People news: Citizens Bank adds Bliek to Rochester corporate banking team

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Citizens Bank announced it has hired Bill Bliek to expand its corporate banking team in Rochester and Western New York.

Bliek has more than a decade of combined banking experience.

“Our recent hiring of Ted Smith as region executive and now the addition of Bill Bliek demonstrate Citizens’ strong commitment to serving our corporate clients and adding new clients in the Western New York region,” Jerry Sargent, Northeast region executive at Citizens, said in a news release.

For the past three years, Bliek has been a commercial banking relationship manager with M&T Bank. He previously worked as an investment banker with Oleet & Co. and with Deutsche Bank Securities, the release stated. He is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University.

Citizens Bank’s parent Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG) had $151.4 billion in assets as of Sept. 30. Citizens Bank operates about 1,200 branches in 11 states in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest regions.

In Central New York, Citizens Bank ranks eighth in deposit market share in the Utica–Rome metro area, where it has four branches, and 10th in deposit market share in the Syracuse metro area, where it has eight offices, according to the latest FDIC statistics.

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