M&T Bank

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Map of M&T Bank branches, as of July 2025
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M&T Center, Buffalo

M&T Bank Corporation (Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company) is an American bank holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref> It operates 950+ branches in 12 states and Washington D.C. across the Eastern United States, from Maine to Virginia.<ref name=10K/><ref name=:>Template:Cite web</ref> Until May 1998, the bank's holding company was named First Empire State Corporation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

M&T Bank has been profitable in every quarter since 1976.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Other than Northern Trust, M&T was the only bank in the S&P 500 not to lower its dividend during the 2008 financial crisis.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The bank owns the Buffalo Savings Bank building in downtown Buffalo, Bridgeport Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the M&T Tech Hub in the Seneca One Tower.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It also sponsors M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens, as well as M&T Bank Auditorium and M&T Bank Atrium of the University at Buffalo. M&T Bank is the official bank of the Buffalo Bills in Western New York and of their home Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park. Wilmington Trust is a subsidiary of M&T Bank Corporation, offering global corporate and institutional services, private banking, investment management, and fiduciary services.

History

19th century

In the mid-19th century, few banking options existed for the growing number of manufacturers in the city of Buffalo. As a result, businessmen Pascal Pratt and Bronson Rumsey founded M&T Bank in 1856 as "Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Henry Martin, former president of the Attica and Buffalo Railroad, was appointed the first president and assigned a salary of $1,000 a year.<ref name="mtb2006"/> The company opened its first office on August 29 of that year at 2 East Swan Street in Buffalo.<ref name=history>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1885, Martin retired as president, at the age of 83, and was succeeded by Pascal Pratt, who had served as Vice President since the bank was formed.<ref name="mtb2006"/>

20th century

In 1901, the bank built a new headquarters on a site purchased for $210,000 near the southwest corner of Main and Swan Streets in Buffalo. The granite neo-classical building was designed by architect E. B. Green of Green & Wicks. By 1914, Robert Livingston Fryer was the bank's President. In 1917, Harry T. Ramsdell, the bank's fourth president, served as a district chairman for a special subscription committee of the national Liberty Loan program.<ref name="mtb2006">Template:Cite web</ref>

Following the 1925 merger with Fidelity Trust, the $100 million company was headed by Fidelity's President, 36-year-old Lewis G. Harriman. Harriman and a group of investors including A. H. Schoellkopf, from the founding family of the Niagara Mohawk power company, and James V. Forrestal, who would become the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, own enough shares to control both Fidelity and M&T.<ref name="mtb2006"/>

In 1961, M&T acquired an entire block on Main Street between North Division and Eagle Streets in downtown Buffalo and began plans for a $12 million skyscraper to become the bank's new headquarters. In 1963, architect Minoru Yamasaki, who was featured on the cover of Time magazine that year as he was designing the World Trade Center in New York City, was retained by M&T to design its new building in Buffalo, which was completed in 1967. In 1964, Charles W. Millard succeeded Harriman as chairman of M&T.<ref name="mtb2006"/>

In 1969, M&T's stockholders voted to create a multi-bank holding company known as First Empire State Corporation. In 1983, the bank which had assets of $2 billion and operated 60 offices, named Robert G. Wilmers as chairman and CEO, a position he held until his death in December 2017.<ref name=history/> In 1995, First Empire formed a national bank subsidiary, M&T Bank, N.A.<ref name="mtb2006"/>

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An M&T Bank location in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania

21st century

In 2008, M&T received a $600 million investment by the United States Treasury as a result of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and M&T assumed another $482 million in TARP obligations from its acquisitions.<ref name=health>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2012, the bank repaid $700 million of TARP funds.<ref name=health/>

In June 2014, a U.S. District Judge ordered M&T Bank to forfeit $560,000 that had been laundered through its Perry Hall, Maryland, branch; from 2011 to 2013, Deanna Bailey went to the branch and had head teller Sabrina Fitts convert cash amounts from $20,000 to $100,000 into larger bills.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> Fitts accepted a 1% transaction fee in exchange for not filing a currency transaction report. This violated the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On December 16, 2017, non-executive chairman Robert T. Brady became acting chairman and CEO.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> On December 20, 2017, René F. Jones was appointed chairman and CEO.

In 2021, M&T Bank contributed $33.9 million to over 3,000 nonprofit organizations across eight states and the District of Columbia. The bank has donated more than $279.4 million to nonprofits over the past decade, and over $437.5 million to nonprofits over the past two decades.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In May 2022, M&T announced a $25 million initiative to support lower-income communities and underrepresented groups. The new Amplify Fund will be deployed over three years with most of the funds set to be distributed to Connecticut-based organizations and other north-eastern states where People’s United had operated. M&T announced that $9 to $11 million will be distributed by the end of 2022, with the rest of the funds to be distributed over the next two year and expects to fund approximately 60 to 70 organizations in the initiatives first phase.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In August 2022, M&T announced a partnership with Stefon Diggs; Diggs served as a brand ambassador for M&T’s “Football Brings Us Together” campaign.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In October 2022, M&T launched its Multicultural Banking Center in East Hartford, Connecticut; the bank has 118 multicultural locations.<ref name=:/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2022, M&T was listed as one of the Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion by the Disability Equality Index (DEI) for its fourth consecutive year.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Mergers and acquisitions

Between 1945 and 1966, M&T acquired 18 local banking institutions.<ref name="mtb2006"/> Between 1987 and 2022, M&T Bank acquired 24 financial institutions, as follows:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

1920s

1940s

  • June 1945: acquired the First National Bank of Kenmore<ref name="mtb2006"/>
  • October 1945: acquired the Citizens National Bank of Lancaster<ref name="mtb2006"/>
  • December 1945: acquired the American Bank of Lackawanna<ref name="mtb2006"/>

1980s

  • December 1987: acquired East New York Savings, which operated 15 branches in metropolitan New York City<ref name="mtb2006"/>

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

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