M&T Bank announced today that it will make immediate contributions totaling $100,000 to organizations involved in the Tsunami relief effort, will match all employee contributions and will accept public contributions at its branches.

M&T is contributing $25,000 each to four humanitarian organizations that are rushing disaster relief to Southeast Asia following the recent earthquake and tsunamis: the American Red Cross, AmeriCares, Save the Children and UNICEF. M&T will also match dollar-for-dollar all contributions made by its employees, directors and retirees to any of those four organizations.

Additionally, M&T will accept contributions to those four organizations from the general public at any of its 662 branches. Visit http://www.mandtbank.com/ to find the nearest M&T Bank location.

"In response to this disaster, which inflicted immeasurable devastation and unimaginable tragedy upon so many people in so many places, M&T Bank and our employees, associates, customers and neighbors are joining with humanitarian organizations to send help -- and to send hope," said M&T Bank's CEO, Robert G. Wilmers.

M&T Bank is the principal bank subsidiary of Buffalo-based M&T Bank Corporation , which has assets of $52 billion. M&T Bank has 662 branch offices located in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia.

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