06/23/2016

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. Publishes Results of its 2016 Dodd-Frank Act Annual Company-Run Stress Test

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG or “Citizens”) today published the results of its annual company-run 2016 stress test conducted in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The disclosure includes stress test results for CFG and its subsidiary, Citizens Bank, N.A., under the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System’s (“Federal Reserve”) severely adverse scenario, and do not reflect any capital actions that Citizens may have requested under the Federal Reserve’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, or “CCAR”.

The Federal Reserve has indicated that it will release CCAR results on June 29, 2016.

The Dodd-Frank Act company-run stress test disclosure, including general descriptions of methodologies used in the stress test, is available at investor.citizensbank.com under “Regulatory Filings and Disclosures.”

About Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $140.1 billion in assets as of March 31, 2016. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market 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, Mid-Atlantic 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 not-for-profit 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.

Cautionary Statement About Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements about our future regulatory capital compliance, which will be an important factor in determining the extent to which we may pay common stock dividends and repurchase our common stock are forward-looking statements. Also, any statement that does not describe historical or current facts is a forward-looking statement. These statements often include the words “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “intends,” “plans,” “goals,” “targets,” “initiatives,” “potentially,” “probably,” “projects,” “outlook” or similar expressions or future conditional verbs such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “would,” and “could.”

Forward-looking statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of management, and on information currently available to management. Our statements speak as of the date hereof, and we do not assume any obligation to update these statements or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those contained in such statements in light of new information or future events. We caution you, therefore, against relying on any of these forward-looking statements. They are neither statements of historical fact nor guarantees or assurances of future performance.

We also caution that the amount and timing of any future common stock dividends or stock repurchases will depend on our financial condition, earnings, cash needs, regulatory constraints, capital requirements (including requirements of our subsidiaries), and any other factors that our Board of Directors deems relevant in making such a determination. Therefore, there can be no assurance that we will pay any dividends to holders of our common stock, or as to the amount of any such dividends.

More information about factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found under “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2016.

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Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Media:
Jim Hughes,781-751-5404
or
Investors:
Ellen A. Taylor, 203-900-6854

Source: Citizens Financial Group, Inc.