Company: FCNCB
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-056659
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Company: FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: DEF 14A
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 matters related to our business, and the Board has established a process described below by which you may send written communications to our Board, committees, or independent directors as a group, or to one or more individual directors, including our Lead Independent Director.

| Mail your correspondence to:                                                                                                                                 |     | Email your correspondence to:  |
| Board of Directors First Citizens BancShares, Inc. Attention: Corporate Secretary Post Office Box 27131 (Mail Code FCC22) Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7131 |     | fcbdirectors@firstcitizens.com |

You should indicate whether your communication is directed to the entire Board, to a particular committee of the Board or its chairperson, or to one or more individual directors. All communications will be reviewed by our Corporate Secretary and, with the exception of communications our Corporate Secretary considers to be unrelated to a director’s duties and responsibilities or our business, forwarded to the intended recipients.

| 2025 Annual Proxy Statement |     | 25 |

Corporate Governance

Code of Ethics

| Our Boards have adopted a Code of Ethics that applies to all executive officers, directors, and associates, including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and other senior financial officers who have primary responsibility for our financial reporting and accounting functions. A copy of the Code is posted on FCB’s website and may be found atir.firstcitizens.com/corporate-governance/governance-documents. Our Boards have also adopted a code of ethics that applies to contingent workers engaged on a temporary basis through contractual agreements to provide services to FCB. 
 In addition to its other purposes listed in the table, the Code of Ethics includes provisions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | OUR CODE OF ETHICS IS                                                                                                                                                                           
 INTENDED TO PROMOTE:                                                                                                                                                                            |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | ●honest and ethical conduct;                                                                                                                                                                    
 ●the ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships;                                                                              
 ●full, fair, accurate, timely, and understandable disclosure in reports and documents that we file with or submit to the SEC and banking regulators and in other public communications we make; 
 ●compliance with applicable governmental laws, rules, and regulations;                                                                                                                          
 ●prompt internal reporting of violations of the Code of Ethics; and                                                                                                                             
 ●accountability for adherence to the Code.                                                                                                                                                      |

which prohibit all directors, executive officers and other associates from engaging in investment practices that violate securities laws or regulations,