According to the Complaint, Sterling Bancorp, Inc. specializes in residential mortgages but offers a broad suite of products and services to individuals, professionals, businesses and commercial customers. The vast majority of the Company's loans are to individuals and businesses in California.

The Complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made untrue statements of material fact and omitted other facts necessary to make the statements not misleading and failed to disclose material facts concerning, inter alia, the Company's loan underwriting, risk management and internal controls, including repeatedly touting its strict underwriting, asset quality and the Advantage Loan Program.