CUBI 10-Q Quarterly Report March 31, 2025

CUSTOMERS BANCORP, INC.

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-Q


☒			Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
			For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2025


☐			Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
			For the transition period from to .

001-35542

(Commission File number)

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Customers Bancorp, Inc.

Pennsylvania

27-2290659

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

701 Reading Avenue

West Reading , PA 19611

(Address of principal executive offices)

( 610 ) 933-2000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of Each Class

Trading Symbols

Name of Each Exchange on which Registered

Voting Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share

CUBI

New York Stock Exchange

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual
Preferred Stock, Series E, par value $1.00 per share

CUBI/PE

New York Stock Exchange

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual
Preferred Stock, Series F, par value $1.00 per share

CUBI/PF

New York Stock Exchange

5.375% Subordinated Notes due 2034

CUBB

New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes x No ¨

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________________________________________

On May 6, 2025, 31,587,794 shares of Voting Common Stock were outstanding.

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CUSTOMERS BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

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Part I

Item 1.	Customers Bancorp, Inc. Consolidated Financial Statements as of March 31, 2025 and for the three month periods ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 (unaudited)	5

Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	50

Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk	76

Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	77

PART II

Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	78

Item 1A.	Risk Factors	78

Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds	78

Item 3.	Defaults Upon Senior Securities	79

Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	79

Item 5.	Other Information	79

Item 6.	Exhibits	80

SIGNATURES		81

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GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

The following list of abbreviations and acronyms may be used throughout this Report, including Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, the Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements and the Notes to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements.





2024 Share Repurchase Program			Share repurchase program authorized by the Board of Directors of Customers Bancorp in 2024
ACL			Allowance for credit losses
AFS			Available for sale

AOCI			Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
ASC			Accounting Standards Codification
ASU			Accounting Standards Update


Bancorp			Customers Bancorp, Inc.
Bank			Customers Bank
BBB spread			BBB rated corporate bond spreads to U.S. Treasury securities


BM Technologies			BM Technologies, Inc.
BOLI			Bank-owned life insurance






CECL			Current expected credit losses
CMO			Collateralized Mortgage Obligation
CODM			Chief operating decision maker
Commission			U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Company			Customers Bancorp, Inc. and subsidiaries




COVID-19			Coronavirus Disease 2019
CPI			Consumer Price Index
CRA			Community Reinvestment Act
CUBI			Symbol for Customers Bancorp, Inc. common stock traded on the NYSE

Customers			Customers Bancorp, Inc. and Customers Bank, collectively
Customers Bancorp			Customers Bancorp, Inc.
DCF			Discounted cash flow






EPS			Earnings per share


EVE			Economic value of equity
Exchange Act			Securities Exchange Act of 1934
FASB			Financial Accounting Standards Board
FDIC			Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Fed Funds			Federal Reserve Board’s Effective Federal Funds Rate
Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Board			Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System


FHLB			Federal Home Loan Bank
FICO			Fair, Isaac and Company
Fintech			Third-Party Financial Technology
FMV			Fair Market Value

FRB			Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

GDP			Gross domestic product



HTM			Held to maturity


LIBOR			London Interbank Offered Rate
LPO			Limited Purpose Office

MMDA			Money market deposit accounts
NIM			Net interest margin, tax equivalent
NM			Not meaningful
NPA			Non-performing asset
NPL			Non-performing loan

NYSE			New York Stock Exchange

OCI			Other comprehensive income (loss)

OREO			Other real estate owned


PCD			Purchased Credit-Deteriorated

PPP			Paycheck Protection Program

PUT			Purchase Upon Termination
Rate Shocks			Interest rates rising or falling immediately
ROU			Right-of-use

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SBA			U.S. Small Business Administration
SBA loans			Loans originated pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SBA
SEC			U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities Act			Securities Act of 1933, as amended


Series E Preferred Stock			Fixed-to-floating rate non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock, series E
Series F Preferred Stock			Fixed-to-floating rate non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock, series F
SERP			Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan
Share Repurchase Program			Share repurchase program authorized by the Board of Directors of Customers Bancorp in 2021
SOFR			Secured Overnight Financing Rate


TRAC			Terminal Rental Adjustment Clause


U.S. GAAP			Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
VIE			Variable interest entity

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CUSTOMERS BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET — UNAUDITED

(amounts in thousands, except share and per share data)


	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
ASSETS
Cash and due from banks	$	62,146	$	56,787
Interest earning deposits	3,366,544		3,729,144
Cash and cash equivalents	3,428,690		3,785,931
Investment securities, at fair value (includes allowance for credit losses of $ 13,127 and $ 7,604 , respectively)	2,057,555		2,019,694

Investment securities held to maturity	938,161		991,937
Loans held for sale (includes $ 1,529 and $ 163,891 , respectively, at fair value)	37,529		204,794

Loans and leases receivable	13,555,820		13,127,634
Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value	1,366,460		1,321,128
Loans receivable, installment, at fair value	138,159		—
Allowance for credit losses on loans and leases	( 141,076 )		( 136,775 )
Total loans and leases receivable, net of allowance for credit losses on loans and leases	14,919,363		14,311,987
FHLB, Federal Reserve Bank, and other restricted stock	96,758		96,214
Accrued interest receivable	105,800		108,351

Bank premises and equipment, net	6,653		6,668
Bank-owned life insurance	298,551		297,641

Goodwill and other intangibles	3,629		3,629
Other assets	530,355		481,395

Total assets	$	22,423,044	$	22,308,241
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Liabilities:
Deposits:
Demand, non-interest bearing	$	5,552,605	$	5,608,288
Interest bearing	13,380,320		13,238,173
Total deposits	18,932,925		18,846,461



FHLB advances	1,133,456		1,128,352
Other borrowings	99,103		99,068
Subordinated debt	182,579		182,509

Accrued interest payable and other liabilities	210,421		215,168

Total liabilities	20,558,484		20,471,558
Commitments and contingencies (NOTE 17)
Shareholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, par value $ 1.00 per share; liquidation preference $ 25.00 per share; 100,000,000 shares authorized, 5,700,000 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024	137,794		137,794
Common stock, par value $ 1.00 per share; 200,000,000 shares authorized; 35,995,077 and 35,758,246 shares issued as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024; 31,479,132 and 31,346,507 shares outstanding as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024	35,995		35,758
Additional paid in capital	570,172		575,333
Retained earnings	1,335,534		1,326,011
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net	( 67,641 )		( 96,560 )
Treasury stock, at cost ( 4,515,945 and 4,411,739 shares as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024)	( 147,294 )		( 141,653 )
Total shareholders’ equity	1,864,560		1,836,683
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity	$	22,423,044	$	22,308,241

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CUSTOMERS BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (LOSS) — UNAUDITED

(amounts in thousands, except per share data)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025		2024
Interest income:
Loans and leases	$	231,008	$	217,999
Investment securities	34,339		46,802
Interest earning deposits	42,914		52,817
Loans held for sale	4,761		12,048
Other	1,887		2,111
Total interest income	314,909		331,777
Interest expense:
Deposits	131,308		153,725
FHLB advances	11,801		13,485

Subordinated debt	3,212		2,689

Other borrowings	1,142		1,493
Total interest expense	147,463		171,392
Net interest income	167,446		160,385
Provision for credit losses	28,297		17,070
Net interest income after provision for credit losses	139,149		143,315
Non-interest income:

Commercial lease income	10,668		9,683
Loan fees	7,235		5,280
Bank-owned life insurance	4,660		3,261
Mortgage finance transactional fees	933		946



Net gain (loss) on sale of loans and leases	2		10




Net gain (loss) on sale of investment securities	—		( 30 )
Impairment loss on investment securities	( 51,319 )		—





Other	3,331		2,081
Total non-interest income (loss)	( 24,490 )		21,231
Non-interest expense:
Salaries and employee benefits	42,674		36,025
Technology, communication and bank operations	11,312		21,904
Commercial lease depreciation	8,463		7,970
Professional services	11,857		6,353
Loan servicing	4,630		4,031
Occupancy	3,412		2,347
FDIC assessments, non-income taxes and regulatory fees	11,750		13,469
Advertising and promotion	528		682





Other	8,145		6,388
Total non-interest expense	102,771		99,169
Income before income tax expense (benefit)	11,888		65,377
Income tax expense (benefit)	( 1,024 )		15,651








Net income	12,912		49,726
Preferred stock dividends	3,389		3,800

Net income available to common shareholders	$	9,523	$	45,926


Basic earnings per common share	$	0.30	$	1.46

Diluted earnings per common share	0.29		1.40

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CUSTOMERS BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) — UNAUDITED

(amounts in thousands)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025		2024


Net income	$	12,912	$	49,726
Unrealized gains (losses) on available for sale debt securities:
Unrealized gains (losses) arising during the period	( 13,249 )		4,480
Income tax effect	3,484		( 1,138 )
Reclassification adjustments for (gains) losses included in net income	51,319		30
Income tax effect	( 13,497 )		( 8 )
Amortization of unrealized loss on securities transferred from available-for-sale to held-to-maturity	1,169		1,206
Income tax effect	( 307 )		( 306 )
Net unrealized gains (losses) on available for sale debt securities	28,919		4,264






Other comprehensive income (loss), net of income tax effect	28,919		4,264
Comprehensive income (loss)	$	41,831	$	53,990

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY — UNAUDITED

(amounts in thousands, except shares outstanding data)


	Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
	Preferred Stock			Common Stock
	Shares of Preferred Stock Outstanding	Preferred Stock		Shares of Common Stock Outstanding	Common Stock		Additional Paid in Capital		Retained Earnings		Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)		Treasury Stock		Total
Balance, December 31, 2024	5,700,000	$	137,794	31,346,507	$	35,758	$	575,333	$	1,326,011	$	( 96,560 )	$	( 141,653 )	$	1,836,683


Net income	—	—		—	—		—		12,912		—		—		12,912

Other comprehensive income (loss)	—	—		—	—		—		—		28,919		—		28,919


Preferred stock dividends (1)	—	—		—	—		—		( 3,389 )		—		—		( 3,389 )





Share-based compensation expense	—	—		—	—		4,295		—		—		—		4,295

Issuance of common stock under share-based compensation arrangements	—	—		236,831	237		( 9,456 )		—		—		—		( 9,219 )
Repurchase of common shares	—	—		( 104,206 )	—		—		—		—		( 5,641 )		( 5,641 )
Balance, March 31, 2025	5,700,000	$	137,794	31,479,132	$	35,995	$	570,172	$	1,335,534	$	( 67,641 )	$	( 147,294 )	$	1,864,560

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2024
	Preferred Stock			Common Stock
	Shares of Preferred Stock Outstanding	Preferred Stock		Shares of Common Stock Outstanding	Common Stock		Additional Paid in Capital		Retained Earnings		Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)		Treasury Stock		Total
Balance, December 31, 2023	5,700,000	$	137,794	31,440,906	$	35,459	$	564,538	$	1,159,582	$	( 136,569 )	$	( 122,410 )	$	1,638,394

Net income	—	—		—	—		—		49,726		—		—		49,726

Other comprehensive income (loss)	—	—		—	—		—		—		4,264		—		4,264


Preferred stock dividends (1)	—	—		—	—		—		( 3,800 )		—		—		( 3,800 )





Share-based compensation expense	—	—		—	—		3,976		—		—		—		3,976

Issuance of common stock under share-based compensation arrangements	—	—		81,025	81		( 1,024 )		—		—		—		( 943 )

Balance, March 31, 2024	5,700,000	$	137,794	31,521,931	$	35,540	$	567,490	$	1,205,508	$	( 132,305 )	$	( 122,410 )	$	1,691,617

(1) Dividends per share of $ 0.616789 and $ 0.592902 were declared on Series E and F preferred stock, respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2025. Dividends per share of $ 0.681630 and $ 0.657743 were declared on Series E and F preferred stock, respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2024.

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CUSTOMERS BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS — UNAUDITED

(amounts in thousands)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025		2024
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Net income	$	12,912	$	49,726
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
Provision for credit losses	28,297		17,070
Depreciation and amortization	15,639		8,246

Share-based compensation expense	4,246		3,890
Deferred taxes	( 24,941 )		( 276 )
Net amortization (accretion) of investment securities premiums and discounts	( 725 )		( 2,286 )
Unrealized (gain) loss on investment securities	( 160 )		45
Impairment loss on investment securities	51,319		—
Net (gain) loss on sale of investment securities	—		30



Unrealized (gain) loss on derivatives	( 712 )		( 661 )




Fair value adjustment on loans held for sale	667		—
Net (gain) loss on sale of loans and leases	( 2 )		( 68 )




Origination and purchases of loans held for sale	( 299,808 )		( 340,536 )
Proceeds from the sales and repayments of loans held for sale	326,356		322,413

Amortization (accretion) of loan net deferred fees, discounts and premiums	( 4,365 )		( 7,367 )


Earnings on investment in bank-owned life insurance	( 4,660 )		( 3,261 )
(Increase) decrease in accrued interest receivable and other assets	( 10,470 )		( 10,576 )
Increase (decrease) in accrued interest payable and other liabilities	528		( 55,207 )
Net Cash Provided By (Used In) Operating Activities	94,121		( 18,818 )
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Proceeds from maturities, calls and principal repayments of investment securities available for sale	99,521		113,323
Proceeds from maturities, calls and principal repayments of investment securities held to maturity	69,058		72,327

Proceeds from sales of investment securities available for sale	—		21,970
Purchases of investment securities available for sale	( 156,689 )		( 328,905 )
Purchases of investment securities held to maturity	( 14,022 )		—

Origination of mortgage finance loans	( 5,329,199 )		( 4,936,887 )
Proceeds from repayments of mortgage finance loans	5,287,252		4,880,422
Net (increase) decrease in loans and leases, excluding mortgage finance loans	( 337,435 )		16,634
Proceeds from sales of loans and leases	1,081		—
Purchases of loans	( 106,020 )		( 7,403 )
Purchases of bank-owned life insurance	( 1,462 )		—
Proceeds from bank-owned life insurance	5,102		176
Net (purchases of) proceeds from sale of FHLB, Federal Reserve Bank, and other restricted stock	( 544 )		9,481

Purchases of bank premises and equipment	( 686 )		( 418 )

Proceeds from sale of other real estate owned	—		33
Proceeds from sales of leased assets under lessor operating leases	413		94
Purchases of leased assets under lessor operating leases	( 16,398 )		( 4,007 )
Net Cash Provided By (Used In) Investing Activities	( 500,028 )		( 163,160 )

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	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025		2024
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
Net increase (decrease) in deposits	66,911		41,501






Proceeds from long-term borrowed funds from FHLB and FRB	100,000		—
Repayments of long-term borrowed funds from FHLB and FRB	( 100,000 )		—





Preferred stock dividends paid	( 3,434 )		( 3,804 )

Purchase of treasury stock	( 5,641 )		—
Payments of employee taxes withheld from share-based awards	( 9,815 )		( 1,426 )
Proceeds from issuance of common stock	645		481

Net Cash Provided By (Used In) Financing Activities	48,666		36,752






Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents	( 357,241 )		( 145,226 )
Cash and Cash Equivalents – Beginning	3,785,931		3,846,346
Cash and Cash Equivalents – Ending	$	3,428,690	$	3,701,120





Non-cash Investing and Financing Activities:




Transfer of loans held for sale to held for investment	$	135,815	$	858

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CUSTOMERS BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTE 1 — DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

Customers Bancorp, Inc. (“Customers Bancorp”) is a bank holding company engaged in banking activities through its wholly owned subsidiary, Customers Bank (“the Bank”), collectively referred to as “Customers” herein.

Customers Bancorp and its wholly owned subsidiaries, the Bank, and non-bank subsidiaries, serve businesses and residents in Berks County and Southeastern Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester and Philadelphia Counties); New York (Westchester and Suffolk Counties, and Manhattan); Hamilton, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; California (Southern California and the Bay Area); Nevada (Las Vegas and Reno); and nationally for certain loan and deposit products. The Bank has seven branches and provides commercial banking products, primarily loans and deposits. In addition, the Bank also administratively supports loan and other financial products, including equipment finance leases, to customers through its limited-purpose offices. The Bank also serves specialized businesses nationwide, including its mortgage finance loans, commercial equipment financing, SBA lending, specialized lending and consumer loans through relationships with fintech companies.

The Bank is subject to regulation of the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities and the Federal Reserve Bank and is periodically examined by those regulatory authorities.

NOTE 2 — SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Basis of Presentation

The interim unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. GAAP and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. These interim unaudited consolidated financial statements reflect all normal and recurring adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary to present a fair statement of the financial position and the results of operations and cash flows of Customers Bancorp and subsidiaries for the interim periods presented. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in the annual consolidated financial statements have been omitted from these interim unaudited consolidated financial statements as permitted by SEC rules and regulations. The December 31, 2024 consolidated balance sheet presented in this report has been derived from Customers Bancorp’s audited 2024 consolidated financial statements. Management believes that the disclosures are adequate to present fairly the consolidated financial statements as of the dates and for the periods presented. These interim unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the 2024 consolidated financial statements of Customers Bancorp and subsidiaries included in Customers’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the SEC on February 28, 2025 (the “2024 Form 10-K”). The 2024 Form 10-K describes Customers Bancorp’s significant accounting policies. There have been no material changes to Customers Bancorp’s significant accounting policies noted above for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

Recently Issued Accounting Standards

Presented below are recently issued accounting standards that Customers has adopted as well as those that the FASB has issued but are not yet effective.

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Accounting Standards Adopted in 2025

Standard

Summary of Guidance

Effects on Financial Statements

ASU 2023-08,

Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Crypto Assets (Subtopic 250-60)

Issued December 2023

• Requires crypto assets meeting certain criteria to be subsequently measured at fair value with changes recognized in net income each reporting period.

• Requires crypto assets measured at fair value to be presented separately from other intangible assets in the balance sheet and changes from the remeasurement of crypto assets separately from changes in the carrying amounts of other intangible assets in the income statement.

• Requires cash receipts arising from crypto assets that are received as noncash consideration in the ordinary course of business and converted nearly immediately into cash as operating activities in the statement of cash flows.

• Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted for both interim and annual financial statements that have not yet been issued.

• Customers adopted this guidance on January 1, 2025. This guidance did not have any impact on Customers’ financial condition, results of operations and consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2025-02,

Liabilities (Topic 450) - Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 122

Issued March 2025

• Rescinds interpretive guidance regarding the SEC staff’s views on how an entity that has an obligation to safeguard crypto-assets for another party should account for that obligation. An entity with a safeguarding obligation recognizes a safeguarding liability with an accompanying safeguarding asset, measured at the fair value of the safeguarded crypto-asset.

• Effective for the annual period beginning after December 15, 2024, on a fully retrospective basis.

• Customers adopted this guidance on January 1, 2025. This guidance did not have any impact on Customers’ financial condition, results of operations and consolidated financial statements.

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Accounting Standards Issued But Not Yet Adopted

Standard

Summary of Guidance

Effects on Financial Statements

ASU 2023-09,

Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures

Issued December 2023

• Requires public entities to disclose annually a tabular reconciliation of specific reconciling items, including those items exceeding five percent of the amount computed by multiplying income from continuing operations before income taxes by the statutory income tax rate, in the income tax rate reconciliation of the effective tax rate to the statutory tax rate.

• Requires disclosures of income taxes paid, net of refunds received, disaggregated by federal, state and foreign taxes and by individual jurisdictions where income taxes paid is equal to or greater than five percent of total income taxes paid, net of refunds received.

• Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted for annual financial statements that have not yet been issued.

• Customers will adopt this ASU and provide the newly required disclosures in the consolidated financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2025.

ASU 2024-03,

Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40)

Issued November 2024

and

ASU 2025-01,

Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date

Issued January 2025

• Requires disclosure in the notes to financial statements at each interim and annual reporting period of specified information about certain costs and expenses including purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, intangible asset amortization and depreciation, depletion, and amortization recognized as part of oil-and gas-producing activities.

• Requires disclosure of certain amounts already required to be disclosed under U.S. GAAP in the same disclosure as the other disaggregation requirements.

• Requires disclosure of a qualitative description of the amounts remaining in relevant expense captions that are not separately disaggregated quantitatively.

• Requires disclosure of the total amount of selling expenses and, in annual reporting periods, an entity's definition of selling expenses.

• Effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted.

• Customers is currently evaluating the expected impact of this ASU on Customers’ consolidated financial statements.

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NOTE 3 — EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE

The following are the components and results of Customers’ earnings per common share calculations for the periods presented.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands, except share and per share data)	2025		2024


Net income available to common shareholders	$	9,523	$	45,926

Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding – basic	31,447,623		31,473,424
Share-based compensation plans	1,042,949		1,381,110

Weighted-average number of common shares – diluted	32,490,572		32,854,534



Basic earnings per common share	$	0.30	$	1.46



Diluted earnings per common share	0.29		1.40

The following are securities that could potentially dilute basic earnings per common share in future periods that were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per common share because either the performance conditions for certain of the share-based compensation awards have not been met or to do so would have been anti-dilutive for the periods presented.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025	2024
Anti-dilutive securities:
Share-based compensation awards	22,027	1,680

NOTE 4 — CHANGES IN ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) BY COMPONENT

The following table presents the changes in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by component for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. Amounts in parentheses indicate reductions to AOCI.


	Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Available for Sale Securities (1)
	Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)	2025		2024
Balance at January 1	$	( 96,560 )	$	( 136,569 )



Unrealized gains (losses) arising during period, before tax	( 13,249 )		4,480
Income tax effect	3,484		( 1,138 )
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	( 9,765 )		3,342
Reclassification adjustments for (gains) losses included in net income, before tax	51,319		30
Income tax effect	( 13,497 )		( 8 )
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to net income	37,822		22
Amortization of unrealized loss on securities transferred from available for sale to held to maturity	1,169		1,206
Income tax effect	( 307 )		( 306 )
Amortization of unrealized loss on securities transferred from available for sale to held to maturity	862		900
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	28,919		4,264
Balance at March 31	$	( 67,641 )	$	( 132,305 )

(1) Reclassification amounts for AFS debt securities are reported as net gain (loss) on sale of investment securities or impairment loss on investment securities, and amortization of unrealized losses on debt securities transferred from available-for-sale to held-to-maturity is reported within interest income on the consolidated statements of income.

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NOTE 5 — INVESTMENT SECURITIES

Investment securities at fair value

The amortized cost, approximate fair value and allowance for credit losses of investment securities at fair value as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 are summarized as follows:


	March 31, 2025 (1)
(amounts in thousands)	Amortized Cost		Allowance for Credit Losses		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses		Fair Value
Available for sale debt securities:
Asset-backed securities	$	169,570	$	( 353 )	$	—	$	( 742 )	$	168,475

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	322,646		—		1,349		( 1,111 )		322,884

Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	236,386		—		2,037		( 10,080 )		228,343
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	95,734		—		269		( 2,256 )		93,747
Collateralized loan obligations	187,703		—		66		( 290 )		187,479
Commercial mortgage-backed securities	76,008		—		—		—		76,008
Corporate notes	518,545		( 12,774 )		914		( 24,324 )		482,361
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	488,626		—		—		( 23,486 )		465,140


Available for sale debt securities	$	2,095,218	$	( 13,127 )	$	4,635	$	( 62,289 )	2,024,437

Equity securities (2)									33,118
Total investment securities, at fair value									$	2,057,555


	December 31, 2024 (1)
(amounts in thousands)	Amortized Cost		Allowance for Credit Losses		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses		Fair Value
Available for sale debt securities:
Asset-backed securities	$	14,820	$	( 362 )	$	—	$	( 1,222 )	$	13,236

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	330,637		—		146		( 3,745 )		327,038

Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	242,858		—		—		( 16,112 )		226,746
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	95,850		—		44		( 2,819 )		93,075
Collateralized loan obligations	257,500		—		100		( 2,193 )		255,407
Commercial mortgage-backed securities	78,707		—		—		( 999 )		77,708
Corporate notes	564,524		( 7,135 )		347		( 41,406 )		516,330
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	502,985		( 107 )		95		( 27,075 )		475,898

Available for sale debt securities	$	2,087,881	$	( 7,604 )	$	732	$	( 95,571 )	1,985,438

Equity securities (2)									34,256
Total investment securities, at fair value									$	2,019,694

(1) Accrued interest on AFS debt securities totaled $ 12.4 million and $ 15.0 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, and is included in accrued interest receivable on the consolidated balance sheet.

(2) Includes perpetual preferred stock issued by domestic banks and domestic bank holding companies and equity securities issued by fintech companies, without a readily determinable fair value, and CRA-qualified mutual fund shares at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. No impairments or measurement adjustments have been recorded on the equity securities without a readily determinable fair value since acquisition.

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Customers’ transactions with unconsolidated VIEs include sales of consumer installment loans and investments in the securities issued by the VIEs. Customers is not the primary beneficiary of the VIEs because Customers has no right to make decisions that will most significantly affect the economic performance of the VIEs. Customers’ continuing involvement with the unconsolidated VIEs is not significant. Customers’ continuing involvement is not considered to be significant where Customers only invests in securities issued by the VIE and was not involved in the design of the VIE or where Customers has transferred financial assets to the VIE for only cash consideration. Customers’ investments in the securities issued by the VIEs are classified as AFS or HTM debt securities on the consolidated balance sheets, and represent Customers’ maximum exposure to loss.

There was no sale of AFS debt securities for the three months ended March 31, 2025. Proceeds from the sale of AFS debt securities were $ 22.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The following table presents gross realized gains and realized losses from the sale of AFS debt securities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)	2025		2024
Gross realized gains	$	—	$	—
Gross realized losses	—		( 30 )
Net realized gains (losses) on sale of available for sale debt securities	$	—	$	( 30 )

These gains (losses) were determined using the specific identification method and were reported as net gain (loss) on sale of investment securities within non-interest income on the consolidated statements of income.

The following table presents AFS debt securities by stated maturity. Debt securities backed by mortgages and other assets have expected maturities that differ from contractual maturities because borrowers have the right to call or prepay and, therefore, these debt securities are classified separately with no specific maturity date.


	March 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)	Amortized Cost		Fair Value
Due in one year or less	$	20,195	$	19,816
Due after one year through five years	422,613		391,589
Due after five years through ten years	68,214		65,011
Due after ten years	7,523		5,945
Asset-backed securities	169,570		168,475
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	322,646		322,884

Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	236,386		228,343
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	95,734		93,747
Collateralized loan obligations	187,703		187,479
Commercial mortgage-backed securities	76,008		76,008
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	488,626		465,140


Total available for sale debt securities	$	2,095,218	$	2,024,437

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Gross unrealized losses and fair value of Customers’ AFS debt securities for which an allowance for credit losses has not been recorded, aggregated by investment category and length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:


	March 31, 2025
	Less Than 12 Months				12 Months or More				Total
(amounts in thousands)	Fair Value		Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Unrealized Losses
Available for sale debt securities:

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	$	191,812	$	( 1,111 )	$	—	$	—	$	191,812	$	( 1,111 )

Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	—		—		99,860		( 10,080 )		99,860		( 10,080 )
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	59,818		( 1,571 )		16,881		( 685 )		76,699		( 2,256 )
Collateralized loan obligations	—		—		131,203		( 290 )		131,203		( 290 )

Corporate notes	68,532		( 716 )		266,678		( 12,087 )		335,210		( 12,803 )
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	89,058		( 261 )		385,532		( 23,225 )		474,590		( 23,486 )


Total	$	409,220	$	( 3,659 )	$	900,154	$	( 46,367 )	$	1,309,374	$	( 50,026 )


	December 31, 2024
	Less Than 12 Months				12 Months or More				Total
(amounts in thousands)	Fair Value		Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Unrealized Losses
Available for sale debt securities:

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	$	266,568	$	( 3,745 )	$	—	$	—	$	266,568	$	( 3,745 )

Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	126,602		( 2,717 )		100,144		( 13,395 )		226,746		( 16,112 )
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	85,902		( 2,819 )		—		—		85,902		( 2,819 )
Collateralized loan obligations	35,710		( 265 )		205,639		( 1,928 )		241,349		( 2,193 )
Commercial mortgage-backed securities	—		—		77,708		( 999 )		77,708		( 999 )
Corporate notes	74,373		( 976 )		239,509		( 16,064 )		313,882		( 17,040 )
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	29,419		( 581 )		351,040		( 24,552 )		380,459		( 25,133 )


Total	$	618,574	$	( 11,103 )	$	974,040	$	( 56,938 )	$	1,592,614	$	( 68,041 )

At March 31, 2025, there were 24 AFS debt securities with unrealized losses in the less-than-twelve-months category and 37 AFS debt securities with unrealized losses in the twelve-months-or-more category. Except for certain AFS debt securities where there was a change in future estimated cash flows as further discussed below, the unrealized losses were principally due to changes in market interest rates and credit spreads that resulted in a negative impact on the respective securities’ fair value and expected to be recovered when market prices recover or at maturity. Customers does not intend to sell any of the 61 securities with unrealized losses, and it is not more likely than not that Customers will be required to sell any of the 61 securities before recovery of the amortized cost basis. At December 31, 2024, there were 117 AFS debt securities in an unrealized loss position.

Customers recorded an allowance for credit losses on certain AFS debt securities where there was a change in future estimated cash flows during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. A discounted cash flow approach is used to determine the amount of the allowance. The cash flows expected to be collected, after considering expected prepayments, are discounted at the original effective interest rate. The amount of the allowance is limited to the difference between the amortized cost basis of the security and its estimated fair value.

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The following table presents the activity in the allowance for credit losses on AFS debt securities, by major security type, for the periods presented:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025								2024
(amounts in thousands)	Asset-backed securities		Corporate notes		Private label CMOs		Total		Asset-backed securities		Corporate notes		Total
Balance at January 1	$	362	$	7,135	$	107	$	7,604	$	483	$	3,469	$	3,952
Credit losses on securities for which credit losses were not previously recorded	—		—		—		—		—		502		502
Credit losses on previously impaired securities	66		7,007		—		7,073		—		648		648
Decrease in allowance for credit losses on previously impaired securities	( 75 )		( 146 )		—		( 221 )		( 33 )		—		( 33 )
Reduction due to sales and intent to sell	—		( 1,222 )		( 107 )		( 1,329 )		—		—		—
Balance at March 31	$	353	$	12,774	$	—	$	13,127	$	450	$	4,619	$	5,069

Customers has elected to not estimate an ACL on accrued interest receivable on AFS debt securities, as it already has a policy in place to reverse or write-off accrued interest, through interest income, for debt securities in nonaccrual status in a timely manner. At March 31, 2025, there were four corporate notes from two issuers in nonaccrual status. At December 31, 2024, there was one corporate note in nonaccrual status. Customers recorded a reversal of $ 4.1 million for the corporate notes in accrued interest income for the three months ended March 31, 2025. No accrued interest income was reversed for the three months ended March 31, 2024.

At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, no AFS investment securities holding of any one issuer, other than the U.S. government and its agencies, amounted to greater than 10% of shareholders’ equity.

At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers Bank had pledged AFS investment securities aggregating $ 1.3 billion in fair value as collateral primarily for immediately available liquidity from the FRB. The counterparty does not have the ability to sell or repledge these securities.

Investment securities held to maturity

The amortized cost, approximate fair value and allowance for credit losses of investment securities held to maturity as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 are summarized as follows:


	March 31, 2025 (1)
(amounts in thousands)	Amortized Cost		Allowance for Credit Losses		Net Carrying Value		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses		Fair Value
Held to maturity debt securities:
Asset-backed securities	$	409,904	$	—	$	409,904	$	397	$	( 1,631 )	$	408,670

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	6,833		—		6,833		—		( 822 )		6,011
Agency-guaranteed commercial mortgage-backed securities	1,750		—		1,750		—		( 262 )		1,488
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	165,521		—		165,521		—		( 16,848 )		148,673
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	171,307		—		171,307		—		( 21,702 )		149,605



Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	182,846		—		182,846		372		( 11,127 )		172,091

Total held to maturity debt securities	$	938,161	$	—	$	938,161	$	769	$	( 52,392 )	$	886,538

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	December 31, 2024 (1)
(amounts in thousands)	Amortized Cost		Allowance for Credit Losses		Net Carrying Value		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses		Fair Value
Held to maturity debt securities:
Asset-backed securities	$	471,996	$	—	$	471,996	$	1,775	$	( 401 )	$	473,370

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	6,880		—		6,880		—		( 940 )		5,940
Agency-guaranteed commercial mortgage-backed securities	1,770		—		1,770		—		( 146 )		1,624
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	169,754		—		169,754		—		( 21,984 )		147,770
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	158,320		—		158,320		—		( 22,689 )		135,631



Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	183,217		—		183,217		574		( 13,449 )		170,342

Total held to maturity debt securities	$	991,937	$	—	$	991,937	$	2,349	$	( 59,609 )	$	934,677

(1) Accrued interest on HTM debt securities totaled $ 2.2 million and $ 2.4 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, and is included in accrued interest receivable on the consolidated balance sheet.

The following table presents HTM debt securities by stated maturity, including debt securities backed by mortgages and other assets with expected maturities that differ from contractual maturities because borrowers have the right to call or prepay and, therefore, are classified separately with no specific maturity date:


	March 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)	Amortized Cost		Fair Value




Asset-backed securities	$	409,904	$	408,670


Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	6,833		6,011
Agency-guaranteed commercial mortgage-backed securities	1,750		1,488
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	165,521		148,673
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	171,307		149,605
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	182,846		172,091
Total held to maturity debt securities	$	938,161	$	886,538

Customers recorded no allowance for credit losses on investment securities classified as held to maturity at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The U.S. government agency securities represent obligations issued by a U.S. government-sponsored enterprise or other federal government agency that are explicitly or implicitly guaranteed by the U.S. federal government and therefore, assumed to have zero credit losses. The private label collateralized mortgage obligations that are highly rated with sufficient overcollateralization are estimated to have no expected credit losses. Customers recorded no allowance for its investments in the asset-backed securities. Customers considered the seniority of its beneficial interests, which include overcollateralization of these asset-backed securities in the estimate of the ACL at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The unrealized losses on HTM debt securities with no ACL were primarily due to changes in market interest rates that resulted in a negative impact on the respective securities’ fair value and are expected to be recovered when market prices recover or at maturity.

Credit Quality Indicators

Customers monitors the credit quality of HTM debt securities primarily through credit ratings provided by rating agencies. Investment grade debt securities are rated BBB- or higher by S&P Global Ratings, Baa3 or higher by Moody’s Investors Service or equivalent ratings by other rating agencies, and are generally considered to be of low credit risk. Except for the asset-backed securities and a private label collateralized mortgage obligation, all of the HTM debt securities held by Customers were investment grade or U.S. government agency guaranteed securities that were not rated at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The asset-backed securities and a private label collateralized mortgage obligation are not rated by rating agencies. Customers monitors the credit quality of these asset-backed securities and a private label collateralized mortgage obligation by evaluating the performance of the sold consumer installment loans and other underlying loans against the overcollateralization available for these securities.

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The following table presents the amortized cost of HTM debt securities based on their lowest credit rating available:


	March 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)	AAA		AA		Not Rated		Total
Held to maturity debt securities:
Asset-backed securities	$	—	$	—	$	409,904	$	409,904

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	—		—		6,833		6,833
Agency-guaranteed commercial mortgage-backed securities	—		—		1,750		1,750
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	—		—		165,521		165,521
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	—		—		171,307		171,307



Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	82,060		26,323		74,463		182,846

Total held to maturity debt securities	$	82,060	$	26,323	$	829,778	$	938,161

Customers has elected to not estimate an ACL on accrued interest receivable on HTM debt securities, as it already has a policy in place to reverse or write-off accrued interest, through interest income, for debt securities in nonaccrual status in a timely manner. At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, there were no HTM debt securities past due under the terms of their agreements or in nonaccrual status.

At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers Bank had pledged HTM investment securities aggregating $ 403.0 million and $ 386.4 million in fair value, respectively, as collateral primarily for immediately available liquidity from the FRB and unused lines of credit with another financial institution. The counterparties do not have the ability to sell or repledge these securities.

NOTE 6 – LOANS HELD FOR SALE

The composition of loans held for sale as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was as follows:


(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024








Residential mortgage loans, at fair value	$	1,465	$	1,836
Personal installment loans, at lower of cost or fair value	36,000		40,903

Other installment loans, at fair value	64		162,055

Total loans held for sale	$	37,529	$	204,794

Total loans held for sale included NPLs of $ 0.4 million and $ 2.8 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

Refer to NOTE 7 — LOANS AND LEASES RECEIVABLE AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES ON LOANS AND LEASES for additional information on the transfer of other consumer installment loans, at fair value, from loans held for sale to held for investment during the three months ended March 31, 2025.

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NOTE 7 — LOANS AND LEASES RECEIVABLE AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES ON LOANS AND LEASES

The following table presents loans and leases receivable as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.


(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
Loans and leases receivable:
Commercial:
Commercial and industrial:

Specialized lending (1)	$	6,070,093	$	5,842,420
Other commercial and industrial	1,174,369		1,182,350
Multifamily	2,322,123		2,252,246
Commercial real estate owner occupied	1,139,126		1,100,944
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied	1,438,906		1,359,130
Construction	154,647		147,209

Total commercial loans and leases receivable	12,299,264		11,884,299
Consumer:
Residential real estate	496,772		496,559
Manufactured housing	31,775		33,123
Installment:

Personal	493,276		463,854
Other	234,733		249,799

Total consumer loans receivable	1,256,556		1,243,335
Loans and leases receivable	13,555,820		13,127,634

Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value	1,366,460		1,321,128
Loans receivable, installment, at fair value	138,159		—
Allowance for credit losses on loans and leases	( 141,076 )		( 136,775 )
Total loans and leases receivable, net of allowance for credit losses on loans and leases (2)	$	14,919,363	$	14,311,987

(1) Includes direct finance and sales-type equipment leases of $ 269.2 million and $ 262.7 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

(2) Includes deferred (fees) costs and unamortized (discounts) premiums, net of $( 22.2 ) million and $( 20.8 ) million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

Customers’ total loans and leases receivable includes loans receivable reported at fair value based on an election made to account for these loans at fair value and loans and leases receivable predominately reported at their outstanding unpaid principal balance, net of charge-offs, deferred costs and fees and unamortized premiums and discounts, and evaluated for impairment. The total amount of accrued interest recorded for total loans was $ 86.2 million and $ 88.2 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, and is presented in accrued interest receivable in the consolidated balance sheet. At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, there were $ 33.5 million and $ 31.9 million of individually evaluated loans that were collateral-dependent, respectively. Substantially all individually evaluated loans are collateral-dependent and consisted primarily of commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, and residential real estate loans. Collateral-dependent commercial and industrial loans were secured by accounts receivable, inventory and equipment; collateral-dependent commercial real estate loans were secured by commercial real estate assets; and residential real estate loans were secured by residential real estate assets.

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Loans and leases receivable

The following tables summarize loans and leases receivable by loan and lease type and performance status as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:


	March 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)	30-59 Days past due (1)		60-89 Days past due (1)		90 Days or more past due (2)		Total past due		Loans and leases not past due (3)(4)		Total loans and leases (4)
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	$	6,933	$	3,999	$	18,519	$	29,451	$	7,196,323	$	7,225,774


Multifamily	6,427		—		—		6,427		2,315,696		2,322,123

Commercial real estate owner occupied	118		—		7,792		7,910		1,131,216		1,139,126
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied	16,653		—		62		16,715		1,422,191		1,438,906
Construction	—		—		—		—		154,647		154,647
Residential real estate	9,013		2,616		2,093		13,722		483,050		496,772
Manufactured housing	465		239		1,984		2,688		29,087		31,775
Installment	9,124		2,757		4,659		16,540		711,469		728,009



Total	$	48,733	$	9,611	$	35,109	$	93,453	$	13,443,679	$	13,537,132


	December 31, 2024
(amounts in thousands)	30-59 Days past due (1)		60-89 Days past due (1)		90 Days or more past due (2)		Total past due		Loans and leases not past due (3)(4)		Total loans and leases (4)
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	$	3,655	$	19,854	$	3,606	$	27,115	$	6,974,904	$	7,002,019


Multifamily	—		—		11,834		11,834		2,240,412		2,252,246

Commercial real estate owner occupied	11,395		—		8,071		19,466		1,081,478		1,100,944
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied	—		—		17,007		17,007		1,342,123		1,359,130
Construction	—		—		—		—		147,209		147,209
Residential real estate	9,541		4,560		3,384		17,485		479,074		496,559
Manufactured housing	766		155		2,262		3,183		29,940		33,123
Installment	7,918		5,108		5,613		18,639		695,014		713,653



Total	$	33,275	$	29,677	$	51,777	$	114,729	$	12,990,154	$	13,104,883

(1) Includes past due loans and leases that are accruing interest because collection is considered probable.

(2) Includes loans amounting to $ 0.4 million and $ 17.1 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, that are still accruing interest because collection is considered probable.

(3) Loans and leases where next payment due is less than 30 days from the report date. The tables exclude PPP loans.

(4) Includes PCD loans of $ 122.9 million and $ 126.4 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

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Nonaccrual Loans and Leases

The following table presents the amortized cost of loans and leases held for investment on nonaccrual status.


	March 31, 2025						December 31, 2024
(amounts in thousands)	Nonaccrual loans with no related allowance		Nonaccrual loans with related allowance		Total nonaccrual loans		Nonaccrual loans with no related allowance		Nonaccrual loans with related allowance		Total nonaccrual loans
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	$	18,754	$	—	$	18,754	$	4,041	$	—	$	4,041


Multifamily	—		—		—		11,834		—		11,834

Commercial real estate owner occupied	7,793		—		7,793		8,090		—		8,090
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied	62		—		62		354		—		354

Residential real estate	7,714		437		8,151		8,274		440		8,714
Manufactured housing	—		1,653		1,653		—		1,852		1,852
Installment	—		4,659		4,659		—		5,613		5,613



Total	$	34,323	$	6,749	$	41,072	$	32,593	$	7,905	$	40,498

Interest income recognized on nonaccrual loans was insignificant for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. Accrued interest reversed when the loans went to nonaccrual status was insignificant for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.

Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value

Mortgage finance loans consist of commercial loans to mortgage companies. These mortgage finance lending transactions are subject to master repurchase agreements. As a result of the contractual provisions, for accounting purposes, control of the underlying mortgage loan has not transferred and the rewards and risks of the mortgage loans are not assumed by Customers. The mortgage finance loans are designated as loans held for investment and reported at fair value based on an election made to account for the loans at fair value. Pursuant to the agreements, Customers funds the pipelines for these mortgage lenders by sending payments directly to the closing agents for funded mortgage loans and receives proceeds directly from third party investors when the underlying mortgage loans are sold into the secondary market. The fair value of the mortgage finance loans is estimated as the amount of cash initially advanced to fund the mortgage, plus accrued interest and fees, as specified in the respective agreements. The interest rates on these loans are variable, and the lending transactions are short-term, with an average life under 30 days from purchase to sale. The primary goal of these lending transactions is to provide liquidity to mortgage companies.

At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, all of Customers’ mortgage finance loans were current in terms of payment. As these loans are reported at their fair value, they do not have an ACL and are therefore excluded from ACL-related disclosures.

Loans receivable, installment, at fair value

Customers has a lending arrangement with a fintech company, which recently was acquired by a bank, whereby Customers has been originating consumer installment loans and holding these loans prior to sale. These consumer installment loans were designated as loans held for sale and reported at fair value based on an election made to account for the loans at fair value. The lending arrangement with this fintech company expires in the second quarter of 2025. Accordingly, Customers transferred these consumer installment loans from held for sale to held for investment during the three months ended March 31, 2025, and continue to be reported at fair value based on an election made to account for the loans at fair value.

At March 31, 2025, Customers had $ 2.1 million of consumer installment loans, at fair value, of nonaccrual status. As these loans are reported at their fair value, they do not have an ACL and are therefore excluded from ACL-related disclosures.

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Allowance for credit losses on loans and leases

The changes in the ACL on loans and leases by loan and lease type for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 are presented in the tables below.


(amounts in thousands)	Commercial and industrial (1)		Multifamily		Commercial real estate owner occupied		Commercial real estate non-owner occupied		Construction		Residential real estate		Manufactured housing		Installment		Total
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
Ending Balance, December 31, 2024	$	29,379	$	18,511	$	10,755	$	17,405	$	1,250	$	5,968	$	3,829	$	49,678	$	136,775

Charge-offs	( 4,507 )		( 3,834 )		( 19 )		—		—		—		—		( 12,403 )		( 20,763 )
Recoveries	1,276		—		3		—		3		—		—		2,337		3,619
Provision (benefit) for credit losses on loans and leases	4,436		4,113		41		653		11		195		( 29 )		12,025		21,445
Ending Balance, March 31, 2025	$	30,584	$	18,790	$	10,780	$	18,058	$	1,264	$	6,163	$	3,800	$	51,637	$	141,076



(amounts in thousands)	Commercial and industrial (1)		Multifamily		Commercial real estate owner occupied		Commercial real estate non-owner occupied		Construction		Residential real estate		Manufactured housing		Installment		Total
Three Months Ended March 31, 2024
Ending Balance, December 31, 2023	$	23,503	$	16,343	$	9,882	$	16,859	$	1,482	$	6,586	$	4,239	$	56,417	$	135,311

Charge-offs	( 5,396 )		( 473 )		( 22 )		—		—		( 19 )		—		( 16,917 )		( 22,827 )
Recoveries	1,724		—		—		—		—		1		—		3,134		4,859
Provision (benefit) for credit losses on loans and leases	3,172		2,437		341		1,461		384		139		( 79 )		8,098		15,953
Ending Balance, March 31, 2024	$	23,003	$	18,307	$	10,201	$	18,320	$	1,866	$	6,707	$	4,160	$	50,732	$	133,296

(1) Includes specialized lending.

At March 31, 2025, the ACL on loans and leases was $ 141.1 million, an increase of $ 4.3 million from the December 31, 2024 balance of $ 136.8 million. The increase in ACL for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was primarily attributable to slight deterioration in macroeconomic forecasts and an increase in loan balances held for investment.

Loan Modifications for Borrowers Experiencing Financial Difficulty

A borrower is considered to be experiencing financial difficulty when there is a significant doubt about the borrower’s ability to make the required principal and interest payments on the loan or to get an equivalent financing from another creditor at a market rate for a similar loan.

When borrowers are experiencing financial difficulty, Customers may make certain loan modifications as part of loss mitigation strategies to maximize expected payment. To be classified as a modification made to a borrower experiencing financial difficulty, the modification must be in the form of an interest rate reduction, principal forgiveness, or an other-than-insignificant payment delay (payment deferral), term extension, or combinations thereof.

Customers will generally try other forms of relief before principal forgiveness. Any contractual reduction in the amount of principal due without receiving payment or assets is considered forgiveness. For the purpose of this disclosure, Customers considers any contractual change in interest rate that results in a reduction in interest rate relative to the current stated interest rate as an interest rate reduction. Generally, Customers considers any delay in payment of greater than 90 days in the last twelve months to be significant. Term extensions extend the original contractual maturity of the loan. For the purpose of this disclosure, modification of contingent payment features or covenants that would have accelerated payment are not considered term extensions.

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The following tables present the amortized cost of loans that were modified to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, disaggregated by class of financing receivable and type of modification granted.


	Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
(dollars in thousands)	Term Extension		Payment Deferral		Debt Forgiveness		Interest Rate Reduction and Term Extension		Total		Percentage of Total by Financing Class


Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	$	731	$	766	$	—	$	—	$	1,497	0.02	%









Personal installment	2,616		1,440		118		128		4,302		0.87	%

Total	$	3,347	$	2,206	$	118	$	128	$	5,799


	Three Months Ended March 31, 2024
(dollars in thousands)	Term Extension		Payment Deferral		Debt Forgiveness		Interest Rate Reduction and Term Extension		Total		Percentage of Total by Financing Class


Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	$	—	$	1,980	$	—	$	—	$	1,980	0.03	%

Multifamily	—		10,688		—		—		10,688		0.50	%




Residential real estate	—		57		—		—		57		0.01	%


Personal installment	3,747		198		36		—		3,981		0.50	%

Total	$	3,747	$	12,923	$	36	$	—	$	16,706

As of March 31, 2025, there were no commitments to lend additional funds to debtors experiencing financial difficulty whose loans have been modified during the three months ended March 31, 2025.

The following table summarizes the impacts of loan modifications made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.


	Three Months Ended March 31, 2025					Three Months Ended March 31, 2024
	Weighted Average					Weighted Average
(dollars in thousands)	Interest Rate Reduction (%)	Term Extension (in months)	Payment Deferral (in months)	Debt Forgiven		Interest Rate Reduction (%)	Term Extension (in months)	Payment Deferral (in months)	Debt Forgiven
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	— %	11	6	$	—	— %	0	3	$	—
Multifamily	—	0	0	—		—	0	12	—



Residential real estate	—	0	0	—		—	0	5	—

Personal installment	13.2	5	7	73		—	6	6	100

The performance of loans made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty in which modifications were made is closely monitored to understand the effectiveness of modification efforts. Loans are considered to be in payment default at 90 days or more past due. The following tables present an aging analysis of loan modifications made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty in the twelve months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.


	March 31, 2025
(dollars in thousands)	30-59 Days past due		60-89 Days past due		90 Days or more past due		Current		Total

Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	11,179	$	11,179








Residential real estate	—		—		—		302		302
Manufactured housing	—		—		17		299		316

Personal installment	188		347		136		5,951		6,622

Total	$	188	$	347	$	153	$	17,731	$	18,419

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	March 31, 2024
(dollars in thousands)	30-59 Days past due		60-89 Days past due		90 Days or more past due		Current		Total

Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	$	1,980	$	—	$	—	$	15,348	$	17,328

Multifamily	—		—		—		10,688		10,688




Residential real estate	57		—		—		46		103
Manufactured housing	—		92		31		620		743

Personal installment	943		626		546		12,131		14,246

Total	$	2,980	$	718	$	577	$	38,833	$	43,108

The loans to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty that were modified during the twelve months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, that subsequently defaulted were not material. Customers’ ACL is influenced by loan level characteristics that inform the assessed propensity to default. As such, the provision for credit losses is impacted by changes in such loan level characteristics, such as payment performance. Loans made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty can be classified as either accrual or nonaccrual.

Credit Quality Indicators

The ACL represents management’s estimate of expected losses in Customers’ loans and leases receivable portfolio, excluding mortgage finance and consumer installment loans reported at fair value pursuant to a fair value option election and PPP loans as these loans are fully guaranteed by the SBA, provided that the eligibility criteria are met. Commercial and industrial including specialized lending, multifamily, owner occupied commercial real estate, non-owner occupied commercial real estate, and construction loans are rated based on an internally assigned risk rating system which is assigned at the time of loan origination and reviewed on a periodic, or on an “as needed” basis. Residential real estate, manufactured housing and installment loans are evaluated based on the payment activity of the loan.

To facilitate the monitoring of credit quality within the commercial and industrial including specialized lending, multifamily, owner occupied commercial real estate, non-owner occupied commercial real estate, and construction loan portfolios, and as an input in the ACL lifetime loss rate model for the commercial and industrial loan portfolio, the Bank utilizes the following categories of risk ratings: pass/satisfactory (includes risk rating 1 through 6), special mention, substandard, doubtful, and loss. The risk rating categories, which are derived from standard regulatory rating definitions, are assigned upon initial approval of credit to borrowers and updated periodically thereafter. Pass ratings, which are assigned to those borrowers who do not have identified potential or well-defined weaknesses and for whom there is a high likelihood of orderly repayment, are updated periodically based on the size and credit characteristics of the borrower. All other categories are updated on a quarterly basis during the month preceding the end of the calendar quarter. While assigning risk ratings involves judgment, the risk-rating process allows management to identify riskier credits in a timely manner and allocate the appropriate resources to manage those loans and leases. The 2024 Form 10-K describes Customers Bancorp’s risk rating grades.

Risk ratings are not established for certain consumer loans, including residential real estate, home equity, manufactured housing, and installment loans, mainly because these portfolios consist of a larger number of homogeneous loans with smaller balances. Instead, these portfolios are evaluated for risk mainly based upon aggregate payment history through the monitoring of delinquency levels and trends and are classified as performing and non-performing. The following tables present the credit ratings of loans and leases receivable and current period gross write-offs as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

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	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year as of March 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)	2025		2024		2023		2022		2021		Prior		Revolving loans amortized cost basis		Revolving loans converted to term		Total







Commercial and industrial loans and leases, including specialized lending:
Pass	$	870,173	$	1,568,549	$	757,704	$	1,095,070	$	296,349	$	156,307	$	2,000,301	$	276,874	$	7,021,327
Special mention	7,200		19,278		466		18,920		107		—		6,145		8,159		60,275
Substandard	—		1,005		531		36,248		9,663		65,051		28,981		2,693		144,172
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—				—
Total commercial and industrial loans and leases	$	877,373	$	1,588,832	$	758,701	$	1,150,238	$	306,119	$	221,358	$	2,035,427	$	287,726	$	7,225,774

Commercial and industrial loans and leases charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	—	$	—	$	103	$	4,013	$	12	$	379	$	—	$	—	$	4,507
























Multifamily loans:
Pass	$	126,248	$	238,962	$	803	$	1,171,382	$	285,480	$	393,640	$	—	$	—	$	2,216,515
Special mention	—		—		—		18,572		—		30,800		—		—		49,372
Substandard	—		—		—		—		12,023		44,213		—		—		56,236
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total multifamily loans	$	126,248	$	238,962	$	803	$	1,189,954	$	297,503	$	468,653	$	—	$	—	$	2,322,123

Multifamily loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	3,834	$	—			$	3,834


Commercial real estate owner occupied loans:
Pass	$	61,337	$	394,556	$	53,922	$	209,748	$	194,376	$	168,200	$	7,604	$	97	$	1,089,840
Special mention	—		—		—		156		16,362		4,650		—		11,091		32,259
Substandard	—		—		2,944		703		—		13,380		—		—		17,027
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial real estate owner occupied loans	$	61,337	$	394,556	$	56,866	$	210,607	$	210,738	$	186,230	$	7,604	$	11,188	$	1,139,126

Commercial real estate owner occupied loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	19	$	—	$	—	$	19









Commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans:
Pass	$	101,960	$	163,009	$	30,307	$	389,600	$	95,827	$	560,208	$	2,000	$	—	$	1,342,911
Special mention	—		—		12,000		24,855		—		557		—		—		37,412
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		58,583		—		—		58,583
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans	$	101,960	$	163,009	$	42,307	$	414,455	$	95,827	$	619,348	$	2,000	$	—	$	1,438,906

Commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—


Construction loans:
Pass	$	—	$	22,382	$	28,779	$	93,649	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	144,810
Special mention	—		—		9,837		—		—		—		—		—		9,837
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total construction loans	$	—	$	22,382	$	38,616	$	93,649	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	154,647

Construction loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—


Total commercial loans and leases receivable	$	1,166,918	$	2,407,741	$	897,293	$	3,058,903	$	910,187	$	1,495,589	$	2,045,031	$	298,914	$	12,280,576

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	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year as of March 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)	2025		2024		2023		2022		2021		Prior		Revolving loans amortized cost basis		Revolving loans converted to term		Total






























































































Total commercial loans and leases receivable charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	—	$	—	$	103	$	4,013	$	12	$	4,232	$	—	$	—	$	8,360


Residential real estate loans:
Performing	$	8,055	$	45,794	$	20,557	$	160,993	$	121,810	$	83,313	$	48,752	$	—	$	489,274
Non-performing	—		137		268		1,211		1,059		4,536		287		—		7,498
Total residential real estate loans	$	8,055	$	45,931	$	20,825	$	162,204	$	122,869	$	87,849	$	49,039	$	—	$	496,772

Residential real estate loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—


Manufactured housing loans:
Performing	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	30,653	$	—	$	—	$	30,653
Non-performing	—		—		—		—		—		1,122		—		—		1,122
Total manufactured housing loans	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	31,775	$	—	$	—	$	31,775

Manufactured housing loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—


Installment loans:
Performing	$	9,618	$	80,834	$	229,157	$	228,396	$	79,363	$	49,056	$	46,399	$	3	$	722,826
Non-performing	—		1,138		1,522		1,084		645		583		211		—		5,183
Total installment loans	$	9,618	$	81,972	$	230,679	$	229,480	$	80,008	$	49,639	$	46,610	$	3	$	728,009

Installment loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	217	$	658	$	3,299	$	4,829	$	2,564	$	836	$	—	$	—	$	12,403





























Total consumer loans	$	17,673	$	127,903	$	251,504	$	391,684	$	202,877	$	169,263	$	95,649	$	3	$	1,256,556

Total consumer loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	217	$	658	$	3,299	$	4,829	$	2,564	$	836	$	—	$	—	$	12,403


Loans and leases receivable	$	1,184,591	$	2,535,644	$	1,148,797	$	3,450,587	$	1,113,064	$	1,664,852	$	2,140,680	$	298,917	$	13,537,132

Loans and leases receivable charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	$	217	$	658	$	3,402	$	8,842	$	2,576	$	5,068	$	—	$	—	$	20,763

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	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year as of December 31, 2024
(amounts in thousands)	2024		2023		2022		2021		2020		Prior		Revolving loans amortized cost basis		Revolving loans converted to term		Total








Commercial and industrial loans and leases, including specialized lending:
Pass	$	2,103,150	$	738,456	$	1,278,246	$	333,068	$	107,840	$	6,742	$	1,907,480	$	336,100	$	6,811,082
Special mention	16,905		—		6,933		1,522		—		62		8,144		3,630		37,196
Substandard	—		1,631		43,668		11,525		4,178		62,095		27,830		2,814		153,741
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial and industrial loans and leases	$	2,120,055	$	740,087	$	1,328,847	$	346,115	$	112,018	$	68,899	$	1,943,454	$	342,544	$	7,002,019

Commercial and industrial loans and leases charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024 (1)	$	312	$	2,765	$	5,833	$	4,865	$	2,429	$	7,531	$	—	$	—	$	23,735

Multifamily loans:
Pass	$	235,685	$	813	$	1,182,371	$	288,055	$	124,779	$	314,967	$	—	$	—	$	2,146,670
Special mention	—		—		14,040		12,093		—		32,316		—		—		58,449
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		47,127		—		—		47,127
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total multifamily loans	$	235,685	$	813	$	1,196,411	$	300,148	$	124,779	$	394,410	$	—	$	—	$	2,252,246

Multifamily loans charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	4,073	$	—	$	—	$	4,073























Commercial real estate owner occupied loans:
Pass	$	395,522	$	54,356	$	211,300	$	195,169	$	42,078	$	118,677	$	7,605	$	104	$	1,024,811
Special mention	—		—		159		16,429		10,000		15,885		—		11,136		53,609
Substandard	—		2,944		703		—		—		18,877		—		—		22,524
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial real estate owner occupied loans	$	395,522	$	57,300	$	212,162	$	211,598	$	52,078	$	153,439	$	7,605	$	11,240	$	1,100,944

Commercial real estate owner occupied loans charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	365	$	—	$	—	$	365








Commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans:
Pass	$	163,429	$	30,367	$	412,352	$	96,656	$	165,111	$	413,336	$	2,000	$	—	$	1,283,251
Special mention	—		12,000		4,277		—		—		431		—		—		16,708
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		59,171		—		—		59,171
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans	$	163,429	$	42,367	$	416,629	$	96,656	$	165,111	$	472,938	$	2,000	$	—	$	1,359,130

Commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	145	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	145

Construction loans:
Pass	$	16,103	$	22,610	$	94,957	$	—	$	—	$	4,446	$	—	$	—	$	138,116
Special mention	—		9,093		—		—		—		—		—		—		9,093
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total construction loans	$	16,103	$	31,703	$	94,957	$	—	$	—	$	4,446	$	—	$	—	$	147,209

Construction loans charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—

Total commercial loans and leases receivable	$	2,930,794	$	872,270	$	3,249,006	$	954,517	$	453,986	$	1,094,132	$	1,953,059	$	353,784	$	11,861,548

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	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year as of December 31, 2024
(amounts in thousands)	2024		2023		2022		2021		2020		Prior		Revolving loans amortized cost basis		Revolving loans converted to term		Total






























































































Total commercial loans and leases receivable charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	312	$	2,765	$	5,833	$	4,865	$	2,574	$	11,969	$	—	$	—	$	28,318

Residential real estate loans:
Performing	$	45,757	$	20,701	$	163,473	$	123,170	$	5,827	$	77,989	$	50,807	$	—	$	487,724
Non-performing	138		273		925		1,077		317		5,425		680		—		8,835
Total residential real estate loans	$	45,895	$	20,974	$	164,398	$	124,247	$	6,144	$	83,414	$	51,487	$	—	$	496,559

Residential real estate loans charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	38	$	—	$	—	$	38

Manufactured housing loans:
Performing	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	31,570	$	—	$	—	$	31,570
Non-performing	—		—		—		—		—		1,553		—		—		1,553
Total manufactured housing loans	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	33,123	$	—	$	—	$	33,123

Manufactured housing loans charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—

Installment loans:
Performing	$	86,018	$	164,223	$	255,777	$	98,375	$	31,808	$	25,733	$	46,126	$	5	$	708,065
Non-performing	238		1,829		1,698		918		260		504		141		—		5,588
Total installment loans	$	86,256	$	166,052	$	257,475	$	99,293	$	32,068	$	26,237	$	46,267	$	5	$	713,653

Installment loans charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	2,797	$	8,791	$	22,707	$	15,211	$	2,811	$	3,792	$	—	$	—	$	56,109




























Total consumer loans	$	132,151	$	187,026	$	421,873	$	223,540	$	38,212	$	142,774	$	97,754	$	5	$	1,243,335

Total consumer loans charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	2,797	$	8,791	$	22,707	$	15,211	$	2,811	$	3,830	$	—	$	—	$	56,147

Loans and leases receivable	$	3,062,945	$	1,059,296	$	3,670,879	$	1,178,057	$	492,198	$	1,236,906	$	2,050,813	$	353,789	$	13,104,883

Loans and leases receivable charge-offs:

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024	$	3,109	$	11,556	$	28,540	$	20,076	$	5,385	$	15,799	$	—	$	—	$	84,465

(1) Charge-offs for the year ended December 31, 2024 included $ 5.0 million of commercial and industrial loans originated under the PPP that were subsequently determined to be ineligible for SBA forgiveness and guarantee and were ultimately deemed uncollectible.

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Loan Purchases and Sales

Purchases and sales of loans held for investment were as follows for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)	2025		2024
Purchases (1)

Other commercial and industrial	$	1,079	$	7,403








Personal installment (2)	104,941		—

Total	$	106,020	$	7,403
Sales


Multifamily	$	8,000	$	—






Personal installment	281		—

Total	$	8,281	$	—

(1) Amounts reported in the above table are the unpaid principal balance at time of purchase. The purchase price was 99.5 % and 100.0 % of the loans’ unpaid principal balance for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

(2) Installment loan purchases for the three months ended March 31, 2025 consist of third-party originated unsecured consumer loans. None of the loans held for investment are considered sub-prime at the time of origination. Customers considers sub-prime borrowers to be those with FICO scores below 660.

Loans Pledged as Collateral

Customers has pledged eligible commercial and residential real estate, multifamily, commercial and industrial, PPP and consumer installment loans as collateral for borrowings outstanding or available immediately from the FHLB and FRB in the amount of $ 8.2 billion and $ 8.0 billion at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

NOTE 8 — LEASES

Lessee

Customers has operating leases for its branches, certain LPOs, and administrative offices, with remaining lease terms ranging between one month and eleven years . These operating leases comprise substantially all of Customers’ obligations in which Customers is the lessee. These lease agreements typically consist of initial lease terms ranging between one and ten years , with options to renew the leases or extend the term up to ten years at Customers’ sole discretion. Some operating leases include variable lease payments that are based on an index or rate, such as the CPI. Variable lease payments are not included in the liability or ROU asset and are recognized in the period in which the obligation for those payments are incurred. Customers’ operating lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants. Pursuant to these agreements, Customers does not have any commitments that would meet the definition of a finance lease.

As most of Customers’ operating leases do not provide an implicit rate, Customers utilized its incremental borrowing rate when determining the present value of lease payments.

The following table summarizes operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities and their corresponding balance sheet location:


(amounts in thousands)	Classification	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
ASSETS
Operating lease ROU assets	Other assets	$	33,755	$	35,322
LIABILITIES
Operating lease liabilities	Other liabilities	$	36,877	$	37,882

The following table summarizes operating lease cost and its corresponding income statement location for the periods presented:


		Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)	Classification	2025		2024
Operating lease cost (1)	Occupancy expenses	$	1,949	$	1,185

(1) There were no variable lease costs for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, and sublease income for operating leases was immaterial.

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Maturities of non-cancelable operating lease liabilities were as follows at March 31, 2025:


(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025
2025	$	4,414
2026	6,647
2027	6,161
2028	5,546
2029	4,802
Thereafter	17,171
Total minimum payments	44,741
Less: interest	7,864
Present value of lease liabilities	$	36,877

Customers does not have leases where it is involved with the construction or design of an underlying asset. Cash paid pursuant to the operating lease liabilities was $ 1.5 million and $ 1.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. These payments were reported as cash flows used in operating activities in the statement of cash flows.

The following table summarizes the weighted average remaining lease term and discount rate for Customers’ operating leases at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:

March 31, 2025

December 31, 2024

Weighted average remaining lease term (years)

Operating leases

8.1 years

8.2 years

Weighted average discount rate

Operating leases

4.13

4.22

Equipment Lessor

Customers’ commercial equipment financing group goes to market through the following origination platforms: vendors, intermediaries, direct and capital markets. The commercial equipment financing group is primarily focused on serving the following industries: transportation, construction (includes crane and utility), marine, franchise, general manufacturing (includes machine tool), helicopter/fixed wing, solar, packaging, plastics and food processing. Lease terms typically range from 24 months to 120 months. The commercial equipment financing group offers the following products: Loans, Capital Lease, PUT, TRAC, Split-TRAC, and FMV. Customers’ commercial equipment financing group leases equipment under direct finance, sales-type or operating leases.

The estimated residual values for direct finance, sales-type and operating leases are established by utilizing internally developed analyses, external studies, and/or third-party appraisals to establish a residual position. For the direct finance leases, only Customers’ Split-TRAC leases have residual risk and the unguaranteed portions are typically nominal. Expected credit losses on direct financing and sales-type leases and the related estimated residual values are included in the ACL on loans and leases.

Direct finance and sales-type equipment leases, are included in commercial and industrial loans and leases receivable and are recorded at the discounted amounts of lease payments receivable and the estimated residual value of the leased assets. Interest income on direct finance and sales-type leases is recognized over the term of the leases using the effective interest method. Any difference between the lower of the fair value of the underlying leased asset or the sum of the lease receivables and the carrying amount of the underlying leased asset would result to a gain or loss at the lease commencement date. Customers’ direct finance and sales-type lease activity primarily relates to leasing of new equipment.

Customers’ commercial equipment financing group executed leases of commercial clean vehicles that qualified for investment tax credits. Customers accounted for these leases as sales-type leases and were included in loans and leases receivable on the balance sheet. Customers did not enter into sales-type leases of commercial clean vehicles that qualified for investment tax credits during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.

Customers’ commercial equipment financing group had total interest income, including from direct financing and sales-type leases of $ 14.6 million and $ 9.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

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Leased assets under operating leases are reported at amortized cost, net of accumulated depreciation and any impairment charges, and are presented in other assets. The depreciation expense of the leased assets is recognized on a straight-line basis over the contractual term of the leases up to the expected residual value. The expected residual value and, accordingly, the monthly depreciation expense, may change throughout the term of the lease. Operating lease rental income for leased assets is recognized in commercial lease income on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Customers periodically reviews its operating leased assets for impairment. An impairment loss is recognized if the carrying amount of the operating leased asset exceeds its fair value and is not recoverable. The carrying amount of operating leased assets is not recoverable if it exceeds the sum of the undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the lease payments and the estimated residual value upon the eventual disposition of the equipment.

The following table summarizes lease receivables and investment in operating leases and their corresponding balance sheet location at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:


(amounts in thousands)	Classification	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
ASSETS
Direct financing and sales-type leases
Lease receivables	Loans and leases receivable	$	257,347	$	251,507
Guaranteed residual assets	Loans and leases receivable	25,979		24,045
Unguaranteed residual assets	Loans and leases receivable	11,217		10,463
Deferred initial direct costs	Loans and leases receivable	1,415		1,352
Unearned income	Loans and leases receivable	( 26,711 )		( 24,673 )
Net investment in direct financing and sales-type leases		$	269,247	$	262,694

Operating leases
Investment in operating leases	Other assets	$	321,183	$	308,993
Accumulated depreciation	Other assets	( 98,769 )		( 95,053 )
Deferred initial direct costs	Other assets	1,083		978
Net investment in operating leases		223,497		214,918
Total lease assets		$	492,744	$	477,612

Maturities of operating and direct financing and sales-type lease receivables were as follows at March 31, 2025:


(amounts in thousands)	Operating leases		Direct financing and sales-type leases
2025	$	38,255	$	56,794
2026	52,784		64,124
2027	40,258		55,477
2028	63,825		36,780
2029	26,839		24,778
Thereafter	34,790		19,394
Total minimum payments	$	256,751	257,347
Less: interest			26,711
Present value of lease receivables			$	230,636

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NOTE 9 – DEPOSITS

The components of deposits at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:


	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
(amounts in thousands)
Demand, non-interest bearing	$	5,552,605	$	5,608,288
Demand, interest bearing	5,137,961		5,553,698
Savings, including money market deposit accounts	5,385,312		4,976,270


Time	2,857,047		2,708,205
Total deposits	$	18,932,925	$	18,846,461

The scheduled maturities for time deposits at March 31, 2025 were as follows:


(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025
2025	$	686,247
2026	724,239
2027	398,495
2028	529,527
2029	394,689
Thereafter	123,850
Total time deposits	$	2,857,047

Time deposits greater than the FDIC limit of $250,000 totaled $ 764.4 million and $ 803.1 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

Demand deposit overdrafts reclassified as loans were $ 0.9 million and $ 1.2 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Bank had $ 1.5 billion in deposits, to which it had pledged $ 1.5 billion of available borrowing capacity through the FHLB to the depositors through a standby letter of credit arrangement, respectively.

NOTE 10 - BORROWINGS

Short-term debt

Short-term debt at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was as follows:


	March 31, 2025				December 31, 2024
(dollars in thousands)	Amount		Rate		Amount		Rate

FHLB advances	$	100,000	4.49	%	$	100,000	4.61	%

Total short-term debt	$	100,000			$	100,000

The following is a summary of additional information relating to Customers’ short-term debt:



(dollars in thousands)	March 31, 2025 (1)			December 31, 2024 (2)




FHLB advances
Maximum outstanding at any month end	$	100,000		$	150,000
Average balance during the period	45,556			8,880
Weighted-average interest rate during the period	4.64		%	5.71		%

(1) For the three months ended March 31, 2025.

(2) For the year ended December 31, 2024.

At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers Bank had aggregate availability under federal funds lines totaling $ 1.7 billion.

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Long-term debt

FHLB and FRB advances

Long-term FHLB and FRB advances at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:


	March 31, 2025						December 31, 2024
(dollars in thousands)	Amount			Rate			Amount			Rate
FHLB advances (1)	$	1,033,456	(2)	4.14	%	(3)	$	1,028,352	(2)	4.11	%	(3)

Total long-term FHLB and FRB advances	$	1,033,456					$	1,028,352

(1) Amounts reported in the above table include fixed rate long-term advances from FHLB of $ 850.0 million with maturities ranging from September 2025 to March 2028, and variable rate long-term advances from FHLB of $ 180.0 million with maturities ranging from December 2026 to December 2028 with a returnable option that can be repaid without penalty on certain predetermined dates at Customers Bank’s option, at March 31, 2025.

(2) Includes $ 3.5 million and $( 1.6 ) million of unamortized basis adjustments from interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of long-term advances from FHLB at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. Refer to NOTE 16 — DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES for additional information.

(3) Excludes the effect of interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of long-term advances from FHLB.

Maturities of long-term FHLB advances were as follows at March 31, 2025:


	March 31, 2025
(dollars in thousands)	Amount (1)		Rate (2)
2025	$	100,000	4.42	%
2026	250,000		4.42	%
2027	500,000		3.81	%
2028	180,000		4.54	%
2029	—		—	%

Thereafter	—		—	%
Total long-term FHLB advances	$	1,030,000

(1) Amounts reported in the above table include variable rate long-term advances from FHLB of $ 180.0 million with maturities ranging from December 2026 to December 2028 with a returnable option that can be repaid without penalty on certain predetermined dates at Customers Bank’s option.

(2) Excludes the effect of interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of long-term advances from FHLB.

The maximum borrowing capacity with the FHLB and FRB at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was as follows:



(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
Total maximum borrowing capacity with the FHLB	$	3,908,969	$	3,562,171
Total maximum borrowing capacity with the FRB	3,986,593		4,357,519
Qualifying loans and securities serving as collateral against FHLB and FRB advances	9,835,910		9,722,736

Senior and Subordinated Debt

Long-term senior notes and subordinated debt at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:


(dollars in thousands)		Carrying Amount
Issued by	Ranking	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024		Rate		Issued Amount		Date Issued	Maturity	Price
Customers Bancorp	Senior (1)	$	99,103	$	99,068	2.875	%	$	100,000	August 2021	August 2031	100.000	%



Total other borrowings		$	99,103	$	99,068

Customers Bancorp	Subordinated (2)(3)	$	72,993	$	72,947	5.375	%	$	74,750	December 2019	December 2034	100.000	%
Customers Bank	Subordinated (2)(4)	109,586		109,562		6.125	%	110,000		June 2014	June 2029	100.000	%
Total subordinated debt		$	182,579	$	182,509

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(1) The senior notes will bear an annual fixed rate of 2.875 % until August 15, 2026. From August 15, 2026 until maturity, the notes will bear an annual interest rate equal to a benchmark rate, which is expected to be the three-month term SOFR , plus 235 basis points. Customers Bancorp has the ability to call the senior notes, in whole, or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100 % of the principal balance at certain times on or after August 15, 2026.

(2) The subordinated notes qualify as Tier 2 capital for regulatory capital purposes.

(3) Customers Bancorp has the ability to call the subordinated notes, in whole, or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100 % of the principal balance at certain times on or after December 30, 2029.

(4) The subordinated notes had an annual fixed rate of 6.125 % until June 26, 2024. From June 26, 2024 until maturity, the notes bear an annual interest rate equal to the three-month LIBOR plus 344.3 basis points. Pursuant to the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act enacted by Congress on March 15, 2022, Customers substituted three-month term SOFR plus a tenor spread adjustment of 26.161 basis points for three-month LIBOR as the benchmark reference rate in order to calculate the annual interest rate after June 26, 2024. Customers Bank has the ability to call the subordinated notes, in whole, or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100 % of the principal balance at certain times on or after June 26, 2024 .

NOTE 11 — SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Common Stock

On June 26, 2024, the Board of Directors of Customers Bancorp authorized a new common stock repurchase program, the 2024 Share Repurchase Program, to repurchase up to 497,509 shares of the Company’s common stock. The term of the 2024 Share Repurchase Program will extend for one year from June 26, 2024, unless earlier terminated. Purchases of shares under the 2024 Share Repurchase Program may be executed through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, through the use of Rule 10b5-1 plans, or otherwise. The exact number of shares, timing for such purchases, and the price and terms at and on which such purchases are to be made will be at the discretion of the Company and will comply with all applicable regulatory limitations. Customers Bancorp purchased 104,206 shares of its common stock for $ 5.6 million under the 2024 Share Repurchase Program during the three months ended March 31, 2025.

Preferred Stock

As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers Bancorp has two series of preferred stock outstanding. The table below summarizes Customers’ issuances of preferred stock that remain outstanding at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 and the dividends paid per share.


(amounts in thousands except share and per share data)		Shares at		Carrying value at				Initial Fixed Rate		Date at which dividend rate becomes floating and earliest redemption date	Floating rate of Three-Month SOFR (1) Plus:		Dividend Paid Per Share in 2025 (2)
Fixed-to-floating rate:	Issue Date	March 31, 2025	December 31, 2024	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024


Series E	April 28, 2016	2,300,000	2,300,000	$	55,593	$	55,593	6.45	%	June 15, 2021	5.140	%	$	0.62
Series F	September 16, 2016	3,400,000	3,400,000	82,201		82,201		6.00	%	December 15, 2021	4.762	%	$	0.59
Totals		5,700,000	5,700,000	$	137,794	$	137,794

(1) Pursuant to the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act enacted by Congress on March 15, 2022, Customers substituted three-month term SOFR plus a tenor spread adjustment of 26.161 basis points for three-month LIBOR as the benchmark reference rate on Series E and F Preferred Stock, plus 5.14 % and 4.762 %, respectively, beginning with dividends declared on October 25, 2023.

(2) For the three months ended March 31, 2025.

NOTE 12 — SHARE BASED COMPENSATION

Customers’ 2019 Plan is administered by the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the aggregate number of shares of common stock available for grant under the 2019 Plan was 567,093 and 841,513 shares, respectively.

Share-based compensation expense relating to stock options and restricted stock units is recognized on a straight-line basis over the vesting periods of the awards and is a component of salaries and employee benefits expense. Total share-based compensation expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 was $ 3.9 million and $ 3.5 million, respectively. At March 31, 2025, there was $ 31.1 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to all non-vested share-based compensation awards. This cost is expected to be recognized through 2029.

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Restricted Stock Units

The fair value of restricted stock units granted under the 2019 Plan is determined based on the closing market price of Customers’ common stock on the date of grant, except for the performance based restricted stock units with market conditions under a long-term incentive compensation plan. There were 278,815 and 204,275 restricted stock units granted under the 2019 Plan during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The grants are mostly subject to either a three-year waterfall vesting (with one third of the amount vesting annually) or a three-year cliff vesting.

The table below presents the status of the restricted stock units at March 31, 2025 and 2024, and changes during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 :


	Restricted Stock Units	Weighted- Average Grant- Date Fair Value
Outstanding and unvested at December 31, 2024	1,110,122	$	32.61
Granted	278,815	50.68
Vested	( 403,777 )	28.75
Forfeited	( 4,239 )	39.30
Outstanding and unvested at March 31, 2025	980,921	39.18


	Restricted Stock Units	Weighted- Average Grant- Date Fair Value
Outstanding and unvested at December 31, 2023	1,159,782	$	26.78
Granted	204,275	49.82
Vested	( 84,638 )	37.07
Forfeited	( 5,824 )	25.43
Outstanding and unvested at March 31, 2024	1,273,595	29.69

NOTE 13 — FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK

Customers is involved with financial instruments and other commitments with off-balance sheet risks. Financial instruments with off-balance sheet risks are incurred in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of the Bank’s customers. These financial instruments include commitments to extend credit, including unused portions of lines of credit, and standby letters of credit. Those instruments involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount recognized on the balance sheet.

As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the following off-balance sheet commitments, financial instruments and other arrangements were outstanding:


(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
Commitments to fund loans and leases	$	145,252	$	165,881
Unfunded commitments to fund mortgage finance loans	1,581,033		1,562,593
Unfunded commitments under lines of credit and credit cards	3,812,979		3,825,727
Letters of credit	34,114		31,832
Other unused and unfunded commitments	25,810		28,904

Allowance For Credit Losses on Lending- Related Commitments

ACL on lending related commitments is a liability account, calculated in accordance with ASC 326, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (“ASC 326”), representing expected credit losses over the contractual period for which Customers is exposed to credit risk resulting from a contractual obligation to extend credit. Customers recognized a provision for credit losses of $ 1.2 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025 resulting in an ACL of $ 6.1 million as of March 31, 2025. Customers recognized a provision for credit losses of $ 0.4 million during the three months ended March 31, 2024 resulting in an ACL of $ 3.3 million as of March 31, 2024. The ACL on lending-related commitments is recorded in accrued interest payable and other liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the credit loss expense is recorded as a provision for credit losses within other non-interest expense in the consolidated statement of income.

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NOTE 14 — REGULATORY CAPITAL

The Bank and the Bancorp are subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by the federal banking agencies. Failure to meet the minimum capital requirements can result in certain mandatory, and possibly additional discretionary, actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on Customers’ financial statements. Under capital adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Bank and the Bancorp must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of their assets, liabilities and certain off-balance sheet items, as calculated under the regulatory accounting practices. The capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components, risk weightings and other factors. Prompt corrective action provisions are not applicable to bank holding companies.

In first quarter 2020, the U.S federal banking regulatory agencies permitted banking organizations to phase-in, for regulatory capital purposes, the day-one impact of the new CECL accounting rule on retained earnings over a period of three years. As part of its response to the impact of COVID-19, on March 31, 2020, the U.S. federal banking regulatory agencies issued an interim final rule that provided the option to temporarily delay certain effects of CECL on regulatory capital for two years, followed by a three-year transition period. The interim final rule allowed banking organizations to delay for two years 100% of the day-one impact of adopting CECL and 25% of the cumulative change in the reported allowance for credit losses since adopting CECL. Customers elected to adopt the interim final rule, which is reflected in the regulatory capital data presented below. The cumulative CECL capital transition impact as of December 31, 2021 which amounted to $ 61.6 million was phased in at 25% per year beginning on January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. As of March 31, 2025, our regulatory capital ratios reflected the full impact of the CECL transition provisions.

Quantitative measures established by regulation to ensure capital adequacy require the Bank and the Bancorp to maintain minimum amounts and ratios (set forth in the following table) of common equity Tier 1, Tier 1, and total capital to risk-weighted assets, and Tier 1 capital to average assets (as defined in the regulations). At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Bank and the Bancorp satisfied all capital requirements to which they were subject.

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Generally, to comply with the regulatory definition of adequately capitalized, or well capitalized, respectively, or to comply with the Basel III capital requirements, an institution must at least maintain the common equity Tier 1, Tier 1 and total risk-based capital ratios and the Tier 1 leverage ratio in excess of the related minimum ratios as set forth in the following table:


					Minimum Capital Levels to be Classified as:
	Actual				Adequately Capitalized				Well Capitalized				Basel III Compliant
(dollars in thousands)	Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio
As of March 31, 2025:
Common equity Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,787,928	11.718	%	$	686,596	4.500	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,068,039	7.000	%
Customers Bank	$	1,890,194	12.403	%	$	685,793	4.500	%	$	990,590	6.500	%	$	1,066,789	7.000	%
Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,925,721	12.621	%	$	915,462	6.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,296,904	8.500	%
Customers Bank	$	1,890,194	12.403	%	$	914,391	6.000	%	$	1,219,188	8.000	%	$	1,295,387	8.500	%
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	2,229,628	14.613	%	$	1,220,616	8.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,602,058	10.500	%
Customers Bank	$	2,121,108	13.918	%	$	1,219,188	8.000	%	$	1,523,985	10.000	%	$	1,600,184	10.500	%
Tier 1 capital (to average assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,925,721	8.582	%	$	897,534	4.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	897,534	4.000	%
Customers Bank	$	1,890,194	8.430	%	$	896,849	4.000	%	$	1,121,061	5.000	%	$	896,849	4.000	%
As of December 31, 2024:
Common equity Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,803,601	12.087	%	$	671,841	4.500	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,044,526	7.000	%
Customers Bank	$	1,930,951	12.955	%	$	670,719	4.500	%	$	968,817	6.500	%	$	1,043,341	7.000	%
Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,941,394	13.011	%	$	895,308	6.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,268,353	8.500	%
Customers Bank	$	1,930,951	12.955	%	$	894,292	6.000	%	$	1,192,390	8.000	%	$	1,266,914	8.500	%
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	2,219,984	14.878	%	$	1,193,744	8.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,566,789	10.500	%
Customers Bank	$	2,136,594	14.335	%	$	1,192,390	8.000	%	$	1,490,487	10.000	%	$	1,565,012	10.500	%
Tier 1 capital (to average assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,941,394	8.694	%	$	893,254	4.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	893,254	4.000	%
Customers Bank	$	1,930,951	8.652	%	$	892,755	4.000	%	$	1,115,944	5.000	%	$	892,755	4.000	%

The Basel III Capital Rules require that we maintain a 2.500 % capital conservation buffer with respect to each of common equity Tier 1, Tier 1 and total capital to risk-weighted assets, which provides for capital levels that exceed the minimum risk-based capital adequacy requirements. A financial institution with a conservation buffer of less than the required amount is subject to limitations on capital distributions, including dividend payments and stock repurchases, and certain discretionary bonus payments to executive officers.

NOTE 15 — DISCLOSURES ABOUT FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

Customers uses fair value measurements to record fair value adjustments to certain assets and liabilities and to disclose the fair value of its financial instruments. ASC 825, Financial Instruments , requires disclosure of the estimated fair value of an entity’s assets and liabilities considered to be financial instruments. For Customers, as for most financial institutions, the majority of its assets and liabilities are considered to be financial instruments. Many of these instruments lack an available trading market as characterized by a willing buyer and a willing seller engaging in an exchange transaction. For fair value disclosure purposes, Customers utilized certain fair value measurement criteria under ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (“ASC 820”), as explained below.

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In accordance with ASC 820, the fair value of a financial instrument is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. Fair value is best determined based upon quoted market prices. However, in many instances, there are no quoted market prices for Customers’ various financial instruments. In cases where quoted market prices are not available, fair values are based on estimates using present value or other valuation techniques. Those techniques are significantly affected by the assumptions used, including the discount rate and estimates of future cash flows. Accordingly, the fair value estimates may not be realized in an immediate settlement of the instrument.

The fair value guidance provides a consistent definition of fair value, focusing on an exit price in an orderly transaction (that is, not a forced liquidation or distressed sale) between market participants at the measurement date under current market conditions. If there has been a significant decrease in the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability, a change in valuation technique or the use of multiple valuation techniques may be appropriate. In such instances, determining the price at which willing market participants would transact at the measurement date under current market conditions depends on the facts and circumstances and requires the use of significant judgment. The fair value is a reasonable point within the range that is most representative of fair value under current market conditions.

The fair value guidance also establishes a fair value hierarchy and describes the following three levels used to classify fair value measurements.

Level 1: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities.

Level 2: Quoted prices in markets that are not active, or inputs that are observable either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the asset or liability.

Level 3: Prices or valuation techniques that require adjustments to inputs that are both significant to the fair value measurement and unobservable (i.e., supported with little or no market activity).

A financial instrument’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.

The following methods and assumptions were used to estimate the fair values of Customers’ financial instruments as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:

Financial Instruments Recorded at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis

Investment securities:

The fair values of equity securities with a readily determinable fair value, AFS debt securities and debt securities reported at fair value based on a fair value option election are determined by obtaining quoted market prices on nationally recognized and foreign securities exchanges (Level 1), quoted prices in markets that are not active (Level 2), matrix pricing (Level 2), which is a mathematical technique used widely in the industry to value debt securities without relying exclusively on quoted market prices for the specific securities but rather by relying on the securities’ relationship to other benchmark quoted prices, or internally and externally developed models that use unobservable inputs due to limited or no market activity of the instrument (Level 3).

When quoted market prices are not available, Customers employs an independent pricing service that utilizes matrix pricing to calculate fair value. Such fair value measurements consider observable data such as dealer quotes, market spreads, cash flows, yield curves, live trading levels, trade execution data, market consensus prepayments speeds, credit information, and respective terms and conditions for debt instruments. Management maintains procedures to monitor the pricing service’s results and has an established process to challenge their valuations, or methodologies, that appear unusual or unexpected.

Customers also utilizes internally and externally developed models that use unobservable inputs due to limited or no market activity of the instrument. These models use unobservable inputs that are inherently judgmental and reflect our best estimates of the assumptions a market participant would use to calculate fair value. Certain unobservable inputs in isolation may have either a directionally consistent or opposite impact on the fair value of the instrument for a given change in that input. When multiple inputs are used within the valuation techniques, a change in one input in a certain direction may be offset by an opposite change from another input. These assets are classified as Level 1, 2 or 3 fair values, based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurements.

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Loans held for sale - Residential mortgage loans (fair value option):

Customers generally estimates the fair values of residential mortgage loans held for sale based on commitments on hand from investors within the secondary market for loans with similar characteristics. These assets are classified as Level 2 fair values, based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurements.

Loans held for sale and Loans receivable - Consumer other installment loans (fair value option):

The fair value of medical and home improvement installment loans within consumer other installment loans is the amount of cash initially advanced to fund the loan, as specified in the agreement with fintech companies, and generally held for up to 90 days prior to sale. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, Customers transferred medical installment loans from held for sale to held for investment in connection with a lending arrangement with a fintech company expiring in the second quarter of 2025. These assets are classified as Level 3 fair values, based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurements.

Loans receivable - Mortgage finance loans (fair value option):

The fair value of mortgage finance loans is the amount of cash initially advanced to fund the mortgage, plus accrued interest and fees, as specified in the respective agreements. The loan is used by mortgage companies as short-term bridge financing between the funding of the mortgage loans and the finalization of the sale of the loans to an investor. Changes in fair value are not generally expected to be recognized because at inception of the transaction the underlying mortgage loans have already been sold to an approved investor. Additionally, the interest rate is variable, and the transaction is short-term, with an average life of under 30 days from purchase to sale. These assets are classified as Level 2 fair values, based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurements.

Derivatives (assets and liabilities):

The fair values of interest rate swaps, interest rate caps and credit derivatives are determined using models that incorporate readily observable market data into a market standard methodology. This methodology nets the discounted future cash receipts and the discounted expected cash payments. The discounted variable cash receipts and payments are based on expectations of future interest rates derived from observable market interest rate curves. In addition, fair value is adjusted for the effect of nonperformance risk by incorporating credit valuation adjustments for Customers and its counterparties. These assets and liabilities are classified as Level 2 fair values, based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurements.

Derivative assets and liabilities are presented in other assets and accrued interest payable and other liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet.

Financial Instruments Recorded at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis

Collateral-dependent loans:

Collateral-dependent loans are those loans that are accounted for under ASC 326, in which the Bank has measured impairment generally based on the fair value of the loan’s collateral or DCF analysis. Fair value is generally determined based upon independent third-party appraisals of the properties that collateralize the loans, DCF based upon the expected proceeds, sales agreements or letters of intent with third parties. These assets are generally classified as Level 3 fair values, based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurements.

The following information should not be interpreted as an estimate of Customers’ fair value in its entirety because fair value calculations are only provided for a limited portion of Customers’ assets and liabilities. Due to a wide range of valuation techniques and the degree of subjectivity used in making these estimates, comparisons between Customers’ disclosures and those of other companies may not be meaningful.

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The estimated fair values of Customers’ financial instruments at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:


					Fair Value Measurements at March 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)	Carrying Amount		Estimated Fair Value		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	3,428,690	$	3,428,690	$	3,428,690	$	—	$	—
Debt securities, available for sale	2,024,437		2,024,437		—		1,855,962		168,475
Debt securities, held to maturity	938,161		886,538		—		477,868		408,670


Loans held for sale	37,529		37,529		—		1,465		36,064

Total loans and leases receivable, net of allowance for credit losses on loans and leases	14,919,363		14,745,924		—		1,366,460		13,379,464
FHLB, Federal Reserve Bank, and other restricted stock	96,758		96,758		—		96,758		—
Derivatives	14,146		14,146		—		14,047		99

Liabilities:
Deposits	$	18,932,925	$	18,939,936	$	16,075,878	$	2,864,058	$	—




FHLB advances	1,133,456		1,122,779		—		1,122,779		—
Other borrowings	99,103		82,500		—		82,500		—
Subordinated debt	182,579		168,275		—		168,275		—
Derivatives	20,185		20,185		—		20,185		—


					Fair Value Measurements at December 31, 2024
(amounts in thousands)	Carrying Amount		Estimated Fair Value		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	3,785,931	$	3,785,931	$	3,785,931	$	—	$	—
Debt securities, available for sale	1,985,438		1,985,438		—		1,972,202		13,236
Debt securities, held to maturity	991,937		934,677		—		461,307		473,370


Loans held for sale	204,794		204,794		—		1,836		202,958

Total loans and leases receivable, net of allowance for credit losses on loans and leases	14,311,987		14,104,884		—		1,321,128		12,783,756
FHLB, Federal Reserve Bank, and other restricted stock	96,214		96,214		—		96,214		—
Derivatives	15,263		15,263		—		15,223		40

Liabilities:
Deposits	$	18,846,461	$	18,842,810	$	16,138,256	$	2,704,554	$	—



FHLB advances	1,128,352		1,103,324		—		1,103,324		—
Other borrowings	99,068		88,000		—		88,000		—
Subordinated debt	182,509		167,601		—		167,601		—
Derivatives	22,570		22,570		—		22,570		—

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For financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring and nonrecurring basis, the fair value measurements by level within the fair value hierarchy used at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:


	March 31, 2025
	Fair Value Measurements at the End of the Reporting Period Using
(amounts in thousands)	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)		Total
Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis:
Assets
Available for sale debt securities:
Asset-backed securities	$	—	$	—	$	168,475	$	168,475

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	—		322,884		—		322,884

Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	—		228,343		—		228,343
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	—		93,747		—		93,747
Collateralized loan obligations	—		187,479		—		187,479
Commercial mortgage-backed securities	—		76,008		—		76,008
Corporate notes	—		482,361		—		482,361
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	—		465,140		—		465,140



Derivatives	—		14,047		99		14,146
Loans held for sale – fair value option	—		1,465		64		1,529
Loans receivable, mortgage finance – fair value option	—		1,366,460		—		1,366,460
Loans receivable, installment – fair value option	—		—		138,159		138,159
Total assets – recurring fair value measurements	$	—	$	3,237,934	$	306,797	$	3,544,731
Liabilities
Derivatives	$	—	$	20,185	$	—	$	20,185
Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis:
Assets


Collateral-dependent loans	$	—	$	—	$	21,119	$	21,119

Total assets – nonrecurring fair value measurements	$	—	$	—	$	21,119	$	21,119

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	December 31, 2024
	Fair Value Measurements at the End of the Reporting Period Using
(amounts in thousands)	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)		Total
Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis:
Assets
Available for sale debt securities:
Asset-backed securities	$	—	$	—	$	13,236	$	13,236

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage–backed securities	—		327,038		—		327,038

Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	—		226,746		—		226,746
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	—		93,075		—		93,075
Collateralized loan obligations	—		255,407		—		255,407
Commercial mortgage-backed securities	—		77,708		—		77,708
Corporate notes	—		516,330		—		516,330
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	—		475,898		—		475,898



Derivatives	—		15,223		40		15,263
Loans held for sale – fair value option	—		1,836		162,055		163,891
Loans receivable, mortgage finance – fair value option	—		1,321,128		—		1,321,128

Total assets – recurring fair value measurements	$	—	$	3,310,389	$	175,331	$	3,485,720
Liabilities
Derivatives	$	—	$	22,570	$	—	$	22,570
Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis:
Assets


Collateral-dependent loans	$	—	$	—	$	18,048	$	18,048

Total assets – nonrecurring fair value measurements	$	—	$	—	$	18,048	$	18,048

The changes in asset-backed securities (Level 3 assets) measured at fair value on a recurring basis for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 are summarized in the table below.


	Asset-backed securities
(amounts in thousands)	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025		2024
Balance at January 1	$	13,236	$	34,949
Purchases	157,827		—
Principal payments and premium amortization	( 3,077 )		( 7,114 )
Increase in allowance for credit losses	( 66 )		—
Decrease in allowance for credit losses	75		33
Change in fair value recognized in OCI	480		395
Balance at March 31	$	168,475	$	28,263

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The changes in other installment loans (Level 3 assets) classified as held for sale and held for investment, and measured at fair value on a recurring basis, based on an election made to account for the loans at fair value for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 are summarized in the table below.


	Other Installment Loans
(amounts in thousands)	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025		2024
Balance at January 1	$	162,055	$	188,062

Originations	194,333		235,431
Sales	( 175,564 )		( 158,215 )
Principal payments	( 42,600 )		( 46,263 )
Change in fair value recognized in earnings	—		—
Balance at March 31	$	138,224	$	219,015

There were no transfers between levels during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.

The following tables summarize financial assets and financial liabilities measured at fair value as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 on a recurring and nonrecurring basis for which Customers utilized Level 3 inputs to measure fair value. The unobservable Level 3 inputs noted below contain a level of uncertainty that may differ from what is realized in an immediate settlement of the assets. Therefore, Customers may realize a value higher or lower than the current estimated fair value of the assets.

Quantitative Information about Level 3 Fair Value Measurements

(dollars in thousands)

Fair Value
Estimate

Valuation Technique

Unobservable Input

Range
(Weighted Average)

March 31, 2025

Asset-backed securities

168,475

Discounted cash flow

Discount rate

Annualized loss rate

Constant prepayment rate

9 % - 9 %

( 9 %)

8 % - 13 %

( 9 %)

17 % - 19 %

( 19 %)

Quantitative Information about Level 3 Fair Value Measurements

(dollars in thousands)

Fair Value
Estimate

Valuation Technique

Unobservable Input

Range
(Weighted Average)

December 31, 2024

Asset-backed securities

13,236

Discounted cash flow

Discount rate

Annualized loss rate

Constant prepayment rate

9 % - 10 %

( 10 %)

5 % - 10 %

( 7 %)

19 % - 20 %

( 19 %)

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NOTE 16 — DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES

Risk Management Objectives of Using Derivatives

Customers is exposed to certain risks arising from both its business operations and economic conditions. Customers manages economic risks, including interest rate, liquidity and credit risk, primarily by managing the amount, sources, and durations of its assets and liabilities. Specifically, Customers 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 values of which are determined by interest rates. Customers’ derivative financial instruments are used to manage differences in the amount, timing, and duration of Customers’ known or expected cash receipts and its known or expected cash payments principally related to certain borrowings and deposits. Customers also has interest-rate derivatives resulting from an accommodation provided to certain qualifying customers, and therefore, they are not used to manage Customers’ interest-rate risk in assets or liabilities. Customers manages a matched book with respect to its derivative instruments used in this customer service in order to minimize its net risk exposure resulting from such transactions.

Fair Value Hedges of Benchmark Interest-Rate Risk

Customers is exposed to changes in the fair value of certain of its fixed rate AFS debt securities, deposits and FHLB advances due to changes in the benchmark interest rate. Customers uses interest rate swaps to manage its exposure to changes in fair value on these instruments attributable to changes in the designated benchmark interest rate such as the Fed Funds Effective Swap Rate. Interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of certain fixed rate AFS debt securities involve the payment of fixed-rate amounts to a counterparty in exchange for Customers receiving variable-rate payments over the life of the agreements without the exchange of the underlying notional amount. Interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of certain deposits and FHLB advances involve the payment of variable-rate amounts to a counterparty in exchange for Customers receiving fixed-rate payments over the life of the agreements without the exchange of the underlying notional amount. For derivatives designated and that qualify as fair value hedges, the gain or loss on the derivative as well as the offsetting loss or gain on the hedged item attributable to the hedged risk are recognized in net interest income.

At March 31, 2025, Customers had 46 outstanding interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $ 2.6 billion that were designated as fair value hedges of certain deposits and FHLB advances. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, Customers entered into three interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $ 320.2 million that were designated as fair value hedges of certain deposits. At December 31, 2024, Customers had 46 outstanding interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $ 2.4 billion that were designated as fair value hedges of certain deposits and FHLB advances.

As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the following amounts were recorded on the consolidated balance sheet related to cumulative basis adjustments for fair value hedges.


	Amortized Cost				Cumulative Amount of Fair Value Hedging Adjustment to Hedged Items
(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024		March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
AFS debt securities	$	—	$	10,000	$	—	$	—
Deposits	$	1,815,082	$	1,794,923	$	13,511	$	( 6,042 )
FHLB advances	1,200,000		1,200,000		3,456		( 1,648 )

Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments

Customers executes interest rate swaps (typically the loan customers will swap a floating-rate loan for a fixed-rate loan) and interest rate caps with commercial banking customers to facilitate their respective risk management strategies. The customer interest rate swaps and interest rate caps are simultaneously offset by interest rate swaps and interest rate caps that Customers executes with a third party in order to minimize interest-rate risk exposure resulting from such transactions. As the interest rate swaps and interest rate caps associated with this program do not meet the hedge accounting requirements, changes in the fair value of both the customer swaps and caps and the offsetting third-party market swaps and caps are recognized directly in earnings. At March 31, 2025, Customers had 126 interest rate swaps with an aggregate notional amount of $ 1.2 billion and two interest rate caps with an aggregated notional amount of $ 149.5 million related to this program. At December 31, 2024, Customers had 128 interest rate swaps with an aggregate notional amount of $ 1.2 billion and two interest rate caps with an aggregate notional amount of $ 150.0 million related to this program.

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Fair Value of Derivative Instruments on the Balance Sheet

The following tables present the fair value of Customers’ derivative financial instruments as well as their presentation on the consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

March 31, 2025

Derivative Assets

Derivative Liabilities

(amounts in thousands)

Balance Sheet Location

Fair Value

Balance Sheet Location

Fair Value

Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:

Interest rate swaps and caps (1)

Other assets

14,047

Other liabilities

20,114

December 31, 2024

Derivative Assets

Derivative Liabilities

(amounts in thousands)

Balance Sheet Location

Fair Value

Balance Sheet Location

Fair Value

Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:

Interest rate swaps and caps (1)

Other assets

15,223

Other liabilities

22,567

(1) Customers’ centrally cleared derivatives are legally settled through variation margin payments and these payments are reflected as a reduction of the related derivative asset or liability, including accrued interest, on the consolidated balance sheet.

Effect of Derivative Instruments on Net Income

The following table presents amounts included in the consolidated statements of income related to derivatives designated as fair value hedges and derivatives not designated as hedges for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.


		Amount of Income (Loss) Recognized in Earnings
		Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)	Income Statement Location	2025		2024
Derivatives designated as fair value hedges:
Recognized on interest rate swaps	Net interest income	$	( 1,968 )	$	8,173
Recognized on hedged AFS debt securities	Net interest income	—		( 177 )
Recognized on hedged deposits	Net interest income	1,173		—
Recognized on hedged FHLB advances	Net interest income	894		( 7,996 )
Total		$	99	$	—
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swaps and caps	Other non-interest income	$	779	$	672

Credit-risk-related Contingent Features

By entering into derivative contracts, Customers is exposed to credit risk. The credit risk associated with derivatives executed with customers is the same as that involved in extending the related loans and is subject to the same standard credit policies. To mitigate the credit-risk exposure to major derivative dealer counterparties, Customers only enters into agreements with those counterparties that maintain credit ratings of high quality or with central clearing parties.

Agreements with major derivative dealer counterparties contain provisions whereby default on any of Customers’ indebtedness would be considered a default on its derivative obligations. Customers also has entered into agreements that contain provisions under which the counterparty could require Customers to settle its obligations if Customers fails to maintain its status as a well/adequately capitalized institution. As of March 31, 2025, the fair value of derivatives in a net asset position related to these agreements was $ 6.9 million. In addition, Customers, which has collateral posting thresholds with certain of these counterparties, had received $ 9.5 million of cash as collateral at March 31, 2025. Customers records cash posted or received as collateral with these counterparties, except with a central clearing entity, as a reduction or an increase in the outstanding balance of cash and cash equivalents and an increase in the balance of other assets or other liabilities.

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Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities

The following tables present derivative instruments that are subject to enforceable master netting arrangements. Customers’ interest rate swaps and interest rate caps with institutional counterparties are subject to master netting arrangements and are included in the tables below. Interest rate swaps and interest rate caps with commercial banking customers are not subject to master netting arrangements and are excluded from the tables below. Customers has not made a policy election to offset its derivative positions.


	Gross Amounts Recognized on the Consolidated Balance Sheet				Gross Amounts Not Offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheet				Net Amount
(amounts in thousands)			Financial Instruments	Cash Collateral Received/Posted
March 31, 2025
Interest rate derivative assets with institutional counterparties	$	10,586			$	( 3,722 )	$	( 6,864 )	$	—

Interest rate derivative liabilities with institutional counterparties	$	3,722			$	( 3,722 )	$	—	$	—


	Gross Amounts Recognized on the Consolidated Balance Sheet				Gross Amounts Not Offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheet				Net Amount
(amounts in thousands)			Financial Instruments	Cash Collateral Received/Posted
December 31, 2024
Interest rate derivative assets with institutional counterparties	$	14,782			$	( 577 )	$	( 14,205 )	$	—

Interest rate derivative liabilities with institutional counterparties	$	577			$	( 577 )	$	—	$	—

NOTE 17 — LOSS CONTINGENCIES

Loss contingencies, including claims and legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business, are recorded as liabilities when the likelihood of loss is probable and an amount or range of loss can be reasonably estimated. Management does not believe there are any such matters that will have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements that are not currently accrued for. However, in light of the uncertainties inherent in these matters, it is possible that the ultimate resolution may have a material adverse effect on Customers’ results of operations for a particular period, and future changes in circumstances or additional information could result in accruals or resolution in excess of established accruals, which could adversely affect Customers’ results of operations, potentially materially.

Chun Yao Chang Matter

On December 2, 2024, a federal securities class action complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, captioned Chang v. Customers Bancorp, Inc. et al., Case No. 2:24-cv-06416-JS, by Chun Yao Chang against Customers Bancorp, Jay Sidhu, its Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors, and Carla Leibold, its former Chief Financial Officer. The action alleges that Customers Bancorp and the individual defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or omissions during the class period of March 1, 2024 through August 8, 2024, and that such statements violated Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder. The action also alleges that the individual defendants are liable pursuant to Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act as controlling persons of Customers Bancorp. The suit seeks to recover damages caused by the alleged violations of federal securities laws, along with the plaintiffs’ costs incurred in the lawsuit, including their reasonable attorneys’ and experts’ witness fees and other costs. On January 31, 2025, Chun Yao Chang filed the only application for appointment as lead plaintiff with The Rosen Law Firm, P.A. as counsel. Customers Bancorp intends to defend itself against this action.

NOTE 18 — BUSINESS SEGMENTS

Customers has one reportable segment. Customers derives its revenues from customers by providing loans and deposit products in the United States, and manages the business on a consolidated basis. Customers’ accounting policies of the reportable segment are the same as those described in NOTE 2 – SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION to the audited consolidated financial statements in the 2024 Form 10-K.

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Customers’ CODM is the Executive Committee (the “Executive Committee”) that includes the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Banking Officer, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Credit Officer. The Executive Committee assesses performance of Customers on a consolidated basis, and decides how to allocate resources based on net income that is also reported as net income available to common shareholders on the consolidated statement of income.

The Executive Committee uses net income, which is the measure of segment profit and loss, to evaluate income generated from segment assets (return on assets) and other measures, such as net interest margin, tax equivalent, return on average assets, return on common equity and tangible common equity per common share, in deciding how to reinvest profits, such as originating loans and leases, investing in investment securities, or to repurchase shares in Customers’ common stock.

Net income available to common shareholders is used to monitor budget versus actual results. The Executive Committee also uses net income available to common shareholders and other measures in comparing to Customers’ peer banks. The comparison of Customers’ net income available to common shareholders and other measures to its peer banks, along with the comparison of budgeted versus actual results are used in assessing Customers’ performance and in establishing management compensation.

The following table presents Customers’ reported segment revenues, profit or loss and significant segment expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:


Segment profit or loss
	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025		2024






Total interest income	$	314,909	$	331,777







Total interest expense	147,463		171,392
Net interest income	167,446		160,385
Provision for credit losses	28,297		17,070
Net interest income after provision for credit losses	139,149		143,315






















Total non-interest income (loss) (1)	( 24,490 )		21,231
Non-interest expense:
Salaries and employee benefits	42,674		36,025
Technology, communication and bank operations	11,312		21,904
Commercial lease depreciation	8,463		7,970
Professional services	11,857		6,353
Loan servicing	4,630		4,031
Occupancy (2)	3,412		2,347
FDIC assessments, non-income taxes and regulatory fees	11,750		13,469
Advertising and promotion	528		682





Other (3)	8,145		6,388
Total non-interest expense	102,771		99,169
Income before income tax expense	11,888		65,377
Income tax expense	( 1,024 )		15,651




Segment net income	12,912		49,726
Preferred stock dividends	3,389		3,800

Segment net income available to common shareholders	$	9,523	$	45,926

Reconciliation of profit or loss
Adjustments and reconciling items	—		—
Consolidated net income available to common shareholders	$	9,523	$	45,926


Basic earnings per common share	$	0.30	$	1.46

Diluted earnings per common share	0.29		1.40

(1) Includes Customers’ equity in the net income of investees accounted for under the equity method consisting primarily of investments in the SBA’s small business investment companies, and income from investments in affordable housing projects.

(2) Includes depreciation expense for furniture, fixture and equipment and amortization of leasehold improvements of $ 0.7 million and $ 0.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

(3) Other expenses include fees paid to a fintech company related to consumer installment loans originated and held for sale, provision for credit losses on unfunded lending-related commitments, loan workout and non-capitalizable origination costs, provision for operating losses, insurance expenses, charitable contributions and other miscellaneous expenses.

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Substantially all revenues generated and long-lived assets held by Customers are derived from customers that reside in the United States. Customers did not earn revenues from a single external customer that represents ten percent or more of consolidated total revenues.

The measure of segment assets is reported as total assets on the consolidated balance sheet. The following table presents Customers’ reported segment assets as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:


Segment assets

(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
Total assets	$	22,423,044	$	22,308,241
Adjustments and reconciling items	—		—
Consolidated total assets	$	22,423,044	$	22,308,241

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ITEM 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This report and all attachments hereto, as well as other written or oral communications made from time to time by us, may contain forward-looking information within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include statements with respect to Customers Bancorp, Inc.’s strategies, goals, beliefs, expectations, estimates, intentions, capital raising efforts, financial condition and results of operations, future performance and business. Statements preceded by, followed by, or that include the words “may,” “could,” “should,” “pro forma,” “looking forward,” “would,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” or similar expressions generally indicate a forward-looking statement. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on various important factors (some of which, in whole or in part, are beyond Customers Bancorp, Inc.’s control). Numerous competitive, economic, regulatory, legal and technological events and factors, among others, could cause Customers Bancorp, Inc.’s financial performance to differ materially from the goals, plans, objectives, intentions and expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements, including: a continuation of the recent turmoil in the banking industry, responsive measures taken by us and regulatory authorities to mitigate and manage related risks, regulatory actions taken that address related issues and the costs and obligations associated therewith, such as the FDIC special assessments; the potential for negative consequences resulting from regulatory violations, investigations and examinations, including potential supervisory actions, the assessment of fines and penalties, the imposition of sanctions, the need to undertake remedial actions and possible damage to our reputation; effects of competition on deposit rates and growth, loan rates and growth and net interest margin; failure to identify and adequately and promptly address cybersecurity risks, including data breaches and cyberattacks; public health crises and pandemics and their effects on the economic and business environments in which we operate; geopolitical conditions, including acts or threats of terrorism, actions taken by the United States or other governments in response to acts or threats of terrorism and military conflicts, including the war between Russia and Ukraine and ongoing conflict in the Middle East, which could impact the economic conditions in the United States; the impact that changes in the economy have on the performance of our loan and lease portfolio, the market value of our investment securities, the demand for our products and services and the availability of sources of funding; the effects of actions by the federal government, including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and other government agencies, that affect market interest rates and the money supply; actions that we and our customers take in response to these developments and the effects such actions have on our operations, products, services and customer relationships; higher inflation and its impacts; the effects of changes in U.S. trade policies, including the imposition of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs on its trading partners; and the effects of any changes in accounting standards or policies. Customers Bancorp, Inc. cautions that the foregoing factors are not exclusive, and neither such factors nor any such forward-looking statement takes into account the impact of any future events. All forward-looking statements and information set forth herein are based on management’s current beliefs and assumptions as of the date hereof and speak only as of the date they are made. For a more complete discussion of the assumptions, risks and uncertainties related to our business, you are encouraged to review Customers Bancorp, Inc.’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K, including any amendments thereto, that update or provide information in addition to the information included in the Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings, if any. Customers Bancorp, Inc. does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time by Customers Bancorp, Inc. or by or on behalf of Customers Bank, except as may be required under applicable law.

Management’s discussion and analysis represents an overview of the financial condition and results of operations, and highlights the significant changes in the financial condition and results of operations, as presented in the accompanying consolidated financial statements for Customers Bancorp, Inc. (the “Bancorp” or “Customers Bancorp”), a financial holding company, and its wholly owned subsidiaries, including Customers Bank (the “Bank”), collectively referred to as “Customers” herein. This information is intended to facilitate your understanding and assessment of significant changes and trends related to Customers’ financial condition and results of operations as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2025. All quarterly information in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis is unaudited. You should read this section in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included in Customers’ 2024 Form 10-K.

Overview

Like most financial institutions, Customers derives the majority of its income from interest it receives on its interest-earning assets, such as loans, leases and investments. Customers’ primary source of funds for making these loans, leases and investments are its deposits and borrowings, on which it pays interest. Consequently, one of the key measures of Customers’ success is the amount of its net interest income, or the difference between the interest income on its interest-earning assets and the interest expense on its interest-bearing liabilities, such as deposits and borrowings. Another key measure is the difference between the interest income generated by interest earning assets and the interest expense on interest-bearing liabilities, relative to the amount of average interest earning assets, which is referred to as net interest margin.

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There is credit risk inherent in loans and leases requiring Customers to maintain an ACL to absorb credit losses on existing loans and leases that may become uncollectible. Customers maintains this allowance by charging a provision for credit losses on loan and leases against its operating earnings. Customers has included a detailed discussion of this process in “NOTE 2 – SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION” to Customers’ audited consolidated financial statements in its 2024 Form 10-K, as well as several tables describing its ACL in “NOTE 7 – LOANS AND LEASES RECEIVABLE AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES ON LOANS AND LEASES” to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements.

Impact of Macroeconomic and Banking Industry Uncertainties and Military Conflicts

Inflation remains slightly elevated in 2025. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates significantly throughout 2022 and into 2023 in attempts to bring the inflation to its long run target rate of two percent. The Federal Reserve has stated that inflation is moving sustainably toward two percent, and that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance. In light of the progress on inflation and the balance of risks, the Federal Reserve began lowering the federal funds rate in late 2024. Most recently, the Federal Reserve has maintained the federal funds rate, and stated that they would assess incoming data, the evolving outlook and the balance of risks in further lowering the federal funds rate. Significant uncertainties exist as to the extent and timing of future rate cuts and their effects on the economic conditions.

Significant uncertainties as to future economic conditions continue to exist, including risks of higher inflation and sustained higher interest rate environment, changes in U.S. trade policies including the imposition of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs on its trading partners, elevated liquidity risk to the U.S. banking system and the exposure to the U.S. commercial real estate market, particularly to the regional banks, disruptions to global supply chain and labor markets and higher oil and commodity prices exacerbated by the military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East. Customers has maintained higher levels of liquidity, reserves for credit losses on loans and leases and off-balance sheet credit exposures and strong capital ratios, and shifted the mix of its loan portfolio towards low credit risk commercial loans with floating or adjustable interest rates during the period of high interest rates. As the interest rates begin to decline, Customers has been reducing the Bank’s asset sensitivity through derivative hedging and investment securities portfolio rebalancing. Customers remains focused on growing its non-interest bearing and lower-cost interest-bearing deposits. Customers’ exposure to higher risk commercial real estate such as the office sector is minimal, representing approximately 1% of the loan portfolio as of March 31, 2025. The Bank’s debt securities available for sale and held to maturity are available to be pledged as collateral to the FRB and FHLB for additional liquidity. The Bank had approximately $5.2 billion in immediate available liquidity from the FRB and FHLB and cash on hand of $3.4 billion as of March 31, 2025. The Bank’s estimated FDIC insured deposits represented approximately 61% of our deposits (inclusive of accrued interest) as of March 31, 2025. When including collateralized and affiliate deposits as FDIC insured, this number increased to 70% of our deposits as of March 31, 2025. Customers continues to monitor closely the impact of uncertainties affecting the macroeconomic conditions, the U.S. banking system, particularly regional banks, the military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East, as well as any effects that may result from the federal government’s responses including future rate and regulatory actions; however, the extent to which inflation, interest rates and other macroeconomic and industry factors, the geopolitical conflicts and developments in the U.S. banking system will impact Customers’ operations and financial results during the remainder of 2025 is highly uncertain.

New Accounting Pronouncements

For information about the impact that recently adopted or issued accounting guidance will have on us, refer to “NOTE 2 – SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION” to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Customers has adopted various accounting policies that govern the application of U.S. GAAP and that are consistent with general practices within the banking industry in the preparation of its consolidated financial statements. Customers’ significant accounting policies are described in “NOTE 2 – SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION” in Customers’ audited consolidated financial statements included in its 2024 Form 10-K. Certain accounting policies involve significant judgments and assumptions by Customers that have a material impact on the carrying value of certain assets. Customers considers these accounting policies to be critical accounting policies. The judgments and assumptions used are based on historical experience and other factors, which are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Because of the nature of the judgments and assumptions management makes, actual results could differ from these judgments and estimates, which could have a material impact on the carrying values of Customers’ assets.

The critical accounting policy that is both important to the portrayal of Customers’ financial condition and results of operations and requires complex, subjective judgments is the ACL. This critical accounting policy and material estimate, along with the related disclosures, are reviewed by Customers’ Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.

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Allowance for Credit Losses

Customers’ ACL at March 31, 2025 represents Customers’ current estimate of the lifetime credit losses expected from its loan and lease portfolio and its unfunded lending-related commitments that are not unconditionally cancellable. Management estimates the ACL by projecting a lifetime loss rate conditional on a forecast of economic parameters and other qualitative adjustments, for the loans’ and leases’ expected remaining term.

Customers uses external sources in the creation of its forecasts, including current economic conditions and forecasts for macroeconomic variables over its reasonable and supportable forecast period (e.g., GDP growth rate, unemployment rate, BBB spread, commercial real estate and home price index). After the reasonable and supportable forecast period, which ranges from two to five years, the models revert the forecasted macroeconomic variables to their historical long-term trends, without specific predictions for the economy, over the expected life of the pool, while also incorporating prepayment assumptions into its lifetime loss rates. Internal factors that impact the quarterly allowance estimate include the level of outstanding balances, portfolio performance and assigned risk ratings. Significant loan/borrower attributes utilized in the models include property type, initial loan to value, assigned risk ratings, delinquency status, origination date, maturity date, initial FICO scores, and borrower industry and state.

The ACL may be affected materially by a variety of qualitative factors that Customers considers to reflect its current judgment of various events and risks that are not measured in our statistical procedures, including uncertainty related to the economic forecasts used in the modelled credit loss estimates, nature and volume of the loan and lease portfolio, credit underwriting policy exceptions, peer comparison, industry data, and model and data limitations. The qualitative allowance for economic forecast risk is further informed by multiple alternative scenarios, as deemed applicable, to arrive at a scenario or a composite of scenarios supporting the period-end ACL balance. The evaluation process is inherently imprecise and subjective as it requires significant management judgment based on underlying factors that are susceptible to changes, sometimes materially and rapidly. Customers recognizes that this approach may not be suitable in certain economic environments such that additional analysis may be performed at management’s discretion. Due in part to its subjectivity, the qualitative evaluation may be materially impacted during periods of economic uncertainty and late breaking events that could lead to a revision of reserves to reflect management’s best estimate of expected credit losses.

The ACL is established in accordance with our ACL policy. The ACL Committee, which includes the President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Chief Banking Officer, and Chief Credit Officer, among others, reviews the adequacy of the ACL each quarter, together with Customers’ risk management team. The ACL policy, significant judgments and the related disclosures are reviewed by Customers’ Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.

The net increase in our estimated ACL as of March 31, 2025 as compared to December 31, 2024 resulted primarily from slight deterioration in macroeconomic forecasts and higher loan balances held for investment. The provision for credit losses on loans and leases was $21.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, for an ending ACL balance of $147.2 million ($141.1 million for loans and leases and $6.1 million for unfunded lending-related commitments) as of March 31, 2025.

To determine the ACL as of March 31, 2025, Customers utilized Moody’s March 2025 Baseline forecast to generate its modelled expected losses and considered Moody’s other alternative economic forecast scenarios to qualitatively adjust the modelled ACL by loan portfolio in order to reflect management’s reasonable expectations of current and future economic conditions. The Baseline forecast at March 2025 assumed slight deterioration in macroeconomic forecasts from the fourth quarter 2024 forecasts of macroeconomic conditions used by Customers; the Federal Reserve Board lowering interest rates twice in 2025 and gradually reducing the policy rate to its neutral level by late 2026, as uncertainty of economic policies weighs on near-term growth including inflationary pressures from the new administration’s tariff increases, immigrant deportations, federal government payroll and funding cuts, and corporate and individual tax cuts; failures of several banks in the first half of 2023 are not symptomatic of a serious broader problem in the financial system and policymakers’ aggressive response will ensure that the failures do not weaken the financial system or undermine economic growth; a cessation of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine looks increasingly likely but the impact on energy, agriculture and other commodity markets will be modest; the war in Israel not spreading to other parts of the Middle East and mitigating any disruption to global energy markets and global shipping; the CPI rising 3.1% in 2025 and 2.8% in 2026; and the unemployment rate rising to 4.1% in 2025 and 4.3% in 2026. Customers continues to monitor the impact of the U.S. banking system weaknesses, the military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy measures on the U.S. economy and, if pace of the expected recovery is worse than expected, further meaningful provisions for credit losses could be required.

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As of December 31, 2024, the ACL ending balance was $141.7 million ($136.8 million for loans and leases and $4.9 million for unfunded lending-related commitments). To determine the ACL as of December 31, 2024, Customers utilized the Moody’s December 2024 Baseline forecast to generate its modelled expected losses and considered Moody’s other alternative economic forecast scenarios to qualitatively adjust the modelled ACL by loan portfolio in order to reflect management’s reasonable expectations of current and future economic conditions. The Baseline forecast at December 31, 2024 assumed slight improvements in macroeconomic forecasts compared to the macroeconomic forecasts used by Customers in 2023; the Federal Reserve Board lowering interest rates twice in 2025 and gradually reducing the policy rate to its neutral level by late 2026, as slower progress in reducing inflation and additional inflationary pressures from the new administration’s fiscal, tariff and immigration plans suggest a slower pace of normalization than previously expected; failures of several regional banks in the first half of 2023 and recent issues around other banks are not symptomatic of a broader problem in the U.S. financial system and policymakers’ aggressive response will ensure that the failures do not weaken the financial system or further undermine economic growth; the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine continuing for the foreseeable future but its impact on energy, agriculture and other commodity markets and the global economy has largely faded; the war in Israel not spreading to other parts of the Middle East and disrupting global energy markets and global shipping; the CPI rising 2.3% in 2025 and 2.8% in 2026; and the unemployment rate rising to 4.1% in 2025 and 2026.

One of the most significant judgments influencing the ACL is the macroeconomic forecasts from Moody’s. Changes in the economic forecasts could significantly affect the estimated credit losses which could potentially lead to materially different allowance levels from one reporting period to the next. Given the dynamic relationship between macroeconomic variables within Customers’ modelling framework, it is difficult to estimate the impact of a change in any one individual variable on the ACL. However, to illustrate a hypothetical sensitivity analysis, management calculated a quantitative allowance using a 100% weighting applied to an adverse scenario. This scenario includes assumptions around the impact of the new administration’s tariffs and deportations on the economy being significantly worse than expected causing inflation to accelerate; elevated interest rates weakening credit-sensitive spending more than anticipated, and rising inflation causing the Federal Reserve Board to raise the fed fund rate; military conflict between Russia and Ukraine persisting longer than expected; the ceasefire in Israel collapsing; the combination of tariffs, rising inflation, deportations, political tensions, elevated interest rates and reduced credit availability causing the economy to fall into recession in the second quarter of 2025; and unemployment beginning to increase significantly in the second quarter of 2025 and peaking in the second quarter of 2026. Under this scenario, as an example, the unemployment rate is estimated at 6.2% and 8.2% in 2025 and 2026, respectively. These numbers represent a 2.1% and 3.9% higher unemployment estimate than the Baseline scenario projection of 4.1% and 4.3% for the same time periods, respectively. To demonstrate the sensitivity to key economic parameters, management calculated the difference between a 100% Baseline weighting and a 100% adverse scenario weighting for modelled results. This would result in an incremental quantitative impact to the ACL of approximately $80 million at March 31, 2025. This resulting difference is not intended to represent an expected increase in ACL levels since (i) Customers may use a weighted approach applied to multiple economic scenarios for its ACL process, (ii) the highly uncertain economic environment, (iii) the difficulty in predicting inter-relationships between macroeconomic variables used in various economic scenarios, and (iv) the sensitivity analysis does not account for any qualitative adjustments incorporated by Customers as part of its overall ACL framework.

There is no certainty that Customers’ ACL will be appropriate over time to cover losses in our portfolio as economic and market conditions may ultimately differ from our reasonable and supportable forecast. Additionally, events adversely affecting specific customers, industries, or Customers’ markets, such as geopolitical instability, risks of rising inflation including a near-term recession, or worsening of the U.S. banking system could severely impact our current expectations. If the credit quality of Customers’ customer base materially deteriorates or the risk profile of a market, industry, or group of customers changes materially, Customers’ net income and capital could be materially adversely affected which, in turn could have a material adverse effect on Customers’ financial condition and results of operations. The extent to which the geopolitical instability, risks of rising inflation and worsening of the U.S. banking system have and will continue to negatively impact Customers’ businesses, financial condition, liquidity and results will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be forecasted with precision at this time.

For more information, refer to “NOTE 7 – LOANS AND LEASES RECEIVABLE AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES ON LOANS AND LEASES” to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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Results of Operations

The following table sets forth the condensed statements of income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(dollars in thousands)	2025		2024		Change		% Change
Net interest income	$	167,446	$	160,385	$	7,061	4.4	%
Provision for credit losses	28,297		17,070		11,227		65.8	%
Total non-interest income (loss)	(24,490)		21,231		(45,721)		(215.4)	%
Total non-interest expense	102,771		99,169		3,602		3.6	%
Income before income tax expense (benefit)	11,888		65,377		(53,489)		(81.8)	%
Income tax expense (benefit)	(1,024)		15,651		(16,675)		(106.5)	%




Net income	12,912		49,726		(36,814)		(74.0)	%
Preferred stock dividends	3,389		3,800		(411)		(10.8)	%

Net income available to common shareholders	$	9,523	$	45,926	$	(36,403)	(79.3)	%

Customers reported net income available to common shareholders of $9.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to net income available to common shareholders of $45.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. Factors contributing to the change in net income available to common shareholders for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 were as follows:

Net interest income

Net interest income increased $7.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily due to lower interest expense on deposits, partially offset by a decrease in interest income from interest-bearing deposits and investment securities. Average interest-earning assets increased by $776.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase in interest-earning assets was primarily driven by an increase in specialized lending. NIM increased by 3 basis points to 3.13% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 from 3.10% for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The NIM increase was primarily attributable to a favorable shift in deposit mix and lower market interest rates on deposits, which drove a 53 basis point decrease in the cost of interest-bearing liabilities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. Customers’ total cost of funds, including non-interest bearing deposits was 2.96% and 3.55% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Provision for credit losses

The $11.2 million increase in the provision for credit losses included $5.5 million increase in provision for credit losses on loans and leases for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, which primarily reflects a slight deterioration in macroeconomic forecasts and an increase in loan balances held for investment. The ACL on off-balance sheet credit exposures is presented within accrued interest payable and other liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the related provision is presented as part of other non-interest expense on the consolidated statement of income. The ACL on loans and leases held for investment represented 1.04% of total loans and leases receivable at March 31, 2025, compared to 1.12% of total loans and leases receivable at March 31, 2024. Net charge-offs for the three months ended March 31, 2025 were $17.1 million, or 48 basis points of average loans and leases on an annualized basis, compared to net charge-offs of $18.0 million, or 55 basis points on an annualized basis, for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The decrease in net charge-offs for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, was primarily due to lower charge-offs for consumer installment loans, partially offset by higher charge-offs for multifamily loans.

The provision for credit losses for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 also included a provision for credit losses of $6.9 million and $1.1 million, respectively, on certain debt securities available for sale. Refer to “NOTE 5 – INVESTMENT SECURITIES” to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements for additional information.

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Non-interest income (loss)

The $45.7 million decrease in non-interest income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from $51.3 million of impairment loss on investment securities that the Bank decided to sell as of March 31, 2025, in order to further improve structural liquidity, enhance credit profile, reduce asset sensitivity and benefit margin, partially offset by increases of $2.0 million in loan fees, $1.4 million in bank-owned life insurance income, $1.3 million in other non-interest income and $1.0 million in commercial lease income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024.

Non-interest expense

The $3.6 million increase in non-interest expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from increases of $6.6 million in salaries and employee benefits, $5.5 million in professional services, $1.8 million in other non-interest expense and $1.1 million in occupancy. These increases were offset in part by decreases of $10.6 million in technology, communication and bank operations and $1.7 million in FDIC assessments, non-income taxes and regulatory fees for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024.

Included in the $1.7 million decrease in FDIC assessments, non-income taxes and regulatory fees for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 was $4.2 million in FDIC premiums related to periods prior to 2024 that were recorded in the three months ended March 31, 2024.

Included in the $10.6 million decrease in technology, communication and bank operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 was $7.1 million of deposit servicing fees related to periods prior to 2024 that were recorded in the three months ended March 31, 2024.

Income tax expense (benefit)

Customers’ effective tax rate was (8.6)% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to 23.9% for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The decrease in the effective tax rate primarily resulted from lower pre-tax income and an increase in discrete tax benefits from share-based compensation for 2025.

Preferred stock dividends

Preferred stock dividends were $3.4 million and $3.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. There were no changes to the amount of preferred stock outstanding during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. Refer to “NOTE 11 – SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY” to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements for additional information.

NET INTEREST INCOME

Net interest income (the difference between the interest earned on loans and leases, investments and interest-earning deposits with banks, and interest paid on deposits, borrowed funds and subordinated debt) is the primary source of Customers’ earnings. The following table summarizes Customers’ net interest income, related interest spread, net interest margin and the dollar amount of changes in interest income and interest expense for the major categories of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. Information is provided for each category of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities with respect to (i) changes attributable to volume (i.e., changes in average balances multiplied by the prior-period average rate) and (ii) changes attributable to rate (i.e., changes in average rate multiplied by prior-period average balances). For purposes of this table, changes attributable to both rate and volume which cannot be segregated have been allocated proportionately to the change due to volume and the change due to rate.

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	Three Months Ended March 31,												Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025						2024						2025 vs. 2024
(dollars in thousands)	Average Balance		Interest Income or Expense		Average Yield or Cost (%)		Average Balance		Interest Income or Expense		Average Yield or Cost (%)		Due to rate		Due to volume		Total
Assets
Interest-earning deposits	$	3,857,617	$	42,914	4.51	%	$	3,865,028	$	52,817	5.50	%	$	(9,798)	$	(105)	$	(9,903)
Investment securities (1)	3,100,429		34,339		4.49	%	3,771,097		46,802		4.99	%	(4,491)		(7,972)		(12,463)
Loans and leases:

Commercial and industrial:
Specialized lending loans and leases (2)	6,474,034		120,951		7.58	%	5,268,345		115,590		8.82	%	(17,916)		23,277		5,361
Other commercial and industrial loans (2)	1,542,846		23,933		6.29	%	1,654,665		26,714		6.49	%	(871)		(1,910)		(2,781)
Mortgage finance loans	1,252,602		14,752		4.78	%	1,033,177		12,830		4.99	%	(575)		2,497		1,922
Multifamily loans	2,273,893		23,664		4.22	%	2,121,650		21,255		4.03	%	955		1,454		2,409

Non-owner occupied commercial real estate loans	1,550,372		21,564		5.64	%	1,348,468		20,179		6.02	%	(1,366)		2,751		1,385
Residential mortgages	530,613		6,228		4.76	%	522,528		5,708		4.39	%	439		81		520
Installment loans	938,193		24,677		10.67	%	1,179,721		27,771		9.47	%	3,130		(6,224)		(3,094)



Total loans and leases (3)	14,562,553		235,769		6.57	%	13,128,554		230,047		7.05	%	(16,946)		22,668		5,722
Other interest-earning assets	127,793		1,887		5.99	%	107,525		2,111		7.90	%	(569)		345		(224)
Total interest-earning assets	21,648,392		314,909		5.89	%	20,872,204		331,777		6.39	%	(28,014)		11,146		(16,868)
Non-interest-earning assets	666,571						463,025

Total assets	$	22,314,963					$	21,335,229
Liabilities
Interest checking accounts	$	5,358,206	49,903		3.78	%	$	5,538,846	61,531		4.47	%	(9,600)		(2,028)		(11,628)
Money market deposit accounts	3,882,855		37,767		3.94	%	3,233,103		36,811		4.58	%	(5,627)		6,583		956
Other savings accounts	1,151,439		10,691		3.77	%	1,753,118		21,399		4.91	%	(4,321)		(6,387)		(10,708)
Certificates of deposit	2,749,720		32,947		4.86	%	2,750,788		33,984		4.97	%	(1,019)		(18)		(1,037)
Total interest-bearing deposits (4)	13,142,220		131,308		4.05	%	13,275,855		153,725		4.66	%	(20,816)		(1,601)		(22,417)


Borrowings	1,346,941		16,155		4.86	%	1,506,707		17,667		4.72	%	482		(1,994)		(1,512)
Total interest-bearing liabilities	14,489,161		147,463		4.13	%	14,782,562		171,392		4.66	%	(20,374)		(3,555)		(23,929)
Non-interest-bearing deposits (4)	5,710,644						4,620,986
Total deposits and borrowings	20,199,805				2.96	%	19,403,548				3.55	%
Other non-interest-bearing liabilities	246,455						264,677

Total liabilities	20,446,260						19,668,225
Shareholders’ equity	1,868,703						1,667,004
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity	$	22,314,963					$	21,335,229
Net interest income			167,446						160,385				$	(7,640)	$	14,701	$	7,061
Tax-equivalent adjustment			363						394
Net interest earnings			$	167,809					$	160,779
Interest spread					2.93	%					2.84	%
Net interest margin					3.13	%					3.09	%
Net interest margin tax equivalent (5)					3.13	%					3.10	%

(1) For presentation in this table, average balances and the corresponding average yields for investment securities are based upon historical cost, adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts.

(2) Includes owner occupied commercial real estate loans.

(3) Includes non-accrual loans, the effect of which is to reduce the yield earned on loans and leases, and deferred loan fees.

(4) Total costs of deposits (including interest bearing and non-interest-bearing) were 2.82% and 3.45% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

(5) Tax-equivalent basis, using an estimated marginal tax rate of 26% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, presented to approximate interest income as a taxable asset.

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The NIM increased by 3 basis points to 3.13% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 from 3.10% for the three months ended March 31, 2024 resulting primarily from a favorable shift in deposit mix and lower market interest rates on deposits, which drove a 53 basis point decrease in the cost of interest-bearing liabilities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. Customers’ total cost of funds, including non-interest bearing deposits was 2.96% and 3.55% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

PROVISION FOR CREDIT LOSSES

The provision for credit losses is a charge to earnings to maintain the ACL at a level consistent with management’s assessment of expected lifetime losses in the loan and lease portfolio at the balance sheet date. Customers recorded a provision for credit losses on loans and leases during the three months ended March 31, 2025, which resulted primarily from slight deterioration in macroeconomic forecasts and an increase in loan balances held for investment. Customers recorded a provision for credit losses of $21.4 million for loans and leases and $1.2 million for lending-related commitments, respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2025. Customers recorded a provision for credit losses of $16.0 million for loans and leases and $0.4 million for lending-related commitments, respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2024. Net charge-offs for the three months ended March 31, 2025 were $17.1 million, or 48 basis points of average loans and leases on an annualized basis, compared to net charge-offs of $18.0 million, or 55 basis points of average loans and leases on an annualized basis, for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The decrease in net charge-offs for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, was primarily due to lower charge-offs for consumer installment loans, partially offset by higher charge-offs for multifamily loans.

For more information about the provision and ACL and our loss experience on loans and leases, refer to “Credit Risk” and “Asset Quality” herein.

NON-INTEREST INCOME (LOSS)

The table below presents the components of non-interest income (loss) for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(dollars in thousands)	2025		2024		Change		% Change
Commercial lease income	$	10,668	$	9,683	$	985	10.2	%
Loan fees	7,235		5,280		1,955		37.0	%
Bank-owned life insurance	4,660		3,261		1,399		42.9	%
Mortgage finance transactional fees	933		946		(13)		(1.4)	%




Net gain (loss) on sale of loans and leases	2		10		(8)		(80.0)	%




Net gain (loss) on sale of investment securities	—		(30)		30		(100.0)	%
Impairment loss on investment securities	(51,319)		—		(51,319)		NM





Other	3,331		2,081		1,250		60.1	%
Total non-interest income (loss)	$	(24,490)	$	21,231	$	(45,721)	(215.4)	%

Commercial lease income

Commercial lease income represents income earned on commercial operating leases originated by Customers’ commercial equipment financing group in which Customers is the lessor. The $1.0 million increase in commercial lease income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from the growth of Customers’ equipment finance business.

Loan fees

The $2.0 million increase in loan fees for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from increases in fees earned on unused lines of credit and servicing fees on consumer installment loans.

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Bank-owned life insurance

Bank-owned life insurance income represents income earned on life insurance policies owned by Customers including an increase in cash surrender value of the policies and any benefits paid by insurance carriers under the policies. The $1.4 million increase in bank-owned life insurance income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from increases in death benefits received from insurance carriers and cash surrender value of the policies.

Impairment loss on investment securities

The $51.3 million increase in impairment loss on investment securities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from impairment loss recorded on certain AFS debt securities that the Bank decided to sell as of March 31, 2025, in order to further improve structural liquidity, reduce asset sensitivity and benefit margin. The Bank began to sell these securities in Q2 2025. The actual amounts to be realized from the sales may differ from the fair values of these AFS debt securities at March 31, 2025.

Other non-interest income

The $1.3 million increase in other non-interest income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from an increase in deposit account fees, partially offset by a decrease in SERP income.

NON-INTEREST EXPENSE

The table below presents the components of non-interest expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(dollars in thousands)	2025		2024		Change		% Change
Salaries and employee benefits	$	42,674	$	36,025	$	6,649	18.5	%
Technology, communication and bank operations	11,312		21,904		(10,592)		(48.4)	%
Commercial lease depreciation	8,463		7,970		493		6.2	%
Professional services	11,857		6,353		5,504		86.6	%
Loan servicing	4,630		4,031		599		14.9	%
Occupancy	3,412		2,347		1,065		45.4	%
FDIC assessments, non-income taxes and regulatory fees	11,750		13,469		(1,719)		(12.8)	%
Advertising and promotion	528		682		(154)		(22.6)	%




Other	8,145		6,388		1,757		27.5	%
Total non-interest expense	$	102,771	$	99,169	$	3,602	3.6	%

Salaries and employee benefits

The $6.6 million increase in salaries and employee benefits for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from an increase in average full-time equivalent team members, including the addition of new banking teams in April 2024, and annual merit increases.

Technology, communication and bank operations

The $10.6 million decrease in technology, communication and bank operations expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from decreases in deposit servicing-related expenses resulting from lower servicing fees and $1.9 million in fees for software as a service.

Customers incurred expenses of $2.1 million and $10.7 million to BM Technologies under the deposit servicing agreement included within the technology, communication and bank operations expense during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The deposit servicing fees of $10.7 million incurred to BM Technologies for the three months ended March 31, 2024 included $7.1 million for periods prior to 2024. On April 1, 2025, Customers transferred approximately $166.7 million of deposits serviced by BM Technologies under a white label relationship to a new sponsor bank.

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Professional services

The $5.5 million increase in professional services for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from increases in consulting fees including to enhance the Bank’s risk management infrastructure.

Occupancy

The $1.1 million increase in occupancy for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from higher lease expense and depreciation and amortization associated with the Bank’s expansion.

FDIC assessments, non-income taxes and regulatory fees

The $1.7 million decrease in FDIC assessments, non-income taxes and regulatory fees for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from a decrease in FDIC assessments. The FDIC assessments for the three months ended March 31, 2024 included $4.2 million for periods prior to 2024.

Other non-interest expense

The $1.8 million increase in other non-interest expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from increases in provision for credit losses on unfunded lending-related commitments and charitable contributions.

INCOME TAXES

The table below presents income tax expense (benefit) and the effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(dollars in thousands)	2025			2024			Change		% Change
Income before income tax expense (benefit)	$	11,888		$	65,377		$	(53,489)	(81.8)	%
Income tax expense (benefit)	(1,024)			15,651			(16,675)		(106.5)	%
Effective tax rate	(8.6)		%	23.9		%

The $16.7 million decrease in income tax expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025, when compared to the same period in the prior year, primarily resulted from lower pre-tax income and an increase in discrete tax benefits from share-based compensation for 2025. The decrease in the effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2025, when compared to the same period in the prior year, primarily resulted from lower pre-tax income and an increase in discrete tax benefits from share-based compensation for 2025.

PREFERRED STOCK DIVIDENDS

Financial Condition

General

Customers’ total assets were $22.4 billion at March 31, 2025. This represented an increase of $114.8 million from total assets of $22.3 billion at December 31, 2024. The increase in total assets was primarily driven by increases of $428.2 million in loans and leases receivable, $138.2 million in loans receivable, installment, at fair value, $45.3 million in loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value and $37.9 million in investment securities, at fair value, partially offset by decreases of $357.2 million in cash and cash equivalents, $167.3 million in loans held for sale and $53.8 million in investment securities held to maturity.

Total liabilities were $20.6 billion at March 31, 2025. This represented an increase of $86.9 million from $20.5 billion at December 31, 2024. The increase in total liabilities primarily resulted from an increase of $86.5 million in total deposits.

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The following table sets forth certain key condensed balance sheet data as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:


(dollars in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024		Change		% Change
Cash and cash equivalents	$	3,428,690	$	3,785,931	$	(357,241)	(9.4)	%
Investment securities, at fair value	2,057,555		2,019,694		37,861		1.9	%
Investment securities held to maturity	938,161		991,937		(53,776)		(5.4)	%
Loans held for sale	37,529		204,794		(167,265)		(81.7)	%


Loans and leases receivable	13,555,820		13,127,634		428,186		3.3	%
Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value	1,366,460		1,321,128		45,332		3.4	%
Loans receivable, installment, at fair value	138,159		—		138,159		NM
Allowance for credit losses on loans and leases	(141,076)		(136,775)		(4,301)		3.1	%
Bank-owned life insurance	298,551		297,641		910		0.3	%
Other assets	530,355		481,395		48,960		10.2	%

Total assets	22,423,044		22,308,241		114,803		0.5	%
Total deposits	18,932,925		18,846,461		86,464		0.5	%


FHLB advances	1,133,456		1,128,352		5,104		0.5	%
Other borrowings	99,103		99,068		35		0.0	%
Subordinated debt	182,579		182,509		70		0.0	%

Accrued interest payable and other liabilities	210,421		215,168		(4,747)		(2.2)	%

Total liabilities	20,558,484		20,471,558		86,926		0.4	%
Total shareholders’ equity	1,864,560		1,836,683		27,877		1.5	%
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity	$	22,423,044	$	22,308,241	$	114,803	0.5	%

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents include cash and due from banks and interest-earning deposits. Cash and due from banks consists mainly of vault cash and cash items in the process of collection. Cash and due from banks were $62.1 million and $56.8 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. Cash and cash due from banks balances vary from day to day, primarily due to variations in customers’ deposit activities with the Bank.

Interest-earning deposits consist of cash deposited at other banks, primarily the FRB. Interest-earning deposits were $3.4 billion and $3.7 billion at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. The balance of interest-earning deposits varies from day to day, depending on several factors, such as fluctuations in customers’ deposits with Customers, payment of checks drawn on customers’ accounts and strategic investment decisions made to optimize Customers’ net interest income, while effectively managing interest-rate risk and liquidity. The decrease in interest-earning deposits since December 31, 2024 primarily resulted from deploying excess cash into loans.

Investment securities at fair value

The investment securities portfolio is an important source of interest income and liquidity. It consists primarily of mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations guaranteed by agencies of the United States government, asset-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, commercial mortgage-backed securities, private label collateralized mortgage obligations, corporate notes and certain equity securities. In addition to generating revenue, the investment portfolio is maintained to manage interest-rate risk, provide liquidity, serve as collateral for other borrowings, and diversify the credit risk of interest-earning assets. The portfolio is structured to optimize net interest income given the changes in the economic environment, liquidity position and balance sheet mix.

At March 31, 2025, investment securities at fair value totaled $2.1 billion compared to $2.0 billion at December 31, 2024. The increase primarily resulted from purchases of $156.7 million of the investment securities, partially offset by the maturities, calls and principal repayments totaling $99.5 million and a decrease in the fair value of AFS debt securities, or an increase in unrealized losses of $13.2 million primarily due to changes in market interest rates and credit spreads for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

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For financial reporting purposes, AFS debt securities are reported at fair value. Unrealized gains and losses on AFS debt securities that the Bank does not intend to sell, other than credit losses, are included in other comprehensive income (loss) and reported as a separate component of shareholders’ equity, net of the related tax effect. Changes in the fair value of equity securities with a readily determinable fair value and securities reported at fair value based on a fair value option election are recorded in non-interest income in the period in which they occur. Customers recorded a provision for credit losses of $6.9 million and $1.1 million on certain debt securities available for sale for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Refer to “NOTE 5 – INVESTMENT SECURITIES” and “NOTE 15 – DISCLOSURES ABOUT FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS” to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements for additional information.

The following table sets forth information about the maturities and weighted-average yield of the AFS debt securities portfolio. The weighted-average yield is computed based on a constant effective interest rate over the contractual life of each security adjusted for prepayment estimates, and considers the contractual coupon, amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts. Yields exclude the impact of related hedging derivatives.


	March 31, 2025
	Within one year		After one but within five years		After five but within ten years		After ten years		No specific maturity		Total
Asset-backed securities	—	%	—	%	—	%	—	%	8.09	%	8.09	%

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	—		—		—		—		5.50		5.50

Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	—		—		—		—		3.96		3.96
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	—		—		—		—		4.19		4.19
Collateralized loan obligations	—		—		—		—		6.07		6.07
Commercial mortgage-backed securities	—		—		—		—		5.61		5.61
Corporate notes	8.52		6.66		6.27		6.75		—		6.68
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	—		—		—		—		4.67		4.67

Weighted-average yield	8.52	%	6.66	%	6.27	%	6.75	%	3.69	%	5.63	%

Customers recognized $51.3 million of impairment loss on certain AFS debt securities that the Bank intends to sell within non-interest income (loss) for the three months ended March 31, 2025, in order to further improve structural liquidity, reduce asset sensitivity and benefit margin. Customers decided to sell $534 million in fair value of collateralized loan obligations, corporate notes and private label collateralized mortgage obligations and commercial mortgage-backed securities as of March 31, 2025. Excluding these securities that the Bank decided to sell, the weighted-average yield of the AFS debt securities portfolio was 5.50% at March 31, 2025.

The agency-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations in the AFS portfolio were issued by Ginnie Mae and Freddie Mac, and contain guarantees for the collection of principal and interest on the underlying mortgages.

Investment securities held to maturity

At March 31, 2025, investment securities held to maturity totaled $938.2 million compared to $991.9 million at December 31, 2024. The decrease primarily resulted from the maturities, calls and principal repayments totaling $69.1 million, partially offset by purchases of $14.0 million of the investment securities for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

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The following table sets forth information about the maturities and weighted-average yield of the investment securities held to maturity. The weighted-average yield is computed based on a constant effective interest rate over the contractual life of each security adjusted for prepayment estimates, and considers the contractual coupon, amortization of premiums, accretion of discounts and amortization of unrealized losses upon transfer from investment securities available for sale to held to maturity, along with the unrealized loss in accumulated other comprehensive income.


	March 31, 2025
	Within one year		After one but within five years		After five but within ten years		No specific maturity		Total
Asset-backed securities	—	%	—	%	—	%	5.43	%	5.43	%

Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities	—		—		—		1.79		1.79
Agency-guaranteed commercial mortgage-backed securities	—		—		—		1.77		1.77
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations	—		—		—		1.89		1.89
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations	—		—		—		2.31		2.31



Private label collateralized mortgage obligations	—		—		—		4.49		4.49

Weighted-average yield	—	%	—	%	—	%	3.95	%	3.95	%

The agency-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations in the HTM portfolio were issued by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae, and contain guarantees for the collection of principal and interest on the underlying mortgages.

Investment securities classified as HTM are those debt securities that Customers has both the intent and ability to hold to maturity regardless of changes in market conditions, liquidity needs, or changes in general economic conditions. For financial reporting purposes, these securities are reported at cost, adjusted for the amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts, computed by a method which approximates the interest method over the terms of the securities. Refer to “NOTE 5 – INVESTMENT SECURITIES” and “NOTE 15 – DISCLOSURES ABOUT FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS” to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements for additional information.

LOANS AND LEASES

Existing lending relationships are primarily with small and middle market businesses and individual consumers primarily in Berks County and Southeastern Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester and Philadelphia Counties); New York (Westchester and Suffolk Counties, and Manhattan); Hamilton, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; California (Southern California and the Bay Area); Nevada (Las Vegas and Reno); and nationally for certain loan and deposit products. The portfolio of specialized lending loans and leases and mortgage finance loans is nationwide. The loan portfolio consists primarily of loans to support mortgage companies’ funding needs, multifamily, commercial real estate and commercial and industrial loans. Customers continues to focus on small and middle market business loans to grow its commercial lending efforts, particularly its commercial and industrial loan and lease portfolio and its specialized lending business. Customers also focuses its lending efforts on local-market mortgage and home equity lending and the origination and purchase of unsecured consumer loans (installment loans), including personal, student loan refinancing, home improvement and medical loans through arrangements with fintech companies and other market place lenders nationwide.

Commercial Lending

Customers’ commercial lending is broadly divided into the following groups: small and middle market business banking, specialized banking, multifamily and commercial real estate lending, mortgage finance, and SBA lending. This grouping is designed to allow for greater resource deployment, higher standards of risk management, strong asset quality, lower interest-rate risk and higher productivity levels.

As of March 31, 2025, Customers had $13.7 billion in commercial loans outstanding, totaling approximately 90.5% of its total loan and lease portfolio, which includes loans held for sale, loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value, and loans receivable, installment, at fair value, compared to commercial loans outstanding of $13.2 billion, comprising approximately 90.1% of its total loan and lease portfolio at December 31, 2024.

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The commercial lending group focuses primarily on companies with annual revenues ranging from $1 million to $100 million, which typically have credit requirements between $0.5 million and $10 million. The small and middle market business banking platform originates loans, including SBA loans, through the branch network sales force and a team of dedicated relationship managers. The support administration of this platform is centralized, including technology, risk management, product management, marketing, performance tracking and overall strategy. Credit and sales training has been established for Customers’ sales force, ensuring that it has small business experts in place providing appropriate financial solutions to the small business owners in its communities. The division approach focuses on industries that offer high asset quality and are deposit rich to drive profitability.

Customers’ specialized banking includes commercial equipment finance, healthcare lending, real estate specialty finance, fund finance, technology and venture capital banking and financial institutions group. Customers’ lender finance vertical within fund finance provides variable rate loans secured by diverse collateral pools to private debt funds. Customers’ capital call lines vertical within fund finance provides variable rate loans secured by collateral pools and limited partnership commitments from institutional investors in private equity funds and cash management services to the alternative investment industry. Customers’ technology and venture capital banking group services the venture-backed growth industry from seed-stage through late-stage.

Customers’ mortgage finance primarily provides financing to mortgage bankers for residential mortgage originations from loan closing until sale in the secondary market. The underlying residential loans are taken as collateral for Customers’ commercial loans to the mortgage companies. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, mortgage finance loans totaled $1.4 billion and $1.3 billion, respectively, and are reported as loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value on the consolidated balance sheet.

Customers’ commercial equipment financing group goes to market through the following origination platforms: vendors, intermediaries, direct and capital markets. The commercial equipment financing group is primarily focused on serving the following industries: transportation, construction (includes crane and utility), marine, franchise, general manufacturing (includes machine tool), helicopter/fixed wing, solar, packaging, plastics and food processing. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers had $705.8 million and $675.4 million, respectively, of equipment finance loans outstanding. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers had $269.2 million and $262.7 million, respectively, of equipment finance leases outstanding. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers had $223.5 million and $214.9 million, respectively, of operating leases entered into under this program, net of accumulated depreciation of $98.8 million and $95.1 million, respectively.

Customers’ multifamily lending group is focused on retaining a portfolio of high-quality multifamily loans within Customers’ covered markets. These lending activities use conservative underwriting standards and primarily target the refinancing of loans with other banks or provide purchase money for new acquisitions by borrowers. The primary collateral for these loans is a first lien mortgage on the multifamily property, plus an assignment of all leases related to such property. Customers had multifamily loans of $2.3 billion outstanding, comprising approximately 15.4% of the total loan and lease portfolio at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

Consumer Lending

Customers provides unsecured consumer installment loans, residential mortgage and home equity loans to customers nationwide primarily through relationships with fintech companies. The installment loan portfolio consists largely of originated and purchased personal, student loan refinancing, home improvement and medical loans. None of the loans held for investment are considered sub-prime at the time of origination. Customers considers sub-prime borrowers to be those with FICO scores below 660. Customers has been selective in the consumer loans it has been purchasing. Home equity lending is offered to solidify customer relationships and grow relationship revenues in the long term. This lending is important in Customers’ efforts to grow total relationship revenues for its consumer households. As of March 31, 2025, Customers had $1.4 billion in consumer loans outstanding (including consumer loans held for investment and held for sale), or 9.5% of the total loan and lease portfolio, compared to $1.4 billion, or 9.9% of the total loan and lease portfolio, as of December 31, 2024.

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Purchases and sales of loans held for investment were as follows for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)	2025		2024
Purchases (1)

Other commercial and industrial	$	1,079	$	7,403








Personal installment (2)	104,941		—

Total	$	106,020	$	7,403
Sales


Multifamily	$	8,000	$	—






Personal installment	281		—

Total	$	8,281	$	—

(1) Amounts reported in the above table are the unpaid principal balance at time of purchase. The purchase price was 99.5% and 100.0% of the loans’ unpaid principal balance for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Loans Held for Sale

The composition of loans held for sale as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was as follows:


(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024







Residential mortgage loans, at fair value	$	1,465	$	1,836
Personal installment loans, at lower of cost or fair value	36,000		40,903

Other installment loans, at fair value	64		162,055

Total loans held for sale	$	37,529	$	204,794

Loans held for sale are reported on the consolidated balance sheet at either fair value (due to the election of the fair value option) or at the lower of cost or fair value. An ACL is not recorded on loans that are classified as held for sale.

Refer to NOTE 7 — LOANS AND LEASES RECEIVABLE AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES ON LOANS AND LEASES to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements for additional information on the transfer of other consumer installment loans, at fair value, from loans held for sale to held for investment during the three months ended March 31, 2025.

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Total Loans and Leases Receivable

The composition of total loans and leases receivable (excluding loans held for sale) was as follows:


(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
Loans and leases receivable:
Commercial:
Commercial and industrial:

Specialized lending (1)	$	6,070,093	$	5,842,420
Other commercial and industrial	1,174,369		1,182,350
Multifamily	2,322,123		2,252,246
Commercial real estate owner occupied	1,139,126		1,100,944
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied	1,438,906		1,359,130
Construction	154,647		147,209

Total commercial loans and leases receivable	12,299,264		11,884,299
Consumer:
Residential real estate	496,772		496,559
Manufactured housing	31,775		33,123

Installment:
Personal	493,276		463,854
Other	234,733		249,799

Total consumer loans receivable	1,256,556		1,243,335
Loans and leases receivable	13,555,820		13,127,634
Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value	1,366,460		1,321,128
Loans receivable, installment, at fair value	138,159		—
Allowance for credit losses on loans and leases	(141,076)		(136,775)
Total loans and leases receivable, net of allowance for credit losses on loans and leases (2)	$	14,919,363	$	14,311,987

(1) Includes direct finance and sales-type equipment leases of $269.2 million and $262.7 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

(2) Includes deferred (fees) costs and unamortized (discounts) premiums, net of $(22.2) million and $(20.8) million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value

The mortgage finance product line primarily provides financing to mortgage companies nationwide from the time of origination of the underlying mortgage loans until the mortgage loans are sold into the secondary market. As a mortgage finance lender, Customers provides a form of financing to mortgage bankers by purchasing for resale the underlying residential mortgages on a short-term basis under a master repurchase agreement. These loans are reported as loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value on the consolidated balance sheets. Because these loans are reported at their fair value, they do not have an ACL and are therefore excluded from ACL-related disclosures. At March 31, 2025, all of Customers’ mortgage finance loans were current in terms of payment.

Customers is subject to the risks associated with such lending, including, but not limited to, the risks of fraud, bankruptcy and default of the mortgage banker or of the underlying residential borrower, any of which could result in credit losses. Customers’ mortgage finance lending team members monitor these mortgage originators by obtaining financial and other relevant information to reduce these risks during the lending period. Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value totaled $1.4 billion and $1.3 billion at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

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Loans receivable, installment, at fair value

Credit Risk

Customers manages credit risk by maintaining diversification in its loan and lease portfolio, establishing and enforcing prudent underwriting standards and collection efforts, and continuous and periodic loan and lease classification reviews. Management also considers the effect of credit risk on financial performance by reviewing quarterly and maintaining an adequate ACL. Credit losses are charged-off when they are identified, and provisions are added for current expected credit losses, to the ACL at least quarterly. The ACL is estimated at least quarterly.

The provision for credit losses on loans and leases was $21.4 million and $16.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The ACL maintained for loans and leases receivable (excluding loans held for sale, loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value, and loans receivable, installment, at fair value) was $141.1 million, or 1.04% of loans and leases receivable at March 31, 2025, and $136.8 million or 1.04% of loans and leases receivable at December 31, 2024.

The increase in the ACL resulted primarily from slight deterioration in macroeconomic forecasts and an increase in loan balances held for investment. Net charge-offs were $17.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, a decrease of $0.8 million compared to the same period in 2024. The decrease in net charge-offs was primarily due to lower charge-offs for consumer installment loans, partially offset by an increase in charge-offs for multifamily loans. Refer to the tables of changes in Customers’ ACL for annualized net-charge offs to average loans by loan type for the periods indicated.

The tables below present changes in Customers’ ACL for the periods indicated.


(amounts in thousands)	Commercial and industrial (1)			Multifamily			Commercial real estate owner occupied			Commercial real estate non-owner occupied			Construction			Residential real estate			Manufactured housing			Installment			Total
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
Ending Balance, December 31, 2024	$	29,379		$	18,511		$	10,755		$	17,405		$	1,250		$	5,968		$	3,829		$	49,678		$	136,775


Charge-offs (2)	(4,507)			(3,834)			(19)			—			—			—			—			(12,403)			(20,763)
Recoveries (2)	1,276			—			3			—			3			—			—			2,337			3,619
Provision (benefit) for credit losses on loans and leases	4,436			4,113			41			653			11			195			(29)			12,025			21,445
Ending Balance, March 31, 2025	$	30,584		$	18,790		$	10,780		$	18,058		$	1,264		$	6,163		$	3,800		$	51,637		$	141,076








Annualized Net Charge-offs to Average Loans and Leases
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025	(0.19)		%	(0.68)		%	(0.01)		%	—		%	0.01		%	—		%	—		%	(5.07)		%	(0.52)		%

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(amounts in thousands)	Commercial and industrial (1)			Multifamily			Commercial real estate owner occupied			Commercial real estate non-owner occupied			Construction			Residential real estate			Manufactured housing			Installment			Total
Three Months Ended March 31, 2024
Ending Balance, December 31, 2023	$	23,503		$	16,343		$	9,882		$	16,859		$	1,482		$	6,586		$	4,239		$	56,417		$	135,311

Charge-offs (2)	(5,396)			(473)			(22)			—			—			(19)			—			(16,917)			(22,827)
Recoveries (2)	1,724			—			—			—			—			1			—			3,134			4,859
Provision (benefit) for credit losses on loans and leases	3,172			2,437			341			1,461			384			139			(79)			8,098			15,953
Ending Balance, March 31, 2024	$	23,003		$	18,307		$	10,201		$	18,320		$	1,866		$	6,707		$	4,160		$	50,732		$	133,296








Annualized Net Charge-offs to Average Loans and Leases
Three Months Ended March 31, 2024	(0.24)		%	(0.09)		%	(0.01)		%	—		%	—		%	(0.01)		%	—		%	(6.67)		%	(0.61)		%

(1) Includes specialized lending.

(2) Charge-offs and recoveries on PCD loans that are accounted for in pools are recognized on a net basis when the pool matures.

The ACL is based on a quarterly evaluation of the loan and lease portfolio held for investment and is maintained at a level that management considers adequate to absorb expected losses as of the balance sheet date. All commercial loans, with the exception of PPP loans and mortgage finance loans, which are reported at fair value, are assigned internal credit-risk ratings, based upon an assessment of the borrower, the structure of the transaction and the available collateral and/or guarantees. All loans and leases are monitored regularly by the responsible officer, and the risk ratings are adjusted when considered appropriate. The risk assessment allows management to identify problem loans and leases timely. Management considers a variety of factors and recognizes the inherent risk of loss that always exists in the lending process. Management uses a disciplined methodology to estimate an appropriate level of ACL. Refer to Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates herein and “NOTE 2 – SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION” to Customers’ audited consolidated financial statements in its 2024 Form 10-K for further discussion on management’s methodology for estimating the ACL.

Customers’ commercial real estate, commercial and residential construction, consumer residential and owner occupied commercial and industrial loan types have real estate as collateral (collectively, “the real estate portfolio”) primarily in the form of a first lien position. Current appraisals providing current value estimates of the property are received when Customers’ credit group determines that the facts and circumstances have significantly changed since the date of the last appraisal, including that real estate values have deteriorated. A designated credit committee and loan officers review all non-accrual loans on a periodic basis. In addition, loans where the loan officers have identified a “borrower of interest” are discussed to determine if additional analysis is necessary to apply the risk-rating criteria properly. The risk ratings for the real estate loan portfolio are determined based upon the current information available, including but not limited to discussions with the borrower, updated financial information, economic conditions within the geographic area and other factors that may affect the cash flow of the loan. If a loan is individually evaluated for impairment, the collateral value or discounted cash flow analysis is generally used to determine the estimated fair value of the underlying collateral, net of estimated selling costs, and compared to the outstanding loan balance to determine the amount of reserve necessary, if any. Appraisals used in this evaluation process are typically less than two years aged. For loans where real estate is not the primary source of collateral, updated financial information is obtained, including any relevant supplemental financial data to estimate the fair value of the loan, net of estimated selling costs, and compared to the outstanding loan balance to estimate the required reserve. Customers’ exposure to the higher risk commercial real estate office sector is minimal, representing approximately 1% of the total loan and lease portfolio as of March 31, 2025.

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These impairment measurements are inherently subjective as they require material estimates, including, among others, estimates of property values in appraisals, the amounts and timing of expected future cash flows on individual loans, and general considerations for historical loss experience, economic conditions, uncertainties in estimating losses and inherent risks in the various credit portfolios, all of which require judgment and may be susceptible to significant change over time and as a result of changing economic conditions or other factors. Pursuant to ASC 326, individually assessed loans, consisting primarily of non-accrual and restructured loans, are considered in the methodology for determining the ACL. Individually assessed loans are generally evaluated based on the expected future cash flows or the fair value of the underlying collateral if principal repayment is expected to substantially come from the operation of the collateral or fair value of the collateral less estimated costs to sell if repayment of the loan is expected to be provided from the sale of such collateral. Shortfalls in the underlying collateral value for loans or leases determined to be collateral dependent are charged off immediately. Subsequent to an appraisal or other fair value estimate, management will assess whether there was a further decline in the value of the collateral based on changes in market conditions or property use that would require additional impairment to be recorded to reflect the particular situation, thereby increasing the ACL on loans and leases held for investment.

Asset Quality

Customers classifies the loan and lease receivables by product or other characteristic generally defining a shared characteristic with other loans or leases in the same group. Charge-offs from originated and acquired loans and leases held for investment are absorbed by the ACL. The schedule that follows includes both loans held for sale and loans held for investment.

Asset Quality at March 31, 2025


(dollars in thousands)	Total Loans and Leases		Current		30-89 Days Past Due		90 Days or More Past Due and Accruing		Non-accrual/NPL (a)		OREO and Repossessed Assets (b)		NPA (1) (a)+(b)		NPL to Loan and Lease Type (%)		NPA to Loans and Leases + OREO and Repossessed Assets (%)
Loan and Lease Type
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	$	7,244,462	$	7,214,778	$	10,909	$	21	$	18,754	$	—	$	18,754	0.26	%	0.26	%


Multifamily	2,322,123		2,315,696		6,427		—		—		—		—		—	%	—	%
Commercial real estate owner occupied	1,139,126		1,131,215		118		—		7,793		—		7,793		0.68	%	0.68	%
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied	1,438,906		1,422,191		16,653		—		62		—		62		0.00	%	0.00	%
Construction	154,647		154,647		—		—		—		—		—		—	%	—	%

Total commercial loans and leases receivable	12,299,264		12,238,527		34,107		21		26,609		—		26,609		0.22	%	0.22	%
Residential	496,772		480,058		8,563		—		8,151		—		8,151		1.64	%	1.64	%
Manufactured housing	31,775		29,087		704		331		1,653		—		1,653		5.20	%	5.20	%
Installment	728,009		711,468		11,882		—		4,659		—		4,659		0.64	%	0.64	%



Total consumer loans receivable	1,256,556		1,220,613		21,149		331		14,463		—		14,463		1.15	%	1.15	%
Loans and leases receivable	13,555,820		13,459,140		55,256		352		41,072		—		41,072		0.30	%	0.30	%
Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value	1,366,460		1,366,460		—		—		—		—		—		—	%	—	%
Loans Receivable, Installment, at Fair Value	138,159		133,176		2,924		—		2,059		—		2,059		1.49	%	1.49	%
Total loans held for sale	37,529		35,938		1,209		—		382		—		382		1.02	%	1.02	%
Total portfolio	$	15,097,968	$	14,994,714	$	59,389	$	352	$	43,513	$	—	$	43,513	0.29	%	0.29	%

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Asset Quality at March 31, 2025 (continued)


(dollars in thousands)	Total Loans and Leases		Non-accrual / NPL		ACL		Reserves to Loans and Leases (%)		Reserves to NPLs (%)
Loan and Lease Type
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending	$	7,244,462	$	18,754	$	30,584	0.42	%	163.08	%


Multifamily	2,322,123		—		18,790		0.81	%	—	%
Commercial real estate owner occupied	1,139,126		7,793		10,780		0.95	%	138.33	%
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied	1,438,906		62		18,058		1.25	%	29125.81	%
Construction	154,647		—		1,264		0.82	%	—	%

Total commercial loans and leases receivable	12,299,264		26,609		79,476		0.65	%	298.68	%
Residential	496,772		8,151		6,163		1.24	%	75.61	%
Manufactured housing	31,775		1,653		3,800		11.96	%	229.89	%
Installment	728,009		4,659		51,637		7.09	%	1,108.33	%



Total consumer loans receivable	1,256,556		14,463		61,600		4.90	%	425.91	%
Loans and leases receivable	13,555,820		41,072		141,076		1.04	%	343.48	%
Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value	1,366,460		—		—		—	%	—	%
Loans Receivable, Installment, at Fair Value	138,159		2,059		—		—	%	—	%
Total loans held for sale	37,529		382		—		—	%	—	%
Total portfolio	$	15,097,968	$	43,513	$	141,076	0.93	%	324.22	%

(1) Excludes non-performing investment securities, at fair value of $14.4 million with ACL of $7.8 million at March 31, 2025.

The total loan and lease portfolio was $15.1 billion at March 31, 2025 compared to $14.7 billion at December 31, 2024, and $43.5 million, or 0.29% of loans and leases, were non-performing at March 31, 2025 compared to $43.3 million, or 0.30% of loans and leases, at December 31, 2024. The total loan and lease portfolio was supported by an ACL of $141.1 million (324.22% of NPLs and 0.93% of total loans and leases) and $136.8 million (316.06% of NPLs and 0.93% of total loans and leases), at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

The tables below set forth non-accrual loans, NPAs and asset quality ratios:


(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
Loans 90+ days delinquent still accruing (1)	$	352	$	17,084

Non-accrual loans	$	43,513	$	43,275

Investment securities, at fair value	14,447		12,532
Total non-performing assets	$	57,960	$	55,807

(1) Excludes PCD loans at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.


	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
Non-accrual loans to loans and leases receivable (1)	0.30	%	0.31	%

Non-accrual loans to total loans and leases portfolio	0.29	%	0.30	%

Non-performing assets to total assets (2)	0.26	%	0.25	%
Non-accrual loans and loans 90+ days delinquent to total assets	0.20	%	0.27	%
Allowance for credit losses on loans and leases to:
Loans and leases receivable	1.04	%	1.04	%

Non-accrual loans	324.22	%	316.06	%

(1) Excludes loans held for sale, loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value and loans receivable, installment, at fair value.

(2) Includes non-performing investment securities, at fair value of $14.4 million with ACL of $7.8 million at March 31, 2025 and fair value of $12.5 million with ACL of $4.3 million at December 31, 2024, respectively.

The asset quality ratios related to NPAs, including non-performing investment securities, at fair value, and non-accrual loans remained low at March 31, 2025 as compared to December 31, 2024. Refer to Credit Risk above for information about the increase in ACL affecting the related asset quality ratios at March 31, 2025 as compared to December 31, 2024.

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DEPOSITS

Customers offers a variety of deposit accounts, including checking, savings, MMDA, and time deposits. Deposits are primarily obtained from Customers’ geographic service area and nationwide through our single point of contact relationship managers, our branchless digital banking products, deposit brokers, listing services and other relationships.

The components of deposits were as follows at the dates indicated:


(dollars in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024		Change		% Change
Demand, non-interest bearing	$	5,552,605	$	5,608,288	$	(55,683)	(1.0)	%
Demand, interest bearing	5,137,961		5,553,698		(415,737)		(7.5)	%
Savings, including MMDA	5,385,312		4,976,270		409,042		8.2	%
Non-time deposits	16,075,878		16,138,256		(62,378)		(0.4)	%


Time deposits	2,857,047		2,708,205		148,842		5.5	%
Total deposits	$	18,932,925	$	18,846,461	$	86,464	0.5	%

Total deposits were $18.9 billion at March 31, 2025, an increase of $86.5 million, or 0.5%, from $18.8 billion at December 31, 2024. The increase in total deposits was primarily due to increases in savings, including MMDA of $409.0 million, or 8.2%, to $5.4 billion at March 31, 2025, from $5.0 billion at December 31, 2024 and time deposits of $148.8 million, or 5.5%, to $2.9 billion at March 31, 2025, from $2.7 billion at December 31, 2024. These increases were partially offset by decreases in interest bearing demand deposits of $415.7 million, or 7.5%, to $5.1 billion at March 31, 2025, from $5.6 billion at December 31, 2024 and non-interest bearing demand deposits of $55.7 million, or 1.0%, to $5.6 billion at March 31, 2025 from $5.6 billion at December 31, 2024.

At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Bank had $1.5 billion in deposits, to which it had pledged $1.5 billion of available borrowing capacity through the FHLB to the depositors through a standby letter of credit arrangement, respectively.

The total amount of estimated uninsured deposits was $7.3 billion at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. Time deposits greater than the FDIC limit of $250,000 totaled $764.4 million and $803.1 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. At March 31, 2025, the scheduled maturities of uninsured time deposits were as follows:


(amounts in thousands)	March 31, 2025
3 months or less	$	290,303
Over 3 through 6 months	223,060
Over 6 through 12 months	105,652
Over 12 months	145,356
Total	$	764,371

Average deposit balances by type and the associated average rate paid are summarized below:


	Three Months Ended March 31, 2025				Three Months Ended March 31, 2024
(dollars in thousands)	Average Balance		Average Rate Paid		Average Balance		Average Rate Paid
Demand, non-interest bearing	$	5,710,644	0.00	%	$	4,620,986	0.00	%
Demand, interest-bearing	5,358,206		3.78	%	5,538,846		4.47	%
Savings, including MMDA	5,034,294		3.90	%	4,986,221		4.70	%
Time deposits	2,749,720		4.86	%	2,750,788		4.97	%
Total	$	18,852,864	2.82	%	$	17,896,841	3.45	%

FHLB ADVANCES AND OTHER BORROWINGS

Borrowed funds from various sources are generally used to supplement deposit growth and meet other operating needs. Customers’ borrowings include short-term and long-term advances from the FHLB, FRB, federal funds purchased, senior unsecured notes and subordinated debt. Subordinated debt is also considered as Tier 2 capital for certain regulatory calculations.

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Short-term debt

Short-term debt at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was as follows:


	March 31, 2025				December 31, 2024
(dollars in thousands)	Amount		Rate		Amount		Rate

FHLB advances	$	100,000	4.49	%	$	100,000	4.61	%

Total short-term debt	$	100,000			$	100,000

Long-term debt

FHLB and FRB Advances

Long-term FHLB and FRB advances at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:


	March 31, 2025						December 31, 2024
(dollars in thousands)	Amount			Rate			Amount			Rate
FHLB advances (1)	$	1,033,456	(2)	4.14	%	(3)	$	1,028,352	(2)	4.11	%	(3)

Total long-term FHLB and FRB advances	$	1,033,456					$	1,028,352

(1) Amounts reported in the above table include fixed rate long-term advances from FHLB of $850.0 million with maturities ranging from September 2025 to March 2028, and variable rate long-term advances from FHLB of $180.0 million with maturities ranging from December 2026 to December 2028 with a returnable option that can be repaid without penalty on certain predetermined dates at Customers Bank’s option, at March 31, 2025.

(2) Includes $3.5 million and $(1.6) million of unamortized basis adjustments from interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of long-term advances from FHLB at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. Refer to “NOTE 16 — DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES” to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements for additional information.

(3) Excludes the effect of interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of long-term advances from FHLB.

The maximum borrowing capacity with the FHLB and FRB at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was as follows:


(dollars in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
Total maximum borrowing capacity with the FHLB	$	3,908,969	$	3,562,171
Total maximum borrowing capacity with the FRB	3,986,593		4,357,519
Qualifying loans and securities serving as collateral against FHLB and FRB advances	9,835,910		9,722,736

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Senior Notes and Subordinated Debt

Long-term senior notes and subordinated debt at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:


(dollars in thousands)		Carrying Amount
Issued by	Ranking	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024		Rate		Issued Amount		Date Issued	Maturity	Price
Customers Bancorp	Senior (1)	$	99,103	$	99,068	2.875	%	$	100,000	August 2021	August 2031	100.000	%



Total other borrowings		$	99,103	$	99,068

Customers Bancorp	Subordinated (2)(3)	$	72,993	$	72,947	5.375	%	$	74,750	December 2019	December 2034	100.000	%
Customers Bank	Subordinated (2)(4)	109,586		109,562		6.125	%	110,000		June 2014	June 2029	100.000	%
Total subordinated debt		$	182,579	$	182,509

(1) The senior notes will bear an annual fixed rate of 2.875% until August 15, 2026. From August 15, 2026 until maturity, the notes will bear an annual interest rate equal to a benchmark rate, which is expected to be the three-month term SOFR, plus 235 basis points. Customers Bancorp has the ability to call the senior notes, in whole, or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal balance at certain times on or after August 15, 2026.

(2) The subordinated notes qualify as Tier 2 capital for regulatory capital purposes.

(3) Customers Bancorp has the ability to call the subordinated notes, in whole, or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal balance at certain times on or after December 30, 2029.

(4) The subordinated notes had an annual fixed rate of 6.125% until June 26, 2024. From June 26, 2024 until maturity, the notes bear an annual interest rate equal to the three-month LIBOR plus 344.3 basis points. Pursuant to the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act enacted by Congress on March 15, 2022, Customers substituted three-month term SOFR plus a tenor spread adjustment of 26.161 basis points for three-month LIBOR as the benchmark reference rate in order to calculate the annual interest rate after June 26, 2024. Customers Bank has the ability to call the subordinated notes, in whole, or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal balance at certain times on or after June 26, 2024.

SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

The components of shareholders' equity were as follows at the dates indicated:


(dollars in thousands)	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024		Change		% Change
Preferred stock	$	137,794	$	137,794	$	—	—	%
Common stock	35,995		35,758		237		0.7	%
Additional paid in capital	570,172		575,333		(5,161)		(0.9)	%
Retained earnings	1,335,534		1,326,011		9,523		0.7	%
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net	(67,641)		(96,560)		28,919		(29.9)	%
Treasury stock	(147,294)		(141,653)		(5,641)		4.0	%
Total shareholders' equity	$	1,864,560	$	1,836,683	$	27,877	1.5	%

Shareholders’ equity increased $27.9 million, or 1.5%, to $1.9 billion at March 31, 2025 when compared to shareholders’ equity of $1.8 billion at December 31, 2024. The increase primarily resulted from increases of $9.5 million in retained earnings and $28.9 million in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net, partially offset by an increase in treasury stock of $5.6 million.

The increase in common stock and a decrease in additional paid in capital resulted primarily from the issuance of common stock under share-based compensation arrangements for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

The increase in retained earnings resulted from net income of $12.9 million, partially offset by preferred stock dividends of $3.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

The increase in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net primarily resulted from reclassification of $51.3 million in losses included in net income and income tax effect of $13.5 million, partially offset by an increase of $13.2 million in unrealized losses on AFS debt securities due to changes in market interest rates and credit spreads, and income tax effect of $3.5 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025.

The increase in treasury stock resulted from repurchases of 104,206 shares of its common stock for $5.6 million under the 2024 Share Repurchase Program during the three months ended March 31, 2025. On June 26, 2024, the Board of Directors of Customers Bancorp authorized a new common stock repurchase program, the 2024 Share Repurchase Program, to repurchase up to 497,509 shares of the Company’s common stock.

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LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

Liquidity for a financial institution is a measure of that institution’s ability to meet depositors’ needs for funds, to satisfy or fund loan and lease commitments and for other operating purposes. Ensuring adequate liquidity is an objective of the asset/liability management process. Customers coordinates its management of liquidity with its interest rate sensitivity and capital position, and strives to maintain a strong liquidity position that is sufficient to meet Customers’ short-term and long-term needs, commitments and contractual obligations.

With commitments to extend credit, exposure to credit loss in the event of non-performance by the other party to the financial instrument is represented by the contractual amount of those instruments. The same credit policies are used in making commitments and conditional obligations as for on-balance sheet instruments. Because they involve credit risk similar to extending a loan and lease, these financial instruments are subject to the Bank’s credit policy and other underwriting standards.

Customers recognized a provision for credit losses on unfunded lending-related commitments of $1.2 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025, resulting in an ACL of $6.1 million as of March 31, 2025. Customers had an ACL on unfunded lending-related commitments of $4.9 million as of December 31, 2024.

Customers’ contractual obligations and other commitments representing required and potential cash outflows include operating leases, demand deposits, time deposits, short-term and long-term advances from FHLB, unsecured senior notes, subordinated debt, loan and other commitments as of March 31, 2025. Refer to “NOTE 8 – LEASES”, “NOTE 9 – DEPOSITS”, “NOTE 10 – BORROWINGS” and “NOTE 13 — FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK” to Customers’ unaudited consolidated financial statements for additional information.

At March 31, 2025, Customers had $3.4 billion of cash on hand and $3.0 billion of investment securities. Customers’ investment portfolio, including debt securities available for sale and held to maturity provides periodic cash flows through regular maturities and amortization and can be used as collateral to secure additional funding. We maintain a strong liquidity position, with $8.7 billion of liquidity immediately available consisting of cash on hand and available borrowing capacity from the FHLB and the FRB, which covered approximately 118% of uninsured deposits and approximately 155% of uninsured deposits less collateralized and affiliate deposits at March 31, 2025. Our loan to deposit ratio was 80% at March 31, 2025. Customers’ principal sources of funds are deposits, borrowings, principal and interest payments on loans and leases, other funds from operations, and proceeds from common and preferred stock issuances. Borrowing arrangements are maintained with the FHLB and the FRB to meet short-term liquidity needs. Longer-term borrowing arrangements are also maintained with the FHLB and the FRB. As of March 31, 2025, Customers’ borrowing capacity with the FHLB was $3.9 billion, of which $1.1 billion was utilized in borrowings and $1.5 billion of available capacity was utilized to collateralize deposits. As of December 31, 2024, Customers’ borrowing capacity with the FHLB was $3.6 billion, of which $1.1 billion was utilized in borrowings and $1.5 billion of available capacity was utilized to collateralize deposits. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers’ borrowing capacity with the FRB was $4.0 billion and $4.4 billion, respectively. None of this capacity was utilized as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

The table below summarizes Customers’ cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(dollars in thousands)	2025		2024		Change		% Change
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities	$	94,121	$	(18,818)	$	112,939	(600.2)	%
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities	(500,028)		(163,160)		(336,868)		206.5	%
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities	48,666		36,752		11,914		32.4	%
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	$	(357,241)	$	(145,226)	$	(212,015)	146.0	%

Cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities

Cash provided by operating activities of $94.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 resulted from proceeds from the sales and repayments of loans held for sale of $326.4 million, net non-cash operating adjustments of $64.6 million, net income of $12.9 million and an increase in accrued interest payable and other liabilities of $0.5 million, partially offset by origination and purchases of loans held for sale of $299.8 million and an increase in accrued interest receivable and other assets of $10.5 million.

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Cash used in operating activities of $18.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 resulted from origination and purchases of loans held for sale of $340.5 million, a decrease in accrued interest payable and other liabilities of $55.2 million and an increase in accrued interest receivable and other assets of $10.6 million, partially offset by proceeds from the sales and repayments of loans held for sale of $322.4 million, net income of $49.7 million and net non-cash operating adjustments of $15.4 million.

Cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities

Cash used in investing activities of $500.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 primarily resulted from net increase in loans and leases, excluding mortgage finance loans of $337.4 million, purchases of investment securities available for sale of $156.7 million, purchases of loans of $106.0 million, net origination of mortgage finance loans of $41.9 million, purchases of leased asset under lessor operating leases of $16.4 million and purchases of investment securities held to maturity of $14.0 million, partially offset by proceeds from maturities, calls, and principal repayments of investment securities available for sale of $99.5 million and held to maturity of $69.1 million and proceeds from bank-owned life insurance of $5.1 million.

Cash used in investing activities of $163.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from purchases of investment securities available for sale of $328.9 million, net origination of mortgage finance loans of $56.5 million, purchases of loans of $7.4 million and purchases of leased asset under lessor operating leases of $4.0 million, partially offset by proceeds from maturities, calls, and principal repayments of investment securities available for sale of $113.3 million and held to maturity of $72.3 million, proceeds from sales of investment securities available for sale of $22.0 million, a net increase in loans and leases, excluding mortgage finance loans of $16.6 million and net purchases of FHLB, Federal Reserve Bank, and other restricted stock of $9.5 million.

Cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities

Cash provided by financing activities of $48.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 primarily resulted from proceeds from long-term borrowed funds from the FHLB and the FRB of $100.0 million and net increase in deposits of $66.9 million, partially offset by repayments of long-term borrowed funds from the FHLB and the FRB of $100.0 million, payments of employee taxes withheld from share-based awards of $9.8 million, purchases of treasury stock of $5.6 million and dividends paid on preferred stock of $3.4 million.

Cash provided by financing activities of $36.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily resulted from a net increase in deposits of $41.5 million.

CAPITAL ADEQUACY

The Bank and the Bancorp are subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can result in certain mandatory, and possibly additional discretionary, actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on Customers’ financial statements. Under capital adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Bank and the Bancorp must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of their assets, liabilities and certain off-balance sheet items, as calculated under the regulatory accounting practices. The capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components, risk weightings and other factors. Prompt corrective action provisions are not applicable to bank holding companies.

In first quarter 2020, the U.S federal banking regulatory agencies permitted banking organizations to phase-in, for regulatory capital purposes, the day-one impact of the new CECL accounting rule on retained earnings over a period of three years. As part of its response to the impact of COVID-19, on March 31, 2020, the U.S. federal banking regulatory agencies issued an interim final rule that provided the option to temporarily delay certain effects of CECL on regulatory capital for two years, followed by a three-year transition period. The interim final rule allowed banking organizations to delay for two years 100% of the day-one impact of adopting CECL and 25% of the cumulative change in the reported allowance for credit losses since adopting CECL. Customers elected to adopt the interim final rule, which is reflected in the regulatory capital data presented below. The cumulative CECL capital transition impact as of December 31, 2021 which amounted to $61.6 million was phased in at 25% per year beginning on January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. As of March 31, 2025, our regulatory capital ratios reflected the full impact of the CECL transition provisions.

Quantitative measures established by regulation to ensure capital adequacy require the Bank and the Bancorp to maintain minimum amounts and ratios (set forth in the following table) of common equity Tier 1, Tier 1, and total capital to risk-weighted assets, and Tier 1 capital to average assets (as defined in the regulations). At March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Bank and the Bancorp met all capital adequacy requirements to which they were subject.

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Generally, to comply with the regulatory definition of adequately capitalized, or well capitalized, respectively, or to comply with the Basel III capital requirements, an institution must at least maintain the common equity Tier 1, Tier 1, and total risk-based capital ratios and the Tier 1 leverage ratio in excess of the related minimum ratios set forth in the following table:


					Minimum Capital Levels to be Classified as:
	Actual				Adequately Capitalized				Well Capitalized				Basel III Compliant
(dollars in thousands)	Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio
As of March 31, 2025:
Common equity Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,787,928	11.718	%	$	686,596	4.500	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,068,039	7.000	%
Customers Bank	$	1,890,194	12.403	%	$	685,793	4.500	%	$	990,590	6.500	%	$	1,066,789	7.000	%
Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,925,721	12.621	%	$	915,462	6.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,296,904	8.500	%
Customers Bank	$	1,890,194	12.403	%	$	914,391	6.000	%	$	1,219,188	8.000	%	$	1,295,387	8.500	%
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	2,229,628	14.613	%	$	1,220,616	8.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,602,058	10.500	%
Customers Bank	$	2,121,108	13.918	%	$	1,219,188	8.000	%	$	1,523,985	10.000	%	$	1,600,184	10.500	%
Tier 1 capital (to average assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,925,721	8.582	%	$	897,534	4.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	897,534	4.000	%
Customers Bank	$	1,890,194	8.430	%	$	896,849	4.000	%	$	1,121,061	5.000	%	$	896,849	4.000	%
As of December 31, 2024:
Common equity Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,803,601	12.087	%	$	671,841	4.500	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,044,526	7.000	%
Customers Bank	$	1,930,951	12.955	%	$	670,719	4.500	%	$	968,817	6.500	%	$	1,043,341	7.000	%
Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,941,394	13.011	%	$	895,308	6.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,268,353	8.500	%
Customers Bank	$	1,930,951	12.955	%	$	894,292	6.000	%	$	1,192,390	8.000	%	$	1,266,914	8.500	%
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	2,219,984	14.878	%	$	1,193,744	8.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	1,566,789	10.500	%
Customers Bank	$	2,136,594	14.335	%	$	1,192,390	8.000	%	$	1,490,487	10.000	%	$	1,565,012	10.500	%
Tier 1 capital (to average assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.	$	1,941,394	8.694	%	$	893,254	4.000	%	N/A		N/A		$	893,254	4.000	%
Customers Bank	$	1,930,951	8.652	%	$	892,755	4.000	%	$	1,115,944	5.000	%	$	892,755	4.000	%

The Basel III Capital Rules require that we maintain a 2.500% capital conservation buffer with respect to each of common equity Tier 1, Tier 1 and total capital to risk-weighted assets, which provides for capital levels that exceed the minimum risk-based capital adequacy requirements. A financial institution with a conservation buffer of less than the required amount is subject to limitations on capital distributions, including dividend payments and stock repurchases, and certain discretionary bonus payments to executive officers. As of March 31, 2025, the Bank and the Bancorp were in compliance with the Basel III requirements.

Effect of Government Monetary Policies

Our earnings are and will be affected by domestic economic conditions and the monetary and fiscal policies of the United States government and its agencies. An important function of the Federal Reserve Board is to regulate the money supply and interest rates. Among the instruments used to implement those objectives are open market operations in United States government securities and changes in reserve requirements against member bank deposits. These instruments are used in varying combinations to influence overall growth and distribution of bank loans and leases, investments, and deposits, and their use may also affect rates charged on loans and leases or paid for deposits.

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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Interest Rate Sensitivity

The largest part of Customers’ net income is net interest income, and the majority of its financial instruments are interest rate sensitive assets and liabilities with various term structures and maturities. One of the primary goals of management is to optimize net interest income while minimizing interest rate risk. Interest rate risk is derived from timing differences in the repricing of assets and liabilities, loan prepayments, deposit withdrawals and differences in lending and funding rates. Customers’ asset/liability committee actively looks to monitor and control the economic impact of changes in interest rates on the mix of interest rate sensitive assets and interest rate sensitive liabilities.

Customers uses two complementary methods to effectively measure and manage interest rate risk. The two types of simulation analysis used to determine the impact of changes in interest rates under various hypothetical interest rate scenarios are income scenario modeling and estimates of economic value (EVE). The combination of these two methods supplies a reasonably comprehensive summary of the levels of interest rate risk of Customers’ exposure to time factors and changes in interest rate environments.

Income scenario modeling is used to measure interest rate sensitivity and manage interest rate risk over a near term horizon. Income scenario considers not only the impact of changing market interest rates upon forecasted net interest income but also other factors such as yield curve relationships, the volume and mix of assets and liabilities, customer preferences and general market conditions.

Through the use of income scenario modeling, Customers has estimated the net interest income for the twelve months ending March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, based upon the assets, liabilities and off-balance sheet financial instruments including derivatives in existence at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

Customers has also estimated changes to that projected twelve-month net interest income based upon implied forward interest rates rising or falling immediately (“rate shocks”). For upward rate shocks modeling a rising rate environment at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers used a parallel and sustained shift in interest rates, in which the base market interest rate forecast was immediately increased by 100, 200, and 300 basis points. For downward rate shocks modeling a falling rate environment at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Customers used a parallel and sustained shift in interest rates, in which the base market interest rate forecast was immediately decreased by 100, 200 and 300 basis points. The following table reflects the estimated percentage change in projected twelve-month net interest income under the rate shocks versus the base projected net interest income for the twelve months ending March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, resulting from changes in interest rates.

Net change in net interest income


	% change from base
Rate Shocks	March 31, 2025	December 31, 2024
Up 3%	4.9%	8.4%
Up 2%	3.7%	5.9%
Up 1%	2.4%	3.2%
Down 1%	(3.0)%	(4.1)%
Down 2%	(6.5)%	(8.8)%
Down 3%	(10.2)%	(13.6)%

EVE considers a longer-term horizon and estimates the hypothetical discounted net present value of asset and liability cash flows. Discount rates are based upon market prices for comparable assets and liabilities. Upward and downward rate shocks are used to measure sensitivity of EVE in relation to a constant rate environment using implied forward interest rates. For upward rate shocks modeling a rising rate environment at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, current market interest rates were shocked by a parallel and sustained shift in interest rates, in which the base market interest rate forecast was immediately increased by 100, 200, and 300 basis points. For downward rate shocks modeling a falling rate environment at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, current market interest rates were shocked by a parallel and sustained shift in interest rates, in which the base market interest rate forecast was immediately decreased by 100, 200 and 300 basis points. This method of measurement primarily evaluates the longer term repricing risks and embedded options in Customers Bank’s balance sheet. The following table reflects the estimated change in EVE at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, resulting from shocks to interest rates.

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	% change from base
Rate Shocks	March 31, 2025	December 31, 2024
Up 3%	(6.3)%	(5.5)%
Up 2%	(2.8)%	(1.3)%
Up 1%	(0.3)%	0.5%
Down 1%	(2.2)%	(3.3)%
Down 2%	(6.2)%	(8.1)%
Down 3%	(12.1)%	(15.8)%

Management believes that the assumptions and combination of methods used in evaluating interest rate risk are reasonable. However, the interest rate sensitivity of our assets, liabilities and off-balance sheet financial instruments, as well as the estimated effect of changes in interest rates on estimated net interest income, could vary substantially if different assumptions are used or actual experience differs from the assumptions used in the model.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

(a) Management’s Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures. As of the end of the period covered by this report, Customers Bancorp carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of Customers Bancorp’s management, including Customers Bancorp’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of Customers Bancorp’s disclosure controls and procedures as defined in the Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e). Based upon the evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that Customers Bancorp’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of March 31, 2025.

(b) Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. During the quarter ended March 31, 2025, there have been no changes in Customers Bancorp’s internal control over financial reporting that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, Customers Bancorp’s internal control over financial reporting.

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Part II. OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

For information on Customers’ legal proceedings, refer to “NOTE 17 – LOSS CONTINGENCIES” to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

In addition to the other information set forth in this Quarterly Report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in “Risk Factors” included within the 2024 Form 10-K. There are no material changes from the risk factors included within the 2024 Form 10-K. The risks described within the 2024 Form 10-K are not the only risks facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently believe to be immaterial also may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and/or operating results. Refer to “Item 2 – Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

On June 26, 2024, the Board of Directors of Customers Bancorp authorized a new common stock repurchase program, the 2024 Share Repurchase Program, to repurchase up to 497,509 shares of the Company’s common stock. The term of the 2024 Share Repurchase Program will extend for one year from June 26, 2024, unless earlier terminated. Purchases of shares under the 2024 Share Repurchase Program may be executed through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, through the use of Rule 10b5-1 plans, or otherwise. The exact number of shares, timing for such purchases, and the price and terms at and on which such purchases are to be made will be at the discretion of the Company and will comply with all applicable regulatory limitations. The common shares repurchased during the three months ended March 31, 2025 pursuant to the 2024 Share Repurchase Program were as follows:



Period	Total Number of Shares Purchased	Average Price Paid per Share		Total Number of Shares purchased as part of publicly announced plans or programs	Maximum Number of Shares that may yet be purchased under the plans or programs
January 1 - January 31, 2025	—	$	—	—	104,206
February 1 - February 28, 2025	104,206	53.60		104,206	—
March 1 - March 31, 2025	—	—		—	—









Total	104,206	$	53.60	104,206	—

Dividends on Common Stock

Customers Bancorp historically has not paid any cash dividends on its shares of common stock and does not expect to do so in the foreseeable future.

Any future determination relating to our dividend policy will be made at the discretion of Customers Bancorp’s Board of Directors and will depend on a number of factors, including earnings and financial condition, liquidity and capital requirements, the general economic and regulatory climate, ability to service any equity or debt obligations senior to our common stock, including obligations to pay dividends to the holders of Customers Bancorp’s issued and outstanding shares of preferred stock and other factors deemed relevant by the Board of Directors.

In addition, as a bank holding company, Customers Bancorp is subject to general regulatory restrictions on the payment of cash dividends. Federal bank regulatory agencies have the authority to prohibit bank holding companies from engaging in unsafe or unsound practices in conducting their business, which, depending on the financial condition and liquidity of the holding company at the time, could include the payment of dividends. Further, various federal and state statutory provisions limit the amount of dividends that bank subsidiaries can pay to their parent holding company without regulatory approval. Generally, subsidiaries are prohibited from paying dividends when doing so would cause them to fall below the regulatory minimum capital levels, and limits exist on paying dividends in excess of net income for specified periods. The ability to pay dividends and the amounts that can be paid is limited to the extent the Bank’s capital ratios do not exceed the minimum required levels plus 250 basis points.

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Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

Item 5. Other Information

During the first quarter of 2025, no director or officer (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the Exchange Act) adopted, terminated or modified any “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangements” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangements,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.

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Item 6. Exhibits


Exhibit No.						Description

3.1						Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Customers Bancorp, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 30, 2012

3.2						Amended and Restated Bylaws of Customers Bancorp, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 30, 2012

3.3						Articles of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Customers Bancorp, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 2, 2012

3.4						Articles of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Customers Bancorp, Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 3, 2019

3.5						Amendment to Amended and Restated Bylaws of Customers Bancorp, Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 19, 2019

3. 6						Statement with Respect to Shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series E, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 28, 2016

3. 7						Statement with Respect to Shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series F, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 16, 2016

10.1						F orm of Amended Stock Option Agreement relating to the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan filed herewith

10.2						F orm of Amended Restricted S tock Unit A ward Agreement relating to the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan filed herewith



























































31.1						Certification of the Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule15d-14(a)

31.2						Certification of the Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule15d-14(a)

32.1						Certification of the Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

32.2						Certification of the Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

101						The following financial statements from the Customers’ Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as of and for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2025, formatted in Inline XBRL include: (i) Consolidated Balance Sheets , (ii) Consolidated Statements of Income , (iii) Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income , (iv) Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity , (v) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows , and (vi) the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements .

104						Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document

101.SCH						XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.

101.CAL						XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.

101.DEF						XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definitions Linkbase Document.

101.LAB						XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.

101.PRE						XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


	Customers Bancorp, Inc.

May 9, 2025	By:	/s/ Jay S. Sidhu
	Name:	Jay S. Sidhu
	Title:	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)



May 9, 2025	By:	/s/ Philip S. Watkins
	Name:	Philip S. Watkins
	Title:	Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

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Note 1 Description Of The Business Note 2 Significant Accounting Policies and Basis Of Presentation Note 3 Earnings (loss) Per Share Note 4 Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (loss) By Component Note 5 Investment Securities Note 6 Loans Held For Sale Note 7 Loans and Leases Receivable and Allowance For Credit Losses on Loans and Leases Note 8 Leases Note 9 Deposits Note 10 - Borrowings Note 11 Shareholders Equity Note 12 Share Based Compensation Note 13 Financial Instruments with Off-balance Sheet Risk Note 14 Regulatory Capital Note 15 Disclosures About Fair Value Of Financial Instruments Note 16 Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Note 17 Loss Contingencies Note 18 Business Segments Item 2. Management S Discussion and Analysis Of Financial Condition and Results Of Operations Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk Item 4. Controls and Procedures Part II. Other Information Item 1. Legal Proceedings Item 1A. Risk Factors Item 2. Unregistered Sales Of Equity Securities and Use Of Proceeds Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures Item 5. Other Information Item 6. Exhibits

Exhibits

3.1 Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Customers Bancorp, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 30, 2012 3.2 Amended and Restated Bylaws of Customers Bancorp, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 30, 2012 3.3 Articles of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Customers Bancorp, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 2, 2012 3.4 Articles of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Customers Bancorp, Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorps Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 3, 2019 3.5 Amendment to Amended and Restated Bylaws of Customers Bancorp, Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorps Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 19, 2019 3.6 Statement with Respect to Shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series E, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 28, 2016 3.7 Statement with Respect to Shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series F, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Customers Bancorp Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 16, 2016 10.1 Form ofAmendedStock Option Agreementrelating to the 2019 Stock Incentive Planfiled herewith 10.2 Form ofAmendedRestricted Stock Unit Award Agreement relating to the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan filed herewith 31.1 Certification of the Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule15d-14(a) 31.2 Certification of the Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule15d-14(a) 32.1 Certification of the Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 32.2 Certification of the Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

CUBI 10-Q Quarter ended March 31, 2025

Exhibits