Company: FCNCB
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-056659
Chunk: 127

Company: FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 127
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 other similar nominee is considered the record holder of shares it holds for you and must vote them for you, or appoint the proxies to vote them for you, at the Annual Meeting. As a result, for your shares to be voted, you will need to give instructions to your brokerage firm, bank, custodian, or other nominee on how you want it to vote the shares it holds for you. You can do that in one of the following ways.

| Voting Methods     |     | Street Name Holder                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Mail               |     | Follow the directions contained in the voting instruction form your broker or nominee sends you with this proxy statement and give it instructions as to how it should vote your shares by marking and returning to it the voting instruction form.                          |
| Internet           |     | Follow the directions contained in the voting instruction form your broker or nominee sends you with this proxy statement and give it instructions by Internet as to how it should vote your shares.                                                                         |
| Telephone          |     | Follow the directions contained in the voting instruction form your broker or nominee sends you with this proxy statement and give it instructions by telephone as to how it should vote your shares.                                                                        |
| During the Meeting |     | You can participate in the Annual Meeting and, using the 16-digit Control Number printed on the voting instruction form you received from your broker or nominee with this proxy statement, follow the instructions on the meeting website to give your voting instructions. |

| 2025 Annual Proxy Statement |     | 87 |

Frequently Asked Questions About the Virtual Annual Meeting If you hold shares in more than one brokerage or nominee account, each of your brokers or nominees will have sent you a separate voting instruction form, each containing a unique 16-digitControl Number for shares held in your account that it holds. If you wish to give your brokers or nominees voting instructions before the meeting for all shares they hold for you, you should mark allvoting instruction forms you received and return them to your brokers or nominees. Or, if you hold shares in more than one brokerage or nominee account and you want to participate in the Annual Meeting remotely and give your voting instructions on the meeting website, you will need to log into the meeting website and give your voting instructions for shares covered by each voting instruction form you received separately using the Control Number on each voting instruction form. Rules of the New York Stock Exchange (which also are applicable to Nasdaq-listed companies) generally permit brokers, banks, and other securities intermediaries that are subject to those rules to use