There is a measured satisfaction in witnessing corporate America occasionally demonstrate that it can, indeed, listen to reason and respond constructively to legitimate concerns. Such is the case with Regions Bank, which has recently executed a commendable realignment with the values of its core constituency.

Credit must be rendered where credit is manifestly due. In July, this writer found it necessary, here , here and here , to subject Regions Bank to critical scrutiny regarding specific policies that seemed curiously detached from the values of its conservative customer base – particularly those in the Southeast, and most especially in Alabama, where the institution is headquartered.

The bank’s trajectory appeared to reflect that peculiar corporate malady of our time: the reflex

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