Financial Derivatives

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Financial Derivatives [Abstract]

Financial Derivatives

Note 11.  Financial Derivatives

The Board of Directors has given Management authorization to enter into derivative activity including interest rate swaps, caps and floors, forward-rate agreements, options and futures contracts in order to hedge interest rate risk.  The Bank is exposed to credit risk equal to the positive fair value of a derivative instrument, if any, as a positive fair value indicates that the counterparty to the agreement is financially liable to the Bank.  To limit this risk, counterparties must have an investment grade long-term debt rating and individual counterparty credit exposure is limited by Board approved parameters.  The final swap transaction matured in 2015.

The Effect of Derivative Instruments on the Statement of Income for the Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 follows:

Derivatives in ASC Topic 815 Cash Flow Hedging Relationships
(Dollars in thousands)							Amount of Gain
						Location of	or (Loss)
						Gain or (Loss)	Recognized in
						Recognized in	Income on
			Location of	Amount of Gain		Income on	Derivatives
	Amount of Gain		Gain or (Loss)	or (Loss)		Derivative (Ineffective	(Ineffective Portion
	or (Loss)		Reclassified from	Reclassified from		Portion and Amount	and Amount
	Recognized in OCI		Accumulated OCI	Accumulated OCI		Excluded from	Excluded from
	net of tax on Derivative		into Income	into Income		Effectiveness	Effectiveness
Date / Type	(Effective Portion)		(Effective Portion)	(Effective Portion)		Testing)	Testing)
Interest rate contracts
Three months ended:
June 30, 2016	$	-	Interest Expense	$	-	Other income (expense)	$	-
June 30, 2015	$	64	Interest Expense	$	(64)	Other income (expense)	$	-
Six months ended:
June 30, 2016	$	-	Interest Expense	$	-	Other income (expense)	$	-
June 30, 2015	$	126	Interest Expense	$	(160)	Other income (expense)	$	-

Interest Rate Swap Agreements (“Swap Agreements”)

As of June 30, 2016, the Bank had no swap agreements outstanding. The Bank had entered into interest rate swap agreements as part of its asset/liability management program.  The swap agreements were free-standing derivatives and were recorded at fair value in the Corporation’s consolidated statements of condition.  The Bank was party to master netting arrangements with its financial institution counterparties; however, the Bank did not offset assets and liabilities under these arrangements for financial statement presentation purposes.  The master netting arrangements provided 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, in the form of marketable securities, was posted by the counterparty with net liability positions in accordance with contract thresholds.