Tag: Regions Financial

For over a decade, the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index (CEI) has operated less like a voluntary survey and more like a protection racket with a glossy annual report. Companies submitted, complied and bragged about their LGBTQ-friendliness. The alternative – public shaming, activist investor pressure, reputational artillery – was too costly to contemplate. Then, rather suddenly, it wasn’t.

The Republic’s commercial institutions need not choose between principle and profit. They need only remember which principles their charters were designed to serve. 

While other Republican-led states have taken comprehensive action to protect their citizens and pension funds from ideologically driven investment practices, Alabama has fallen dangerously behind in safeguarding its financial interests.

Regions has the chance to become the bank that Alabamians genuinely want and deserve: one that serves customers without political litmus tests, invests based on sound financial principles rather than social agendas, and treats all people with equal dignity and respect.

The time has come to expect more from Regions – and from any institution that benefits from Alabama’s trust while betraying Alabama’s values. 

It’s time for Regions to abandon political posturing.