Luggage maker Airways Industries Inc. retains firm.

The three-year revolving credit facility was provided by Germany’s WestLB and represents a securitization of short-term mortgage loans originated by Metro Funding in the United States

Cable TV services provider Comcast Corp. of Philadelphia today announced a $483 million cash deal to buy cable systems owned and operated by Patriot Media & Communications, a Greenwich, Conn.-based company with substantial assets in New Jersey. Comcast will

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FX Solutions receives more than $100 million in venture capital from private equity investment firm Francisco Partners.

Provident Financial Services Inc. in Jersey City has completed its previously announced deal to acquire First Morris Bank & Trust for $62 million in cash and about 3.3 million shares of Provident common stock. The combined company has assets of some $6.3 billion and 84 branches in 10 counties throughout northern and central New Jersey. Provident

Citi’s Commercial Business Group has agreed to sell its U.S. Business Technology Finance unit to CIT, a New York City-based commercial and consumer finance company. The BTF business, based in Mahwah, has approximately

Anadigics raised nearly $99 million in a public equity offering of 8.6 million shares. The 22-year-old company earned a profit of $51 million on revenue of about $170 million last year.

Parsippany firm J. B. Hanauer & Co. was bought by the Royal Bank of Canada’s U.S. brokerage subsidiary RBC Dain Rauscher of Minneapolis

PHH Corp. is brought for $1.8 billion in cash by the financial services arm of General Electric Co.

The action came after Voxware failed to meet Nasdaq requirements, including falling below $500,000 of net income from continuing operations for the most recently completed

Pharmos Corp. has been awarded a grant by the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) of Israel's Ministry of Industry to support the development of