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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000759944-25-000135"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CFG"
cik: "0000759944"
company_name: "CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC/RI"
filed_at: "2025-10-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:31:33.257183+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Citizens names Ted Swimmer Head of Commercial Banking; McCree to retire March 2026

## Summary
- Ted Swimmer promoted to Head of Commercial Banking effective October 7, 2025, succeeding Don McCree.
- Don McCree will remain as Chair of Commercial Banking until his retirement at end of March 2026.
- Swimmer joined Citizens in 2010, built Capital Markets & Advisory into a Top 5 U.S. Middle Market bookrunner.
- Swimmer has been on Citizens' Executive Committee since 2018 and is a 30-year banking veteran.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000759944-25-000135
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CFG
- cik: 0000759944
- company_name: CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC/RI
- filed_at: 2025-10-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/759944/000075994425000135/0000759944-25-000135-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/759944/000075994425000135/cfg-20251007.htm

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