Company: FCNCB
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-056659
Chunk: 128

Company: FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 128
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 their discretion to vote shares they hold for their customers on “routine” matters when no voting instructions are received from the beneficial owners of the shares. However, those rules prohibit brokers, banks, and other securities intermediaries from voting their customers’ shares on matters designated by the rules as “non-routine”unless the beneficial owners of the shares provide voting instructions. As a result, if your shares are held by a broker, bank, or other financial intermediary and you do not provide it with your voting instructions, it may still vote your shares at the Annual Meeting at its discretion on Proposal 3 to ratify the appointment of our independent accountants (which is considered a “routine” matter). However, your broker, bank, or other financial intermediary may not vote your shares at the Annual Meeting in the election of our directors or on Proposal 2 (which are considered “non-routine”matters) unless you provide it with your voting instructions. To ensure that your shares held by a broker, bank, or other financial intermediary are represented at the Annual Meeting and voted as you desire on all matters, it is important that you instruct it as to how it should vote your shares.

| Q: | Who can help answer my questions about submitting my proxy or voting instructions? |

| A: | If you are a record holder of your shares and have any questions about how to submit your proxy, you may contact Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions at 855-449-0981. If your shares are held for you by a broker, bank, custodian, or other nominee and you have questions about submitting your voting instructions, you should contact your broker, bank, custodian, or nominee. |

| Q: | Who is soliciting proxies, and who is paying solicitation expenses? |

| A: | Our Board is asking you to appoint the Proxies to vote your shares at the Annual Meeting. In addition to solicitation by mail, our and FCB’s directors, officers, and associates may solicit proxy appointments, personally or by telephone, electronic mail, or other methods of communication, but they will not receive any additional compensation from us for doing so. |

We will pay all costs of our solicitation of proxy appointments for the Annual Meeting, including costs of preparing and mailing this proxy statement and expenses associated with the telephone and Internet voting facilities. We are requesting banks, brokers, custodians, and other nominees and fiduciaries to forward copies of our proxy solicitation materials to the beneficial holders of the shares they hold and