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ABA Risk and Compliance Magazine Editorial Calendar

All editorial topics are tentative. Full Author Guidelines and ABA Media Guide are available online.

*Article topics with assigned authors
Please email all pitches to rcmageditor@aba.com

November/December 2025

  • Convergence of Sanctions and AML Regimes*
  • Geolocation use in banking*
  • Fair Lending and data proxy methodology*
  • Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Review*
  • The intersection of fraud and complaints*
  • Retail Organized crime*
  • Managed Service Models within a Financial Crime Program*
  • Personal liability of Compliance officers*

Completed articles due by August 15, 2025
Advertising space closing: October 1, 2025
Advertising materials due: October 8, 2025

January/February 2026

  • 2026 Look-Ahead: Risk, Regulation, and Innovation
  • The role of AI in Sanctions Compliance*
  • AI in banking (101)*
  • AI Governance*
  • Federated learning and AI*

Completed articles due by October 15, 2025
Advertising space closing: December 1, 2025
Advertising materials due: December 8, 2025

March/April 2026

  • Open for article pitches
  • (CAMELS) Ratings: Capital Adequacy, Asset Quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity, and Sensitivity*

Completed articles due by December 1, 2025
Advertising space closing: February 2, 2026
Advertising materials due: February 9, 2026

Seeking submissions on the following topics:

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

General

  • How did your bank use AI in risk and compliance [Magazine editor will interview the bank’s compliance or risk manager]
  • Overview of U.S. regulatory rulemaking — how laws, rules, and guidance move from inception to finalization, the roles and authority of key regulatory bodies, how CFPB interagency guidance fits into the legal framework, and where to find official rules and procedures

Risk

  • Fraud in specific areas
  • Pricing models: Models for pricing credit transactions.
  • Valuation models: Automated valuation models, option pricing models, asset pricing models.
  • Market risk models: VaR, interest rate risk, and liquidity risk
  • Operational risk models: Loss distribution approach, scenario modeling (other than capital scenarios)
  • Marketing models: Customer behavior, response rates, churn prediction, segmentation, clustering
  • Asset-liability management: Tools used for ALM.
  • Deepfake risks in identity verification and Know Your Customer (KYC)
  • Risk governance during mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

Compliance:

  • Any topics covered on the CRCM exam
  • Information Security Provisions of GLBA/FFIEC Guidelines (Basics)
  • Office of Foreign Asset Control Regulations (Basics)