The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has developed a curriculum that is helping college graduates accomplish the unthinkable: finding banking jobs in a post-crisis operating environment.

Our roundtable panelists discuss the best ways that banks can deploy capital in 2012.

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With the failure rate expected to decline next year, the FDIC is getting the chance to focus on other priorities, including finishing implementation of Dodd-Frank and ensuring it is ready for the next crisis.

The District of Columbia government keeps most of its deposits at Bank of America, but that could change under a proposal the city council is mulling that would require the city to shift some funds to community banks.

A Florida holding company formed in 2008 to buy troubled banks has struck another deal in the Tampa Bay area after calling off its previous acquisition.

The mortgage market is expected to change dramatically in the coming year as some of the largest banks cede loan-origination market share to regional banks and non-bank mortgage lenders.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago has received the go-ahead from its regulator to begin repurchasing stock from its member banks.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has ordered First St. Charles Bancshares Inc. in Boutte, La., to use whatever resources necessary to ensure that its bank subsidiary, First National Bank USA, remains well capitalized.

Former comptroller Eugene Ludwig talks about the competitive threat from unregulated financial firms and why banks should want the new consumer protection bureau to have a permanent director soon.

Commerce Bancshares Inc.'s banking unit has agreed to pay $18.3 million to settle a class action involving overdraft fees.

The Federal Reserve has fined two banks for violations of the National Flood Insurance Act.

2011 was the slowest year for bank M&A in two or three decades, depending on whose count you use. Don't expect a big wave next year, though pressure on small banks to sell will intensify.

Edwin Hale officially stepped down Thursday as chairman and CEO of 1st Mariner in Baltimore. The banking company named interim successors.

Continental Illinois' internal auditors had been documenting the deterioration of underwriting quality. Unfortunately, no one listened.

United Bankshares in Charleston, W. Va., and local organizations in the Washington area figured out that cooperating on a bike program could improve big-city commutes, recruit new customers and help the unbanked.

Peoples Bancorp Inc. in Marietta, Ohio, plans to repay its remaining $18 million of federal aid next week.

United Community Financial Corp. in Youngstown, Ohio, completed another step in its capital-raising plan with the sale of four branches to Croghan Bancshares Inc. in Fremont, Ohio.

Synovus Financial Corp. President and Chief Executive Kessel D. Stelling will take on the additional title of chairman when Richard E. Anthony steps down from the position on Jan. 1.

First American Bank Corp. in Elk Grove Village, Ill., has repaid $15 million of the $50 million it received from the Troubled Asset Relief Program with funds it raised in a recent stock sale.