business models are allowed to compete and succeed in serving the needs of their communities. To achieve that goal, we all must stand together as an industry and resist efforts to divide us. Past experience has taught us that we are stronger and most effective in our advocacy when we speak with one voice and that there can be harmful consequences when we don’t. In the days to come, there will be many conversations about the future of banking regulation, about potential changes to the deposit insurance system and what we can do to preserve the depth and diversity of our banking system. By speaking with a united voice on these and other issues, we can move our industry forward and work with policymakers to understand what happened at SVB, Signature and First Republic. But, even more importantly, we can reinforce the overwhelming strength and resilience of the U.S. banking sector and lift up the work our nation’s banks do every day to make our communities better. w Email Rob at nichols@aba.com. 7 THE ARIZONA BANKER
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