New York

Provident's investment adviser unit will have nearly $3 billion in assets under management after it buys Tirschwell & Loewy.

The company will pay $93 million for Kinderhook Bank, which has a concentration of branches around Albany.

Executives at Key pushed back against doubts over a deal for Laurel Road Bank’s digital lending platform so late in the credit cycle, arguing that its customers are prime borrowers with high incomes.

The company owning brands such as Kay Jewelers and Jared the Galleria of Jewelry will pay $11 million under a settlement with the consumer bureau and New York's attorney general.

The company's fourth-quarter results were also stymied by costs tied to severance and litigation, along with investments in technology.

Visa is working with handbag designer Rebecca Minkoff to debut a global program to fuel networking among women business owners, while also connecting them to companies in the Visa ecosystem such as Square and Yelp.

New York’s BitLicense regulation, which has resulted in only four license per year, is due for an informed revamping, argues Phil Berg, a lawyer at Otterbourg.

The tricky part: raising awareness without appearing to take advantage of borrowers at a time when agencies like the SBA are out of commission.

New York isn’t giving up on the digital-ledger technology that makes Bitcoin and other tokens work even after last year’s collapse of the cryptocurrency market.

The number of states not allowing surcharging on credit card purchases continues to dwindle, as New York now gives merchants the option to charge fees as long as they make the costs clear to consumers.