Goldman Sachs has ended its restriction on underwriting companies with all-White, all-male boards in the United States and Western Europe, becoming the latest corporate behemoth to evaluate its equity and inclusion practices at a time when President Donald Trump is stepping up attacks on DEI policies.

Goldman Sachs has ended its policy requiring IPO clients to have diverse boards, citing a legal ruling that ended a similar initiative at the Nasdaq.

Goldman Sachs is ending its policy that mandated companies have a diverse board for the bank to take them public. The rule, a version of which was implemented in 2020, had said the bank would only underwrite the initial public offerings for companies in the U.

Goldman Sachs (GS) is reportedly reversing its policy that barred companies with all-white, male boards from going public, dropping the diversity requirement it set in 2020.

Goldman Sachs have become the latest company to scrap their diversity programmes following the Trump administration’s signing of an executive order which was aimed at ending "radical and wasteful government DEI [diversity,

Goldman Sachs cancelled a four-year-old policy to only take public companies that had two diverse board members, a spokesperson for the bank said on Tuesday, in the latest such move by corporations expecting greater scrutiny on social policies from U.

CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin reports on the latest news.