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 introduced its diversity policy on boards in 2020, initially mandating that companies who wanted to float had to have one diverse member, before increasing it to two people.

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 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, equity, and inclusion] programs".

The vice chair of Goldman Sachs has announced the bank has axed a diversity rule which excludes white men. As a result of legal challenges and political scrutiny, the bank has dropped its IPO board diversity requirement entirely,