Company: MTB-PJ
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-022036
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Company: M&T BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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2.48% in the fourth and first quarters of 2024, respectively. Those increases in the net interest spread reflect a decrease in the rates paid on the Company's interest-bearing liabilities, partially offset by a decline in the yield on earning assets. The yield on earning assets during the first quarter of 2025 was 5.52%, down 8 and 22 basis points from the fourth and first quarters of 2024, respectively, reflecting lower yields on interest-bearing deposits at the FRB of New York and loans and leases. That decrease was partially offset by a rise in yields received on investment securities which reflected purchases of investment securities since the beginning of 2024, inclusive of the recent quarter, with a higher yield than those that matured during those same periods. The rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities was 2.70%, down 24 and 56 basis points from the fourth and first quarters of 2024, respectively, reflecting a reduction in the cost of interest-bearing deposits and funding from short-term borrowings during each of those comparative periods. That reduction in the cost of interest-bearing liabilities reflects a lower FOMC federal funds target interest rate which was reduced by a total of 1.00% in the last four months of 2024.

Net interest-free funds consist largely of noninterest-bearing demand deposits and other liabilities 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 $59.2 billion in the first quarter of 2025, down from $60.8 billion and $61.7 billion in the fourth and first quarters of 2024, respectively. Noninterest-bearing deposits averaged $45.4 billion in the first quarter of 2025, compared with $46.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024, and $48.6 billion in 2024's initial quarter. The decline in average noninterest-bearing deposits in the recent quarter from the fourth quarter of 2024 reflects a seasonal decline in commercial customer deposits whereas the decline from the first quarter of 2024 reflects a shift in deposits to interest-bearing accounts in an elevated interest rate environment. The contribution of net interest-free funds to net interest margin was .84% in the first quarter of 2025, compared with .92% and 1.04% in the fourth and first quarters of 2024, respectively. The decreased contribution of net interest-free funds to the net interest margin