Leases

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Note 28 – Leases

The Corporation enters in the ordinary course of business into operating and finance leases for land, buildings and equipment. These contracts generally do not include purchase options or residual value guarantees. The remaining lease terms of 0.1 to 34.8 years considers options to extend the leases for up to 10.1 years. The Corporation identifies leases when it has both the right to obtain substantially all of the economic benefits from the use of the asset and the right to direct the use of the asset.

The Corporation recognizes right-of-use assets (“ROU assets”) and lease liabilities related to operating and finance leases in its Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition under the caption of other assets and other liabilities, respectively. At March 31, 2019, ROU assets related to operating and finance lease amounted to $132 million and $17 million, respectively, and lease liabilities related to operating and finance leases amounted to $148 million and $24 million, respectively.

The Corporation uses the incremental borrowing rate for purposes of discounting lease payments for operating and finance leases, since it does not have enough information to determine the rates implicit in the leases. The discount rates are based on fixed-rate and fully amortizing borrowing facilities of its banking subsidiaries that are collateralized. For leases held by non-banking subsidiaries, a credit spread is added to this rate based on financing transactions with a similar credit risk profile.

The following table presents the undiscounted cash flows of operating and finance leases for each of the following periods:

(In thousands)		Remaining2019		2020		2021		2022		2023		Later Years		Total Lease Payments		Less:Imputed Interest		Total

Operating Leases	$	21,760	$	26,023	$	23,625	$	19,928	$	17,695	$	66,312	$	175,343	$	(27,248)	$	148,095
Finance Leases		2,385		3,261		3,351		3,445		3,542		14,187		30,171		(6,428)		23,743

The following table presents the lease cost recognized by the Corporation in the Consolidated Statements of Operations as follows:

		Quarter ended
(In thousands)		March 31, 2019
Finance lease cost:
	Amortization of ROU assets	$	458
	Interest on lease liabilities		321
Operating lease cost			8,155
Short-term lease cost			24
Sublease income			(25)
Total lease cost		$	8,933

Total rental expense for all operating leases, except those with terms of a month or less that were not renewed, for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 was $ 7.4 million, which is included in net occupancy, equipment and communication expenses, according to their nature. Total amortization and interest expense for capital leases for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 was $0.3 million and $0.3 million, respectively.

The following table presents supplemental cash flow information and other related information related to operating and finance leases.

			Quarter ended
(Dollars in thousands)			March 31, 2019
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
	Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	7,391
	Operating cash flows from finance leases		327
	Financing cash flows from finance leases		439
ROU assets obtained in exchange for new lease obligations:
	Operating leases	$	356
	Finance leases		3,308
Weighted-average remaining lease term:
	Operating leases		8.4	years
	Finance leases		8.9	years
Weighted-average discount rate:
	Operating leases		3.8	%
	Finance leases		5.7	%

As of March 31, 2019, the Corporation has additional operating leases contracts that have not yet commenced with an undiscounted contract amount of $22 million, which will have lease terms of 10 years.