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Coastal Banking Co. in Beaufort, S.C., promoted Charles Wagner to president and hired Thomas Flournoy to be its new chief financial officer.

Sometimes the very challenges millennials introduce — whether it is seeking more benefits, demanding flexible schedules or asking for frequent feedback on performance — can turn banks into better places to work for employees of all ages.

HomeBanc's chairman and chief executive, Jerry Campbell, prefers not to be addressed as "Mr. Campbell." If an employee of any rank has a question, "Hey, Jerry" suffices.

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

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.

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.

Banco do Brasil, the largest bank by assets in South America, wants to make more of a name for itself in the United States. It expects a new online banking platform to help draw mainstream consumers, and says an expansion from South Florida into the Northeast is likely.

Stonegate Bank in Pompano Beach, Fla., could be getting close to announcing another acquisition.

The former C1 Financial chief, expected to play a critical role at Bank of the Ozarks, resigned just a week after his company's sale. Thanks to a lengthy noncompete, it could take years to determine his next move.

EverBank Financial in Jacksonville, Fla., confirmed that it is in talks to sell itself.

EverBank Financial, the largest bank based in Florida by deposits, is exploring a sale after receiving interest from a potential suitor, according to people familiar with the matter.

BankUnited in Miami Lakes, Fla., on Wednesday reported higher quarterly profits, driven in part by an uptick in fee income from equipment-lease financing.

The $25 billion-asset company said in a press release Tuesday that BankUnited Small Business Finance is now making loans in Ohio, Washington and Wisconsin.