New York-based Signature Bank has brought in a private client banking team from HSBC, based in the Brooklyn, NY, area.

Leon Kratsberg and Gary Shulevich have both been appointed as senior vice president and group director, while Deborah Raffone was named senior client associate.

Kratsberg and Shulevich, who have worked together for eight years, will be based in Williamsburg, but the team will relocate to another private client banking office as the bank expands its presence in Brooklyn, the firm said.

At HSBC, Kratsberg was most recently a senior relationship manager and vice president, serving large commercial clients throughout Brooklyn and Staten Island. Prior to that, he was a business relationship manager at JP Morgan Chase covering the Brooklyn area.

Shulevich was latterly a relationship manager and vice president, also based in Brooklyn and Staten Island, while Raffone has spent his 21-year banking career primarily as assistant branch manager at various HSBC branches in the same areas as Shulevic. 

In similar news, at the end of June Signature Bank appointed a new private client banking team, based at its White Plains, NY, office in Westchester County.