M&T BANK CORP

A provision for credit losses is recorded to adjust the level of the allowance to reflect expected credit losses that are based on economic forecasts as of each reporting date. A provision for credit losses of $505 million and $610 million was recorded in 2025 and 2024, respectively. The lower provision for credit losses in 2025 as compared with 2024 reflects improved levels of criticized loans.

A summary of the Company’s loan charge-offs, provision and allowance for credit losses is presented in Tables 18 and 24, and in note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Table 18

LOAN CHARGE-OFFS, PROVISION AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES

(a)Included in Accrued interest and other liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheet.

Asset quality

A summary of nonperforming assets and certain past due loan data and credit quality ratios is presented in Table 19.

Table 19

NONPERFORMING ASSET AND PAST DUE LOAN DATA

(a)Predominantly government-guaranteed residential real estate loans.

Nonaccrual loans decreased $438 million from December 31, 2024 to December 31, 2025 reflecting a $203 million reduction in commercial real estate nonaccrual loans and a $169 million decrease in commercial and industrial nonaccrual loans. Approximately 45% of nonaccrual commercial and industrial and commercial real estate loans were considered current with respect to their payment status at December 31, 2025.

Government-guaranteed loans designated as accruing loans past due 90 days or more included one-to-four family residential mortgage loans serviced by the Company that were repurchased to reduce associated servicing costs, including a requirement to advance principal and interest payments that had not been received from individual mortgagors. Despite the loans being purchased by the Company, the insurance or guarantee by the applicable government-related entity remains in force. The outstanding principal balances of the repurchased loans that are guaranteed by government-related entities included in accruing loans past due 90 days or more totaled $459 million at December 31, 2025 and $224 million at December 31, 2024. Accruing loans past due 90 days or more not guaranteed by government-related entities were loans considered to be with creditworthy borrowers that were in the process of collection or renewal. Additional information about past due and nonaccrual loans is included in note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements.

The Company utilizes a loan grading system to differentiate risk amongst its commercial and industrial loans and commercial real estate loans. Loans with a lower expectation of default are assigned one of ten possible "pass" loan grades while specific loans determined to have an elevated level of credit risk are designated as "criticized." A criticized loan may be designated as "nonaccrual" if the Company no longer expects to collect all amounts owed under the terms of the loan agreement or the loan is delinquent 90 days or more.

Line of business personnel in different geographic locations with support from and review by the Company’s credit risk personnel review and reassign loan grades based on their detailed knowledge of individual borrowers and their judgment of the impact on such borrowers resulting from changing conditions in their respective regions. The Company’s policy is that, at least annually, updated financial information is obtained from commercial borrowers associated with pass grade loans greater than $1 million and additional analysis performed. On a quarterly basis, the Company’s centralized credit risk department personnel review criticized commercial and industrial loans and commercial real estate loans greater than $5 million to determine the appropriateness of the assigned loan grade, including whether the loan should be reported as accruing or nonaccruing. For criticized nonaccrual loans, additional meetings are held with loan officers and their managers, workout specialists and senior management to discuss each of the relationships. In analyzing criticized loans, borrower-specific information is reviewed, including operating results, future cash flows, recent developments and the borrower’s outlook, and other pertinent data. The timing and extent of potential losses, considering collateral valuation and other factors, and the Company’s potential courses of action are contemplated.

Targeted loan reviews are periodically performed over segments of loan portfolios that may be experiencing heightened credit risk due to current or anticipated economic conditions. The intention of such reviews is to identify trends across such portfolios and inform portfolio risk limits and loss mitigation strategies. In 2025, the Company assessed loans to certain not-for-profit borrowers, government contractors and other commercial borrowers that may be impacted by immigration policies and enforcement, changes to government funding and reductions in the federal workforce. The Company is also monitoring commercial borrowers in certain industry sectors that may be affected by international trade policy changes, such as tariffs, including retail and wholesale trade, manufacturing and construction companies. The Company has considered the information gathered in such reviews in the assignment of loan grades.

The Company continues to monitor its commercial real estate loan portfolio. The primary source of repayment of these loans is typically tenant lease payments to the investor/borrower. Elevated vacancies impacting some property types have contributed to lower current and anticipated future debt service coverage ratios, which have and may continue to influence the ability of borrowers to make existing loan payments. Lower debt service coverage ratios and reduced commercial real estate values also impact the ability of borrowers to refinance their obligations at loan maturity. Despite these challenges, the ability of borrowers to service loans secured by investor-owned real estate has generally improved in the recent year. The LTV ratio is one of many factors considered in assessing overall portfolio risks and loss mitigation strategies for the investor-owned commercial real estate portfolio. In determining the LTV ratio, the Company considers cross-collateralization of all exposures secured by the supporting collateral and the estimated value of such collateral. Subsequent to the origination of commercial real estate loans, updated appraisals are obtained in the normal course of business for renewals, extensions and modifications to commitment levels. As the quality of a loan deteriorates to the point of designating the loan as "criticized nonaccrual," the process of obtaining updated collateral valuation information is usually initiated, unless it is not considered warranted given factors such as the relative size of the loan or the age of the last valuation. In those cases where current appraisals may not yet be available, prior appraisals are utilized with adjustments, as deemed necessary, for estimates of subsequent declines in values as determined by line of business and/or loan workout personnel. Those adjustments are reviewed and assessed for reasonableness by the Company’s credit risk personnel. Accordingly, for real estate collateral securing larger nonaccrual commercial and industrial loans and commercial real estate loans, estimated collateral values are generally based on current estimates of value.

The Company monitors its concentration of commercial real estate lending as a percent of its Tier 1 capital plus its allowable allowance for credit losses, consistent with a metric utilized to differentiate such concentrations amongst regulated financial institutions. This metric, as prescribed in supervisory guidance, excludes loans secured by commercial real estate considered to be owner-occupied, but includes certain other loans, such as loans to real estate investment trusts, that are classified as commercial and industrial loans. The Company's commercial real estate loan concentration approximated 124% of Tier 1 capital plus its allowable allowance for credit losses at December 31, 2025, down from 136% at December 31, 2024. The Company executed various strategies to lessen its relative concentration of investor-owned commercial real estate loans and to reduce the amount of criticized loans in this category throughout 2024 and 2025.

Tables 20 and 21 summarize the outstanding balances, and associated criticized balances, of commercial and industrial loans by industry and commercial real estate loans by property type, respectively, at December 31, 2025 and 2024.

Table 20

CRITICIZED COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL LOANS

Table 21

CRITICIZED COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE LOANS

Loans to the health services, manufacturing and the transportation, communications and utilities industries contributed to the $77 million decrease in commercial and industrial criticized loans in the recent year, partially offset by an increase in criticized loans to motor vehicle and recreational finance dealers, the retail industry and financial and insurance companies. The $2.6 billion decline in criticized commercial real estate loans from December 31, 2024 to December 31, 2025 reflected decreases across all property types as well as in criticized construction and development loans. At December 31, 2025, approximately 94% of criticized accrual loans and 45% of criticized nonaccrual loans were considered current with respect to their payment status.

For loans secured by residential real estate the Company’s loss identification and estimation techniques make reference to loan performance and house price data in specific areas of the country where collateral securing those loans is located. For loans secured by residential real estate, including home equity loans and lines of credit, the excess of the loan balance over the net realizable value of the property collateralizing the loan is charged-off when the loan becomes 150 days delinquent. Information about the location of nonaccrual loans secured by residential real estate at December 31, 2025 and 2024 is presented in Table 22.

Table 22

NONACCRUAL LOANS SECURED BY RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE

(a)Includes $673 million and $791 million of limited documentation first lien mortgage loans with nonaccrual loan balances totaling $50 million and $59 million at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

(b)Includes Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.

(c)Includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Factors that influence the Company’s credit loss experience include overall economic conditions affecting businesses and consumers, generally, but also residential and commercial real estate valuations, in particular, given the size of the Company’s real estate loan portfolios. Commercial real estate valuations can be highly subjective, as they are based upon many assumptions. Such valuations can be significantly affected over relatively short periods of time by changes in business climate, economic conditions, interest rates and, in many cases, the results of operations of businesses and other occupants of the real property. Similarly, residential real estate valuations can be impacted by housing trends, the availability of financing at reasonable interest rates and general economic conditions affecting consumers.

Consumer loans not secured by residential real estate are generally charged-off when the loans are 91 to 180 days past due, depending on whether the loan is collateralized and the status of repossession activities with respect to such collateral. A comparative summary of nonaccrual consumer loan balances and the respective percent of outstanding balances of each consumer loan product at December 31, 2025 and 2024 is presented in Table 23.

Table 23

NONACCRUAL CONSUMER LOANS

A summary of net charge-offs by loan type and as a percent of such average loans is presented in Table 24.

Table 24

NET CHARGE-OFF (RECOVERY) INFORMATION

Net charge-offs in 2025 declined nominally from 2024, reflecting lower net charge-offs of commercial and industrial loans, partially offset by modest increases in net charge-offs of commercial real estate and consumer loans. Contributing to the lower net charge-offs of commercial and industrial loans were lower net charge-offs of loans to recreational finance dealers and transportation companies in 2025. Higher net charge-offs of permanent commercial real estate loans reflect a rise in net charge-offs of loans secured by health services properties. Net charge-offs as a percent of average consumer loans in 2025 were relatively flat as compared with 2024.

Management determines the allowance for loan losses under accounting guidance that requires estimating the amount of current expected credit losses over the remaining contractual term of the loan portfolio. A description of the methodologies used by the Company to estimate its allowance for loan losses can be found in note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements.

In establishing the allowance for loan losses, the Company estimates losses attributable to specific troubled credits identified through both normal and targeted credit review processes and also estimates losses for other loans with similar risk characteristics on a collective basis, generally through the use of statistically developed credit models, which are required to achieve a satisfactory independent validation by the Company's Model Risk Management Department, or other quantitative methodologies. In determining the allowance for loan losses, the Company may adjust forecasted loss estimates for inherent limitations or biases in the models as well as for other factors that may not be adequately considered in its quantitative methodologies including the impact of portfolio concentrations, imprecision in economic forecasts, geopolitical conditions and other risk factors that influence the loss estimation process. At each of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company qualitatively adjusted credit loss estimates for inherent limitations in the ability to assess real-time changes in commercial borrower performance and for environmental influences affecting certain loan portfolios. Qualitative adjustments at December 31, 2025, primarily related to portfolio exposures to certain commercial and industrial borrowers and commercial real estate loans, were modestly lower as compared with December 31, 2024.

At the time of the Company’s analysis regarding the determination of the allowance for loan losses as of December 31, 2025 uncertainties existed about the impact of inflationary pressures and potential increases in unemployment on the discretionary income and purchasing power of consumers, which could impact their ability to service existing debt obligations; the volatile nature of global markets and international economic conditions that could impact the U.S. economy, including the effect of international trade policies on domestic businesses and consumers; uncertainty related to Federal Reserve positioning of monetary policy and the potential impacts on future economic growth; shifts in immigration policies and enforcement; changes to government funding and reductions in federal workforce; downward pressures on commercial real estate values and the impacts on the ability of commercial borrowers to refinance maturing debt obligations; and the extent to which borrowers may be negatively affected by general economic conditions.

Forward-looking estimates of certain macroeconomic variables are determined by the M&T Scenario Review Committee, which is comprised of senior management business leaders and economists. The weighted-average of macroeconomic assumptions utilized as of December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 are presented in Table 25 and were based on information available at or near the time the Company was preparing its estimate of expected credit losses as of those dates.

Table 25

ALLOWANCE FOR LOAN LOSSES MACROECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS

With respect to economic forecasts, the Company assessed the likelihood of alternative economic scenarios during the two-year reasonable and supportable forecast period. Generally, an increase in unemployment rate or a decrease in any of the rate of change in GDP, commercial real estate prices or home prices could have an adverse impact on expected credit losses and may result in an increase to the allowance for loan losses. Forward-looking economic forecasts are subject to inherent imprecision and future outcomes may differ materially from forecasted events. In consideration of such uncertainty, the alternative economic scenarios shown in Table 26 were considered to estimate the possible impact on modeled credit losses.

Table 26

ALLOWANCE FOR LOAN LOSSES SENSITIVITIES

These examples are only a few of the numerous possible economic scenarios that could be utilized in assessing the sensitivity of expected credit losses. The estimated impacts on credit losses in such scenarios pertain only to modeled credit losses and do not include consideration of other factors the Company may evaluate when determining its allowance for loan losses. As a result, it is possible that the Company may, at another point in time, reach different conclusions regarding credit loss estimates. The Company’s process for determining the allowance for loan losses undergoes quarterly and periodic evaluations by independent risk management personnel, which among many other considerations, evaluate the reasonableness of management’s methodology and significant assumptions.

Management has assessed that the allowance for loan losses at December 31, 2025 appropriately reflected expected credit losses in the portfolio as of that date. A comparative allocation of the allowance for loan losses and the reserve for unfunded credit commitments for each of the past three year ends is presented in Table 27. Amounts were allocated to specific loan categories based on information available to management at the time of each year-end assessment and using the methodologies described herein. Variations in the allocation of the allowance by loan category as a percent of those loans reflect changes in management’s estimate of credit losses in light of economic developments. Furthermore, the Company’s allowance is general in nature and is available to absorb losses from any loan or lease category.

Table 27

ALLOWANCE FOR LOAN LOSSES AND

RESERVE FOR UNFUNDED CREDIT COMMITMENTS

(a)Included in the allowance for loan losses were reserves allocated as a percent of commercial real estate loans secured by office properties of 4.65% at December 31, 2025, 4.70% at December 31, 2024 and 4.37% at December 31, 2023.

(b)Given the Company’s general position as a secured lender and its practice of charging off loan balances when collection is deemed doubtful, this ratio and changes in the ratio are generally not an indicative measure of the adequacy of the Company’s allowance for loan losses, nor does management rely upon that ratio in assessing the adequacy of the Company’s allowance for loan losses.

(c)Included in Accrued interest and other liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheet.

The lower ratio of the allowance for loan losses as a percent of loans outstanding at December 31, 2025 as compared with December 31, 2024, reflects lower levels of criticized commercial real estate loans. The level of the allowance reflects management’s evaluation of the loan portfolio as of each respective date using the methodology and considering the factors as described herein. Should the various economic forecasts and credit factors considered by management in establishing the allowance for loan losses change and should management’s assessment of losses in the loan portfolio also change, the level of the allowance as a percent of loans could increase or decrease in future periods.