Fred Fang Selected for Citizens Bank's Commercial Banker Development Program

NEW YORK CITY – Fred Fang, 22, of Livingston, N.J., was recently selected by Citizens Bank for its Commercial Banker Development Program.

A 2015 graduate of Bentley University, Fang joins 12 other CBDP trainees selected from a highly competitive applicant pool.

Launched in 2011, Citizens’ Commercial Banker Development Program gives recent college graduates rewarding and challenging learning opportunities to start their banking careers with a leading financial institution.

“We are pleased to have another promising class of young bankers begin their careers with the Citizens Bank Commercial Banker Development Program,” said Daniel Fitzpatrick, President of Citizens Bank in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. “This program is an important talent pipeline for Citizens as we continue to grow our commercial bank and serve a wide variety of corporate customers in the Northeast and across the country.”

“I am very excited to have this opportunity to begin my career in commercial banking with Citizens,” said Fang. “Citizens is a great company that is really committed to serving its commercial customers and the Commercial Banker Development Program will enable me to learn not only about the bank’s products and services, but also its approach to delivering great ideas to its customers.”

Citizens’ 12-month Commercial Banker Development Program combines intensive classroom instruction with credit analysis writing and two in-depth business line rotations. Citizens selects program participants through campus visits and interviews with students seeking long-term career opportunities in banking. The Commercial Banker Development Program is open to students with a range of educational backgrounds and majors.

Following the successful completion of the program, graduates are placed in a Citizens Commercial Banking business line as credit analysts.

Citizens also offers a Commercial Banking summer internship program to rising seniors. This summer, 17 interns worked across Citizens’ 11-state footprint. Selection for a summer internship position is also highly competitive and the program serves as a feeder for the Commercial Banker Development Program. Seven of this year’s CBDP trainees had previously been summer interns.

Citizens is accepting applications for the Commercial Banker Development Program this month. For more information about Citizens, please go to the Citizens Commercial Banking website.

About Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $137.3 billion in assets as of June 30, 2015. 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 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. Additional information about Citizens and its full line of products and services can be found at www.citizensbank.com.