Techies and millennials seeking to start their own companies in the health care and financial services spaces will have big opportunities in 2018, according to Chris Sugden, a managing partner at Princeton-based Edison Partners, one of New Jersey’s largest venture capital firms.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, one of the architects of the controversial Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed at the end of last year, told a group of state bankers that the new tax law “probably doesn't affect very many people in New Jersey very adversely.”

Doctors are not only good for the health of state residents, they also boost the state's economic health as well, according to a recent study by the Medical Society of New Jersey and the American Medical Association.

Howell-based firm Eastern Union Funding recently announced that in having reached a 10 percent growth year-over-year, the firm closed $4 billion in commercial real estate loans last year.

Wells Fargo has appointed John Zimmerman to president of its southern New Jersey operations.

Franklin-based Sussex Bancorp, the parent company of Sussex Bank, has closed on its deal to merge with Bank of Bergen County. The deal expands Sussex Bank’s number of branches in the state to 14 and its total assets to $1.4 billion.

NJBankers is the 34th state banking association to give its seal of approval to ICBA Securities, which provides fixed-income investment products and services to community banks.