12/12/2016

Four Citizens Investment Services Financial Consultants Named “Top 100”

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bank Investment Consultant, a publication providing financial advisers and wealth managers investment-related analysis and insights, has named four Citizens Investment Services financial consultants to its list of Top 100 Advisers. Citizens Investment Services, an affiliate of Citizens Bank, is the investment arm of Citizens Bank’s wealth management business.

Citizens financial consultants Josh Giuliano, Chris Suraci, Darrel Smith, and Gabriel DeFeo were named to the top 100 advisers. They were ranked as the 39th, 58th, 75th, and 91st top advisers respectively.

“We are tremendously proud of the fine work that Josh, Chris, Darrel, and Gabriel have done on behalf of our clients over the past year and throughout their distinguished careers here at Citizens,” said Frank Drago, president of Citizens Investment Services. “This recognition is a demonstration of the commitment and personalized approach that all of our financial consultants take here, as well as the investment we are making in our wealth management businesses. We have grown our advisor corps over 60 net FC’s in the past 12 months, and continue to attract talented professionals. We expect continued growth in the next two years in our financial consultant program.”

The Bank Investment Consultant list of Top 100 Advisers combines multiple variables into one composite score by looking at assets under management, production, growth and fee business to determine advisers' scores.

According to Bank Investment Consultant, “The advisers listed here are not just home-run hitters. They are the all-around players skilled in every aspect of their game. This, we would argue is the way to make any team great.”

For more information about the recognition, visit Bank Investment Consultant website. To learn more about Citizens Wealth Management visit the Citizens Bank website. Also follow the bank on Facebook and Twitter.

About Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $147 billion in assets as of September 30, 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, a 24/7 customer contact center 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 wealth management, 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.

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Source: Citizens Financial Group, Inc.