As of now, the firm has appointed a major middle market team on Long Island while growing its presence in Manhattan by adding one team and expanding another.

Signature Bank has appointed a team of experts under the guidance of Walter Rabin, who will join Signature Financial as president in June 2012.

Other members of the Signature Financial team including Richard Antonacci as chief operating officer and executive vice president, Anthony Perettine as executive vice president, Joseph Fantauzzi, appointed executive vice president and capital markets division head and Kerry Mach, senior vice president and director of business development.

Signature Bank appointed a new four-person middle market team, who will be based in the soon-to-open Hauppauge private client banking office, which will mark the Bank’s 26th office.

The team is led by Gary Sarro and Alan Giaimis, both named Group Directors and Senior Vice Presidents, joined by Robert Caruana, Jr., Associate Group Director and Vice President.

Signature Bank provides a wide array of business and personal banking products and services as well as investment, brokerage, asset management and insurance products and services through its subsidiary, Signature Securities Group.

Since inception in May 2001, the Bank has developed to $14.7bn in assets, $11.8bn in deposits, $1.4bn in equity capital and $1.7bn in other assets under management as of 31 December 2011.