Company: MTB-PJ
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-044781
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Company: M&T BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 term is defined in the listing standards of the NYSE and standards of independence established by the SEC. The Audit Committee operates under a written charter adopted by the Board. A copy of such charter can be accessed on M&T’s website at ir.mtb.com/ corporate-governance. During 2024, the Audit Committee met 14 times, and held discussions with management and representatives of its independent registered public accounting firm consistent with its responsibilities under its charter. Management is responsible for the preparation of M&T’s consolidated financial statements and their assessment of the design and effectiveness of M&T’s internal control over financial reporting. The independent registered public accounting firm is responsible for performing an independent audit of M&T’s consolidated financial statements and opining on the effectiveness of those controls in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)

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(“PCAOB”) and issuing its reports thereon. As provided in its charter, the Audit Committee’s responsibilities include monitoring and overseeing these processes. In discharging its oversight responsibilities, the Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed M&T’s 2024 audited consolidated financial statements with management and its independent registered public accounting firm and has reviewed and discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the PCAOB and the SEC, which include, among other items, matters related to the conduct of the audit of M&T’s consolidated financial statements. The Audit Committee has also received the written disclosures and the letter from M&T’s independent registered public accounting firm as required by the PCAOB’s Ethics and Independence Rule 3526 (Communication with Audit Committees Concerning Independence) and has discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm its independence. Based on these reviews and discussions with management and the independent registered public accounting firm, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board that the audited consolidated financial statements and report on management’s assessment of the design and effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting be included in M&T’s Annual Report on Form 10-Kfor the year ended December 31, 2024 to be filed with the SEC on or about February 19, 2025. The Audit Committee also selected the independent registered public accounting firm. This report was adopted on February 18, 2025 by the Audit Committee of the Board: Denis J. Salamone, Chair Jane Chwick William F. Cruger, Jr. T. Jefferson Cunningham III Herbert L. Washington In accordance with and to the extent permitted by applicable law or regulation, the information contained