Bank of America has always been the bank of opportunity for our shareholders, our clients and customers, our communities and our teammates. We strive to make Bank of America a great place to work for our employees by providing access to a broad range of opportunities to achieve their professional goals and by maintaining a culture of caring for them and their families.
Since pledging our commitment to the UK Women in Finance Charter, we have made significant progress and recognise our shared responsibility to keep advancing. Bank of America is a company of talented employees who represent a diverse range of experiences, skills, backgrounds and perspectives across may dimensions. We are deliberate about the many ways we seek to create an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to achieve their career goals. This is core to our values, to our efforts to make Bank of America a great place to work and to delivering Responsible Growth for our clients, customers and communities around the globe. Recruiting, developing, supporting and retaining exceptional talent is critical to Responsible Growth.
Attracting exceptional talent: We know that we must focus on building a strong pipeline of talent, which means finding and hiring external candidates who are committed to our purpose and have a passion for serving our clients and communities. This spans programmes from entry-level hiring through more senior-level recruiting. We partner with more than 450 universities across the globe to attract talent to our entry-level campus programmes.
Developing our workforce: Part of the investment we make in our teammates is to help them learn new skills and explore their career interests, and we do that through The Academy at Bank of America, with programmes and resources to support teammates from their first day to their retirement. It is how we focus on being a company that people are proud to work for, where they feel cared for and are given the opportunity to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Supporting the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our people: It is core to our values and to Responsible Growth, and we continue to evolve our benefits and programmes over time to meet employees where they are in their careers and personal lives. When our employees have the tools and resources to manage their life and career, they can better deliver for our clients, communities and each other.
Connecting our employees and promoting inclusivity in the workplace: We want to help teammates come to our company, be who they are and be as successful as they want to be. It is who we are: our culture of caring is how we drive Responsible Growth, helping to create an inclusive environment for our clients, our communities and each other. Our 11 employee networks provide our employees with opportunities to meet new people, have an impact across to employees, clients and communities and grow personally and professionally. They are open to all and participation is voluntary.
Bank of America signed the UK Women in Finance Charter in 2017, reinforcing our longstanding commitment to advancing gender equality within our organization. We have an aspirational goal of 33% women in Managing Director/Director roles in the top four layers in the UK by end of 2026. We continue to make meaningful progress, with women representing 32% of senior management roles in the UK as of 31st August 2025. We remain focused on creating opportunities that support further progress toward greater representation of women in leadership roles.
