DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Business Description And Reverse Recapitalization [Abstract]

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

BM Technologies, Inc. (“BMTX” or “the Company”) (formerly known as BankMobile) provides state-of-the-art high-tech digital banking and disbursement services to consumers and students nationwide through a full service fintech banking platform, accessible to customers anywhere and anytime through digital channels.

BMTX facilitates deposits and banking services between a customer and our Partner Bank, Customers Bank (“Customers Bank”), a Pennsylvania state-chartered bank, which is a related party and is a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) insured bank. BMTX’s business model leverages partners’ existing customer bases to achieve high volume, low-cost customer acquisition in its Higher Education Disbursement, Banking-as-a-Service (“BaaS”), and niche Direct to Consumer (“D2C") Banking businesses. BMTX has four primary revenue sources: interchange and card revenue, servicing fees from BMTX’s Partner Bank, account fees, and university fees. The majority of revenues are driven by customer activity (deposits, spend, transactions, etc.) and may be paid or passed through by BMTX’s Partner Bank, universities, or paid directly by customers.

BMTX is a Delaware corporation, originally incorporated as Megalith Financial Acquisition Corp (“Megalith”) in November 2017 and renamed BM Technologies, Inc. in January 2021 at the time of the merger between Megalith and BankMobile Technologies, Inc. Until January 4, 2021, BankMobile Technologies, Inc. was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Customers Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Customers Bancorp, Inc. (the “Bancorp” or “Customers Bancorp”).

BMTX’s Partner Bank holds the FDIC insured deposits that BMTX sources and services and is the issuing bank on BMTX’s debit cards. BMTX’s Partner Bank pays the Company a deposit servicing fee for the deposits generated and passes through interchange income earned from debit transactions.

BMTX is not a bank, does not hold a bank charter, and does not provide banking services, and as a result, it is not subject to direct banking regulation, except as a service provider to our Partner Bank. BMTX is also subject to the regulations of the Department of Education (“ED”), due to its student disbursements business, and is periodically examined by it. BMTX’s contracts with most of its higher education institution clients require it to comply with numerous laws and regulations, including, where applicable, regulations promulgated by the ED regarding the handling of student financial aid funds received by institutions on behalf of their students under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965; the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1995 (“FERPA”); the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E; the USA PATRIOT Act and related anti-money laundering requirements; and certain federal rules regarding safeguarding personal information, including rules implementing the privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”). Other products and services offered by BMTX may also be subject to other federal and state laws and regulations.