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Oritani Financial Corp

A community bank that grew out of a New Jersey building-and-loan association founded in Hackensack in 1911, Oritani Financial Corp ran roughly two dozen full-service branches across northern New Jersey plus lending offices in New York City. It served everyday customers with savings, home loans, and other personal banking before being acquired by Valley National Bancorp in 2019. Its name echoes the word for a "folded valley" in Japanese, though the bank never officially explained the choice.