Goldman Sachs will no longer bar companies with all White boards from receiving IPO services as business after business drops DEI in the wake of Trump's executive orders.

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 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.

Goldman Sachs (GS) is reportedly reversing its policy that barred companies with all-white, male boards from going public, dropping the diversity requirement it set in 2020.

Goldman Sachs cancelled a four-year-old policy to only take public companies that had two diverse board members, a spokesperson for the bank said on Tuesday, in the latest such move by corporations expecting greater scrutiny on social policies from U.