Joseph J. DePaolo, President and CEO of Signature Bank,
Rings The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

Wednesday, June 7, 2006
at NASDAQ's MarketSite
in New York City.

Signature Bank [SBNY]

Joseph J. DePaolo, President and CEO of Signature Bank (Nasdaq: SBNY) presides over the opening bell in honor of its five-year business anniversary.

Signature Bank, member FDIC, is a New York-based full-service commercial bank with 16 private client offices located in the New York metropolitan area, serving the needs of privately owned businesses, their owners and senior managers through dozens of private client groups. The Bank offers a wide variety 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 Corporation, a licensed broker-dealer, investment adviser and member NASD/SIPC.

Since commencing operations in May 2001, the Bank has grown to $4.5 billion in assets, $3.32 billion in deposits, $353 million in equity capital and approximately $1.6 billion in other assets under management as of March 31, 2006. Signature Bank's 16 offices are located throughout the metropolitan New York area. In Manhattan -- 261 Madison Avenue; 300 Park Avenue; 71 Broadway; 565 Fifth Avenue; 950 Third Avenue and 200 Park Avenue South. Brooklyn -- 26 Court Street and 84 Broadway. Westchester -- 1C Quaker Ridge Road, New Rochelle and 360 Hamilton Avenue, White Plains. Long Island -- 1225 Franklin Avenue, Garden City; 279 Sunrise Highway, Rockville Centre; 58 South Service Road, Melville and 923 Broadway, Woodmere. Queens -- 36-36 33rd Street in Long Island City. Bronx -- 421 Hunts Point Avenue, Hunts Point. For more information, please visit http://www.signatureny.com.

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