2023年5月5日

3分钟阅读乔Buglewicz /彭博KeyCorp说,种族股本将进行第三方审计来衡量,其多样性和股本项目产生影响的内部和所服务的社区。分析,被认为是第一个这样的一个地区银行的审计,将由科温顿•柏灵律师事务所,这是之前选定执行类似的评论花旗集团(Citigroup)和富国银行(Wells Fargo)。结果预计将在2024年年中发表,将包括来自内部和外部的利益相关者,输入关键周四在一份新闻稿中说。去年秋天,养老基金由工会服务业雇员国际工会提起股东决议敦促主要的董事会种族权益进行独立审计,Renaye Manley战略计划副主任SEIU告诉美国银行家。决定提交一项决议是基于关注关键的贷款记录借款人和公司承诺为黑色的165亿美元的社会福利协议谈判是2016年收购的一部分,Manley说。决议呼吁分析关键的“非白人的利益相关者和社会的不利影响颜色,“根据一份由美国银行家获得的文本。它还要求信息”步骤,关键是采取减轻这些影响”,并敦促该公司从各种来源,包括反馈包括民权组织,员工和客户,在其网站上提供的结果。Manley说股东提案被撤回,因为关键“同意大幅实现决议。”As a result, it did not appear in Key's 2023 proxy statement. "The agreement is they would conduct the audit," Manley said, "and we expect them to reach out to us to gather more information and talk to impacted stakeholders and communities." KeyCorp, the $197.5 billion-asset parent company of KeyBank, declined on Thursday to make anyone available for an interview. In a statement, the bank said that it has "discussed the possibility of a racial equity audit with a number of stakeholders" including SEIU, and has "decided to move forward with it at this time." "We believe this engagement is an important part of our journey to continue advancing our diversity, equity and inclusion priorities while identifying potential areas of opportunities," the bank said. The announcement of a racial equity audit came about four weeks after approximately 80 community development and fair-lending groups sent a letter to federal regulators calling for an investigation into KeyBank's mortgage lending practices for alleged redlining. The March 31 letter to the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency also sought a downgrade of the bank's Community Reinvestment Act rating and an examination of how well it complied with commitments it made in the 2016 community benefits agreement. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, which led the letter-writing effort, has been highly critical of Key's mortgage lending record to Black borrowers in recent months. The group published a report last November with several striking findings, including data showing that, among the nation's top 50 mortgage lenders, KeyBank had the lowest percentage of mortgage originations to Black borrowers in 2021. The report also showed that Key ranked near the bottom in terms of the percentage of originations to minority borrowers. April 27, 2023 7:17 PM Several data points from that report, including data about KeyBank's lending record to low- and moderate-income borrowers, were cited in the SEIU pension fund's resolution. On Thursday, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition reacted harshly to Key's announcement of a racial equity audit. Jesse Van Tol, the group's president and CEO, said in a press release: "It's a shame that it took pressure from shareholders for KeyBank to acknowledge they have a problem." The SEIU pension fund has previously submitted shareholder resolutions for racial equity audits at the asset manager BlackRock and the trust bank State Street. Both have since agreed to conduct such analyses.