Jason Briggs has joined Citizens Bank’s Hyannis office as a mortgage loan officer. He is originating mortgages primarily in the Falmouth, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket markets.

Briggs, of Hanover, formerly owned and operated Diversified Funding Corporation, a mortgage brokerage company in Bourne.

"Citizens Bank is committed to the mortgage business and, specifically, to growing our home financing operation in Massachusetts and throughout our retail banking geography," said Ellen Steinfeld, senior vice president in the bank’s Home Lending Solutions division.