Friday, May 21, 2021
Customers Bancorp creating blockchain payments platform
Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., is
planning to launch a closed-loop real-time payments platform.
The $18.8 billion-asset company said in
a press release Thursday that its bank will work with Tassat, a company that
provides blockchain technologies for digital payments, to create the platform.
Customers said the effort should enhance payments functionality for its business
clients while bringing in more low-cost core deposits.
The platform should benefit customers that deal in financial
exchanges, commercial real estate, health care, hospitality, insurance,
accounting, alternative energy and manufacturing. The plan is to work with
clients to address specific payments challenges and to form payments ecosystems
with their trading partners.
“B2B payments have lagged behind consumer payments in
innovation, presenting a huge opportunity for digital transformation,” Sam
Sidhu, vice chairman and chief operating officer of Customers Bank, said in the
release. “We expect our clients in key verticals will invite their
important trading partners to join TassatPay, bringing us new clients and
low-cost deposits.”
Customers recently announced
plans to open offices in Orlando, Fla., and Dallas, while increasing its
operations in Chicago.
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