Commitments and Contingencies

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Commitments and Contingencies

Commitments and Contingencies

In the normal course of business, there are various outstanding commitments and contingent liabilities, such as commitments to extend credit, which are not reflected in the accompanying financial statements. At March 31, 2012, the Company had commitments outstanding of $259.5 million for additional loan amounts. Commitments of Sidus, the Bank's mortgage lending subsidiary, are excluded from this amount and discussed in the paragraph below. Additional commitments totaling $6.4 million were outstanding under standby letters of credit. Management does not expect any significant losses to result from these commitments.

At March 31, 2012, Sidus had $32.8 million of commitments outstanding to originate mortgage loans held-for-sale at fixed prices and $48.6 million of forward commitments outstanding under best efforts contracts to sell mortgages to agencies and other investors. See Note 9 for additional disclosures on these derivative financial instruments.