Document and Entity Information

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Aug. 04, 2011

Document and Entity Information

Document Type

10-Q

Amendment Flag

true

Document Period End Date

Jun. 30, 2011

Current Fiscal Year End Date

--12-31

Entity Registrant Name

VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP

Entity Central Index Key

0000714310

Document Fiscal Period Focus

Q2

Document Fiscal Year Focus

2011

Entity Filer Category

Large Accelerated Filer

Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding

169,997,703

Amendment Description

Valley National Bancorp (the "Company") is filing this Amendment No. 1 to its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2011, originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on August 8, 2011 (the "Original Filing"), to expand the disclosures regarding the Company's other-than-temporary impairment analysis of debt securities and additional factors considered in such analysis specific to two trust preferred securities issued by one bank holding company in response to certain comments received from the Staff of the SEC. These changes have been made to Part I, Items 1 (Note 7 to the financial statements) and 2 (the "Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Analysis" section of Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations). The financial condition and results of operations included in this Form 10-Q/A are unchanged from the presentation in the Original Filing.

For convenience and ease of reference, the Company is filing this Form 10-Q/A in its entirety with the changes described in the prior paragraph. Except for those changes, the Company has not modified or updated disclosures presented in the Original Filing. Accordingly, this Form 10-Q/A does not reflect events occurring after the date of the Original Filing, August 8, 2011, or update the disclosure in the original filing to reflect events occurring after the date of the Original Filing.