Derivative Financial Instruments

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The Company is a party to various derivative financial instruments used in the normal course of business to meet the needs of its clients and as part of its risk management activities. These instruments include interest rate swap agreements and option contracts and foreign exchange forward contracts. The Company does not enter into derivative financial instruments for trading purposes.

Hedging Instruments. At September 30, 2018, the Company had no outstanding derivative contracts used to manage risk.

Client-Related Derivative Instruments. The Company enters into interest rate swaps to allow customers to hedge changes in fair value of certain loans while maintaining a variable rate loan on its own books. The Company also enters into foreign exchange forward contracts with clients, and enters into offsetting foreign exchange forward contracts with established financial institution counterparties. The table below summarizes the notional amounts and fair values of the client-related derivative instruments:



					Asset Derivatives (Other Assets)				Liability Derivatives (Other Liabilities)
	Notional Amount				Fair Value				Fair Value
(in thousands)	September 30, 2018		December 31, 2017		September 30, 2018		December 31, 2017		September 30, 2018		December 31, 2017
Non-designated hedging instruments
Interest rate swap contracts	$	433,664	$	394,852	$	4,772	$	2,061	$	4,772	$	2,061
Foreign exchange forward contracts	123		1,528		123		1,528		123		1,528

Changes in the fair value of client-related derivative instruments are recognized currently in operations. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, the gains and losses offset each other due to the Company's hedging of the client swaps and foreign exchange contracts with other bank counterparties.