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DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES

NOTE 11 DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES

One of the market risks facing the Corporation is interest rate risk, which includes the risk that changes in interest rates will result in changes in the value of the Corporation’s assets or liabilities and will adversely affect the Corporation’s net interest income from its loan and investment portfolios. The overall objective of the Corporation’s interest rate risk management activities is to reduce the variability of earnings caused by changes in interest rates.

The Corporation designates a derivative as a fair value hedge, cash flow hedge or economic undesignated hedge when it enters into the derivative contract. As of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, all derivatives held by the Corporation were considered economic undesignated hedges. These undesignated hedges are recorded at fair value with the resulting gain or loss recognized in current earnings.

The following summarizes the principal derivative activities used by the Corporation in managing interest rate risk:

Interest rate cap agreements - Interest rate cap agreements provide the right to receive cash if a reference interest rate rises above a contractual rate. The value increases as the reference interest rate rises. The Corporation enters into interest rate cap agreements for protection from rising interest rates.

Forward contracts - Forward contracts are sales of to-be-announced (“TBA”) mortgage-backed securities that will settle over the standard delivery date and do not qualify as “regular way” security trades. Regular-way security trades are contracts that have no net settlement provision and no market mechanism to facilitate net settlement and that provide for delivery of a security within the time frame generally established by regulations or conventions in the market-place or exchange in which the transaction is being executed. The forward sales are considered derivative instruments that need to be marked-to-market. These securities are used to economically hedge the FHA/VA residential mortgage loan securitizations of the mortgage-banking operations. Unrealized gains (losses) are recognized as part of mortgage banking activities in the consolidated statement of income.

To satisfy the needs of its customers, the Corporation may enter into non-hedging transactions. On these transactions, the Corporation generally participates as a buyer in one of the agreements and as a seller in the other agreement under the same terms and conditions.

In addition, the Corporation enters into certain contracts with embedded derivatives that do not require separate accounting as these are clearly and closely related to the economic characteristics of the host contract. When the embedded derivative possesses economic characteristics that are not clearly and closely related to the economic characteristics of the host contract, it is bifurcated, carried at fair value, and designated as a trading or non-hedging derivative instrument.

The following table summarizes the notional amounts of all derivative instruments:
Notional Amounts (1)
As ofAs of
March 31, December 31,
(In thousands)2018 2017
Undesignated economic hedges:
Interest rate contracts:
Written interest rate cap agreements$90,510$91,010
Purchased interest rate cap agreements90,51091,010
Forward Contracts:
Sale of TBA GNMA MBS pools25,00026,000
$206,020$208,020
(1) Notional amounts are presented on a gross basis with no netting of offsetting exposure positions.

The following table summarizes for derivative instruments their fair values and location in the consolidated statements of financial condition:
Asset DerivativesLiability Derivatives
Statement of March 31, December 31, March 31, December 31,
Financial 2018201720182017
Condition LocationFairValueFairValueStatement of Financial Condition LocationFairValueFairValue
(In thousands)
Undesignated economic hedges:
Interest rate contracts:
Written interest rate cap agreementsOther assets$-$-Accounts payable and other liabilities$668$305
Purchased interest rate cap agreementsOther assets668305Accounts payable and other liabilities--
Forward Contracts:
Sales of TBA GNMA MBS poolsOther assets37Accounts payable and other liabilities6719
$671$312$735$324

The following table summarizes the effect of derivative instruments on the statement of income:
(Loss)
Location of LossQuarter Ended
Recognized in Statement March 31,
of Income on Derivatives20182017
(In thousands)
UNDESIGNATED ECONOMIC HEDGES:
Interest rate contracts:
Written and purchased interest rate cap agreementsInterest income - Loans$-$(1)
Forward contracts:
Sales of TBA GNMA MBS poolsMortgage Banking Activities(52)(56)
Total loss on derivatives$(52)$(57)

Derivative instruments are subject to market risk. As is the case with investment securities, the market value of derivative instruments is largely a function of the financial market’s expectations regarding the future direction of interest rates. Accordingly, current market values are not necessarily indicative of the future impact of derivative instruments on earnings. This will depend, for the most part, on the shape of the yield curve, and the level of interest rates, as well as the expectations for rates in the future.

As of March 31, 2018, the Corporation had not entered into any derivative instrument containing credit-risk-related contingent features.