Company: FCNCB
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000798941-25-000010
Chunk: 108

Company: FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 108
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 and, with respect to some of our subsidiaries, by other financial regulatory agencies. The federal banking agencies have issued joint guidance on executive compensation designed to ensure that the incentive compensation policies of banking organizations take into account risk factors and are consistent with the safety and soundness of the organization. The guidance also provides that supervisory findings with respect to incentive compensation will be incorporated into the organization’s supervisory ratings, which can affect its ability to make acquisitions or other corporate decisions. The guidance further provides that the agencies may pursue enforcement actions against a banking organization if its incentive compensation and related risk management, control or governance processes pose a risk to the organization’s safe and sound practices. Enforcement actions may be taken against a banking organization if its incentive compensation arrangements, or related risk-management control or governance processes, pose a risk to the organization’s safety and soundness, and the organization is not taking prompt and effective measures to correct the deficiencies. Pursuant to SEC rules and the listing standards of the Nasdaq mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, Nasdaq listed companies are required to (i) adopt and implement a compliant incentive compensation clawback policy; (ii) file the clawback policy as an exhibit to their annual reports; and (iii) provide certain disclosures relating to any compensation recovery triggered by the clawback policy. Our clawback policy is filed as Exhibit 97 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition, the Dodd-Frank Act requires the federal banking agencies and the SEC to issue regulations requiring covered financial institutions to prohibit incentive compensation arrangements that encourage inappropriate risks by providing compensation that is excessive or that could lead to material financial loss to the institution. On May 6, 2024, the FDIC, the OCC and the Federal Housing Finance Agency issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPR”) to address incentive-based compensation arrangements. The proposed rule includes general qualitative requirements aimed at making incentive-compensation arrangements more sensitive to risk that are applicable to all covered financial institutions, as well as additional requirements for financial institutions with total consolidated assets of $50 billion or more. The prospects and timing for the adoption of the proposed rule remain uncertain because both the Federal Reserve and the SEC have not joined the proposal.

Artificial Intelligence

We are subject to regulation of our business and operations, including risk management, with respect to artificial intelligence (“AI”). In 2023, the Biden Administration issued an Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (“Executive Order 14110”) that required certain federal agencies, including the C