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Thank you for your interest in writing an article for the American Bankers Association's bimonthly magazine ABA Risk and Compliance Magazine.
ABA Risk and Compliance Magazine is the source for timely, authoritative analysis of the ever-changing regulatory environment.
Story ideas for bank compliance-related topics not already on the editorial calendar, as well as those on the calendar, are always welcome. See below for the query process.
Our readers are compliance professionals at banks of all asset sizes. View the complete reader profile. All CRCMs, CERPs, and CAFPs receive the magazine and can earn Continuing Education Credits by passing a quiz based on our content.
Byline and Bio: ABA Risk and Compliance Magazine does not offer payment for articles. However, authors receive a byline and a biography (up to 150 words) at the end of the article. Bios include information about the author’s company. Columns include a headshot of the author(s).
Complimentary copies / Reprints: Authors will receive five complimentary copies of the magazine in which their article appears. The author’s publicist or marketing representative will receive one additional copy. Bulk copies of the entire magazine are available when purchased in advance. Reprints are available in quantities of 100 or more to authors at a discount. For more information, contact The YGS Group at (717) 430-2205.
Continuing Education Credit for Certified Regulatory Compliance Managers (CRCMs), Certified Enterprise Risk Professionals (CERPs), and Certified AML and Fraud Professionals (CAFPs): ABA Professional Certifications offers continuing education (CE) credits to each CRCM, CERP, and CAFP who writes for ABA Risk and Compliance Magazine. You will receive five credits for each published article. The maximum credits allowed is 20 per CE cycle. Credits are added automatically to the author’s certification record. CE credit questions should be directed to the ABA Professionals Certifications Team at [email protected].
Each author is required to sign a standard author agreement that acknowledges the material submitted is his or her own, and grants ABA the permission to publish their material. Full ownership of the text is retained by the author or authors. View a sample Author Agreement.
Authors must provide the editor with their full name (plus acronyms), title, company/bank, physical address, telephone number and email for creation of the agreement. If the author, or their publicist or marketing representative, would like copies of the issue sent to their home, that address must be provided too.
The Author Agreement will come from ABA’s Legal Department in the form of a DocuSign document. Only the individual author can be sent the DocuSign agreement. Advance notification email will immediately precede the document for signature. Others, such as a publicist, can be copied on the notification email, but not the DocuSign agreement itself.
Since the author retains full ownership of their text, the text may be published on a company’s website, in white papers, in other company materials and on public sites such as LinkedIn, with attribution to ABA Risk and Compliance Magazine.
ABA owns the magazine’s layout and design and pays for one-time use only of all stock artwork. Authors may not distribute, post or use the original article using the magazine’s artwork or layout and design, without first obtaining copyright permission.
Our Editorial Advisory Board members are bankers and practitioners who review story ideas for appropriateness, approve topics, provide direction to potential authors, and review final manuscripts. They reserve the right to reject any story and serve as the eyes and ears in the industry for the Editor.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the board, please contact the Editor to see if there is an opening in your field of specialization. All board members must have held positions of leadership on other ABA boards and have written articles published in the magazine prior to application. Advisors should be excellent writers, editors, and exceptional compliance managers.
We have a long lead time and if you see a topic on the editorial calendar that interests you, please pitch four to six months in advance. For example, January topics are usually assigned in August and completed by late October. The exception is when guidance is finalized during our production cycle and deadlines must be compressed.
We are always looking for new ideas that are not on the editorial calendar. If you’d like to submit a story idea, please send an e-mail to the editor, Laine Crosby, with the topic idea described in a few paragraphs.
If selected, you’ll be asked for a more detailed outline to be reviewed by the magazine’s Advisory Board to ensure your material has not already covered and to allow for feedback. Once the outline is approved, the Editor will assign a deadline. Placement in a specific issue is not guaranteed. Timing is partially dependent on the space and positioning of topics within each issue, the time and number of reviewers, and the quality of the final submission.
Please allow two months for the review process to be completed.
Once an article query has been accepted and assigned, all final manuscripts must be submitted at 8 to 10 weeks prior to the publication date, unless otherwise agreed to by the Editor.
Issue | Due Date |
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January/February | October 15 (of the prior year) |
March/April | January 3 |
May/June | March 1 |
July/August | April 15 |
September/October | July 1 |
November/December | September 1 |
If you need more detail, contact the editor, Laine Crosby at [email protected].