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If the state designated income tax paid by National Basketball Association players and team employees to cover the public's costs for building a new arena in Milwaukee, the funds could support approximately $150 million in state general obligation bonding, according to a new Legislative Fiscal Bureau report.

BizTimes Media has launched BizTracker, a new Wisconsin business news data digital streaming service for its readers.

Brookfield-based Fiserv Inc. announced Kevin Schultz has been named group president of a newly formed group comprised of the firm's consumer-focused electronic payment platforms and digital channel solutions.

Kenosha-based plastic injection molding company Xten Industries LLC has been sold out of bankruptcy to Mundelein, Ill.-based Commercial Plastics Co.

Milwaukee business executive Kevin Seiberlich and Hamilton Henry Capital have acquired Waukesha-based V&L Tool Inc.

Milwaukee-based investment advisory and financial planning firm McCarthy Grittinger Financial Group LLC has named two new partners: Matthew Miler CPA, CFP and Jacqueline Schneider, CFP.

Waukesha-based Prairie Financial Group, a division of Waukesha State Bank, has added three new senior wealth managers.

Milwaukee-based wealth management firm Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. has partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business to fill an expected talent gap in its industry.

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Atmosphere Engineering Co. started out in 2002 in the Milwaukee Enterprise Center, a business incubator formerly owned by Milwaukee Area Technical College.