Building a More Sustainable Future

2025 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

BNY is expanding financial opportunity, driving environmental outcomes and strengthening trust across the global financial system. Explore the meaningful progress we made in 2025.

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Our Approach to Sustainability

BNY plays an important role in enabling the global financial system, and that foundation drives our approach to sustainability. We manage our firm with a focus on resilience, and we operate to enable a sustainable and trusted financial system. We empower our clients and partners with solutions to meet their own sustainability objectives.

As markets change, our expertise, platforms and infrastructure help clients access opportunities, manage complexity and adapt to evolving requirements. Sustainability considerations help us adapt our business to meet the needs of our clients and the broader economy, and address risks along the way. Our approach is aligned to business objectives to do more for our clients, run our company better and power our culture.

Key Highlights from our 2025 Report

$49M

Total Global Community Support¹

57%

Of real estate footprint LEED-certified
or holds other certifications²

$46B

In new green, social and sustainable bond issuances³

~100%

Employees completed Ethics & Code of Conduct training course

Our sustainability approach reflects who we are as a global company: committed to supporting local communities, expanding financial opportunity, and driving innovation in ways that strengthen long-term resilience. We also help our clients navigate evolving market expectations and transition with confidence, creating sustainable value over time.

Meaghan Muldoon, Chief Sustainability Officer, BNY

What’s Inside the Report

BNY structures its sustainability strategy around three interconnected pillars:

Financial Opportunity

Environment

Trust

Expanding access to capital, communities, and financial resilience.

$49M in Total Global Community Support, including employee giving, corporate matching gifts, pro bono volunteerism, foundation giving, and corporate grants and sponsorships.
~$88M in affordable housing investments through 3 new investments, helping our clients to build and preserve affordable housing in the communities we serve.
$10 million contribution to U.S.-based nonprofit organizations that promote financial wellbeing in our communities.
Employee financial resilience programs, including a new homeownership affordability initiative for eligible U.S. employees, student loan assistance, and retirement benefits, student loan assistance, and retirement benefits.

Managing our environmental footprint and advancing toward 2030 goals.

Carbon neutral maintained in 2025, through 100% renewable electricity procurement, RECs, and carbon offsets.⁴
57% of the square footage of our real estate footprint is LEED-certified or holds other certifications (ENERGY STAR®, ISO 14001, BREEAM).
2025 environmental sustainability goals achieved, with targets extended to 2030 — focusing on the areas most meaningful to BNY's commercial strategy
Scope 1 & 2 operational emissions reduction progressed against interim goals, aligned to a 1.5°C pathway, targeting a 50% reduction by 2030 relative to a 2018 base year.

Operating responsibly — from risk management to AI governance to human rights. governance to human rights.

~100% of employees completed the Ethics and Code of Conduct training course in 2025.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for our Information Security Management System.
Responsible business: ethical decision-making, transparency and accountability underpin responsible business practices, informing our public policy engagement, tax approach, ethics and compliance practices, and supplier relationships.
Human rights commitments aligned with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, activities include supplier screening and modern slavery statements.

Looking Ahead

Across these efforts, BNY's focus remains clear: supporting our people, serving our clients and strengthening the financial system for the future. We made meaningful progress in 2025. We will continue building on it with purpose — and with a clear view of the responsibility and opportunity that come with BNY's role in the world.

Global Growth and Local Engagement: Investing in the places where our people and clients do business — opening or enhancing offices in Amsterdam, Dublin, Pune, Lake Mary and Pittsburgh, and bringing our leaders closer to key markets through our Executive-in-Residence initiative.
Financial Resilience and Opportunity: Helping people save, invest and prepare for the future — connecting individuals to retirement savings and long-term investment opportunities through our infrastructure and public- and private-sector partnerships, including new savings programs for children in the United States and policy discussions about personal investment accounts in Ireland.
Financial Opportunities for Employees: Continuing to invest in employees and explore where additional support could make the greatest difference, particularly around affordability and financial access as global issues.

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¹ This includes employee giving, corporate matching gifts, the value of pro bono volunteerism, foundations giving, and corporate grants and sponsorships.

² U.S. EPA's ENERGY STAR®, and international standards, such as ISO14001 and BREEAM.

³ Green, social and sustainability bond data reflect FY25 issuances for which BNY served as a trustee and/or agent. The reported volume and count represent client issuances administered by BNY. Data and methodology from Dealogic and Refinitiv.

⁴ For additional information about BNY's approach to carbon neutrality, including purchases of carbon offsets and renewable energy instruments, please see our California Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMDA) disclosure.