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Goldman Sachs plans to drop DEI from board-candidate criteria, WSJ reports

Goldman Sachs plans to drop diversity, equity, and inclusion criteria amid industry DEI rollbacks and legal challenges; DEI shareholder support in the US dropped to 8%, Bloomberg Intelligence reported.

  • This month Goldman Sachs plans to remove DEI criteria from its board recruitment process, with its board of five women and nine men expected to approve the change, the Wall Street Journal reported.
  • Following a September request from the U.S. National Legal and Policy Center, a federal appeals court on Feb. 6 rejected a challenge to the ban on DEI programs, which Abigail Jackson called `big win`.
  • Earlier proxy statements showed that Goldman Sachs listed race, gender identity, and sexual orientation among factors for nominating directors, while last year the bank dropped diversity targets from a regulatory filing and abandoned an IPO pledge.
  • Goldman declined to comment through a Hong Kong spokesperson, while the WSJ reported that rollbacks at Citigroup and Bank of America mirror this development.
  • The statistic on shareholder votes highlights a wider retreat across Wall Street banks broadly, as Bloomberg Intelligence found support for DEI proposals fell to 8 percent last year, down from 14 percent.
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The US bank Goldman Sachs is weighing to dispense with the criteria of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) - qualified as part of the...

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Reuters broke the news in United Kingdom on Tuesday, February 17, 2026.
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