Citizens news and trends

Citizens Financial Group Officially Acquires Investors Bancorp
Acquisitions // April 07, 2022

Citizens Financial Group, Inc., which operates Citizens Bank branches in 11 states, closed its previously announced acquisition of Investors Bancorp, Inc. on Thursday (April 7), according to a joint press release. Citizens’ addition of Investors Bancorp and the East Coast branches of HSBC and national...

Breaches, Beginnings And A Buying Spree
Data Dive // July 16, 2018

Last week was one of those good news/bad news kind of weeks in payments where either every dark cloud had a silver lining or vice versa, depending on one’s perspective. New things started, old problems reoccurred, and by the end of the week, everyone was...

Citizens Bank Develops Mobile, Online Banking Platform With Bottomline Technologies
B2B Payments // June 16, 2017

In banking news, Citizens Bank has announced a new partnership with Bottomline Technologies to develop new mobile and online banking solutions for the bank’s corporate clients. An announcement Thursday (June 15) said a partnership between Citizens Bank and Bottomline has led to the creation of...

Blockchain Tracker: Europe’s DECODE Uses Citizen Data For Improvements
Blockchain // June 02, 2017

Blockchain technology just took another step further outside the financial world. While blockchain use has been inching into commercial use through the likes of IBM and Microsoft, European municipalities have taken note and are getting in on the distributed ledger technology action. Through a three-year...

Quick Reads
Citizens Makes Zelle Available to Businesses Through Mobile Banking App

February 01, 2023
Citizens is now making Zelle available to small business customers through its mobile banking app. The financial institution said in a Wednesday (Feb. 1) press release that the peer-to-peer (P2P) payments network allows small businesses to pay and get paid quickly and easily. By using Zelle through the mobile banking app, small businesses can use […]

Citizens Financial Group Officially Acquires Investors Bancorp

April 07, 2022
Citizens Financial Group, Inc., which operates Citizens Bank branches in 11 states, closed its previously announced acquisition of Investors Bancorp, Inc. on Thursday (April 7), according to a joint press...

CFPB Fines Citizens Bank For Pocketing Deposits

August 13, 2015
Citizens Bank has been ordered to pay $18.5 million in penalties tied to regulators’ findings that the lender did not credit consumers with the full amounts of their deposited funds....