Geezeo to power BankMobile Personal Financial Management
BankMobile sees PFM as strategic imperative
BRAINTREE, MA (July 20, 2015) — Geezeo, a fintech company that helps more than 370 financial institutions better engage consumers through its digital advisory platforms, today announced that it will power Personal Financial Management (PFM) for BankMobile, a digital-only division of Customers Bank in Wyomissing, PA.
“Our selection process centered around those PFM innovators with mature products, globally recognized innovation, and multiple large-scale installations with major financial institutions,” said Warren Taylor, President of BankMobile. “PFM is particularly attractive to younger, mobile customers and to the nearly 70 percent of consumers who hold accounts at more than one financial institution.”
“We strongly believe that PFM needs to be integrated into every mobile banking execution,” said Shawn Ward, Geezeo CEO. “Working with BankMobile and their technology team is bringing a best-of-breed approach to the market, with the mobile PFM benefits seamlessly integrated using our new product API.”
BankMobile’s PFM capability will include:
· Comprehensive aggregation with an approximate 15,000 financial institutions worldwide
· Cash flow analysis and analytics
· A third generation transactional categorization engine and reporting capability
· Spend management and analysis
· Integrated intuitive offer engine
· Bilateral capability offering engagement at any touch point
· User customizable SMS, email and in-app alert platform
About Customers Bancorp, Inc. and Customers Bank
Customers Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company located in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania engaged in banking and related businesses through its bank subsidiary, Customers Bank. Customers Bank is a community-based, full-service bank with assets of approximately $7.1 billion. A member of the Federal Reserve System and with deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Customers Bank provides a range of banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, individuals and families through offices in Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Committed to fostering customer loyalty, Customers Bank uses a High Tech/High Touch strategy that includes use of industry-leading technology to provide customers better access to their money, as well as Concierge Banking® by appointment at customers’ homes or offices 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Customers Bank offers a continually expanding portfolio of loans to small businesses, multi-family projects, mortgage companies and consumers.
Customers Bancorp, Inc.’s voting common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CUBI. Additional information about Customers Bancorp, Inc. can be found on the company’s website, www.customersbank.com.
About BankMobile
Established in 2014, BankMobile is a division of Customers Bank, with its headquarters in New York. It provides target customers – millennials, the underbanked and middle income households – a digital, effortless, and financially empowering experience. BankMobile offers checking, savings, lines of credit, joint accounts and access to over 55,000 surcharge-free ATMs nationwide (BankMobile VIP customers have free access to every ATM in the country, which is more than 400,000 ATMs), a guaranteed higher savings rate than the top four banks in the nation, a personal banker for all customers, and a free financial advisor for VIP customers. It is a Federal Reserve regulated and FDIC insured commercial bank. Customers Bancorp is the bank holding company for Customers Bank. BankMobile is an independent operating Digital Banking Division of Customers Bank and also of Customers Bancorp. For more information, please visit www.bankmobile.com.
“Safe Harbor” Statement from Customers Bancorp, Inc.
In addition to historical information, this press release may contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include statements with respect to Customers Bancorp, Inc.’s strategies, goals, beliefs, expectations, estimates, intentions, capital raising efforts, financial condition and results of operations, future performance and business. Statements preceded by, followed by, or that include the words “may,” “could,” “should,” “pro forma,” “looking forward,” “would,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” or similar expressions generally indicate a forward-looking statement. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on various important factors (some of which, in whole or in part, are beyond Customers Bancorp, Inc.’s control). Numerous competitive, economic, regulatory, legal and technological factors, among others, could cause Customers Bancorp, Inc.’s financial performance to differ materially from the goals, plans, objectives, intentions and expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements. Customers Bancorp, Inc. cautions that the foregoing factors are not exclusive, and neither such factors nor any such forward-looking statement takes into account the impact of any future events. All forward-looking statements and information set forth herein are based on management’s current beliefs and assumptions as of the date hereof and speak only as of the date they are made. For a more complete discussion of the assumptions, risks and uncertainties related to our business, you are encouraged to review Customers Bancorp, Inc.’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014 and subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Customers Bancorp, Inc. does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time by Customers Bancorp, Inc. or by or on behalf of Customers Bank.
About Geezeo
Geezeo is a financial technology (Fintech) firm that enhances the digital banking experience via its white label retail and business digital financial management solutions. Almost 500 financial institutions leverage Geezeo’s integrated and unified personal financial management (PFM) solution. Purposely integrated within a financial institution’s online banking and mobile platforms, Geezeo helps empowers consumers and businesses to gain more financial control, better manage daily and long-term finances and reduce banking friction. To help financial institutions drive the digital shift, Geezeo leverages data within its Engagement Banking Marketing Platform resulting in relevant, data-driven content facilitating interaction between the FI and the online user.
