JPMorgan, Goldman CEOs Resist Calls to Roll Back DEI Programs

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are pushing back on demands to roll back their diversity initiatives.

In television appearances Wednesday, the chief executive officers of the two New York-based firms said they’re going to continue to focus on programs to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in their workforces and customer bases even as shareholder activists push them to change course.

“Bring them on,” JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said in a CNBC interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Jamie Dimon

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Dimon said that working to include marginalized groups in JPMorgan’s business is good for its ...