M&T Bank

M&T Bank is an American commercial bank that was founded in 1856 in western New York, and today remains headquartered in Buffalo at One M & T Plaza. The parent company, M&T Bank Corporation, had $69 billion in assets as of December 31, 2009, and is one of the twenty largest commercial bank holding companies in the U.S., with over 750 branches located in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, and Central Florida. The name M&T is an abbreviation of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company. The bank owns the original Buffalo Savings Bank (later Goldome, now defunct) building in Fountain Plaza, also located in downtown Buffalo. In 2003, M&T Bank acquired Allfirst Bank of Baltimore,...