NOTE 8: BORROWED FUNDS

The following table summarizes the Company’s borrowed funds at December 31, 2015 and 2014:


	December 31,
(in thousands)	2015		2014
Wholesale borrowings:
FHLB advances	$	13,463,800	$	10,183,132
Repurchase agreements		1,500,000		3,425,000
Federal funds purchased		426,000		260,000

Total wholesale borrowings	$	15,389,800	$	13,868,132

Junior subordinated debentures		358,605		358,355

Total borrowed funds	$	15,748,405	$	14,226,487

In the fourth quarter of 2015, the Company prepaid $10.4 billion of wholesale borrowings with an average cost of 3.16% and replaced them with a like amount of wholesale borrowings with an average cost of 1.58%. The wholesale borrowings that were prepaid had callable features; the wholesale borrowings that replaced them featured fixed maturities.

Accrued interest on borrowed funds is included in “Other liabilities” in the Consolidated Statements of Condition, and amounted to $12.4 million and $38.1 million, respectively, at December 31, 2015 and 2014.

FHLB Advances

The following table presents an analysis of the contractual maturities of the Company’s outstanding FHLB advances at December 31, 2015, none of which had callable features.


	Contractual Maturity
(dollars in thousands) Year of Maturity	Amount		Weighted Average Interest Rate
2016	$	3,290,300		0.55	%
2017		1,550,000		1.29
2018		4,423,500		1.50
2019		2,700,000		1.74
2020		1,500,000		1.93

Total FHLB advances	$	13,463,800		1.34	%

At December 31, 2015, the Company had $2.5 billion in short-term FHLB advances with a weighted average interest rate of 0.55%. During 2015, the average balance of short-term FHLB advances was $2.3 billion, with a weighted average interest rate of 0.42%, generating interest expense of $9.8 million. At December 31, 2014, the Company had $2.3 billion in short-term FHLB advances with a weighted average interest rate of 0.36%. During 2014, the average balance of short-term FHLB advances was $2.6 billion with a weighted average interest rate of 0.37%, generating interest expense of $9.8 million.

At December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, the Banks had combined unused lines of available credit with the FHLB-NY of up to $5.7 billion and $7.9 billion, in addition to $790.3 million and $388.2 million outstanding in overnight advances with the FHLB-NY. During 2015, the average balance of overnight advances amounted to $572.7 million, with a weighted average interest rate of 0.44%, generating interest expense of $2.5 million. During 2014, the average balance of overnight advances amounted to $245.3 million, with a weighted average interest rate of 0.37%, generating interest expense of $895,000. During 2013, the average balance of overnight advances amounted to $106.3 million, with a weighted average interest rate of 0.38%, generating interest expense of $400,000.

Total FHLB advances generated interest expense of $230.6 million, $255.0 million, and $252.4 million, respectively, in the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013.

Repurchase Agreements

The following table presents an analysis of the contractual maturities of the Company’s outstanding repurchase agreements accounted for as secured borrowings at December 31, 2015. None of these repurchase agreements had callable features.


	Contractual Maturity
(dollars in thousands) Year of Maturity	Amount		Weighted Average Interest Rate
2017	$	1,250,000		1.19	%
2018		250,000		3.23

Total	$	1,500,000		1.53	%

The following table provides the contractual maturity and weighted average interest rate of repurchase agreements, and the amortized cost and fair value (including accrued interest) of the securities collateralizing the repurchase agreements, at December 31, 2015:


						Mortgage-Related and Other Securities				GSE Debentures and U.S. Treasury Obligations
(dollars in thousands) Contractual Maturity	Amount		Weighted Average Interest Rate			Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value
Greater than 90 days	$	1,500,000		1.53	%	$	766,877	$	800,653	$	825,844	$	825,116

The Company had no short-term repurchase agreements outstanding at December 31, 2015. During the year ended at that date, the Company had average short-term repurchase agreements outstanding of $197.3 million with a weighted average interest rate of 0.31%. There were no repurchase agreements outstanding at or during the years ended December 31, 2014 or 2013.

At December 31, 2015 and 2014, the accrued interest on repurchase agreements amounted to $1.2 million and $11.8 million, respectively. The interest expense on repurchase agreements was $99.9 million, $119.3 million, and $129.6 million, respectively, in the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013.

Federal Funds Purchased

At December 31, 2015 and 2014, the balance of federal funds purchased was $426.0 million and $260.0 million, respectively.

In 2015 and 2014, the average balance of federal funds purchased amounted to $588.8 million and $430.1 million, respectively, and had a weighted average interest rate of 0.26% and 0.25%, respectively. The interest expense produced by federal funds purchased was $1.5 million, $1.1 million, and $230,000, respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013.

Junior Subordinated Debentures

At December 31, 2015 and 2014, the Company had $358.6 million and $358.4 million, respectively, of outstanding junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures (“junior subordinated debentures”) held by statutory business trusts (the “Trusts”) that issued guaranteed capital securities.

The Trusts are accounted for as unconsolidated subsidiaries, in accordance with GAAP. The proceeds of each issuance were invested in a series of junior subordinated debentures of the Company and the underlying assets of each statutory business trust are the relevant debentures. The Company has fully and unconditionally guaranteed the obligations under each trust’s capital securities to the extent set forth in a guarantee by the Company to each trust. The Trusts’ capital securities are each subject to mandatory redemption, in whole or in part, upon repayment of the debentures at their stated maturity or earlier redemption.

The following junior subordinated debentures were outstanding at December 31, 2015:


Issuer	Interest Rate of Capital Securities and Debentures			Junior Subordinated Debentures Amount Outstanding		Capital Securities Amount Outstanding		Date of Original Issue	Stated Maturity	First Optional Redemption Date
				(dollars in thousands)
New York Community Capital Trust V (BONUSES^SM Units)		6.000	%	$	144,680	$	138,328	Nov. 4, 2002	Nov. 1, 2051	Nov. 4, 2007 ⁽¹⁾
New York Community Capital Trust X		2.112			123,712		120,000	Dec. 14, 2006	Dec. 15, 2036	Dec. 15, 2011 ⁽²⁾
PennFed Capital Trust III		3.762			30,928		30,000	June 2, 2003	June 15, 2033	June 15, 2008 ⁽²⁾
New York Community Capital Trust XI		2.253			59,285		57,500	April 16, 2007	June 30, 2037	June 30, 2012 ⁽²⁾

Total junior subordinated debentures				$	358,605	$	345,828

(1)

Callable subject to certain conditions as described in the prospectus filed with the SEC on November 4, 2002.

(2)

Callable from this date forward.

The Bifurcated Option Note Unit SecuritiES^SM (“BONUSES units”) included in the preceding table were issued by the Company on November 4, 2002 at a public offering price of $50.00 per share. Each of the 5,500,000 BONUSES units offered consisted of a capital security issued by New York Community Capital Trust V, a trust formed by the Company, and a warrant to purchase 2.4953 shares of the common stock of the Company (for a total of approximately 13.7 million common shares) at an effective exercise price of $20.04 per share. Each capital security has a maturity of 49 years, with a coupon, or distribution rate, of 6.00% on the $50.00 per share liquidation amount. The warrants and capital securities were non-callable for five years from the date of issuance and were not called by the Company when the five-year period passed on November 4, 2007.

The gross proceeds of the BONUSES units totaled $275.0 million and were allocated between the capital security and the warrant comprising such units in proportion to their relative values at the time of issuance. The value assigned to the warrants, $92.4 million, was recorded as a component of additional “paid-in capital” in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Condition. The value assigned to the capital security component was $182.6 million. The $92.4 million difference between the assigned value and the stated liquidation amount of the capital securities was treated as an original issue discount, and is being amortized to interest expense over the 49-year life of the capital securities on a level-yield basis. At December 31, 2015, this discount totaled $67.0 million.

The other three trust preferred securities noted in the table above were formed for the purpose of issuing Company Obligated Mandatorily Redeemable Capital Securities of Subsidiary Trusts Holding Solely Junior Subordinated Debentures (collectively, the “Capital Securities”). Dividends on the Capital Securities are payable either quarterly or semi-annually and are deferrable, at the Company’s option, for up to five years. As of December 31, 2015, all dividends were current.

Under current applicable regulatory guidelines, 25% of the Capital Securities qualified as Tier I capital at December 31, 2015; effective January 1, 2016, the Capital Securities no longer qualify as Tier I capital but qualify 100% as Tier II capital.

Interest expense on junior subordinated debentures was $17.6 million, $17.5 million, and $17.5 million, respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013.