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Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]  
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities 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 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 are to add stability to interest expense and to manage exposure to interest rate movements. To accomplish this objective, Customers primarily uses interest rate swaps as part of its interest rate risk management strategy. To date, such derivatives were used to hedge the variable cash flows associated with the forecasted issuances of debt and a certain variable-rate deposit relationship. Interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges of forecasted issuances 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. 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.
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. At December 31, 2024 and 2023, Customers had no outstanding interest rate derivatives designated as cash flow hedges of interest-rate risk.
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 December 31, 2024, Customers had 46 outstanding interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $2.4 billion that were designated as fair value hedges of certain deposits and FHLB advances. During the year ended December 31, 2024, Customers entered into 44 interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $2.0 billion that were designated as fair value hedges of certain deposits and FHLB advances, and terminated one interest rate derivative with notional amount of $5.7 million. During the year ended December 31, 2023, Customers entered into five interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $1.0 billion, two of which were terminated with notional amounts totaling $550.0 million that were designated as fair value hedges of certain deposits and FHLB advances resulting in $4.6 million of basis adjustments being amortized over the remaining terms of the hedged items as a reduction in interest expense. At December 31, 2023, Customers had six outstanding interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $472.5 million that were designated as fair value hedges of certain AFS debt securities and FHLB advances. During the year ended December 31, 2022, Customers terminated thirteen interest rate derivatives with notional amounts totaling $58.0 million that were designated as fair value hedges together with the sale of hedged AFS debt securities.
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, 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)December 31,December 31,
2024202320242023
AFS debt securities$10,000 $22,500 $— $941 
Deposits1,794,923 300,000 (6,042)1,432 
FHLB advances1,200,000 700,000 (1,648)3,206 
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) and interest rate caps with commercial banking customers to facilitate their respective risk management strategies. The customer interest rate swaps and interest rate caps are simultaneously offset by interest rate swaps and interest rate caps that Customers executes with a third party in order to minimize interest-rate risk exposure resulting from such transactions. As the interest rate swaps and interest rate caps associated with this program do not meet the hedge accounting requirements, changes in the fair value of both the customer swaps and caps and the offsetting third-party market swaps and caps are recognized directly in earnings. At December 31, 2024, Customers had 128 interest rate swaps with an aggregate notional amount of $1.2 billion and two interest rate caps with an aggregate notional amount of $150.0 million related to this program. At December 31, 2023, Customers had 132 interest rate swaps with an aggregate notional amount of $1.2 billion and two interest rate caps with an aggregate notional amount of $55.6 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 December 31, 2024 and 2023.
December 31, 2024
Derivative AssetsDerivative Liabilities
(amounts in thousands)Balance Sheet LocationFair ValueBalance Sheet LocationFair Value
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
     Interest rate swaps and caps (1)
Other assets$15,223 Other liabilities$22,567 
 December 31, 2023
Derivative AssetsDerivative Liabilities
(amounts in thousands)Balance Sheet LocationFair ValueBalance Sheet LocationFair Value
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
     Interest rate swaps and caps (1)
Other assets$17,903 Other liabilities$27,097 
(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 years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022.
Amount of Income (Loss) Recognized in Earnings
For the Years Ended December 31,
 
(amounts in thousands)Income Statement Location202420232022
Derivatives designated as fair value hedges:
Recognized on interest rate swapsNet interest income$(8,512)$(1,187)$3,422 
Recognized on hedged AFS debt securitiesNet interest income(1,049)(1,120)(3,422)
Recognized on hedged depositsNet interest income3,791 — — 
Recognized on hedged FHLB advancesNet interest income7,878 2,307 — 
Total$2,108 $— $— 
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
     Interest rate swaps and capsOther non-interest income$1,869 $(30)$2,338 
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 December 31, 2024, the fair value of derivatives in a net asset position related to these agreements was $14.2 million. In addition, Customers, which has collateral posting thresholds with certain of these counterparties, had received $14.6 million of cash as collateral at December 31, 2024. 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 and interest rate caps with institutional counterparties are subject to master netting arrangements and are included in the tables below. Interest rate swaps and interest rate caps 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 SheetsGross Amounts Not Offset in the Consolidated Balance SheetNet Amount
(amounts in thousands)Financial InstrumentsCash Collateral Received/Posted
December 31, 2024
Interest rate derivative assets with institutional counterparties$14,782 $(577)$(14,205)$— 
Interest rate derivative liabilities with institutional counterparties$577 $(577)$— $— 
Gross Amounts Recognized on the Consolidated Balance SheetsGross Amounts Not Offset in the Consolidated Balance SheetNet Amount
(amounts in thousands)Financial InstrumentsCash Collateral Received/Posted
December 31, 2023
Interest rate derivative assets with institutional counterparties$17,439 $(500)$(16,939)$— 
Interest rate derivative liabilities with institutional counterparties$500 $(500)$— $—