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New Accounting Pronouncements Adopted (Policies)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Abstract]  
New Accounting Pronouncements Adopted
In June 2015, the FASB issued a technical corrections and improvements accounting standards update which makes minor amendments to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. The four general topics covered in the guidance include: (1) amendments related to differences between original guidance and the codification, (2) guidance clarification and reference corrections, (3) simplification, and (4) minor improvements. The amendments that require transition guidance are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. The amendments that require transition guidance are not applicable to the Corporation. All other amendments were effective upon the issuance of this update in June 2015. The Corporation adopted the accounting standard during the second quarter of 2015, as required, with no material impact on its results of operations, financial position, or liquidity.
In May 2015, the FASB issued an amendment to its current guidance regarding pushdown accounting for newly acquired businesses. The amendment eliminates the SEC guidance on pushdown accounting from the Accounting Standard Codification. The amendments align the FASB’s codification with the related material in the SEC's staff accounting bulletin (SAB) No. 115. SAB 115 rescinds portions of the interpretive guidance included in the SEC's Staff Accounting Bulletins series and brings existing guidance into conformity with ASU 2014-17, Pushdown Accounting, which provides an acquired entity with an option to apply pushdown accounting in its separate financial statements upon occurrence of an event in which an acquirer obtains control of the acquired entity. The Corporation adopted the accounting standard during the second quarter of 2015, as required, with no material impact on its results of operations, financial position, or liquidity.
In August 2014, the FASB issued an amendment to clarify how creditors are to classify certain government-guaranteed mortgage loans upon foreclosure. This amendment requires that a mortgage loan be derecognized and a separate other receivable be recognized upon foreclosure if the following conditions are met: (1) the loan has a government guarantee that is not separate from the loan before foreclosure and (2) at the time of foreclosure, the creditor has the intent to convey the real estate property to the guarantor and make a claim on the guarantee, and the creditor has the ability to recover under the claim and (3) at the time of foreclosure, any amount of the claim that is determined on the basis of the fair value of the real estate is fixed. Upon foreclosure, the separate other receivable should be measured based on the amount of the loan balance (principal and interest) expected to be recovered from the guarantor. This amendment was effective for annual reporting periods, including interim periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2014. The Corporation adopted the accounting standard on a prospective basis during the first quarter of 2015, as required, with no material impact on its results of operations, financial position, or liquidity.

In June 2014, the FASB issued an amendment to clarify the current accounting and disclosures for certain repurchase agreements. The amendments in this update require two accounting changes: (1) change the accounting for repurchase-to-maturity transactions to secured borrowing accounting and (2) require separate accounting for a transfer of a financial asset executed contemporaneously with a repurchase agreement with the same counterparty, which will result in secured borrowing accounting for the repurchase agreement. The amendments in this update also require additional disclosures for certain transactions on the transfer of financial assets, as well as new disclosures for repurchase agreements, securities lending transactions, and repurchase-to-maturity transactions that are accounted for as secured borrowings. This amendment was effective for public business entities for the first interim or annual period beginning after December 15, 2014. The Corporation adopted the accounting standard during the first quarter of 2015, as required, with no material impact on its results of operations, financial position, or liquidity. See Note 9 for the new repurchase agreement disclosures.
In January 2014, the FASB issued an amendment to clarify that an in substance repossession or foreclosure occurs, and a creditor is considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan, upon either (1) the creditor obtaining legal title to the residential real estate property upon completion of a foreclosure or (2) the borrower conveying all interest in the residential real estate property to the creditor to satisfy that loan through completion of a deed in lieu of foreclosure or through a similar agreement. In addition, the amendments require interim and annual disclosure of both the amount of foreclosed residential real estate property held by the creditor and the recorded investment in consumer mortgage loans collateralized by residential real estate property that are in the process of foreclosure in accordance with local requirements of the applicable jurisdiction. This amendment was effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2014. The Corporation adopted the accounting standard using the prospective transition method during the first quarter of 2015, as required, with no material impact on its results of operations, financial position, or liquidity.
In January 2014, the FASB issued an amendment which permits reporting entities to make an accounting policy election to account for their investments in qualified affordable housing projects using the proportional amortization method if certain conditions are met. Under the proportional amortization method, an entity amortizes the initial cost of the investment in proportion to the tax credits and other tax benefits received and recognizes the net investment performance in the income statement as a component of income tax expense (benefit). For those investments in qualified affordable housing projects not accounted for using the proportional method, the investment should be accounted for as an equity method investment or a cost method investment. The decision to apply the proportional amortization method of accounting is an accounting policy decision that should be applied consistently to all qualifying affordable housing project investments rather than a decision to be applied to individual investments. This amendment should be applied retrospectively to all periods presented. A reporting entity that uses the effective yield method to account for its investments in qualified affordable housing projects before the date of adoption may continue to apply the effective yield method for those preexisting investments. This amendment was effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2014. The Corporation made an accounting policy election to use the proportional amortization method for investments in qualified affordable housing projects during the first quarter of 2015, which had no material impact on the results of operations, financial position, or liquidity.