03/16/2016

Commercial Observer names Gary Magnuson, Patrick Burns among “50 Most Important People In Commercial Real Estate Finance”

NEW YORK – Commercial Observer, a New York-based magazine focusing on the national commercial real estate industry, has named Citizens Commercial Banking’s Gary Magnuson and Patrick T. Burns to its fourth annual list of the 50 Most Important People in Commercial Real Estate Finance.

Magnuson, who joined Citizens in 1991, is Executive Vice President and Head of Citizens’ Commercial Real Estate Finance business.  

Burns is Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Institutional Real Estate. He joined Citizens eight years ago. 

“Patrick and I are honored to be recognized on behalf of the entire Commercial Real Estate Finance team at Citizens,” said Magnuson. “Citizens offers real estate and market expertise and a wide range of products to help our customers meet their needs.”

For more information, go to Citizens Commercial Banking.

About Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $138.2 billion in assets as of December 31, 2015. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middlemarket companies, large corporations and institutions. In Consumer Banking, Citizens helps its retail customers “bank better” with mobile and online banking and the convenience of approximately 3,200 ATMs and approximately 1,200 Citizens Bank branches in 11 states in the New England, MidAtlantic and Midwest regions. Citizens also provides mortgage lending, auto lending, student lending and commercial banking services in select markets nationwide. In Commercial Banking, Citizens offers corporate, institutional and notforprofit clients a full range of wholesale banking products and services including lending and deposits, capital markets, treasury services, foreign exchange and interest hedging, leasing and asset finance, specialty finance and trade finance.

Citizens operates through its subsidiaries Citizens Bank, N.A., and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania as Citizens Bank, Citizens Commercial Banking and Citizens One. Additional information about Citizens and its full line of products and services can be found at www.citizensbank.com.