David Garcia joins as senior vice president and chief lending officer while Vince Davis, who has been with the Bayonne institution since 2015, was named vice president and business development manager.

The Whitehouse Station-based property and casualty insurance firm announced three promotions at the company, including naming Jeffrey Updyke vice president for the Chubb Group and division president for Chubb Small Business.

With the state match, small enterprises have access to $1.3 million in funding to help them enter and compete in the global marketplace under the agency’s State Trade Expansion Program.

"There are vast wealth disparities in our nation, state, and city between white-owned businesses and Black and Latinx-owned businesses, clearly worsened by the pandemic. We need to empower our entrepreneurs of color so that they can compete at increasingly higher levels," Mayor Ras Baraka said during a ceremony announcing the imitative. "The Newark 40 Acres and a Mule Fund will bring pride and prosperity to our city as a whole and to our Black and Latinx business community in particular.”

With more than 50 commercial banks operating in the greater New Jersey region, competition in the market is strong. Middle market companies have their choice of banks, and while no one – including the banks – has all the answers regarding the current economic conditions, strong financial institutions can help pave the way for companies to get back in business and invest in long-term plans that will enable them to succeed in the “new normal," writes Santander Bank Middle Market Banking Executive Vice President David Swoyer.

Robert Vivo has three decades of experience in leading, coaching and mentoring teams in the banking sector and most recently served as director and senior vice president at Provident Bank.

The partners have administered the mortgage and rent assistance initiative for Camden County residents since May. Now, they're offering it in Atlantic as well.

Shaleen Mahtani joins the company as senior vice president with more than two decades of industry experience.

Veronica Ross, who has been with the institution since 2016, and her team recently made the Z-Suite digital property management solution available to customers for streamlining collection of rent payments and security deposits—making the bank one of two in the state to offer the tech.

Gateway Agency National specializes in home, automobile, boating and life insurance needs for clients across New Jersey.

In the Garden State, the financial institution is partnering with Bergen County’s United Way, HomeFront, Interfaith Neighbors, United Way of Greater Newark and Trenton Area Soup Kitchen as part of a nationwide effort to make distributions to communities disproportionally impacted by COVID-19.

"Millennials haven't had it easy. They've been impacted by student loan debt, a recession and a difficult job market. Now, they face a global pandemic like nothing we've ever seen before," said Head of U.S. Bankcard Mike Kinane in a prepared statement. "Much of their financial situations has been out of their hands, but there are a few things they can control – how they budget, how they spend, if they choose to splurge and how they manage their debt."