Banking & Finance

Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. reported fiscal 2015 first quarter net earnings of $13.6 million, or 25 cents per share, down from $24 million, or 44 cents per share, in the first quarter of 2014.

Elm Grove-based Annex Wealth Management LLC plans to open an office in the Lake Country area in western Waukesha County. The firm is in negotiations to lease 3,200 square feet of office space in the Purity Building at 2301 Sun Valley Drive in Delafield.

Startup accelerator gener8tor, which has locations in Milwaukee and Madison, has raised a $2.2 million fund, according to an SEC filing.

Arandell Corp., a Menomonee Falls-based provider catalog printing and omni-channel solutions, announced that board chairman Don Treis and his family have sold the company to president Brad Hoffman and other members of firm's management team.

Brookfield-based Fiserv Inc. has launched a Season of Giving campaign to donate to charity each time someone makes a person-to-person payment.

Green Bay-based Associated Bank plans to launch Apple Pay services for its debit card customers in mid-December.

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

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

Elm Grove-based Annex Wealth Management LLC plans to open an office in the Lake Country area in western Waukesha County. The firm is in negotiations to lease 3,200 square feet of office space in the Purity Building at 2301 Sun Valley Drive in Delafield.

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.