Balance Sheet Offsetting

Interest Rate Swap Agreements (“Swap Agreements”)

The Company enters into swap agreements to facilitate the risk management strategies of a small number of commercial banking customers. The Company mitigates the risk of entering into these agreements by entering into equal and offsetting swap agreements with highly-rated third party financial institutions. The swap agreements are free-standing derivatives and are recorded at fair value in the Company's consolidated statements of condition (asset positions are included in other assets and liability positions are included in other liabilities). The Company is party to master netting arrangements with its financial institution counterparties; however, the Company does not offset assets and liabilities under these arrangements for financial statement presentation purposes. The master netting arrangements provide for a single net settlement of all swap agreements, as well as collateral, in the event of default on, or termination of, any one contract. Collateral, usually in the form of marketable securities, is posted by the counterparty with net liability positions in accordance with contract thresholds. The Company had net liability positions with its financial institution counterparties totaling $16.2 million as of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014. The fair value of collateral posted by the Company for these net liability positions is shown in the table below. See Note 11 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for more information.

Securities Sold Under Agreements to Repurchase (“Repurchase Agreements”)

The Company enters into agreements under which it sells securities subject to an obligation to repurchase the same or similar securities. Under these arrangements, the Company may transfer legal control over the assets but still retain effective control through an agreement that both entitles and obligates the Company to repurchase the assets. As a result, these repurchase agreements are accounted for as collateralized financing arrangements (i.e., secured borrowings) and not as a sale and subsequent repurchase of securities. The obligation to repurchase the securities is reflected as a liability in the Company's consolidated statements of condition, while the securities underlying the repurchase agreements remain in the respective investment securities asset accounts. As a result, there is no offsetting or netting of the investment securities assets with the repurchase agreement liabilities. In addition, as the Company does not enter into reverse repurchase agreements, there is no such offsetting to be done with the repurchase agreements.

The right of setoff for a repurchase agreement resembles a secured borrowing, whereby the collateral would be used to settle the fair value of the repurchase agreement should the Company be in default (e.g., fails to make an interest payment to the counterparty). For private institution repurchase agreements, if the private institution counterparty were to default (e.g., declare bankruptcy), the Company could cancel the repurchase agreement (i.e., cease payment of principal and interest), and attempt collection on the amount of collateral value in excess of the repurchase agreement fair value. The collateral is held by a third party financial institution in the counterparty's custodial account. The counterparty has the right to sell or repledge the investment securities. For government entity repurchase agreements, the collateral is held by the Company in a segregated custodial account under a tri-party agreement.

The following table presents the assets and liabilities subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement, or repurchase agreements, as of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014. The swap agreements we have with our commercial banking customers are not subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement, and therefore, are excluded from this table.



	(i)		(ii)		(iii) = (i)-(ii)		(iv)				(v) = (iii)-(iv)
	Gross Amounts Recognized in the Statements of Condition		Gross Amounts Offset in the Statements of Condition		Net Amounts Presented in the Statements of Condition		Gross Amounts Not Offset in the Statements of Condition
(dollars in thousands)							Netting Adjustments per Master Netting Arrangements		Fair Value of Collateral Pledged ¹		Net Amount
March 31, 2015
Assets:
Interest Rate Swap Agreements:
Institutional Counterparties	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—

Liabilities:
Interest Rate Swap Agreements:
Institutional Counterparties	16,185		—		16,185		—		—		16,185

Repurchase Agreements:
Private Institutions	600,000		—		600,000		—		600,000		—
Government Entities	72,329		—		72,329		—		72,329		—
	$	672,329	$	—	$	672,329	$	—	$	672,329	$	—

December 31, 2014
Assets:
Interest Rate Swap Agreements:
Institutional Counterparties	$	28	$	—	$	28	$	28	$	—	$	—

Liabilities:
Interest Rate Swap Agreements:
Institutional Counterparties	16,268		—		16,268		28		—		16,240

Repurchase Agreements:
Private Institutions	600,000		—		600,000		—		600,000		—
Government Entities	88,601		—		88,601		—		88,601		—
	$	688,601	$	—	$	688,601	$	—	$	688,601	$	—

¹The application of collateral cannot reduce the net amount below zero. Therefore, excess collateral is not reflected in this table. For repurchase agreements with private institutions, the fair value of investment securities pledged was $0.7 billion as of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014. For repurchase agreements with government entities, the investment securities pledged to each government entity collectively secure both deposits as well as repurchase agreements. The Company had government entity deposits totaling $1.2 billion and $1.3 billion as of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively. The investment securities pledged as of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 had a fair value of $1.9 billion and $2.1 billion, respectively.