Economic Development

PNC’s Corporate Banking Group and Schenck S.C. will host “Business and Banking in China” on Wednesday, May 21, from 7 to 9 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 10499 W. Innovation Drive in Wauwatosa.

Milwaukee-based LauberCFOs Inc. has assisted with the launch of a new industry association, the Finance and Accounting Consultants Alliance.

U.S. Bank has become the first large bank in the country to offer Brookfield-based Fiserv Inc.’s person-to-person social payment technology.

Milwaukee-based private investment group SFM Investments LLC has acquired the assets of St. Francis-based Fontarome Chemical Inc. and its wholly owned French subsidiary FCI SAS out of chapter 128 receivership.

Brookfield-based Sitzberger Widmann & Company S.C. and Milwaukee-based Hau & Associates have merged their public accounting firms.

The United Community Center will honor a lineup of area leaders who have significantly contributed to the development and well-being of the community during its 44th Anniversary Celebration on Friday, May 2.

The NBA will reserve the right to buy back the Milwaukee Bucks from incoming owners Wesley Edens and Mark Lasry if a deal to a build a new arena in the city is not in place by November 2017.

The Accounting & Financial Women's Alliance-Milwaukee Chapter will host a half day workshop with renowned stress and resilience expert Paula Davis-Laack on Friday, June 6, from 7:30 a.m. to noon at the Radisson Hotel, 2303 N. Mayfair Road in Wauwatosa.

Racine-based Modine Manufacturing Inc. has been upgraded from “neutral” to “outperform” rating by analysts at Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc.

Brown Deer-based Badger Meter Inc.’s stock has been upgraded by investment analysts at Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating.
Baird has a new $57 per share price objective for Badger Meter’s stock, up from a previous price objective of $54.