Huntington Bank

Banks

Risk Level:

Rating - Clear
Lower Risk

Summary:

Huntington Bancshares has not canceled business relationships due to views or beliefs. However, it does pledge to vet vendors for support of LGBTQ policies. While the bank does not use its funds for ideological purposes, it has pledged lots of its money for diverse groups and loans focused on skin colors. It has not supported specific political agendas. For these reasons, Huntington Bancshares receives a "Lower Risk" score.

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Corporate Weaponization
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Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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Huntington Bancshares received a perfect score of 100% from the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index (1). Among other criteria, this means that Huntington has pledged to vet its vendors for support of LGBTQ policies.

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Huntington focuses its charitable efforts on organizations promoting social and economic equality. The bank does not expressly discriminate against religious organizations, although it does not donate to “sectarian purposes” (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Huntington Bancshares does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
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Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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Huntington’s ESG reports focus heavily on DEI (1). The bank does not promote ideological themes or causes, however.

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Huntington Bancshares has not funded ideological organizations hostile to freedom of expression (1).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Huntington’s PAC gives in a bipartisan manner (1). It does not give to ideological PACs irrelevant to business interests (2).

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December 26, 2022

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