New York-based Signature Bank has hired another two private client banking teams, making a total of four who have joined to date in 2011.

Nelli Teplinsky was named group director and senior vice president and her colleague, Natalie Leviev, senior client associate. They will work out of the bank’s 300 Park Avenue office in Manhattan. Both Teplinsky and Leviev join from the HSBC branch at 250 Park Avenue where Teplinsky was a vice president, senior premier relationship manager for ten years.

A five-person team headed by Lawrence Blascovich and Louis Krawiecz, both named group director and senior vice president, will be based in Siganature’s soon-to-be opened office on the west side of midtown Manhattan. The team, which also joins from HSBC, includes Howard Efran and Marie Belizaire as associate group directors and vice presidents and Wilma St Rose as senior client associate.

“As we enter the 2011 second quarter, the bank has already named four teams to its franchise. This is indicative of the vast opportunity that remains prevalent in the marketplace and of our growing reputation,” Signature president and chief executive officer Joseph DePaolo Bank said in a statement.

Signature has 24 private client offices across the New York metropolitan area, targeting the needs of privately owned businesses, their owners and senior managers.