-bearing deposits

   45,645    15,892    .14   44,193    15,547     .14   43,186    16,046     .15 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Short-term borrowings

   181    19     .04    220    25     .05    264    32     .05  

Long-term borrowings

   8,547    58,053     2.69    6,525    49,604     3.05   5,897    50,441     3.47 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total interest-bearing liabilities

   54,373    73,964    .54   50,938    65,176     .51   49,347    66,519     .55 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Noninterest-bearing deposits

   25,127       25,466       24,141     

Other liabilities

   1,498       1,430       1,529     
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Total liabilities

   80,998       77,834       75,017     
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Shareholders’ equity

   12,247       12,039       11,648     
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

  $93,245       89,873       86,665     
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Net interest spread

      3.05       3.22       3.32  

Contribution of interest-free funds

      .18      .18      .20 
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net interest income/margin on earning assets

   $674,900    3.23%   674,963     3.40%   662,378     3.52%
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

(continued)

   2015 First Quarter  2014 Fourth Quarter  2014 Third Quarter 

Average balance in millions; interest in thousands

  Average
Balance
  Interest   Average
Rate
  Average
Balance
  Interest   Average
Rate
  Average
Balance
  Interest   Average
Rate
 

Assets

             

Earning assets

             

Loans and leases, net of unearned discount*

             

Commercial, financial, etc.

  $19,457   $153,866     3.21  19,117    156,627     3.25  18,889    156,440     3.29

Real estate - commercial

   27,596    288,121     4.18    27,064    293,283     4.24    26,487    283,476     4.19  

Real estate - consumer

   8,572    88,850     4.15    8,654    90,637     4.19    8,634    90,023     4.17  

Consumer

   10,962    121,366     4.49    10,932    123,681     4.49    10,753    122,408     4.52  
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total loans and leases, net

 66,587   652,203  3.97  65,767   664,228  4.01  64,763   652,347  4.00 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Interest-bearing deposits at banks

 5,073   3,118   .25   9,054   5,744   .25   5,083   3,198   .25  

Federal funds sold and agreements to resell securities

 97   24   .10   86   18   .08   80   14   .07  

Trading account

 79   565   2.87   80   353   1.76   70   287   1.65  

Investment securities**

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

 12,437   78,313   2.55   12,032   82,843   2.73   11,817   82,475   2.77  

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

 159   1,967   5.04   160   1,963   4.86   162   1,897   4.65  

Other

 780   7,735   4.02   786   7,470   3.77   801   8,646   4.28  
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total investment securities

 13,376   88,015  2.67  12,978   92,276  2.82  12,780   93,018  2.89 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total earning assets

 85,212   743,925  3.54  87,965   762,619  3.44  82,776   748,864  3.59 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Allowance for credit losses

 (925 (924 (924

Cash and due from banks

 1,221   1,290   1,273  

Other assets

 10,384   10,313   10,120  
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Total assets

$95,892   98,644   93,245  
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Liabilities and shareholders’ equity

Interest-bearing liabilities

Interest-bearing deposits

NOW accounts

$1,121   311   .11   1,083   383   .14   1,037   394   .15  

Savings deposits

 41,525   10,219   .10   42,949   11,151   .10   41,056   11,532   .11  

Time deposits

 3,017   3,740   .50   3,128   3,915   .50   3,227   3,805   .47  

Deposits at Cayman Islands office

 224   147   .27   265   149   .22   325   161   .20  
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total interest-bearing deposits

 45,887   14,417  .13  47,425   15,598  .13  45,645   15,892  .14 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Short-term borrowings

 196   34   .07   195   25   .05   181   19   .04  

Long-term borrowings

 9,835   64,048   2.64   8,954   59,149   2.62  8,547   58,053   2.69 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total interest-bearing liabilities

 55,918   78,499  .57  56,574   74,772  .52  54,373   73,964  .54 
  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Noninterest-bearing deposits

 25,811   28,090   25,127  

Other liabilities

 1,704   1,538   1,498  
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Total liabilities

 83,433   86,202   80,998  
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Shareholders’ equity

 12,459   12,442   12,247  
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

$95,892   98,644   93,245  
  

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

    

Net interest spread

 2.97   2.92   3.05  

Contribution of interest-free funds

 .20  .18  .18 
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net interest income/margin on earning assets

$665,426  3.17 687,847  3.10 674,900  3.23
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

*

Includes nonaccrual loans.

(continued)

**

Includes available-for-sale securities at amortized cost.

 

- 10089 -


 

M&T BANK CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

Table 3 (continued)

AVERAGE BALANCE SHEETS AND ANNUALIZED TAXABLE-EQUIVALENT RATES (continued)

 

  2013 Fourth Quarter 2013 Third Quarter   2014 Second Quarter 2014 First Quarter 

Average balance in millions; interest in thousands

  Average
Balance
 Interest   Average
Rate
 Average
Balance
 Interest   Average
Rate
   Average
Balance
 Interest   Average
Rate
 Average
Balance
 Interest   Average
Rate
 

Assets

                  

Earning assets

                  

Loans and leases, net of unearned discount*

                  

Commercial, financial, etc.

  $18,096   $155,396     3.41 17,798   156,915     3.50  $18,978   $157,891     3.34 18,476   153,529     3.37

Real estate - commercial

   26,231   300,225     4.48   26,129   301,178     4.51     26,140   278,596     4.22   26,143   287,584     4.40  

Real estate - consumer

   8,990   94,436     4.20   9,636   100,364     4.17     8,746   95,439     4.36   8,844   92,533     4.19  

Consumer

   10,233   118,554     4.60   11,295   130,179     4.57     10,479   118,157     4.52   10,300   116,631     4.59  
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total loans and leases, net

   63,550    668,611    4.17   64,858    688,636     4.21  64,343   650,083  4.05  63,763   650,277  4.14 
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Interest-bearing deposits at banks

   2,948    1,829     .25    2,646    1,650     .25   4,080   2,535   .25   3,089   1,884   .25  

Federal funds sold and agreements to resell securities

   115    20     .07    117    22     .08   90   16   .07   100   16   .07  

Trading account

   82    280     1.36    67    211     1.27   84   264   1.25   71   477   2.68  

Investment securities**

         

U.S. Treasury and federal agencies

   7,349    60,150     3.25    5,948    48,406     3.23   9,984   74,046   2.97   8,286   64,814   3.17  

Obligations of states and political subdivisions

   186    2,436     5.20    193    2,460     5.07   166   1,986   4.82   177   2,269   5.20  

Other

   819    7,339     3.56    838    7,406     3.51   809   11,209   5.56   802   9,160   4.63  
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total investment securities

   8,354    69,925    3.32   6,979    58,272     3.31  10,959   87,241  3.19  9,265   76,243  3.34 
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total earning assets

   75,049    740,665    3.92   74,667    748,791     3.98  79,556   740,139  3.73  76,288   728,897  3.87 
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Allowance for credit losses

   (925     (935    (922 (923

Cash and due from banks

   1,417       1,374      1,224   1,322  

Other assets

   9,789       8,905      10,015   9,978  
  

 

     

 

      

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total assets

  $85,330       84,011     $89,873   86,665  
  

 

     

 

      

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Liabilities and shareholders’ equity

         

Interest-bearing liabilities

         

Interest-bearing deposits

         

NOW accounts

  $933    311     .13    924    333     .14  $1,026   330   .13   988   297   .12  

Savings deposits

   38,079    13,388     .14    36,990    13,733     .15   39,478   11,181   .11   38,358   11,601   .12  

Time deposits

   3,617    4,630     .51    3,928    6,129     .62   3,350   3,855   .46   3,460   3,940   .46  

Deposits at Cayman Islands office

   414    217     .21    392    213     .22   339   181   .21   380   208   .22  
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total interest-bearing deposits

   43,043    18,546    .17   42,234    20,408     .19  44,193   15,547  .14  43,186   16,046  .15 
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Short-term borrowings

   287    45     .06    299    58     .08   220   25   .05   264   32   .05  

Long-term borrowings

   5,009    49,391     3.91   5,010    49,112     3.89  6,525   49,604   3.05  5,897   50,441   3.47 
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total interest-bearing liabilities

   48,339    67,982    .56   47,543    69,578     .58  50,938   65,176  .51  49,347   66,519  .55 
  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

Noninterest-bearing deposits

   24,169       23,998      25,466   24,141  

Other liabilities

   1,713       1,589      1,430   1,529  
  

 

     

 

      

 

     

 

    

Total liabilities

   74,221       73,130      77,834   75,017  
  

 

     

 

      

 

     

 

    

Shareholders’ equity

   11,109       10,881      12,039   11,648  
  

 

     

 

      

 

     

 

    

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

  $85,330       84,011     $89,873   86,665  
  

 

     

 

      

 

     

 

    

Net interest spread

      3.36       3.40   3.22   3.32  

Contribution of interest-free funds

      .20      .21  .18  .20 
   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

    

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Net interest income/margin on earning assets

   $672,683    3.56%   679,213     3.61%$674,963  3.40 662,378  3.52
   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

    

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

*Includes nonaccrual loans.
**Includes available-for-sale securities at amortized cost.

 

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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

Item 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

Incorporated by reference to the discussion contained under the caption “Taxable-equivalent Net Interest Income” in Part I, Item 2, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

Item 4. Controls and Procedures.

Item 4.Controls and Procedures.

(a) Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures. Based upon their evaluation of the effectiveness of M&T’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)), Robert G. Wilmers, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, and René F. Jones, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, concluded that M&T’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of September 30, 2014.March 31, 2015.

(b) Changes in internal control over financial reporting. M&T regularly assesses the adequacy of its internal control over financial reporting and enhances its controls in response to internal control assessments and internal and external audit and regulatory recommendations. No changes in internal control over financial reporting have been identified in connection with the evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures during the quarter ended September 30, 2014March 31, 2015 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, M&T’s internal control over financial reporting.

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings.

Item 1.Legal Proceedings.

M&T and its subsidiaries are subject in the normal course of business to various pending and threatened legal proceedings in which claims for monetary damages are asserted. On an on-going basis management, after consultation with legal counsel, assesses the Company’s liabilities and contingencies in connection with such legal proceedings. For those matters where it is probable that the Company will incur losses and the amounts of the losses can be reasonably estimated, the Company records an expense and corresponding liability in its consolidated financial statements. To the extent the pending or threatened litigation could result in exposure in excess of that liability, the amount of such excess is not currently estimable. Although not considered probable, the range of reasonably possible further losses for such matters in the aggregate, beyond the existing recorded liability, was between $0 and $40 million. Although the Company does not believe that the outcome of pending litigations will be material to the Company’s consolidated financial position, it cannot rule out the possibility that such outcomes will be material to the consolidated results of operations for a particular reporting period in the future.

Wilmington Trust Corporation Investigative and Litigation Matters

M&T’s Wilmington Trust Corporation (“Wilmington Trust”) subsidiary is the subject of acertain governmental investigationinvestigations arising from actions undertaken by Wilmington Trust prior to M&T’s acquisition of Wilmington Trust and its subsidiaries, as set forth below.

DOJ Investigation:Investigation: Prior to M&T’s acquisition of Wilmington Trust, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) commenced an investigation of Wilmington Trust, relating to Wilmington Trust’s financial reporting and securities filings, as well as certain commercial real estate lending relationships involving its subsidiary bank, Wilmington Trust Company, all of which relate to filings and activities occurring prior to the acquisition of Wilmington Trust by M&T. Counsel for Wilmington Trust has met with the DOJ to discuss the DOJ investigation. The DOJ investigation is ongoing.

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This investigation could lead to administrative or legal proceedings resulting in potential civil and/or criminal remedies, or settlements, including, among other things, enforcement actions, fines, penalties, restitution or additional costs and expenses.

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In Re Wilmington Trust Securities Litigation (U.S. District Court, District of Delaware, Case No. 10-CV-0990-SLR): Beginning on November 18, 2010, a series of parties, purporting to be class representatives, commenced a putative class action lawsuit against Wilmington Trust, alleging that Wilmington Trust’s financial reporting and securities filings were in violation of securities laws. The cases were consolidated and Wilmington Trust moved to dismiss. On March 29, 2012, the Court granted Wilmington Trust’s motion to dismiss in its entirety, but allowed plaintiffs to re-file their Complaint. Plaintiffs subsequently filed a Second, Third and Fourth Amended Complaint. Wilmington Trust moved to dismiss the Fourth Amended Complaint on July 17, 2013. The Court issued an order denying Wilmington Trust’s motion to dismiss on March 20, 2014. The case is now proceeding with discovery.parties are currently engaged in the discovery phase of the lawsuit.

Due to their complex nature, it is difficult to estimate when litigation and investigatory matters such as these may be resolved. As set forth in the introductory paragraph to this Item 1 Legal Proceedings, losses from current litigation and regulatory matters which the Company is subject to including those involving Wilmington Trust-related entities, althoughthat are not currently considered probable are within a range of reasonably possible losses for such matters in the aggregate, beyond the existing recorded liability, and are included in the range of reasonably possible losses set forth above.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

Item 1A.Risk Factors.

There have been no material changes in risk factors relating to M&T to those disclosed in response to Item 1A. to Part I of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013.2014.

 

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Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

Item 2.Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

(a) – (b) Not applicable.

(c)

 

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

 

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

 

Period

  (a)Total
Number
of Shares
(or Units)
Purchased(1)
   (b)Average
Price Paid
per Share
(or Unit)
   (c)Total
Number of
Shares
(or Units)
Purchased
as Part of
Publicly
Announced
Plans or
Programs
   (d)Maximum
Number (or
Approximate
Dollar Value)
of Shares
(or Units)
that may yet
be Purchased
Under the
Plans or
Programs (2)
   (a)Total
Number
of Shares
(or Units)
Purchased (1)
   (b)Average
Price Paid
per Share
(or Unit)
   (c)Total
Number of
Shares
(or Units)
Purchased
as Part of
Publicly
Announced
Plans or
Programs
   (d)Maximum
Number (or
Approximate
Dollar Value)
of Shares
(or Units)
that may yet
be Purchased
Under the
Plans or
Programs (2)
 

July 1 – July 31, 2014

   885    $123.23     —       2,181,500  

January 1 – January 31, 2015

   173,268    $113.81     —       2,181,500  

August 1 – August 31, 2014

   976     123.73     —       2,181,500  

February 1 – February 28, 2015

   1,029     120.54     —       2,181,500  

September 1 – September 30, 2014

   7,753     126.06     —       2,181,500  

March 1 – March 31, 2015

   1,636     125.64     —       2,181,500  
  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

   9,614    $125.57     —       175,933  $113.96   —    
  

 

   

 

   

 

     

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

(1)The total number of shares purchased during the periods indicated includesreflects shares deemed to have been received from employees who exercised stock options by attesting to previously acquired common shares in satisfaction of the exercise price or shares received from employees upon the vesting of restricted stock awards in satisfaction of applicable tax withholding obligations, as is permitted under M&T’s stock-based compensation plans.
(2)On February 22, 2007, M&T announced a program to purchase up to 5,000,000 shares of its common stock. No shares were purchased under such program during the periods indicated.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.

Item 3.Defaults Upon Senior Securities.

(Not applicable.)

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.

Item 4.Mine Safety Disclosures.

(None.)

Item 5. Other Information.

Item 5.Other Information.

(None.)

 

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Item 6. Exhibits.

Item 6.Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed as a part of this report.

 

Exhibit No.

  31.1Certification of Chief Executive Officer under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
  31.2Certification of Chief Financial Officer under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
  32.1Certification of Chief Executive Officer under 18 U.S.C. §1350 pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
  32.2Certification of Chief Financial Officer under 18 U.S.C. §1350 pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
101.INSXBRL Instance Document. Filed herewith.
101.SCHXBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema. Filed herewith.
101.CALXBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase. Filed herewith.
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase. Filed herewith.
101.PREXBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase. Filed herewith.
101.DEFXBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase. Filed herewith.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

M&T BANK CORPORATION
Date: November 5, 2014By:

/s/ René F. Jones

René F. Jones
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.

   
  31.1  Certification of Chief Executive Officer under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
  31.2  Certification of Chief Financial Officer under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
  32.1  Certification of Chief Executive Officer under 18 U.S.C. §1350 pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
  32.2  Certification of Chief Financial Officer under 18 U.S.C. §1350 pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
101.INS  XBRL Instance Document. Filed herewith.
101.SCH  XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema. Filed herewith.
101.CAL  XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase. Filed herewith.
101.LAB  XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase. Filed herewith.
101.PRE  XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase. Filed herewith.
101.DEF  XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase. Filed herewith.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

M&T BANK CORPORATION
Date: May 8, 2015By:

/s/ René F. Jones

René F. Jones
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit

No.

  31.1Certification of Chief Executive Officer under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
  31.2Certification of Chief Financial Officer under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
  32.1Certification of Chief Executive Officer under 18 U.S.C. §1350 pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
  32.2Certification of Chief Financial Officer under 18 U.S.C. §1350 pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Filed herewith.
101.INSXBRL Instance Document. Filed herewith.
101.SCHXBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema. Filed herewith.
101.CALXBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase. Filed herewith.
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase. Filed herewith.
101.PREXBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase. Filed herewith.
101.DEFXBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase. Filed herewith.

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