DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Business Description And Reverse Recapitalization [Abstract]

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

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

BankMobile Technologies, Inc. (“BankMobile”) was incorporated in May 2016 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Customers Bank. On August 6, 2020, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, by and among Megalith Financial Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (“Megalith”), incorporated in Delaware in November 2017, MFAC Merger Sub Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Megalith, BankMobile Technologies, Inc., and Customers Bank, the sole stockholder of BankMobile. On January 4, 2021, BankMobile became an independent company after the completion of a divestiture transaction and was rebranded BM Technologies, Inc.

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

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

On November 7, 2022, the Company and Customers Bank amended the Deposit Processing Services Agreement (the “DPSA Amendment”). The DPSA Amendment, among other things, will facilitate the transfer of the Company’s serviced deposits to a new partner bank and extends the termination date of the Deposit Processing Services Agreement until the earlier of: (i) entry into a definitive agreement with a new partner bank to transfer the Company’s serviced deposits to such partner bank and the successful completion of such transfer; or (ii) June 30, 2023.

On March 22, 2023, the Company and Customers Bank entered into a second amendment to the Deposit Processing Services Agreement (the “DPSA Second Amendment”) for the Higher Education serviced deposit accounts. The DPSA Second Amendment, among other things, extends the termination date of the Deposit Processing Services Agreement until the earlier of (i) the transfer of the Company’s Higher Education serviced deposits to a Durbin-exempt partner bank; or (ii) June 30, 2024; and revises the fee structure of the Deposit Processing Services Agreement.

Also on March 22, 2023, the Company and Customers Bank entered into a new agreement for the current BaaS serviced deposit accounts (the “2023 Deposit Servicing Agreement”), under which, effective March 31, 2023, the Company will perform, on behalf of Customers Bank, Customer Bank’s services, duties, and obligations by and between Customers Bank and T-Mobile USA, Inc. that are not required to be provided by an FDIC insured financial institution.

On August 18, 2023, the Company and Customers Bank entered into a third amendment to the Deposit Processing Services Agreement (the “DPSA Third Amendment”) for the Higher Education serviced deposit accounts. The DPSA Third Amendment extends the termination date of the Deposit Processing Services Agreement until the earlier of (i) the transfer of the Company’s Higher Education serviced deposits to a Durbin-exempt partner bank; or (ii) April 15, 2025.

On March 16, 2023, the Company entered into a Deposit Servicing Agreement (the “FCB Deposit Servicing Agreement”) with a new partner bank, First Carolina Bank, a North Carolina chartered, non-member community bank (“FCB”), which provides that FCB will establish and maintain deposit accounts and other banking services in connection with customized products and services offered by the Company to its Higher Education institution clients, and the Company will provide certain other related services in connection with the accounts.

On August 20, 2023, the Company and FCB entered into an amendment to the FCB Deposit Servicing Agreement (the “FCB DPSA First Amendment”). The FCB DPSA First Amendment, among other things, (i) extends the initial term from four years to five years after the effective date, (ii) provides that FCB will work with the Company and Customers Bank on the timely transfer of existing student depositor accounts on or before the effective date, and as agreed to by the parties, and (iii) amends the effective date to be the date on which FCB takes on deposits from the existing student depositor accounts.

The FCB Deposit Servicing Agreement and Amendment thereof may be terminated early by either party upon material breach, by either party upon notice that the continuation of the Depositor Program violates Applicable Law or Network Rules (as defined in the FCB Deposit Servicing Agreement); by FCB if a regulatory authority determined that the performance of its obligations under the FCB Deposit Servicing Agreement was not consistent with safe and sound banking practices; by either party upon the other party commencing or being subject to certain bankruptcy proceedings; and by the Company should it experience a change in control on or after March 16, 2026. The Company continues to actively work on the transfer of its Higher Education customer deposits from Customers Bank to FCB with transfer expected to occur during December 2023.

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