to purchase HSBC's retail operations on the East Coast, including 80 branches in New York City, Washington D.C., and Southeast Florida. Under the agreement, Citizens will acquire approximately $9.0 billion in deposits and approximately $2.2 billion in loans. Investors Bancorp Acquisition In July 2021, Citizens announced plans to acquire New Jersey-based bank holding company Investors Bancorp for $3.5 billion. Citizens anticipates taking over more than 150 branches with the deal. Branches Like several other banks, Citizens has agreements with several supermarket chains to locate bank branches in the stores. The greatest number of these are in Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle stores, most of which were acquired in the acquisition of Mellon Financial Corporation's retail banking division. Citizens also operates branches inside many Stop & Shop and Shaw's stores in New England. One unique aspect at Citizens branches inside supermarkets is full-service banking from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays; historically, USA banks were often closed on Sunday and even Saturdays. In September 2010, Giant Eagle announced a new agreement with Huntington Bank in which Huntington would open branches in several stores in Ohio and West Virginia and will replace existing branches of other banks when the store's agreements with those banks expire. On 25 June 2008, Citizens Bank announced would sell 18 branches in upstate New York as it prepared to open 57 branches downstate. Community Bank System Inc. of DeWitt, New York purchased the branches in Ausable Forks, Champlain, Fort Covington, Indian Lake, Lake Placid, Lyons Falls, Long Lake, Malone, Newcomb, North Creek, Plattsburgh, Saranac Lake, Ticonderoga, Tupper Lake and Whitehall. The sale completed on 7 November 2008. In October 2009, Citizens Bank opened a full-service branch inside a Dunkin' Donuts in Bellingham, Massachusetts. The branch offers teller windows, a full-service automated teller machine (ATM) and Dunkin' Donuts promotions for using the bank's services. Citizens was one of the first banks in the US to use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology on its ATM cards, via MasterCard PayPass. In late 2009, however, Citizens began reissuing its cards under Visa without the RFID technology. In April 2022, Citizens completed the acquisition of 80 branches from HSBC in New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and Florida. See also Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) References External links Corporate website Consent decree regarding misappropriation of depositor funds Banks based in Rhode Island Companies based in Providence, Rhode Island Royal Bank