SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION (Policies)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2025

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

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 and six months ended June 30, 2025.

Recently Issued Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards Issued But Not Yet Adopted

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.

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.

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.

Variable Interest Entity

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.

Fair Value Measurement

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.

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.

Risk Management Objective of Using Derivatives

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.