Brenda Horstman

The Missouri Division of Finance's strategic plan aims to maintain public trust in the state's financial system and ensure a fair marketplace for industry participants. Key areas of focus include safeguarding deposit and trust assets, ensuring consumer protections, and maintaining leadership among regulatory agencies. The plan emphasizes initiatives to improve safety and soundness, compliance, and regulatory processes. It also highlights the importance of fostering a positive work culture through collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. Outcomes include effective and timely examinations, consistent regulatory oversight, transparent communication with stakeholders, and efficient operations.

The strategic plan focuses on transforming the Department of Economic Development to better compete and win in key industry clusters such as financial services, agribusiness, entertainment and media, aerospace and defense, energy solutions, cross-sector manufacturing, automotive and transportation, life sciences, education, health care, and IT. It aims to increase the number and productivity of Missouri's workforce by connecting Missourians with work, developing a labor market that works, building infrastructure, and fostering collaboration. The plan emphasizes a regionally targeted, customer-centric, and data-driven approach to economic development.