Emily Schlosser joins the Jersey City-based financial business solutions provider from Goldman Sachs.

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The manufacturing company was recently sold, so what did Adam Cook do? He formed Culper Capital Partners.

The financial institution now has 51 full-service banking locations across New Jersey, Brooklyn and Staten Island, and approximately $7.37 billion in assets.

In its 2020 rankings of top in-state financial institutions, two of the top companies have their headquarters in New Jersey.

The nonprofit, launched in June by former Gov. Chris Christie and his wife Mary Pat, provides forgivable funding to companies recovering from COVID-19 crisis.

Earlier in the week, the Tinton Falls-based company announced it had scooped up Pinnacle Insurance Group of Indiana.

“Withum operates at the forefront of innovation. This step is an invaluable enhancement of our mission to help our clients to be in a position of strength and thrive in the 21st century," said Managing Partner and CEO Bill Hagaman.

Ten nonprofits dedicated to providing housing in New Jersey obtained $10,000 through the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York COVID-19 program.

Despite New Jersey being the second worst-hit state by the COVID-19 pandemic and an epicenter when the virus struck in mid-March, the state’s gross domestic product avoided some of the worst economic havoc during the first quarter of 2020.

M&T Bank has invested $1 million in support of New Jersey Community Capital’s Garden State Relief Fund, which provides working capital loans to small businesses and nonprofits negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. NJCC, a community development financial institution, launched the Garden State Relief Fund in March to meet the growing financial needs of small ...

The CEO of Blueprint Capital Advisors talks about the firm's dispute with state, economic disparities in New Jersey and whether a real climate of change is taking hold around the country.