Company: MTB-PJ
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000036270-25-000024
Chunk: 187

Company: M&T BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 sale of equipment leases each in the recent quarter, partially offset by gains on the sales of an out-of-footprint loan portfolio of $15 million and a subsidiary that specialized in institutional services of $10 million each in the second quarter of 2025.

•Noninterest expense increased $27 million reflecting higher severance-related expense, an impairment of a renewable energy tax-credit investment and an increase in expenses associated with M&T's supplemental executive retirement savings plan, partially offset by lower FDIC assessments.

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The increase in net income for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 as compared with the same 2024 period reflected the following:

•Net interest income on a taxable-equivalent basis increased $40 million reflecting a widening of the net interest margin by 8 basis points. The higher net interest margin reflects favorable earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities repricing that improved the Company's net interest spread, partially offset by a decline in the contribution of net interest-free funds.

•The provision for credit losses declined $90 million mainly reflecting improved levels of criticized loans.

•Noninterest income increased $276 million reflecting higher mortgage banking revenues, trust income, service charges on deposit accounts and other revenues from operations.

•Noninterest expense rose $118 million reflecting higher levels of salaries and employee benefits expense and outside data processing and software costs, partially offset by lower FDIC assessments, which included $34 million of FDIC special assessment expense in the first nine months of 2024.

The Company's effective income tax rates were 22.8% and 23.4% for the third and second quarters of 2025, respectively, and 23.1% and 21.5% for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Income tax expense for the first nine months of 2024 reflected $31 million of net discrete tax benefits.

Under approved capital plans and programs authorized by the Board of Directors, M&T repurchased 2.1 million shares of its common stock during the recent quarter at a total cost of $409 million, compared with 6.1 million shares at a total cost of $1.1 billion in the second quarter of 2025. During the first nine months of 2025, M&T repurchased 11.6 million shares of its common stock at a total cost of $2.2 billion, compared with 1.2 million shares at a total cost of $200 million during the first nine months of 2024