• Koelmel Likes Development of First Niagara Deal Team
  SNL Financial, April 29, 2011.
• First Niagara Hunts for More Takeovers After Biggest Bank Deal Since 2008
  Bloomberg, August 20, 2010.
• FNFG Closes Acquisition of Harleysville National Corporation, Securing Entry into Southeast Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley
  Company Release, April 10, 2010.
• Tough As Nails
  Bank Director Magazine, 3rd Quarter, 2009.
• Community Banker of the Year – First Niagara CEO is Not One to Stay on Sidelines
  American Banker, December 7, 2009.
• Man On A Mission
  US Banker, December, 2009.
• First Niagara Closes $460.1 Million Stock Offering
  Company Release, September 30, 2009.
• First Niagara Prices Stock Offering
  Company Release, September 24, 2009.
• First Niagara Announces $400 Million Stock Offering
  Company Release, September 23, 2009.
• For Some Banks, Funding Now for Deals in Future
  American Banker, October 28, 2008.
• First Niagara Approved to Participate in the Treasury Department’s Capital Purchase Program
  Company Release, October 27, 2008.
• Who’s Attracting Capital? Those Who Don’t Need It
  American Banker, October 7, 2008.
• First Niagara Risk Management Recognized as Second-Fastest Growing Agency Among Top 100 Insurance Brokers
  Company Release, October 15, 2007.

First Niagara to Acquire Harleysville National Corporation, with $5.6 Billion in Assets and 83 Branches in the Philadelphia & Lehigh Valley Areas
Company Release, July 27, 2009.

• St. George Named Employer of Choice at Leading HR Awards
  Company Release, October 02, 2007.
• St. George Awarded Best Business Bank for 2007
  Company Release, May 08, 2007.
• St. George Announces record Cash Interim Profit
  Company Release, May 01, 2007.

• U.S. Bancorp Reports Record 2006 Net Income
  Company Release, January 16, 2007.
• U.S. Bancorp Announces 10 Percent Increase In Quarterly Common Stock Dividend; Increases Dividend for 34th Consecutive Year
  Company Release, December 20, 2005.

• Bank of Hawaii Receives “Outstanding” Rating From the Federal Reserve Bank of Community Reinvestment Programs
  Company Release, June 18, 2007.
• Bank of Hawaii Financial Performance Tops “Bank Director Magazine’s” List of 150 Largest U.S. Banks
  Company Release, December 08, 2005.
• Cost Control, Consumers
  Bolster Bank of Hawaii
  American Banker, October 26, 2004.
• Pacific Century Financial Corporation
  “Turn of the century”
  Hawaii Business Magazine, February 01, 2001.