Customers Bancorp Inc

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Significantly heightened regulatory and supervisory expectations and scrutiny in the U.S. have increased our compliance, regulatory and other risks and costs and subject us to legal and regulatory examinations, investigations and enforcement actions.

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The regulatory and political environment has generally been challenging for U.S. financial institutions, which have been subject to increased regulatory scrutiny, including in the wake of the failures of several regional banks and other banking stresses in the first half of 2023. The general heightened scrutiny and expectations from regulators could lead to a more stringent regulatory posture by the regulators, investigations and other inquiries, as well as remediation requirements, regulatory and operational restrictions, more regulatory or other enforcement proceedings, civil litigation and substantial compliance, regulatory and other risks and costs. Customers’ regulators have broad powers and discretion under their supervisory authority. A failure to comply with regulators’ expectations and requirements, even if inadvertent, or to resolve any identified deficiencies in a timely and sufficiently satisfactory manner to regulators, could result in increased regulatory oversight; material restrictions, including, among others, imposition of limitations on capital distributions or other business activities or operations; enforcement proceedings; penalties; and fines. Responding to regulatory inquiries and proceedings can be time consuming and costly and divert management attention from Customers’ other business activities. As a result of these regulatory efforts and pressures, like many other financial institutions, from time to time, Customers is subject to public and non-public written agreements, cease and desist orders, consent orders, memoranda of understanding or other enforcement or supervisory actions by its regulators.