First Financial Bank (Nasdaq: FFBC) welcomes Jeff Steigelman as its new market president for commercial banking for Chicago and Northwest Indiana. In this region, Steigelman is responsible for growing First Financial’s relationships with commercial and industrial clients and overseeing the bank’s local commercial banking team.
Under Steigelman’s leadership in the area, First Financial Bank is providing locally focused guidance for businesses with a full spectrum of financial solutions. Services include commercial credit and lending, treasury management, and trade finance. These core banking solutions are supplemented by specialty services, which include equipment leasing and finance through the bank’s Summit Funding Group division, capital markets expertise through Bannockburn Global Forex, industry-specific niche financing through Oak Street Funding, and wealth management services through Yellow Cardinal Advisory Group.
Steigelman has worked in banking in Chicago for more than 20 years, including the last three years as a Chicago market president, where he focused on expanding commercial and industrial relationships. He holds a degree from Webster University in St. Louis.