M&T Bank announced today that it will make an immediate contribution of $100,000 to the American Red Cross to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina. M&T will also match dollar-for- dollar all contributions made to the Red Cross by its employees, directors and retirees, and will accept contributions from the public at any of its branches.

"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 the Red Cross to send help -- and to send hope," said M&T Bank's CEO, Robert E. Sadler, Jr.

Visit http://www.mandtbank.com/ to find the nearest M&T Bank location. M&T Bank is the principal bank subsidiary of Buffalo-based M&T Bank Corporation , which has assets of $55 billion. M&T Bank has 658 branch offices located in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia.