A publishing philosophy is not a mission statement, a list of content pillars, or a style guide. Those are useful things, but none of them answer the question a content team faces when a senior leader asks for a thought leadership piece on a topic that has nothing to do with what the team has been building. Content teams without a publishing philosophy bend to the loudest voice in the room. Content teams with one have a basis for the conversations that actually determine whether thought leadership gets built. |
How regulation killed the community bank and what's being done to fix it
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America has lost more than 2,000 community banks since 2010, and the ripple effects are being felt hardest in rural and small-town America, where these institutions are often the only source of credit for farmers, small businesses, and local families.
The culprit is a regulatory environment that made starting a new bank nearly impossible and running an existing one increasingly exhausting. Now, OCC Comptroller Jonathan Gould is pushing back, streamlining the chartering process, cutting unnecessary compliance burdens, and even flagging AI as a potential equalizer for smaller institutions.
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