The Company is exposed to certain risks arising from both its business operations and economic conditions. The Company principally manages its exposures to a wide variety of business and operational risks through management of its core business activities. The Company manages economic risks, including interest rate, liquidity and credit risk, primarily by managing the amount, sources, and duration of its assets and liabilities, and the use of derivative financial instruments. Specifically, the Company enters into derivative financial instruments to manage exposures that arise from business activities that result in the receipt or payment of future known and uncertain cash amounts, the value of which are determined by interest rates. The Company’s derivative financial instruments are used to manage differences in the amount, timing, and duration of the Company’s known or expected cash receipts and its known or expected cash payments.

The Company’s objectives in using interest rate derivatives are to add stability to interest expense and to manage its exposure to interest rate movements. To accomplish this objective, the Company primarily uses interest rate caps as part of its interest rate risk management strategy. Interest rate caps designated as cash flow hedges involve the receipt of variable amounts from a counterparty if interest rates rise above the strike rate on the contract in exchange for an up-front premium. During the first nine months of 2019 and in 2018, such derivatives were used to hedge the variable cash flows associated with short-term borrowings.

For derivatives designated and that qualify as cash flow hedges of interest rate risk, the gain or loss on the derivative is recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and subsequently reclassified into interest expense in the same period(s) during which the hedged transaction affects earnings. Amounts reported in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) related to derivatives will be reclassified to interest expense as interest payments are made on the Company’s borrowings. The ineffective portion of the change in fair value of the derivatives is recognized directly in earnings. The Company’s cash flow hedge derivatives did not have any hedge ineffectiveness recognized in earnings during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018. During the next twelve months, the Company estimates that $517 thousand will be reclassified as an increase to interest expense.

The Company executes interest rate swaps with commercial banking customers to facilitate their respective risk management strategies. These interest rate swaps are simultaneously hedged by offsetting interest rate swaps that the Company executes with a third party, such that the Company minimizes its net risk exposure resulting from such transactions. As the interest rate swaps associated with this program do not meet hedge accounting requirements, changes in the fair value of both the customer swaps and the offsetting swaps are recognized directly in earnings.

The Company has agreements with certain of its derivative counterparties that contain one or more of the following provisions: (a) if the Company defaults on any of its indebtedness, including a default where repayment of the indebtedness has not been accelerated by the lender, the Company could also be declared in default on its derivative obligations, and (b) if the Company fails to maintain its status as a well-capitalized institution, the counterparty could terminate the derivative positions and the Company would be required to settle its obligations under the agreements.

The Company extends rate lock agreements to borrowers related to the origination of residential mortgage loans. To mitigate the interest rate risk inherent in these rate lock agreements when the Company intends to sell the related loan, once originated, as well as closed residential mortgage loans held for sale, the Company enters into forward commitments to sell individual residential mortgages. Rate lock agreements and forward commitments are considered derivatives and are recorded at fair value.

The table below presents the notional amounts, respective fair values of the Company’s derivative financial instruments, as well as their classification on the balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 (in thousands):

					Asset derivatives					Liability derivatives
	Gross notional amount				Balance	Fair value				Balance	Fair value
	Sept. 30, 2019		Dec. 31, 2018		sheet line item	Sept. 30, 2019		Dec. 31, 2018		sheet line item	Sept. 30, 2019		Dec. 31, 2018
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments
Cash flow hedges	$	100,000	$	100,000	Other assets	$	7	$	631	Other liabilities	$	—	$	—
Total derivatives	$	100,000	$	100,000		$	7	$	631		$	—	$	—
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments
Interest rate swaps ⁽¹⁾	$	167,509	$	71,977	Other assets	$	7,593	$	1,803	Other liabilities	$	7,807	$	2,006
Credit contracts		54,122		36,670	Other assets		10		—	Other liabilities		11		24
Mortgage banking		18,947		7,519	Other assets		188		83	Other liabilities		11		27
Total derivatives	$	240,578	$	116,166		$	7,791	$	1,886		$	7,829	$	2,057

⁽¹⁾	The Company secured its obligations under these contracts with $8.1 million and $1.3 million in cash at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.

The table below presents the effect of the Company’s derivative financial instruments on the income statement for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 (in thousands):

		Gain (loss) recognized in income						Gain (loss) recognized in income
	Line item of gain (loss)	Three months ended September 30,						Nine months ended September 30,
Undesignated derivatives	recognized in income	2019			2018			2019		2018
Interest rate swaps	Income from derivative instruments, net	$	854		$	349		$	838	$	419
Credit contracts	Income from derivative instruments, net		48			5			54		187
Mortgage banking	Income from derivative instruments, net		(12	)		(18	)		121		77
Total undesignated		$	890		$	336		$	1,013	$	683