Goldman Sachs has ended a ban on underwriting companies with all-white, all-male boards, becoming the latest corporate giant to scale back a DEI initiative.

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon is scrapping a key DEI policy that banned the bank from doing IPOs for companies with white, all-male boards. It marks a major U-turn for Goldman amid a White House-led crackdown on what the Trump administration believes to be discriminatory hiring policies in the private sector.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is killing a significant pledge it made to refuse initial public offering business with companies that had all White, male boards.

Goldman Sachs is ending its policy that mandated companies have a diverse board for the bank to take them public. The rule, a version of which was implemented in 2020, had said the bank would only underwrite the initial public offerings for companies in the U.

Goldman Sachs is canceling a pledge to ensure diversity on the boards of companies it helps go public. Why it matters: It's the latest corporate rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives following conservative blowback and a series of court rulings calling certain quotas into question.