ABA Risk and Compliance Magazine Editorial Calendar

March/April 2025

• AI
• Fair servicing
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Risks in Bank-Fintech Partnerships

Completed articles due by December 16, 2024
Advertising space closing: February 3, 2025
Advertising materials due: February 10, 2025

May/June 2025

• Bank-Fintech Partnerships
• Insider Threat Risk
• Succession Planning
• Appraisals and Valuation

Completed articles due by February 17, 2025
Advertising space closing: April 1, 2025
Advertising materials due: April 8, 2025

July/August 2025

• Fraud Risk
• Geotargeting
• Risk Management (looking for articles)

Completed articles due by April 15, 2025
Advertising space closing: June 2, 2025
Advertising materials due: June 9, 2025

September/October 2025

• Seeking pitches for the financial crimes issue

Completed articles due by June 16, 2025
Advertising space closing: August 1, 2025
Advertising materials due: August 8, 2025

Helpful suggestions

We are currently accepting queries for articles on the following topics:

• The Compliance implications of the FinCEN proposal on allowing banks to share SARs with their own foreign branches—once the final rule is available.
• How banks are dealing (or going to deal) with state level ESG requirements.
• Fraud in specific areas

Each issue has “Compliance Fundamentals” column reviewing the basics of specific issues or regulations. Articles are 1,500-2,000 words. We are accepting pitches for any topic covered on the CRCM exam. Possible topics include:

• Information Security Provisions of GLBA/FFIEC Guidelines
• Office of Foreign Asset Control Regulations (Basics)
• Impact of rising rates on credit and liquidity.
• Concentration risk—what it is, what Risk and Compliance should know.

We are NOT accepting articles on the following topics:

• CRA
• 1071
• 1033

If you would like to suggest deep-dive articles on topics, please send queries to the editor, Laine Crosby, at [email protected].