The Morse family is selling off Citizens First Bank, a cornerstone in the growth and development of The Villages.

Citizens First Bank's dominance of The Villages made it an attractive acquisition for another regional bank with bigger dreams.

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Citizens Financial Group is the 13th largest bank in the U.S. and one of the nation’s oldest financial institutions. The bank has ...

You may like Citizens Bank if you live on the East Coast or Midwest and are looking for a brick-and-mortar bank. It pays decent rates on its online CDs, but the best CD rates are still at other banks.

Matt Lavoie, senior vice president of enterprise automation development at Citizens, said the bank plans to integrate some of the AI models developed by Citizens' internal experts with automation ...