Company: MTB-PJ
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000036270-25-000024
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Company: M&T BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
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Taxable-equivalent net interest income can be impacted by 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. The FOMC lowered its federal funds target interest rate by a total of 100 basis points in the last four months of 2024 and by 25 basis points in September 2025. 

Taxable-equivalent net interest income increased $51 million in the recent quarter as compared with the second quarter of 2025 reflecting an additional day of earnings, favorable earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities repricing and the impact of $20 million of lower taxable-equivalent interest income in the second quarter of 2025 resulting from an alignment of amortization periods for certain municipal bonds obtained from the acquisition of People’s United. The net interest margin increased 6 basis points over that same time period. The FOMC reduction in its federal funds target interest rate in September 2025 had little impact on the Company's taxable-equivalent net interest income for the three months ended September 30, 2025.

Taxable-equivalent net interest income for the first nine months of 2025 increased $40 million as compared with the same 2024 period. That increase reflects an 8 basis-point widening of the net interest margin driven by a decrease of 53 basis points in the cost of interest-bearing liabilities, partially offset by a 25 basis-point decline in the yield received on earning assets and a 20 basis-point reduction in the contribution of net interest-free funds. Contributing to lower yields on earning assets and rates paid on interest-bearing liabilities in the first nine months of 2025 as compared with the similar 2024 period was the impact of the FOMC's cumulative 100 basis-point reduction in its federal funds target interest rate during the last four months of 2024. Partially offsetting the decline in yields received on earning assets was an increase in the yields received on investment securities from the deployment of liquidity into fixed rate investment securities from early 2024 through September 2025 that yielded higher rates than maturing investment securities.

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 changes to spreads, could impact the Company’s net interest income and net interest margin. Future changes in the levels of net interest-free funds and the interest rates used to value such funds could also impact the Company's net interest margin.

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