The Company is exposed to certain risks arising from both its business operations and economic conditions. The Company principally manages its exposures to a wide variety of business and operational risks through management of its core business activities. The Company manages economic risks, including interest rate, liquidity and credit risk, primarily by managing the amount, sources and duration of certain balance sheet assets and liabilities. In the normal course of business, the Company also uses derivative financial instruments to add stability to interest income or expense and to manage its exposure to movements in interest rates. The Company does not use derivatives for trading or speculative purposes and only enters into transactions that have a qualifying hedge relationship. The Company’s hedging strategies involving interest rate derivatives are classified as either fair value hedges or cash flow hedges, depending upon the rate characteristic of the hedged item.

Effective July 8, 2019, the Bank entered into a forward interest rate swap contract on certain variable-rate money market deposit accounts (indexed to the Federal Funds effective rate’s daily weighted average) with a total notional amount of $10.0 million. The money market account balances are expected to exceed $10 million for the next seven years and the rates on these deposits are anticipated to move closely with changes in one-month LIBOR, or a comparable benchmark interest rate. The interest rate swap was designated as a derivative instrument in a cash flow hedge with the objective of converting the floating interest payments to a fixed rate throughout the seven-year period beginning on July 8, 2019 and ending on July 8, 2026. Under the swap arrangement, the Bank will pay a fixed interest rate of 1.790% and receive a variable interest rate based on one-month LIBOR, or a comparable benchmark interest rate, on the notional amount of $10.0 million, with monthly net settlements.

Effective July 22, 2019, the Bank entered into a forward interest rate swap contract on certain variable-rate money market deposit accounts (indexed to the Federal Funds effective rate’s daily weighted average) with a total notional amount of $10.0 million. The money market account balances are expected to exceed $10 million for the next five years and the rates on these deposits are anticipated to move closely with changes in one-month LIBOR, or a comparable benchmark interest rate. The interest rate swap was designated as a derivative instrument in a cash flow hedge with the objective of converting the floating interest payments to a fixed rate throughout the five-year period beginning on July 22, 2019 and ending on July 22, 2024. Under the swap arrangement, the Bank will pay a fixed interest rate of 1.698% and receive a variable interest rate based on one-month LIBOR, or a comparable benchmark interest rate, on the notional amount of $10.0 million, with monthly net settlements.

Effective October 1, 2019, the Bank entered into a forward interest rate swap contract on a variable-rate FHLB advance (indexed to one-month LIBOR) with a total notional amount of $10.0 million. The FHLB advance will be renewed on a monthly basis and will remain outstanding until October 1, 2024. The interest rate swap was designated as a derivative instrument in a cash flow hedge with the objective of converting the floating interest payments to a fixed rate throughout the five-year period beginning on October 1, 2019 and ending on October 1, 2024. Under the swap arrangement, the Bank will pay a fixed interest rate of 1.357% and receive a variable interest rate based on one-month LIBOR, or a comparable benchmark interest rate, on the notional amount of $10.0 million, with monthly net settlements.

Effective August 9, 2019, the Bank entered into a forward interest rate swap contract on fixed rate commercial real estate loans with a total notional amount of $10.0 million. The interest rate swap was designated as a derivative instrument in a fair value hedge with the objective of effectively converting a pool of fixed rate assets to variable rate throughout the five-year period beginning on August 9, 2019 and ending on August 9, 2024. Under the swap arrangement, the Bank will pay a fixed interest rate of 1.406% and receive a variable interest rate based on one-month LIBOR, or a comparable benchmark interest rate, on the notional amount of $10.0 million, with monthly net settlements.

Effective August 21, 2019, the Bank entered into a forward interest rate swap contract on fixed rate commercial real estate loans with a total notional amount of $10.0 million. The interest rate swap was designated as a derivative instrument in a fair value hedge with the objective of effectively converting a pool of fixed rate assets to variable rate throughout the five-year period beginning on August 21, 2019 and ending on August 21, 2024. Under the swap arrangement, the Bank will pay a fixed interest rate of 1.292% and receive a variable interest rate based on one-month LIBOR, or a comparable benchmark interest rate, on the notional amount of $10.0 million, with monthly net settlements.

The Company has elected the last-of-layer method with respect to both of its fair value hedges. This approach allows the Company to designate as the hedged item a stated amount of the assets that are not expected to be affected by prepayments, defaults and other factors affecting the timing and amount of cash flows. Relative to the identified pools of loans, this represents the last dollar amount of the designated commercial loans, which is equivalent to the notional amounts of the derivative instruments.

The following amounts were recorded on the balance sheet related to cumulative basis adjustments for fair value hedges:

Location in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet in Which the Hedged	Carrying Amount of the Hedged Assets		Cumulative Amount of Fair Value Hedging Adjustment Included in the Carrying Amount of the Hedged Assets
Item is Included	March 31, 2020
	(Dollars in Thousands)
Loans and leases, net of allowance for loan and lease losses ⁽¹⁾	$	56,885	$	749

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These amounts include the amortized cost basis of closed portfolios used to designate hedging relationships in which the hedged item is the last layer expected to be remaining at the end of the hedging relationship. As of March 31, 2020, the amortized cost basis of the closed portfolios used in these hedging relationships was $56.1 million, the cumulative basis adjustments associated with these hedging relationships was $0.7 million, and the amounts of the designated hedged items were $20 million.