Huntington Adds New Team, Services for Real Estate Companies

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Huntington National Bank has added a team to its commercial banking segment that will focus on specialized cash and treasury management solutions for real estate businesses.

The new specialized mortgage solutions team will provide customized cash management, treasury management and escrow service and products to residential and commercial mortgage servicers and originators, title companies, private equity firms, hedge funds, property managers and other types of real estate companies.

“We continue to seek opportunities to add top banking talent across our commercial business and bolster capabilities and expertise to serve clients nationally,” said Scott Kleinman, president of Huntington Commercial Bank. “Huntington has substantive organic growth opportunities in front of us given our strong balance sheet and position of strength.”

The specialized mortgage solutions team, which includes 14 colleagues located strategically across the U.S., will be led by Kathy Kanno Wood, Huntington’s newest senior managing director. With more than 30 years of experience, Wood was most recently at Flagstar Bank and previously served as the managing director and head of specialized cash management at Wells Fargo’s wholesale bank division.

Huntington Bancshares Inc., headquartered in Columbus, has $194 billion in assets.

Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.