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Community Bank System
CBU announced that it has sold its
entire portfolio of bank and insurance trust preferred collateralized
debt obligation (CDO) securities in response to uncertainties created by
the announcement of the final rules implementing the Volcker Rule, which
was released jointly by the Federal Reserve and other federal regulatory
agencies on December 10, 2013. The Company believes that the final rules
that implement Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act, commonly referred to as the “Volcker Rule”,
require banking entities to divest certain disallowed securities,
including its holdings of trust preferred CDOs. In addition, the Company
extinguished $226.4 million of Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) term
advances and sold $417.6 million of Treasury
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