Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M — The acquisition will give the bank a digital small business platform while accelerating its technology and AI strategy.