{"id":381925,"date":"2026-08-26T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381925\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:42:07","slug":"citizens-poaches-tampa-advisers-with-1-billion-client-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381925\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Poaches Tampa Advisers With $1 Billion Client Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Citizens Financial Group is expanding its private wealth <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/category\/business-news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"16\" title=\"business\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">business<\/a> into Tampa, recruiting two local advisers whose clients at their previous institution held more than $1 billion in assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris MacLellan and Katie Bickle have joined Citizens Private Wealth as MacLellan Bickle Wealth Partners, extending a national hiring push that has added 12 teams since 2024. Those teams previously oversaw about $12 billion in client assets, according to Citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MacLellan Bickle Wealth Partners is based at 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd., giving Citizens a private wealth operation in a market where the bank already has a commercial banking office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere in Florida, Citizens has private wealth teams in Boca Raton and Naples and private banking offices in Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. Providence, Rhode Island-based Citizens Financial Group had $233.8 billion in assets as of June 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MacLellan will focus primarily on investment management, while Bickle, who has a background in trust and estate law, will lead relationship management and financial planning for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citizens Financial Group is expanding its private wealth business into Tampa, recruiting two local advisers whose clients at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-381925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}