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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000073124-22-000212"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NTRS"
cik: "0000073124"
company_name: "NORTHERN TRUST CORP"
filed_at: "2022-11-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T16:13:15.230806+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Northern Trust amends By-laws; renames committee to Human Capital and Compensation

## Summary
- Board approved By-law amendments effective November 15, 2022.
- Compensation and Benefits Committee renamed to Human Capital and Compensation Committee.
- Added provisions for virtual Board and stockholder meetings under applicable law.
- Minor administrative/technical revisions throughout By-laws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000073124-22-000212
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NTRS
- cik: 0000073124
- company_name: NORTHERN TRUST CORP
- filed_at: 2022-11-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73124/000007312422000212/0000073124-22-000212-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73124/000007312422000212/ntrs-20221115.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  NORTHERN TRUST CORP: The By-laws were amended to rename the Compensation and Benefits Committee to the Human Capital and Compensation Committee and to incorporate minor administrative revisions including provisions for virtual meetings (effective 2022-11-15).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-11-15
  source text: On November 15, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Northern Trust Corporation (the “Corporation”) approved certain amendments to the Corporation’s By-laws (the “By-laws”), effective immediately. The following is a summary of the amendments: • All references to the “Compensation and Benefits Committee” of the Board were revised to read as the “Human Capital and Compensation Committee” to reflect a change of the committee’s name. • Certain minor administrative or technical revisions were incorporated throughout the By-laws, including, but not limited to, various provisions to explicitly account for the potential to hold Board and/or stockholder meetings in a virtual format, in accordance with applicable law.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73124/000007312422000212/0000073124-22-000212-index.htm

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