Banking & Finance

The Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce has named new members to its Board of Directors for 2012.

Precision Castparts Corp., a Portland, Ore.-based Fortune 500 company, has acquired Mayville Die and Tool Inc., a machining company in Mayville.

The Bank of Montreal recently conducted its 194th annual meeting of shareholders, where it reflected on a record year of double-digit revenues and earnings growth.

Congress has given many business owners an incredible tax bonus by increasing the lifetime gift tax exemption amount to more than $5 million, but only until the end of this year. Barring additional legislative action, that exemption will expire and be reduced to only $1 million. This gift tax exemption level provides many business owners an unprecedented opportunity to pass on the family business free of exposure to wealth transfer taxes.

Global Payments Inc., which processes Visa and Master Card credit cards and debit cards for banks and merchants, has been violated by a massive security breach.

Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. announced today that it has acquired Turotest, a leader in the design and manufacture of instrument panels, gauges and senders serving the Brazilian agriculture and industrial markets.

Mitchell Bank, an independent community bank established in Milwaukee in 1907, has named banking veteran Thomas Hart as president and a member of its board of directors.

Milwaukee-based private investment firm Lubar & Co. has invested in Drilltec, a Houston-based company that makes products used in...

Precision Castparts Corp., a Portland, Ore.-based Fortune 500 company, has acquired Mayville Die and Tool Inc., a machining company in Mayville.

Francis Investment Counsel, a Pewaukee fee-only Registered Investment Advisor, has been named one of the Top 100 Retirement Plan...