CFC Quarterly Financial Performance
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE ("ESG") INITIATIVES
ESG
For Coastal, ESG is a complex initiative across the whole organization. Addressing the issue of the 5.9 million unbanked
households (¹) in the United States cannot be tackled with merely adding products or providing diversity, equity and inclusion
training. Nor can real environmental impact happen through mere board level policies and simply changing our investment
portfolio. We are choosing to tackle our ESG initiatives throughout our company with meaningful actions and collaboration.
CCBX - Working with our CCBX partners allows us to provide a broader range of services to different demographics through their offerings.
Developing the kind of unique offerings to specific under-served or under-banked populations would be difficult for a bank our size, but by partnering
with third-party fintech partners like Brigit, Greenwood and One we are able to use our banking charter to support this effort in a much broader
scope.
Coastal Community Bank - Our community bank has always had close ties to the communities we serve with our employees actively
volunteering in those communities, and we have been recognized as a corporate philanthropist by the Puget Sound Business Journal. We are now
evolving to offer affiliated products through our third-party fintech partners that are more inclusive and meet their needs of a broader range of
consumers. Once again, our scope and reach is multiplied by collaborating with our third-party fintech partners to offer inclusive products.
Social Responsibility
Financial Inclusion
We see financial inclusion as providing access to useful and affordable
financial products and services to meet the needs of the under-served.
However, overcoming a widespread distrust of banks, lack of financial education,
and barriers to entry are all part of the process to bring the underserved in our
communities the financial products and services they need to thrive.
We are actively working to address:
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Accessibility to services
Needs-based solutions
Education
In collaboration with the Cities for Financial Empowerment and the Bank On
national platform, this past year, a Coastal team worked to develop the Access
checking product to support the financial stability of unbanked and
underbanked residents in our communities by providing a safe, affordable and
functional product. In January 2023, our Access checking product passed product
certification and met the National Account Standards and was launched with the
official Bank On certification.
Environmental Responsibility
Climate Change
Coastal is approaching our responsibility in many ways from
understanding our carbon footprint and identifying
potential offsets, reductions and to developing strong
partnerships with ESG focused fintechs.
In January 2023 we completed our Sustainable Impact
Survey with Aspiration to understand our GHG impact and
ways we can offset it. Working with Aspiration, we are exploring
ways to develop customer facing-solutions that enable climate
action. By working with partners like Aspiration, we are able to
participate in developing and implementing meaningful changes to
help turn the tide on climate change, doing our part to help
transition to a net-zero economy.
Additionally, we have and will continue to consider climate change
and its impact on our loan portfolio and customers.
(1) Source: 2021 National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in November 2022.
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