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Customers Bancorp, Inc.

For the period ended Mar 31, 2026. Filed May 8, 2026.

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Mar 31, 2026 · Filed May 8, 2026

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Item 1. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

UNAUDITED

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

March 31,2026December 31,2025
ASSETS
Cash and due from banks$89,153$62,051
Interest earning deposits4,709,0514,349,412
Cash and cash equivalents4,798,2044,411,463
Investment securities, at fair value (includes allowance for credit losses of $24,566 and $28,805, respectively)1,993,1521,937,646
Investment securities held to maturity663,545729,134
Loans held for sale (includes $3,226 and $2,745, respectively, at fair value)20,28226,102
Loans and leases receivable15,519,49315,041,340
Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value1,758,6851,612,997
Loans receivable, installment, at fair value93,086102,077
Allowance for credit losses on loans and leases(160,962)(155,656)
Total loans and leases receivable, net of allowance for credit losses on loans and leases17,210,30216,600,758
FHLB, Federal Reserve Bank, and other restricted stock117,880110,411
Accrued interest receivable105,002103,626
Bank premises and equipment, net15,74916,745
Bank-owned life insurance306,927305,503
Other real estate owned12,50612,432
Goodwill and other intangibles3,6293,629
Other assets633,589638,419
Total assets$25,880,767$24,895,868
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Liabilities:
Deposits:
Demand, non-interest bearing$6,739,713$6,303,748
Interest bearing14,852,93214,474,956
Total deposits21,592,64520,778,704
Federal funds purchased70,000—
FHLB advances1,561,6551,325,068
Other borrowings99,24399,208
Subordinated debt171,614281,147
Accrued interest payable and other liabilities241,310296,224
Total liabilities23,736,46722,780,351
Commitments and contingencies (NOTE 17)
Shareholders’ equity:
Common stock, par value $1.00 per share; 200,000,000 shares authorized; 36,311,997 and 36,188,920 shares issued as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025; 33,692,632 and 34,191,223 shares outstanding as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 202536,31236,189
Additional paid in capital669,112666,756
Retained earnings1,604,8471,535,194
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net(54,657)(54,050)
Treasury stock, at cost (2,619,365 and 1,997,697 shares as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025)(111,314)(68,572)
Total shareholders’ equity2,144,3002,115,517
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity$25,880,767$24,895,868

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (LOSS) — UNAUDITED

(amounts in thousands, except per share data)

Three Months EndedMarch 31,
20262025
Interest income:
Loans and leases$258,734$231,008
Investment securities32,14134,339
Interest earning deposits41,83042,914
Loans held for sale1,2354,761
Other2,3721,887
Total interest income336,312314,909
Interest expense:
Deposits126,126131,308
FHLB advances12,93511,801
Subordinated debt4,6213,212
Federal funds purchased13—
Other borrowings1,2661,142
Total interest expense144,961147,463
Net interest income191,351167,446
Provision for credit losses23,37228,297
Net interest income after provision for credit losses167,979139,149
Non-interest income:
Commercial lease income15,41810,668
Loan fees10,5067,235
Bank-owned life insurance3,0844,660
Mortgage finance transactional fees1,306933
Net gain (loss) on sale of loans and leases1,0442
Net gain (loss) on sale of investment securities355—
Impairment loss on debt securities—(51,319)
Other2,6033,331
Total non-interest income (loss)34,316(24,490)
Non-interest expense:
Salaries and employee benefits51,29442,674
Technology, communication and bank operations11,64311,312
Commercial lease depreciation12,6928,463
Professional services11,69511,857
Loan servicing3,8594,630
Occupancy3,9563,412
FDIC assessments, non-income taxes and regulatory fees8,21511,750
Advertising and promotion554528
Other8,0808,145
Total non-interest expense111,988102,771
Income before income tax expense (benefit)90,30711,888
Income tax expense (benefit)20,654(1,024)
Net income69,65312,912
Preferred stock dividends—3,389
Net income available to common shareholders$69,653$9,523
Basic earnings per common share$2.04$0.30
Diluted earnings per common share1.970.29

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) — UNAUDITED

(amounts in thousands)

Three Months EndedMarch 31,
20262025
Net income$69,653$12,912
Unrealized gains (losses) on available for sale debt securities:
Unrealized gains (losses) arising during the period5,120(13,249)
Income tax effect(1,356)3,484
Reclassification adjustments for (gains) losses included in net income(355)51,319
Income tax effect94(13,497)
Amortization of unrealized loss on securities transferred from available-for-sale to held-to-maturity8871,169
Income tax effect(236)(307)
Net unrealized gains (losses) on available for sale debt securities4,15428,919
Unrealized gains (losses) on cash flow hedges:
Unrealized gains (losses) arising during the period(6,944)—
Income tax effect1,840—
Reclassification adjustment for (gains) losses included in net income467—
Income tax effect(124)—
Net unrealized gains (losses) on cash flow hedges(4,761)—
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of income tax effect(607)28,919
Comprehensive income (loss)$69,046$41,831

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY — UNAUDITED

(amounts in thousands, except shares outstanding data)

Three Months Ended March 31, 2026
Preferred Stock · Common Stock
Shares ofPreferred StockOutstandingPreferredStockShares ofCommon StockOutstandingCommonStockAdditionalPaid inCapitalRetainedEarningsAccumulatedOtherComprehensiveIncome (Loss)TreasuryStockTotal
Balance, December 31, 2025—$—34,191,223$36,189$666,756$1,535,194$(54,050)$(68,572)$2,115,517
Net income—————69,653——69,653
Other comprehensive income (loss)——————(607)—(607)
Share-based compensation expense————5,831———5,831
Issuance of common stock under share-based compensation arrangements——123,077123(3,475)———(3,352)
Repurchase of common shares——(621,668)————(42,742)(42,742)
Balance, March 31, 2026—$—33,692,632$36,312$669,112$1,604,847$(54,657)$(111,314)$2,144,300
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
Preferred Stock · Common Stock
Shares ofPreferredStockOutstandingPreferred StockShares ofCommonStockOutstandingCommonStockAdditionalPaid inCapitalRetainedEarningsAccumulatedOtherComprehensiveIncome (Loss)TreasuryStockTotal
Balance, December 31, 20245,700,000$137,79431,346,507$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——236,831237(9,456)———(9,219)
Repurchase of common shares——(104,206)————(5,641)(5,641)
Balance, March 31, 20255,700,000$137,79431,479,132$35,995$570,172$1,335,534$(67,641)$(147,294)$1,864,560

(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.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS — UNAUDITED

(amounts in thousands)

Three Months EndedMarch 31,
20262025
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Net income$69,653$12,912
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
Provision for credit losses23,37228,297
Depreciation and amortization14,23515,639
Share-based compensation expense5,7284,246
Deferred taxes3,338(24,941)
Net amortization (accretion) of investment securities premiums and discounts(991)(725)
Unrealized (gain) loss on investment securities86(160)
Impairment loss on debt securities—51,319
Net (gain) loss on sale of investment securities(355)—
Unrealized (gain) loss on derivatives11(712)
Fair value adjustment on loans held for sale(347)667
Fair value adjustment on loans held for investment231—
Net (gain) loss on sale of loans and leases(1,044)(2)
Origination and purchases of loans held for sale(171,423)(299,808)
Proceeds from sales and repayments of loans held for sale185,771326,356
Amortization (accretion) of loan net deferred fees, discounts and premiums(7,266)(4,365)
Earnings on investment in bank-owned life insurance(3,084)(4,660)
(Increase) decrease in accrued interest receivable and other assets(28,043)(10,470)
Increase (decrease) in accrued interest payable and other liabilities(54,802)528
Net Cash Provided By (Used In) Operating Activities35,07094,121
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Proceeds from maturities, calls and principal repayments of investment securities available for sale130,02699,521
Proceeds from maturities, calls and principal repayments of investment securities held to maturity66,60169,058
Proceeds from sales of investment securities available for sale41,296—
Purchases of investment securities available for sale(225,464)(156,689)
Purchases of investment securities held to maturity—(14,022)
Origination of mortgage finance loans(7,335,209)(5,329,199)
Proceeds from repayments of mortgage finance loans7,203,6105,287,252
Net (increase) decrease in loans and leases, excluding mortgage finance loans(457,955)(337,435)
Proceeds from sales of loans and leases19,1941,081
Purchases of loans(57,826)(106,020)
Purchases of bank-owned life insurance—(1,462)
Proceeds from bank-owned life insurance1,4315,102
Net (purchases of) proceeds from sale of FHLB, Federal Reserve Bank, and other restricted stock(7,469)(544)
Purchases of bank premises and equipment(49)(686)
Proceeds from sales of leased assets under lessor operating leases434413
Purchases of leased assets under lessor operating leases(4,905)(16,398)
Net Cash Provided By (Used In) Investing Activities(626,285)(500,028)
(continued)
Three Months EndedMarch 31,
20262025
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
Net increase (decrease) in deposits824,05966,911
Net increase (decrease) in federal funds purchased70,000—
Proceeds from long-term borrowed funds from FHLB and FRB420,000100,000
Repayments of long-term borrowed funds from FHLB and FRB(180,000)(100,000)
Repayments of subordinated long-term debt(110,000)—
Preferred stock dividends paid—(3,434)
Purchase of treasury stock(42,742)(5,641)
Payments of employee taxes withheld from share-based awards(3,607)(9,815)
Proceeds from issuance of common stock246645
Net Cash Provided By (Used In) Financing Activities977,95648,666
Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents386,741(357,241)
Cash and Cash Equivalents – Beginning4,411,4633,785,931
Cash and Cash Equivalents – Ending$4,798,204$3,428,690
Non-cash Investing and Financing Activities:
Transfer of loans held for sale to held for investment$674$135,815

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.

The Bank has diversified lending activities that build overall franchise value and a high-tech, high-touch, branch-light strategy that serves its customers through a single-point-of-contact private banking strategy. The Bank serves commercial businesses, through community, SBA, and private client groups. The Bank also serves corporate businesses nationwide, including healthcare, real estate specialty finance, fund finance, technology and venture capital banking, financial institutions group, mortgage finance and commercial equipment financing, as well as commercial real estate companies in the Bank’s geographic markets and provides payments and treasury services. The Bank serves consumers through its branch network, provides residential mortgages, and personal loan and deposit products including through relationships with fintech companies and Banking-as-a-Service to fintech companies.

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 hasseven branches and also administratively supports loan and other financial products, including equipment finance leases, to customers through its limited-purpose offices.

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, 2025 consolidated balance sheet presented in this report has been derived from Customers Bancorp’s audited 2025 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 2025 consolidated financial statements of Customers Bancorp and subsidiaries included in Customers’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 filed with the SEC on February 27, 2026 (the “2025 Form 10-K”). The 2025 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, 2026.

Recently Issued Accounting Standards

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

Accounting Standards Issued But Not Yet Adopted

StandardSummary of GuidanceEffects on Financial Statements
ASU 2024-03,Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40)Issued November 2024andASU 2025-01,Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective DateIssued 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.
ASU 2025-08,Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326) - Purchased LoansIssued November 2025• Expands the population of acquired financial assets subject to the gross-up approach in Topic 326 to loans (excluding credit cards) acquired without credit deterioration and deemed “seasoned”, as defined below. Specifically, after an entity determines that a loan is a non-PCD asset based on its assessment of credit deterioration experienced since origination, the entity determines whether the loan is seasoned and accounted for using the gross-up approach. The gross-up approach requires recognition of an ACL for the estimate of credit losses at the acquisition date. The ACL is recorded with an offsetting gross-up adjustment to the purchase price of the acquired financial asset.• All non-PCD loans (excluding credit cards) that are acquired in a business combination are deemed seasoned. Other non-PCD loans (excluding credit cards) are seasoned if they were purchased at least 90 days after origination and the acquirer was not involved in the origination of the loans.• Effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted for annual financial statements that have not yet been issued.• Customers is currently evaluating the expected impact of this ASU on Customers’ consolidated financial statements.
StandardSummary of GuidanceEffects on Financial Statements
ASU 2025-09,Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) - Hedge Accounting ImprovementsIssued November 2025• Amends the hedge accounting guidance to more closely align hedge accounting with the economics of an entity’s risk management activities. The amendments included in the five issues addressed in this ASU better reflect those strategies in financial reporting by enabling entities to achieve and maintain hedge accounting for highly effective economic hedges of forecasted transactions.• Specifically, one of five issues in this ASU expands the hedged risks permitted to be aggregated in a group of individual forecasted transactions in a cash flow hedge from having a shared risk exposure to a similar risk disclosure. Entities are required to assess risk similarity both at hedge inception and on an ongoing basis. The amendments also clarify that a group of individual forecasted transactions can be considered to have a similar risk exposure if the derivative used as the hedging instrument is highly effective against each hedged risk in the group. In some cases, entities are permitted to perform an ongoing qualitative assessment of whether a group of individual forecasted transactions has a similar risk exposure.• Effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted.• Amendments in this ASU are to be applied on a prospective basis for all hedging relationships. An entity may elect to adopt the amendments in this ASU for hedging relationships that exist as of the date of adoption. An entity is permitted to modify certain critical terms of certain existing hedging relationships without de-designating the hedge.• Customers is currently evaluating the expected impact of this ASU on Customers’ consolidated financial statements.

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 EndedMarch 31,
(amounts in thousands, except share and per share data)20262025
Net income available to common shareholders$69,653$9,523
Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding – basic34,080,83431,447,623
Share-based compensation plans1,233,0011,042,949
Weighted-average number of common shares – diluted35,313,83532,490,572
Basic earnings per common share$2.04$0.30
Diluted earnings per common share1.970.29

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 EndedMarch 31,
20262025
Anti-dilutive securities:
Share-based compensation awards3,53222,027

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, 2026 and 2025. Amounts in parentheses indicate reductions to AOCI:

Three Months Ended March 31, 2026
(amounts in thousands)Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Available for Sale Securities (1)Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Cash Flow Hedges (2)Total
Balance at January 1$(57,012)$2,962$(54,050)
Unrealized gains (losses) arising during period, before tax5,120(6,944)(1,824)
Income tax effect(1,356)1,840484
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications3,764(5,104)(1,340)
Reclassification adjustments for (gains) losses included in net income, before tax(355)467112
Income tax effect94(124)(30)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to net income(261)34382
Amortization of unrealized loss on securities transferred from available for sale to held to maturity887—887
Income tax effect(236)—(236)
Amortization of unrealized loss on securities transferred from available for sale to held to maturity651—651
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)4,154(4,761)(607)
Balance at March 31$(52,858)$(1,799)$(54,657)
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Available for Sale Securities (1)Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Cash Flow Hedges (2)Total
Balance at January 1$(96,560)$—$(96,560)
Unrealized gains (losses) arising during period, before tax(13,249)—(13,249)
Income tax effect3,484—3,484
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications(9,765)—(9,765)
Reclassification adjustments for (gains) losses included in net income, before tax51,319—51,319
Income tax effect(13,497)—(13,497)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to net income37,822—37,822
Amortization of unrealized loss on securities transferred from available for sale to held to maturity1,169—1,169
Income tax effect(307)—(307)
Amortization of unrealized loss on securities transferred from available for sale to held to maturity862—862
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)28,919—28,919
Balance at March 31$(67,641)$—$(67,641)

(1) Reclassification amounts for AFS debt securities are reported as net gain (loss) on sale of investment securities or impairment loss on debt 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.

(2) Reclassification amounts for cash flow hedges are reported as interest income for the applicable hedged items on the consolidated statements of income.

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025 are summarized as follows:

March 31, 2026 (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$273,593$(42)$2,394$(239)$275,706
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities491,169—2,057(2,366)490,860
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations481,331—3,245(7,918)476,658
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations117,586—287(4,449)113,424
Corporate notes294,229(24,524)430(23,837)246,298
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations370,550——(11,644)358,906
Available for sale debt securities$2,028,458$(24,566)$8,413$(50,453)1,961,852
Equity securities (2)31,300
Total investment securities, at fair value$1,993,152
December 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$239,259$(586)$—$(860)$237,813
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities410,648—3,238(125)413,761
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations496,595—4,307(7,395)493,507
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations118,049—548(3,021)115,576
Corporate notes340,793(28,219)1,091(27,807)285,858
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations376,803——(16,783)360,020
Available for sale debt securities$1,982,147$(28,805)$9,184$(55,991)1,906,535
Equity securities (2)31,111
Total investment securities, at fair value$1,937,646

(1)Accrued interest on AFS debt securities totaled $11.2 million and $9.2 million at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively, and is included in accrued interest receivable on the consolidated balance sheet.

(2)Primarily 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025. No impairments or measurement adjustments have been recorded on equity securities without a readily determinable fair value during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

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.

Proceeds from the sale of AFS debt securities were $41.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. There was no sale of AFS debt securities for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The following table presents gross realized gains and realized losses from the sale of AFS debt securities for the periods presented:

Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)20262025
Gross realized gains$674$—
Gross realized losses(319)—
Net realized gains (losses) on sale of available for sale debt securities$355$—

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, 2026
(amounts in thousands)AmortizedCostFairValue
Due in one year or less$73,585$61,427
Due after one year through five years115,51392,456
Due after five years through ten years105,13192,415
Asset-backed securities273,593275,706
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities491,169490,860
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations481,331476,658
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations117,586113,424
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations370,550358,906
Total available for sale debt securities$2,028,458$1,961,852

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025 were as follows:

March 31, 2026
Less Than 12 Months12 Months or MoreTotal
(amounts in thousands)Fair ValueUnrealized LossesFair ValueUnrealized LossesFair ValueUnrealized Losses
Available for sale debt securities:
Asset-backed securities$—$—$2,204$(239)$2,204$(239)
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities224,467(2,309)3,750(57)228,217(2,366)
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations107,682(767)88,077(7,151)195,759(7,918)
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations20,823(561)73,652(3,888)94,475(4,449)
Corporate notes71,418(1,332)86,274(9,226)157,692(10,558)
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations——358,907(11,644)358,907(11,644)
Total$424,390$(4,969)$612,864$(32,205)$1,037,254$(37,174)
December 31, 2025
Less Than 12 Months12 Months or MoreTotal
(amounts in thousands)Fair ValueUnrealized LossesFair ValueUnrealized LossesFair ValueUnrealized Losses
Available for sale debt securities:
Asset-backed securities$—$—$1,478$(176)$1,478$(176)
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities121,782(95)3,793(30)125,575(125)
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations171,773(905)92,018(6,490)263,791(7,395)
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations21,190(276)75,013(2,745)96,203(3,021)
Corporate notes26,590(910)83,414(9,086)110,004(9,996)
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations——360,020(16,783)360,020(16,783)
Total$341,335$(2,186)$615,736$(35,310)$957,071$(37,496)

At March 31, 2026, there were 33 AFS debt securities with unrealized losses in the less-than-twelve-months category and 43 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 76 securities, and it is not more likely than not that Customers will be required to sell any of the 76 securities before recovery of the amortized cost basis. At December 31, 2025, there were 57 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, 2026 and 2025. 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.

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,
2026 · 2025
(amounts in thousands)Asset-backed securitiesCorporate notesTotalAsset-backed securitiesCorporate notesPrivate label CMOsTotal
Balance at January 1$586$28,219$28,805$362$7,135$107$7,604
Credit losses on previously impaired securities—7,0437,043667,007—7,073
Decrease in allowance for credit losses on previously impaired securities(544)(1,688)(2,232)(75)(146)—(221)
Reduction due to sales and intent to sell—(9,050)(9,050)—(1,222)(107)(1,329)
Balance at March 31$42$24,524$24,566$353$12,774$—$13,127

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 non-accrual status in a timely manner. No accrued interest income was reversed for the three months ended March 31, 2026. Customers recorded a reversal of $4.1 million in accrued interest income for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025, Customers Bank had pledged AFS investment securities aggregating $1.4 billion in fair value as collateral primarily for immediately available liquidity from the FRB and the FHLB. 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025 are summarized as follows:

March 31, 2026 (1)
(amounts in thousands)Amortized CostAllowance for Credit LossesNet Carrying ValueGross Unrealized GainsGross Unrealized LossesFair Value
Held to maturity debt securities:
Asset-backed securities$217,790$—$217,790$140$(2,426)$215,504
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities6,665—6,665—(754)5,911
Agency-guaranteed commercial mortgage-backed securities1,666—1,666—(240)1,426
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations150,633—150,633—(14,760)135,873
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations181,395—181,395—(26,123)155,272
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations105,396—105,396—(10,920)94,476
Total held to maturity debt securities$663,545$—$663,545$140$(55,223)$608,462
December 31, 2025 (1)
(amounts in thousands)Amortized CostAllowance for Credit LossesNet Carrying ValueGross Unrealized GainsGross Unrealized LossesFair Value
Held to maturity debt securities:
Asset-backed securities$258,371$—$258,371$678$(2,432)$256,617
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities6,708—6,708—(718)5,990
Agency-guaranteed commercial mortgage-backed securities1,687—1,687—(238)1,449
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations153,662—153,662—(10,629)143,033
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations182,272—182,272—(22,242)160,030
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations126,434—126,434—(9,955)116,479
Total held to maturity debt securities$729,134$—$729,134$678$(46,214)$683,598

(1)Accrued interest on HTM debt securities totaled $1.3 million and $1.5 million at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, 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, 2026
(amounts in thousands)AmortizedCostFairValue
Asset-backed securities$217,790$215,504
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities6,6655,911
Agency-guaranteed commercial mortgage-backed securities1,6661,426
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations150,633135,873
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations181,395155,272
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations105,39694,476
Total held to maturity debt securities$663,545$608,462

Customers recordedno allowance for credit losses on investment securities classified as held to maturity at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025. 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 recordedno 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025. 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, 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025. The asset-backed securities are not rated by rating agencies. Customers monitors the credit quality of these asset-backed securities by evaluating the performance of the sold consumer installment loans and other underlying loans against the overcollateralization available for these securities.

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

March 31, 2026
(amounts in thousands)AAANot RatedTotal
Held to maturity debt securities:
Asset-backed securities$—$217,790$217,790
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities—6,6656,665
Agency-guaranteed commercial mortgage-backed securities—1,6661,666
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations—150,633150,633
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations—181,395181,395
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations86,55618,840105,396
Total held to maturity debt securities$86,556$576,989$663,545

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 non-accrual status in a timely manner. At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, there were no HTM debt securities past due under the terms of their agreements or in non-accrual status.

At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, Customers Bank had pledged HTM investment securities aggregating $393.0 million and $406.5 million in fair value, respectively, as collateral primarily for immediately available liquidity from the FRB and the FHLB. 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025 was as follows:

(amounts in thousands)March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
Residential mortgage loans, at fair value$1,767$1,851
Personal installment loans, at lower of cost or fair value17,05623,357
Other installment loans, at fair value1,459894
Total loans held for sale$20,282$26,102

Total loans held for sale included NPLs of $0.3 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025.

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 the three months ended March 31, 2025.

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025:

(amounts in thousands)March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
Loans and leases receivable:
Commercial:
Commercial and industrial:
Specialized lending (1)$7,398,205$7,090,087
Other commercial and industrial1,076,4731,121,087
Multifamily2,510,6972,490,336
Commercial real estate owner occupied1,279,5011,135,119
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied1,742,9891,738,821
Construction204,999162,966
Total commercial loans and leases receivable14,212,86413,738,416
Consumer:
Residential real estate495,458497,567
Manufactured housing26,06527,452
Installment:
Personal599,302581,340
Other185,804196,565
Total consumer loans receivable1,306,6291,302,924
Loans and leases receivable15,519,49315,041,340
Loans receivable, mortgage finance, at fair value1,758,6851,612,997
Loans receivable, installment, at fair value93,086102,077
Allowance for credit losses on loans and leases(160,962)(155,656)
Total loans and leases receivable, net of allowance for credit losses on loans and leases (2)$17,210,302$16,600,758

(1)Includes direct finance and sales-type equipment leases of $316.9 million and $306.5 million at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

(2)Includes deferred (fees) costs and unamortized (discounts) premiums, net of $(29.0) million and $(30.3) million at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, 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 $87.1 million and $89.9 million at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively, and is presented in accrued interest receivable in the consolidated balance sheet. At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, there were $40.7 million and $34.2 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.

Loans and leases receivable

The following tables summarize loans and leases receivable by loan and lease type and performance status as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025:

March 31, 2026
(amounts in thousands)30-59 Days past due (1)60-89 Days past due (1)90 Days or more past due (2)Total past dueLoans and leases not past due (3)(4)Total loans and leases (4)
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending$4,858$—$18,263$23,121$8,447,378$8,470,499
Multifamily29,665——29,6652,481,0322,510,697
Commercial real estate owner occupied2,8801,6624,0018,5431,270,9581,279,501
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied10,000—13510,1351,732,8541,742,989
Construction————204,999204,999
Residential real estate13,6341,7092,94418,287477,171495,458
Manufactured housing2871041,3961,78724,27826,065
Installment8,3563,1823,73615,274769,832785,106
Total$69,680$6,657$30,475$106,812$15,408,502$15,515,314
December 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 dueLoans and leases not past due (3)(4)Total loans and leases (4)
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending$9,212$12,888$7,359$29,459$8,177,047$8,206,506
Multifamily17,506—2,09219,5982,470,7382,490,336
Commercial real estate owner occupied3,1241583,8757,1571,127,9621,135,119
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied65—1682331,738,5881,738,821
Construction————162,966162,966
Residential real estate11,2594,3765,19720,832476,735497,567
Manufactured housing5332051,4662,20425,24827,452
Installment8,7443,5194,48316,746761,159777,905
Total$50,443$21,146$24,640$96,229$14,940,443$15,036,672

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

(2)Includes loans amounting to $3.9 million and $4.0 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, 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.

(4)Includes PCD loans of $120.0 million and $118.5 million at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

Non-accrual Loans and Leases

The following table presents the amortized cost of loans and leases held for investment on non-accrual status:

March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)Non-accrual loans with no related allowanceNon-accrual loans with related allowanceTotal non-accrual loansNon-accrual loans with no related allowanceNon-accrual loans with related allowanceTotal non-accrual loans
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending$6,916$11,672$18,588$8,108$11,682$19,790
Multifamily9,090—9,0902,092—2,092
Commercial real estate owner occupied5,740—5,7403,876—3,876
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied135—135168—168
Residential real estate7,3541557,5099,5131589,671
Manufactured housing—1,1431,143—1,1921,192
Installment—3,7363,736—4,4834,483
Total$29,235$16,706$45,941$23,757$17,515$41,272

Interest income recognized on non-accrual loans was insignificant for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. Accrued interest reversed when the loans went to non-accrual status was insignificant for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025, 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 had a lending arrangement with a fintech company, which was acquired by a bank, whereby Customers originated consumer installment loans and held 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 expired during the three months ended June 30, 2025. 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, 2026, Customers had $1.6 million of consumer installment loans, at fair value, in non-accrual status. As these loans are reported at their fair value, they do not have an ACL and are therefore excluded from ACL-related disclosures.

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, 2026 and 2025 are presented in the tables below:

(amounts in thousands)Commercial and industrial (1)MultifamilyCommercial real estate owner occupiedCommercial real estate non-owner occupiedConstructionResidential real estateManufactured housingInstallmentTotal
Ending Balance, December 31, 2025$37,683$19,333$10,431$18,928$2,225$6,499$3,391$57,166$155,656
Charge-offs(4,479)(2,630)(30)——(1)—(9,932)(17,072)
Recoveries1,903—35——1—1,8783,817
Provision (benefit) for credit losses on loans and leases6,1072,738120(458)447(786)(53)10,44618,561
Ending Balance, March 31, 2026$41,214$19,441$10,556$18,470$2,672$5,713$3,338$59,558$160,962
(amounts in thousands)Commercial and industrial (1)MultifamilyCommercial real estate owner occupiedCommercial real estate non-owner occupiedConstructionResidential real estateManufactured housingInstallmentTotal
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)
Recoveries1,276—3—3——2,3373,619
Provision (benefit) for credit losses on loans and leases4,4364,1134165311195(29)12,02521,445
Ending Balance, March 31, 2025$30,584$18,790$10,780$18,058$1,264$6,163$3,800$51,637$141,076

(1) Includes specialized lending.

At March 31, 2026, the ACL on loans and leases was $161.0 million, an increase of $5.3 million from the December 31, 2025 balance of $155.7 million. The increase in ACL for the three months ended March 31, 2026 was primarily attributable to a 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.

The following tables present the amortized cost of loans that were modified to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, disaggregated by class of financing receivable and type of modification granted:

Three Months Ended March 31, 2026
(dollars in thousands)Interest Rate ReductionTerm ExtensionPayment DeferralDebt ForgivenessInterest Rate Reduction and Term ExtensionTotalPercentage of Total by Financing Class
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending$—$6,440$—$—$—$6,4400.08%
Manufactured housing————42420.16%
Personal installment99803565620—2,0870.35%
Total$99$7,243$565$620$42$8,569
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
(dollars in thousands)Term ExtensionPayment DeferralDebt ForgivenessInterest Rate Reduction and Term ExtensionTotalPercentage of Total by Financing Class
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending$731$766$—$—$1,4970.02%
Personal installment2,6161,4401181284,3020.87%
Total$3,347$2,206$118$128$5,799

As of March 31, 2026, there wereno commitments to lend additional funds to debtors experiencing financial difficulty whose loans have been modified during the three months ended March 31, 2026.

The following table summarizes the impacts of loan modifications made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:

Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 · Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
Weighted AverageWeighted Average
(dollars in thousands)Interest Rate Reduction (%)Term Extension(in months)Payment Deferral(in months)Debt ForgivenInterest Rate Reduction (%)Term Extension(in months)Payment Deferral(in months)Debt Forgiven
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending—%130$——%116$—
Manufactured housing4.3400——00—
Personal installment13.351030613.25773

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, 2026 and 2025:

March 31, 2026
(dollars in thousands)30-59 Days past due60-89 Days past due90 Days or more past dueCurrentTotal
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending$1,325$—$—$17,304$18,629
Manufactured housing———4242
Personal installment6213154444,6746,054
Total$1,946$315$444$22,020$24,725
March 31, 2025
(dollars in thousands)30-59 Days past due60-89 Days past due90 Days or more past dueCurrentTotal
Commercial and industrial, including specialized lending$—$—$—$11,179$11,179
Residential real estate———302302
Manufactured housing——17299316
Personal installment1883471365,9516,622
Total$188$347$153$17,731$18,419

The loans to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty that were modified during the twelve months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, 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 non-accrual.

Credit Quality Indicators

The ACL represents management’s estimate of expected losses in Customers’ loans and leases receivable portfolio, excluding mortgage finance loans 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 loans, 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 2025 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025:

(amounts in thousands)20262025202420232022PriorRevolving loans amortized cost basisRevolving loans converted to termTotal
Commercial and industrial loans and leases, including specialized lending:
Pass$858,546$2,094,727$1,153,593$482,935$787,170$320,169$2,349,720$219,819$8,266,679
Special mention—15,8314,444—17,9562,5269,0777,76657,600
Substandard—15113,9241,74930,21896,8294972,852146,220
Doubtful—————————
Total commercial and industrial loans and leases$858,546$2,110,709$1,171,961$484,684$835,344$419,524$2,359,294$230,437$8,470,499
Commercial and industrial loans and leases charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$—$3,616$—$—$82$781$—$—$4,479
Multifamily loans:
Pass$84,962$455,473$233,082$764$1,138,332$484,184$—$—$2,396,797
Special mention————14,47423,536——38,010
Substandard————7,14968,741——75,890
Doubtful—————————
Total multifamily loans$84,962$455,473$233,082$764$1,159,955$576,461$—$—$2,510,697
Multifamily loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$—$—$—$—$—$2,630$—$—$2,630
Commercial real estate owner occupied loans:
Pass$101,158$277,885$334,237$45,951$192,272$270,532$7,604$31$1,229,670
Special mention—17,706—2,92010,314134——31,074
Substandard———4,8632,82811,066——18,757
Doubtful—————————
Total commercial real estate owner occupied loans$101,158$295,591$334,237$53,734$205,414$281,732$7,604$31$1,279,501
Commercial real estate owner occupied loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$—$—$—$—$30$—$—$—$30
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans:
Pass$90,722$522,973$163,429$14,073$333,976$578,275$350$2,000$1,705,798
Special mention———24,0413,5405,449——33,030
Substandard————3,1531,008——4,161
Doubtful—————————
Total commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans$90,722$522,973$163,429$38,114$340,669$584,732$350$2,000$1,742,989
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—
(amounts in thousands)20262025202420232022PriorRevolving loans amortized cost basisRevolving loans converted to termTotal
Construction loans:
Pass$11,285$57,836$60,806$53,608$21,464$—$—$—$204,999
Special mention—————————
Substandard—————————
Doubtful—————————
Total construction loans$11,285$57,836$60,806$53,608$21,464$—$—$—$204,999
Construction loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—
Total commercial loans and leases receivable$1,146,673$3,442,582$1,963,515$630,904$2,562,846$1,862,449$2,367,248$232,468$14,208,685
Total commercial loans and leases receivable charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$—$3,616$—$—$112$3,411$—$—$7,139
Residential real estate loans:
Performing$3,581$49,360$32,216$18,022$151,794$188,287$44,956$—$488,216
Non-performing——1309744915,480167—7,242
Total residential real estate loans$3,581$49,360$32,346$18,996$152,285$193,767$45,123$—$495,458
Residential real estate loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$—$—$—$—$1$—$—$—$1
Manufactured housing loans:
Performing$—$—$—$—$—$24,499$—$—$24,499
Non-performing—————1,566——1,566
Total manufactured housing loans$—$—$—$—$—$26,065$—$—$26,065
Manufactured housing loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—
Installment loans:
Performing$105,112$226,706$65,468$156,478$130,444$58,564$38,824$—$781,596
Non-performing—4463591,555739307104—3,510
Total installment loans$105,112$227,152$65,827$158,033$131,183$58,871$38,928$—$785,106
Installment loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$622$1,522$1,338$2,530$2,904$1,016$—$—$9,932
Total consumer loans$108,693$276,512$98,173$177,029$283,468$278,703$84,051$—$1,306,629
Total consumer loans charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$622$1,522$1,338$2,530$2,905$1,016$—$—$9,933
Loans and leases receivable$1,255,366$3,719,094$2,061,688$807,933$2,846,314$2,141,152$2,451,299$232,468$15,515,314
Loans and leases receivable charge-offs:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026$622$5,138$1,338$2,530$3,017$4,427$—$—$17,072
(amounts in thousands)20252024202320222021PriorRevolving loans amortized cost basisRevolving loans converted to termTotal
Commercial and industrial loans and leases, including specialized lending:
Pass$2,609,580$1,280,152$609,744$839,184$233,753$129,958$2,131,707$167,916$8,001,994
Special mention7,5114,778—37,9763,633—9,6587,15070,706
Substandard—10,2671,11618,92715,22684,4627973,011133,806
Doubtful—————————
Total commercial and industrial loans and leases$2,617,091$1,295,197$610,860$896,087$252,612$214,420$2,142,162$178,077$8,206,506
Commercial and industrial loans and leases charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$—$1,064$881$10,880$600$1,307$—$—$14,732
Multifamily loans:
Pass$467,366$233,998$775$1,148,681$242,865$290,416$—$—$2,384,101
Special mention———14,55620,47116,920——51,947
Substandard———7,18216,97430,132——54,288
Doubtful—————————
Total multifamily loans$467,366$233,998$775$1,170,419$280,310$337,468$—$—$2,490,336
Multifamily loans charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$—$—$—$—$—$8,446$—$—$8,446
Commercial real estate owner occupied loans:
Pass$217,893$335,437$52,517$195,951$161,739$124,346$7,604$32$1,095,519
Special mention17,785——10,6761,21443——29,718
Substandard——2,928170—6,784——9,882
Doubtful—————————
Total commercial real estate owner occupied loans$235,678$335,437$55,445$206,797$162,953$131,173$7,604$32$1,135,119
Commercial real estate owner occupied loans charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$—$—$15$417$361$393$—$—$1,186
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans:
Pass$524,297$163,771$14,136$354,528$86,017$525,878$3,300$—$1,671,927
Special mention——24,04828,4076,0105,626——64,091
Substandard———1,754—1,049——2,803
Doubtful—————————
Total commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans$524,297$163,771$38,184$384,689$92,027$532,553$3,300$—$1,738,821
Commercial real estate non-owner occupied loans charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$—$—$—$—$—$3,073$—$—$3,073
Construction loans:
Pass$36,844$55,389$49,156$21,577$—$—$—$—$162,966
Special mention—————————
Substandard—————————
Doubtful—————————
Total construction loans$36,844$55,389$49,156$21,577$—$—$—$—$162,966
Construction loans charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—
Total commercial loans and leases receivable$3,881,276$2,083,792$754,420$2,679,569$787,902$1,215,614$2,153,066$178,109$13,733,748
(amounts in thousands)20252024202320222021PriorRevolving loans amortized cost basisRevolving loans converted to termTotal
Total commercial loans and leases receivable charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$—$1,064$896$11,297$961$13,219$—$—$27,437
Residential real estate loans:
Performing$49,521$32,347$18,124$152,771$114,934$75,589$44,794$—$488,080
Non-performing—1339621,2251,0404,9901,137—9,487
Total residential real estate loans$49,521$32,480$19,086$153,996$115,974$80,579$45,931$—$497,567
Residential real estate loans charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$—$—$53$—$—$3$—$—$56
Manufactured housing loans:
Performing$—$—$—$—$—$25,845$—$—$25,845
Non-performing—————1,607——1,607
Total manufactured housing loans$—$—$—$—$—$27,452$—$—$27,452
Manufactured housing loans charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—
Installment loans:
Performing$245,697$76,563$178,863$159,650$40,057$32,671$39,981$1$773,483
Non-performing3644671,5321,61025861130—4,422
Total installment loans$246,061$77,030$180,395$161,260$40,315$32,732$40,111$1$777,905
Installment loans charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$2,621$4,713$12,790$15,413$6,457$2,809$—$—$44,803
Total consumer loans$295,582$109,510$199,481$315,256$156,289$140,763$86,042$1$1,302,924
Total consumer loans charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$2,621$4,713$12,843$15,413$6,457$2,812$—$—$44,859
Loans and leases receivable$4,176,858$2,193,302$953,901$2,994,825$944,191$1,356,377$2,239,108$178,110$15,036,672
Loans and leases receivable charge-offs:
For the Year Ended December 31, 2025$2,621$5,777$13,739$26,710$7,418$16,031$—$—$72,296

Loan Purchases and Sales

Purchases and sales of loans held for investment were as follows for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:

Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)20262025
Purchases (1)
Other commercial and industrial$—$1,079
Personal installment (2)57,826104,941
Total$57,826$106,020
Sales (3)
Specialized lending$1,039$—
Other commercial and industrial (4)14,130—
Multifamily—8,000
Commercial real estate owner occupied (4)4,025—
Personal installment—281
Total$19,194$8,281

(1)Amounts reported in the above table are the unpaid principal balance at time of purchase. The purchase price was 99.0% and 99.5% of the loans’ unpaid principal balance for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

(2)Installment loan purchases for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 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.

(3)The gain on sales of loans held for investment included in net gain (loss) on sale of loans and leases in the consolidated statement of income was $1.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. The gain on sales of loans held for investment included in net gain (loss) on sale of loans and leases in the consolidated statement of income was insignificant for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

(4)Primarily sales of SBA loans.

Loans Pledged as Collateral

Customers has pledged eligible commercial and residential real estate, multifamily, commercial and industrial and consumer installment loans as collateral for borrowings outstanding or available immediately from the FHLB and FRB in the amount of $9.7 billion and $9.4 billion at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

NOTE 8 —LEASES

Lessee

Customers has operating leases for its branches, certain LPOs, and administrative offices, with remaining lease terms ranging betweenone month andten 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 betweenone andten years, with options to renew the leases or extend the term up toten 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)ClassificationMarch 31, 2026December 31, 2025
ASSETS
Operating lease ROU assetsOther assets$33,003$34,347
LIABILITIES
Operating lease liabilitiesOther liabilities$40,327$41,719

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)Classification20262025
Operating lease cost (1)Occupancy expenses$1,846$1,949

(1) There wereno variable lease costs for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, and sublease income for operating leases was immaterial.

Maturities of non-cancelable operating lease liabilities were as follows at March 31, 2026:

(amounts in thousands)March 31, 2026
2026$5,785
20277,810
20287,527
20296,591
20304,958
Thereafter14,643
Total minimum payments47,314
Less: interest6,987
Present value of lease liabilities$40,327

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 $1.9 million and $1.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025:

March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
Weighted average remaining lease term (years)
Operating leases7.2 years7.4 years
Weighted average discount rate
Operating leases4.20%4.20%

Equipment Lessor

Customers’ commercial equipment financing group goes to market through the following origination platforms: vendors, intermediaries, direct and capital markets. Lease terms typically range from 24 months to 120 months. 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. 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 has executed leases of commercial clean vehicles that qualified for investment tax credits in 2024. 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, 2026 and 2025.

Customers’ commercial equipment financing group had total interest income, including from direct financing and sales-type leases of $17.8 million and $14.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025:

(amounts in thousands)ClassificationMarch 31, 2026December 31, 2025
ASSETS
Direct financing and sales-type leases
Lease receivablesLoans and leases receivable$313,823$301,753
Guaranteed residual assetsLoans and leases receivable27,05226,859
Unguaranteed residual assetsLoans and leases receivable11,28711,788
Deferred initial direct costsLoans and leases receivable1,7321,717
Unearned incomeLoans and leases receivable(36,961)(35,575)
Net investment in direct financing and sales-type leases$316,933$306,542
Operating leases
Investment in operating leasesOther assets$412,104$407,987
Accumulated depreciationOther assets(116,578)(105,706)
Deferred initial direct costsOther assets1,0091,094
Net investment in operating leases296,535303,375
Total lease assets$613,468$609,917

Maturities of operating and direct financing and sales-type lease receivables were as follows at March 31, 2026:

(amounts in thousands) · Operating leases · Direct financing and sales-type leases
2026$58,500$74,030
202751,95976,658
202842,50557,806
202931,87945,331
203019,17529,354
Thereafter11,65030,644
Total minimum payments$215,668313,823
Less: interest36,961
Present value of lease receivables$276,862

NOTE 9 –DEPOSITS

The components of deposits at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 were as follows:

March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
(amounts in thousands)
Demand, non-interest bearing$6,739,713$6,303,748
Demand, interest bearing5,085,0405,049,151
Savings, including money market deposit accounts6,347,6336,129,837
Time3,420,2593,295,968
Total deposits$21,592,645$20,778,704

The scheduled maturities for time deposits at March 31, 2026 were as follows:

(amounts in thousands)March 31, 2026
2026$1,255,617
2027656,002
2028706,256
2029434,978
2030147,912
Thereafter219,494
Total time deposits$3,420,259

Time deposits greater than the FDIC limit of $250,000 totaled $1.1 billion and $1.2 billion at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

Demand deposit overdrafts reclassified as loans were $1.0 million and $1.2 million at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Bank had $1.6 billion and $1.8 billion in deposits, respectively, to which it had pledged $1.8 billion and $1.8 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025 was as follows:

March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
(dollars in thousands)AmountRateAmountRate
Federal funds purchased$70,0003.69%$——%
Total short-term debt$70,000$—

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

(dollars in thousands)March 31, 2026 (1)December 31, 2025 (2)
FHLB advances
Maximum outstanding at any month end$150,000$200,000
Average balance during the period32,77861,781
Weighted-average interest rate during the period4.23%4.55%
Federal funds purchased
Maximum outstanding at any month end$70,000$—
Average balance during the period1,367—
Weighted-average interest rate during the period3.73%—%

(1) For the three months ended March 31, 2026.

(2) For the year ended December 31, 2025.

At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, Customers Bank had aggregate availability under federal funds lines totaling $300.0 million and $1.6 billion, respectively.

Long-term debt

FHLB and FRB advances

Long-term FHLB and FRB advances at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 were as follows:

March 31, 2026 · December 31, 2025
(dollars in thousands) · Amount · Rate · Amount · Rate
FHLB advances (1)$1,561,655(2)4.03%(3)$1,325,068(2)4.04%(3)
Total long-term FHLB and FRB advances$1,561,655$1,325,068

(1) Amounts reported in the above table include fixed rate long-term advances from FHLB of $650.0 million with maturities ranging from September 2026 to March 2028, and variable rate long-term advances from FHLB of $910.0 million with maturities ranging from June 2027 to March 2031 with a returnable option that can be repaid without penalty on certain predetermined dates at Customers Bank’s option, at March 31, 2026.

(2) Includes $1.7 million and $5.1 million of unamortized basis adjustments from interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of long-term advances from FHLB at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, 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, 2026:

March 31, 2026
(dollars in thousands)Amount (1)Rate (2)
2026$100,0004.28%
2027860,0003.89%
2028180,0004.21%
2029——%
2030240,0004.21%
Thereafter180,0004.20%
Total long-term FHLB advances$1,560,000

(1) Amounts reported in the above table include variable rate long-term advances from FHLB of $910.0 million with maturities ranging from June 2027 to March 2031 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025 was as follows:

(amounts in thousands)March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
Total maximum borrowing capacity with the FHLB$4,929,018$4,639,436
Total maximum borrowing capacity with the FRB4,733,5174,742,290
Qualifying loans and securities serving as collateral against FHLB and FRB11,534,96511,200,653

Senior and Subordinated Debt

Long-term senior notes and subordinated debt at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 were as follows:

(dollars in thousands)Carrying Amount
Issued by · Ranking · March 31, 2026 · December 31, 2025 · Rate · Issued Amount · Date Issued · Maturity · Price
Customers BancorpSenior (1)$99,243$99,2082.875%$100,000August 2021August 2031100.000%
Total other borrowings$99,243$99,208
Customers BancorpSubordinated (2)(3)$98,440$98,3596.875%$100,000December 2025January 2036100.000%
Customers BancorpSubordinated (2)(4)73,17473,1295.375%$74,750December 2019December 2034100.000%
Customers BankSubordinated (2)(5)—109,6596.125%110,000June 2014June 2029100.000%
Total subordinated debt$171,614$281,147

(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)The subordinated notes will bear an annual fixed rate of 6.875% until January 15, 2031. From January 15, 2031 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 342 basis points. 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 January 15, 2031.

(4)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.

(5)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. Customers Bank called the subordinated notes on March 26, 2026.

NOTE 11 —SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Common Stock

On June 26, 2024, the Board of Directors of Customers Bancorp authorized a 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 extended forone year from June 26, 2024. 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. Customers had purchased all shares authorized under the 2024 Share Repurchase Program.

On February 11, 2026, the Board of Directors of Customers Bancorp authorized a new common stock repurchase program, the 2026 Share Repurchase Program, to repurchase up to $100.0 million of the Company’s common stock. The term of the 2026 Share Repurchase Program will extend for one year from February 12, 2026, unless earlier terminated. Purchases of shares under the 2026 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 621,668 shares of its common stock for $42.7 million under the 2026 Share Repurchase Program during the three months ended March 31, 2026.

Preferred Stock

As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, Customers Bancorp had no series of preferred stock outstanding. On June 16, 2025 and December 15, 2025, Customers redeemed all of the outstanding shares of Series E Preferred Stock and Series F Preferred Stock, respectively, for an aggregate payment of $142.5 million, at a redemption price of $25.00 per share. After giving effect to the redemption, no shares of the Series E Preferred Stock and Series F Preferred Stock remained outstanding. There wereno preferred stock dividends for the three months ended March 31, 2026. Preferred stock dividends were $3.4 million 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the aggregate number of shares of common stock available for grant under the 2019 Plan was 45,597 and 283,983 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 team members’ incentives for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 was $5.3 million and $3.9 million, respectively. At March 31, 2026, there was $42.8 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to all non-vested share-based compensation awards. This cost is expected to be recognized through 2031.

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. There were 232,221 and 278,815 restricted stock units granted under the 2019 Plan during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The grants are mostly subject to either athree-year waterfall vesting (with one third of the amount vesting annually) or athree-year cliff vesting.

In addition, in 2025, an incentive award of 225,000 performance-based restricted stock units were granted, subject to certain performance conditions under the Company’s 2019 Stock Incentive Plan in connection with an executive appointment. These restricted stock units vest if the executive is employed by the Company as of January 1, 2031 and, at any time during afive-year period commencing on January 1, 2026, the average closing price of the Company’s common stock is, for 20 consecutive trading days, equal to or greater than $125.00.

The table below presents the status of the restricted stock units at March 31, 2026 and 2025, and changes during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:

Three Months Ended March 31, 2026Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
RestrictedStock UnitsWeighted-Average Grant-Date Fair ValueRestrictedStock UnitsWeighted-Average Grant-Date Fair Value
Outstanding and unvested at January 1,1,028,926$42.631,110,122$32.61
Granted232,22165.17278,81550.68
Vested(163,978)46.94(403,777)28.75
Forfeited(2,562)51.69(4,239)39.30
Outstanding and unvested at March 31,1,094,60747.67980,92139.18

As a part of Customers’ annual equity compensation program, including the long-term incentive program, the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors approved granting of an aggregate of 71,935 restricted stock units and 15,043 restricted stock units and 22,563 performance based restricted stock units to certain executives (collectively, the “Contingent Grants”), subject to approval of an increase in the number of shares authorized for issuance under the 2019 Plan by the Customers Bancorp shareholders at the annual shareholders’ meeting to be held in May 2026. If shareholders do not approve the amendments to the 2019 Plan, the Contingent Grants will be canceled or settled in cash, as determined by the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee. As such, the Contingent Grants are excluded from the table above.

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the following off-balance sheet commitments, financial instruments and other arrangements were outstanding:

(amounts in thousands)March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
Commitments to fund loans and leases$305,434$190,268
Unfunded commitments to fund mortgage finance loans1,294,1541,379,938
Unfunded commitments under lines of credit and credit cards4,059,2093,912,704
Letters of credit46,24643,345
Other unused and unfunded commitments33,52637,308

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 $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 resulting in an ACL of $9.4 million as of March 31, 2026. Customers recognized a provision for credit losses of $1.2 million for 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 $9.0 million as of December 31, 2025. 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.

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.

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Bank and the Bancorp satisfied all capital requirements to which they were subject.

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:
ActualAdequately CapitalizedWell CapitalizedBasel III Compliant
(dollars in thousands)AmountRatioAmountRatioAmountRatioAmountRatio
As of March 31, 2026:
Common equity Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.$2,193,60212.893%$765,6334.500%N/AN/A$1,190,9857.000%
Customers Bank$2,341,61213.784%$764,4604.500%$1,104,2206.500%$1,189,1607.000%
Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.$2,193,60212.893%$1,020,8446.000%N/AN/A$1,446,1968.500%
Customers Bank$2,341,61213.784%$1,019,2806.000%$1,359,0408.000%$1,443,9808.500%
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.$2,532,42414.884%$1,361,1268.000%N/AN/A$1,786,47810.500%
Customers Bank$2,508,82014.768%$1,359,0408.000%$1,698,80010.000%$1,783,74010.500%
Tier 1 capital (to average assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.$2,193,6028.768%$1,000,7434.000%N/AN/A$1,000,7434.000%
Customers Bank$2,341,6129.367%$999,9644.000%$1,249,9555.000%$999,9644.000%
As of December 31, 2025:
Common equity Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.$2,164,01012.992%$749,5474.500%N/AN/A$1,165,9627.000%
Customers Bank$2,203,93313.252%$748,4124.500%$1,081,0406.500%$1,164,1977.000%
Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.$2,164,01012.992%$999,3966.000%N/AN/A$1,415,8118.500%
Customers Bank$2,203,93313.252%$997,8836.000%$1,330,5108.000%$1,413,6678.500%
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.$2,563,30915.389%$1,332,5288.000%N/AN/A$1,748,94310.500%
Customers Bank$2,431,74414.621%$1,330,5108.000%$1,663,13810.000%$1,746,29510.500%
Tier 1 capital (to average assets)
Customers Bancorp, Inc.$2,164,0108.724%$992,2214.000%N/AN/A$992,2214.000%
Customers Bank$2,203,9338.895%$991,0614.000%$1,238,8275.000%$991,0614.000%

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.

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025:

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.

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 30, 2025, Customers transferred medical installment loans from held for sale to held for investment in connection with a lending arrangement with a fintech company that expired 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 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, caps and collars 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.

Other real estate owned:

The fair value of OREO is determined by using appraisals, which may be discounted based on management’s review and changes in market conditions or sales agreements with third parties. All appraisals must be performed in accordance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. Appraisals are certified to the Bank and performed by appraisers on the Bank’s approved list of appraisers. Evaluations are completed by a person independent of management. The content of the appraisal depends on the complexity of the property. Appraisals are completed on a “retail value” and an “as is value”. These assets are 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.

The estimated fair values of Customers’ financial instruments at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 were as follows:

(amounts in thousands)Carrying AmountEstimated Fair ValueQuoted 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$4,798,204$4,798,204$4,798,204$—$—
Debt securities, available for sale1,961,8521,961,852—1,686,146275,706
Debt securities, held to maturity663,545608,462—392,958215,504
Loans held for sale20,28220,282—1,76718,515
Total loans and leases receivable, net of allowance for credit losses on loans and leases17,210,30216,965,491—1,758,68515,206,806
FHLB, Federal Reserve Bank, and other restricted stock117,880117,880—117,880—
Derivatives10,36310,363—10,31053
Liabilities:
Deposits$21,592,645$21,600,454$18,172,386$3,428,068$—
Federal funds purchased70,00070,000—70,000—
FHLB advances1,561,6551,597,424—1,597,424—
Other borrowings99,24396,760—96,760—
Subordinated debt171,614167,648—167,648—
Derivatives14,94214,942—14,942—
(amounts in thousands)Carrying AmountEstimated Fair ValueQuoted 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$4,411,463$4,411,463$4,411,463$—$—
Debt securities, available for sale1,906,5351,906,535—1,668,722237,813
Debt securities, held to maturity729,134683,598—426,981256,617
Loans held for sale26,10226,102—1,85124,251
Total loans and leases receivable, net of allowance for credit losses on loans and leases16,600,75816,307,551—1,612,99714,694,554
FHLB, Federal Reserve Bank, and other restricted stock110,411110,411—110,411—
Derivatives11,36911,369—11,32544
Liabilities:
Deposits$20,778,704$20,806,081$17,482,736$3,323,345$—
FHLB advances1,325,0681,327,565—1,327,565—
Other borrowings99,20893,834—93,834—
Subordinated debt281,147277,105—277,105—
Derivatives15,79915,799—15,799—

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025 were as follows:

March 31, 2026
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$—$—$275,706$275,706
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities—490,860—490,860
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations—476,658—476,658
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations—113,424—113,424
Corporate notes—246,298—246,298
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations—358,906—358,906
Derivatives—10,3105310,363
Loans held for sale – fair value option—1,7671,4593,226
Loans receivable, mortgage finance – fair value option—1,758,685—1,758,685
Loans receivable, installment – fair value option——93,08693,086
Total assets – recurring fair value measurements$—$3,456,908$370,304$3,827,212
Liabilities
Derivatives$—$14,942$—$14,942
Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis:
Assets
Collateral-dependent loans$—$—$27,494$27,494
Other real estate owned——12,50612,506
Total assets – nonrecurring fair value measurements$—$—$40,000$40,000
December 31, 2025
Fair Value Measurements at the End of the Reporting Period Using
(amounts in thousands)Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets(Level 1)Significant Other Observable Inputs(Level 2)Significant Unobservable Inputs(Level 3)Total
Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis:
Assets
Available for sale debt securities:
Asset-backed securities$—$—$237,813$237,813
Agency-guaranteed residential mortgage–backed securities—413,761—413,761
Agency-guaranteed residential collateralized mortgage obligations—493,507—493,507
Agency-guaranteed commercial collateralized mortgage obligations—115,576—115,576
Corporate notes—285,858—285,858
Private label collateralized mortgage obligations—360,020—360,020
Derivatives—11,3254411,369
Loans held for sale – fair value option—1,8518942,745
Loans receivable, mortgage finance – fair value option—1,612,997—1,612,997
Loans receivable, installment – fair value option——102,077102,077
Total assets – recurring fair value measurements$—$3,294,895$340,828$3,635,723
Liabilities
Derivatives$—$15,799$—$15,799
Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis:
Assets
Collateral-dependent loans$—$—$20,668$20,668
Other real estate owned——12,43212,432
Total assets – nonrecurring fair value measurements$—$—$33,100$33,100

The changes in asset-backed securities (Level 3 assets) measured at fair value on a recurring basis for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 are summarized in the table below:

Asset-backed securities
(amounts in thousands)Three Months Ended March 31,
20262025
Balance at January 1$237,813$13,236
Purchases67,980157,827
Principal payments and premium amortization(33,646)(3,077)
Increase in allowance for credit losses—(66)
Decrease in allowance for credit losses54475
Change in fair value recognized in OCI3,015480
Balance at March 31$275,706$168,475

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, 2026 and 2025 are summarized in the table below:

Other Installment Loans
(amounts in thousands)Three Months Ended March 31,
20262025
Balance at January 1$102,971$162,055
Originations671194,333
Sales—(175,564)
Principal payments(8,866)(42,600)
Change in fair value recognized in earnings(231)—
Balance at March 31$94,545$138,224

There were no transfers between levels during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

The following tables summarize financial assets and financial liabilities measured at fair value as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 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 ValueEstimateValuation TechniqueUnobservable InputRange (Weighted Average)
Asset-backed securities$275,706Discounted cash flowDiscount rateAnnualized loss rateConstant prepayment rate8% - 9%(8%)1% - 13%(4%)19% - 20%(19%)
Other real estate owned12,506Collateral appraisal (1)Liquidation expenses (2)6% - 7%(6%)
Quantitative Information about Level 3 Fair Value Measurements
(dollars in thousands)Fair ValueEstimateValuation TechniqueUnobservable InputRange (Weighted Average)
Asset-backed securities$237,813Discounted cash flowDiscount rateAnnualized loss rateConstant prepayment rate8% - 9%(8%)3% - 13%(4%)17% - 20%(19%)
Other real estate owned12,432Collateral appraisal (1)Liquidation expenses (2)6% - 7%(6%)

(1) Obtained from approved independent appraisers. Appraisals are current and in compliance with credit policy. Customers does not generally discount appraisals. Fair value is also estimated based on sale agreements or letters of intent with third parties.

(2) Appraisals are adjusted by management for liquidation expenses. The range and weighted average of liquidation expense adjustments are presented as a percentage of the appraisal.

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 loans, 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.

Cash Flow Hedges of Interest-Rate Risk

Customers’ objectives in using interest-rate derivatives include managing exposure to interest rate movements. To accomplish this objective, Customers primarily uses interest rate swaps as part of its interest rate risk management strategy. In the past, such derivatives were used to hedge the variable cash flows associated with the forecasted issuances of debt and a certain variable-rate deposit relationship. Beginning in 2025, Customers also uses such derivatives to hedge the variable cash flows associated with certain variable-rate commercial and industrial loans. Interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges of forecasted issuance of debt and variable-rate deposit relationship involve the receipt of variable amounts from a counterparty in exchange for Customers making fixed-rate payments over the life of the agreements without exchange of the underlying notional amount. Interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges of loans receivable involve the receipt of fixed amounts from a counterparty in exchange for Customers making variable-rate payments over the life of the agreements without exchange of the underlying notional amount. The changes in the fair value of derivatives designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges are recorded in AOCI and subsequently reclassified into earnings in the period that the hedged item affects earnings. At March 31, 2026, Customers had four outstanding interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $1.1 billion designated as cash flow hedges of interest-rate risk associated with variable-rate commercial and industrial loans. The outstanding cash flow hedges expire between July 2027 and January 2031. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, Customers entered intotwo interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $300.0 million that were designated as cash flow hedges of certain commercial and industrial loans. Customers did not enter into any interest rate derivatives that were designated as cash flow hedges of variable-rate commercial and industrial loans during the three months ended March 31, 2025. At December 31, 2025, Customers had two outstanding interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $800.0 million designated as cash flow hedges of variable-rate commercial and industrial loans.

Customers discontinues cash flow hedge accounting if it is probable the forecasted hedged transactions will not occur in the initially identified time period. At such time, the associated gains and losses deferred in AOCI are reclassified immediately into earnings and any subsequent changes in the fair value of such derivatives are recognized directly in earnings.

Amounts reported in AOCI related to derivatives will be reclassified to interest income as interest payments are received on Customers’ variable-rate commercial and industrial loans. During the next twelve months, Customers estimates that $1.7 million will be reclassified from AOCI as a decrease to interest income. Customers is hedging its exposure to the variability in future cash flows for forecasted transactions (interest payments on commercial and industrial loans) over a maximum period offive years.

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, 2026, Customers had 45 outstanding interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $2.2 billion that were designated as fair value hedges of certain deposits and FHLB advances. During the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, Customers entered into four interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $125.7 million andthree interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $320.2 million, respectively, that were designated as fair value hedges of certain deposits. At December 31, 2025, Customers had 44 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the following amounts were recorded on the consolidated balance sheet related to cumulative basis adjustments for fair value hedges:

Amortized CostCumulative Amount of Fair Value Hedging Adjustment to Hedged Items
(amounts in thousands)March 31, 2026December 31, 2025March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
Deposits$1,548,057$1,697,282$10,113$20,232
FHLB advances650,000750,0001,6555,068

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), caps and collars with commercial banking customers to facilitate their respective risk management strategies. The customer interest rate swaps, caps and collars are simultaneously offset by interest rate swaps, caps and collars that Customers executes with a third party in order to minimize interest-rate risk exposure resulting from such transactions. As the interest rate swaps, caps and collars associated with this program do not meet the hedge accounting requirements, changes in the fair value of both the customer swaps, caps and collars and the offsetting third-party market swaps, caps and collars are recognized directly in earnings. At March 31, 2026, Customers had 108 interest rate swaps with an aggregate notional amount of $1.1 billion andtwelve interest rate caps and collars with an aggregated notional amount of $485.9 million related to this program. At December 31, 2025, Customers had 118 interest rate swaps with an aggregate notional amount of $1.1 billion andten interest rate caps and collars with an aggregate notional amount of $432.2 million related to this program.

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025:

Derivative AssetsDerivative Liabilities
(amounts in thousands)Balance Sheet LocationFair ValueBalance Sheet LocationFair Value
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swaps, caps and collars (1)Other assets$10,310Other liabilities$14,816
Derivative AssetsDerivative Liabilities
(amounts in thousands)Balance Sheet LocationFair ValueBalance Sheet LocationFair Value
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swaps, caps and collars (1)Other assets$11,325Other liabilities$15,700

(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, 2026 and 2025:

Amount of Income (Loss) Recognized in Earnings
Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)Income Statement Location20262025
Derivatives designated as fair value hedges:
Recognized on interest rate swapsNet interest income$1,629$(1,968)
Recognized on hedged depositsNet interest income(1,286)1,173
Recognized on hedged FHLB advancesNet interest income(249)894
Total$94$99
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swaps, caps and collarsOther non-interest income$16$779

Effect of Derivative Instruments on Comprehensive Income

The following table presents the effect of Customers’ derivative financial instruments on comprehensive income for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:

Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in OCI on Derivatives (1) · Location of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into Income · Amount of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into Income
Three Months Ended March 31, · Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands) · 2026 · 2025 · 2026 · 2025
Derivatives in cash flow hedging relationships:
Interest rate swaps$(5,104)$—Interest income$(467)$—

(1) Amounts presented are net of taxes. Refer to NOTE 4 – CHANGES IN ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) for the total effect on other comprehensive income (loss) from derivatives designated as cash flow hedges for the periods presented.

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, 2026, the fair value of derivatives in a net asset position related to these agreements was $2.8 million. In addition, Customers, which has collateral posting thresholds with certain of these counterparties, had received $4.0 million of cash as collateral at March 31, 2026. 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.

Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities

The following tables present derivative instruments that are subject to enforceable master netting arrangements. Customers’ interest rate swaps, caps and collars with institutional counterparties are subject to master netting arrangements and are included in the tables below. Interest rate swaps, caps and collars 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
Interest rate derivative assets with institutional counterparties$6,667$(3,891)$(2,776)$—
Interest rate derivative liabilities with institutional counterparties$3,891$(3,891)$—$—
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
Interest rate derivative assets with institutional counterparties$6,294$(5,219)$(1,075)$—
Interest rate derivative liabilities with institutional counterparties$5,219$(5,219)$—$—

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.

Demand Letter

On or about June 17, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors received a letter demanding it investigate and pursue causes of action, purportedly on behalf of the Company, against certain current and former directors and/or officers of the Company based on alleged deficiencies in the Company’s disclosures concerning anti-money laundering and bank secrecy compliance (the “Demand Letter”). In response to the Demand Letter, on July 23, 2025, the Board approved the formation of a Special Litigation Committee comprised entirely of independent directors to investigate the allegations raised.

NOTE 18 —BUSINESS SEGMENTS

Customers hasone 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 2025 Form 10-K.

Customers’ CODM is the Executive Committee (the “Executive Committee”) that includes the Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Banking Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Credit Officer, Chief Operating Officer and the Head of Corporate Development and Investor Relations. 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, 2026 and 2025:

Segment profit or loss
Three Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands, except per share data)20262025
Total interest income$336,312$314,909
Total interest expense144,961147,463
Net interest income191,351167,446
Provision for credit losses23,37228,297
Net interest income after provision for credit losses167,979139,149
Total non-interest income (loss) (1)34,316(24,490)
Non-interest expense:
Salaries and employee benefits51,29442,674
Technology, communication and bank operations11,64311,312
Commercial lease depreciation12,6928,463
Professional services11,69511,857
Loan servicing3,8594,630
Occupancy (2)3,9563,412
FDIC assessments, non-income taxes and regulatory fees8,21511,750
Advertising and promotion554528
Other (3)8,0808,145
Total non-interest expense111,988102,771
Income before income tax expense (benefit)90,30711,888
Income tax expense (benefit)20,654(1,024)
Segment net income69,65312,912
Preferred stock dividends—3,389
Segment net income available to common shareholders$69,653$9,523
Reconciliation of profit or loss
Adjustments and reconciling items——
Consolidated net income available to common shareholders$69,653$9,523
Basic earnings per common share$2.04$0.30
Diluted earnings per common share1.970.29

(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 $1.0 million and $0.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

(3) Other expenses include 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.

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, 2026 and December 31, 2025:

Segment assets
(amounts in thousands)March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
Total assets$25,880,767$24,895,868
Adjustments and reconciling items——
Consolidated total assets$25,880,767$24,895,868
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