Company: FCNCB
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-056659
Chunk: 26

Company: FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 26
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 common platforms, vendor partners, and technologies. Importantly, from both the SVB Acquisition and the CIT Merger we gained a dedicated group of professional bankers, including those with deep experience in supporting the innovation economy. While the past few years have been a transformational period for us given the transactions with CIT and SVB, our relationship-based, client-centered approach remains as it has for more than a century. We put our clients first, embrace differences, respect and have empathy for one another, collaborate as a team, and are forward thinking. These values unite our associates and guide us as we provide a positive experience for our clients, colleagues, and communities, while building long-term value for our company and stockholders. Human Resources Strategy

| Our ability to attract, retain, and develop associates is critical to our success. We prioritize supporting our business by striving to ensure we have the right talent in the right jobs and with the right skills to fulfill our strategic objectives.   Our vision is realized by cultivating a foundation that includes both a strong business strategy and a unified culture. A relationship-based, client-centered, and long-term focused approach supports our strategic objectives and reinforces a culture that prioritizes shared values and behaviors. These unwavering commitments position us to support our clients, colleagues, and communities in pursuing their greatest ambitions. Our client-centric approach has always been the bedrock of who we are, building deep and lasting relationships that prioritize the client experience. Our long-term focus allows us to make strategic decisions and investments designed to build long-term value and stability for all stakeholders, while skillfully managing risk along the way.   Our human resources team works to identify and deploy the critical talent needed to support these strategic objectives and our unified culture. We make talent attraction and retention a priority by offering learning and development opportunities, internal career mobility, a comprehensive total rewards package, and a welcoming values-based culture. |

| 2025 Annual Proxy Statement |     | 27 |

Corporate Governance Benefits.A strong focus on our associates’ well-being is part of our culture and integral to our total rewards philosophy. Recognizing that well-being is an individual journey, our competitive benefits program has been thoughtfully designed to provide associates with options to choose from in five well-being dimensions – physical, financial, emotional, social, and community. Supporting the health and well-being of our associates, we offer benefits that include, but are not limited to:

| ● |     | medical plan options that include telehealth, dental and vision plan options, and wellness programs; |

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