Sterling Bancorp Announces the Election of Mona Aboelnaga Kanaan as Director

Sterling Bancorp is a bank and financial holding company. It conducts business operations through its subsidiary Sterling National Bank (the Bank). The Bank specializes in the delivery of services and solutions to business owners, their families and consumers within the communities it serves. The Bank offers a line of commercial, business, and consumer banking products and services. The Bank is engaged in the origination of commercial loans and commercial mortgage loans. The Company also originates residential mortgage loans and consumer loans. The Bank offers services in the New York Metro Market, which includes Manhattan and Long Island; and the New York Suburban Market, which consists of Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, Putnam and Westchester counties in New York and Bergen County in New Jersey. Its deposit products include non-interest-bearing demand deposits, interest bearing demand deposits, savings, money market and certificate of deposits.