Citizens Financial Group has announced that it has “significantly accelerated” its private banking growth strategy with the addition of approximately 50 new senior private bankers in Boston, Florida, New York and San Francisco.

All of those individuals and teams were formerly with First Republic, including a number of well-known names within the fund finance community. Joining Citizens will be, among others, teams led by Scott Aleali and Jeff Maier in New York and Sam Heshmati and Mike Franks in California.   

You can read the full Citizens press release here.