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Popular with employees: Employees compete in roughly six cooking contests a year for the chance to win a $25 gift card and bragging rights. Each competition, which is judged by coworkers, has a theme, such as a pumpkin pie throw-down in the fall.

Popular with employees: Ice breakers during meetings include employees submitting something about themselves in advance, like a favorite song or movie, and then guessing whose is whose.

Fitness/wellness program: A personal trainer teaches classes twice a week at one of the bank's branches and is available to all employees for consultations.

City National, No. 43 in the overall ranking, is No. 6 in the category for banks with $3 billion to $10 billion of assets.

Popular with employees: Competition is fierce in the office door decoration contest at Christmastime.

Stonegate Bank in Pompano Beach, Fla., has agreed to buy Insignia Bank in Sarasota, Fla.

ICBA Bancard has bought an agent bank portfolio from Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati that carries about $98 million in credit card receivables.

TIAA in New York has agreed to buy EverBank in Jacksonville, Fla.

TIAA is in talks to buy EverBank Financial, the largest Florida-based lender by deposits, to expand in internet banking, a person familiar with the discussions said, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are confidential.

Four years after the first states legalized marijuana, most bankers still want nothing to do with it.