Legal & controls
Item 3 and Item 9A as filed · every verdict is the registrant’s own sentence, printed below it · a filing that fails an extraction gate reads “not extracted”
| Fiscal year | Filed | Item 3 | ICFR | disclosure controls | material weakness | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-02-24 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · The information presented under the caption “Legal Proceedings” in Note 24, “Commitments and Contingent Liabilities,” included under Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data,” is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management concluded that, as of December 31, 2025, the Corporation maintained effective internal control over financial reporting. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on such evaluation, such officers have concluded that, as of December 31, 2025, the Corporation’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective. | ||||||
| 2024-12-31 | 2025-02-24 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · The information presented under the caption “Legal Proceedings” in Note 24, “Commitments and Contingent Liabilities,” included under Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data,” is incorporated herein by reference. 2024 ANNUAL REPORT | NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION 33 Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, the Corporation maintained effective internal control over financial reporting. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on such evaluation, such officers have concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, the Corporation’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective. | ||||||
| 2023-12-31 | 2024-02-27 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · The information presented under the caption “Legal Proceedings” in Note 24, “Commitments and Contingent Liabilities,” included under Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data,” is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management concluded that, as of December 31, 2023, the Corporation maintained effective internal control over financial reporting. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on such evaluation, such officers have concluded that, as of December 31, 2023, the Corporation’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective. | ||||||
| 2022-12-31 | 2023-02-28 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · The information presented under the caption “Legal Proceedings” in Note 25, “Commitments and Contingent Liabilities,” included under Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data,” is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management concluded that, as of December 31, 2022, the Corporation maintained effective internal control over financial reporting. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on such evaluation, such officers have concluded that, as of December 31, 2022, the Corporation’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective. | ||||||
| 2021-12-31 | 2022-02-28 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · The information presented under the caption “Legal Proceedings” in Note 26, “Commitments and Contingent Liabilities,” included under Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data,” is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management concluded that, as of December 31, 2021, the Corporation maintained effective internal control over financial reporting. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on such evaluation, such officers have concluded that, as of December 31, 2021, the Corporation’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective. | ||||||
5 of 5 annual reports on record have their filing text cached on this host; the rest are listed with their EDGAR link and no extraction, because this surface never fetches from SEC on a page load.
- Item 3 and Item 9A are located in the filing HTML already cached on this host and read with the same line-anchored item matcher and largest-gap body disambiguation the filing-narrative pass uses for Item 1A and Item 7 — no fetch, no model, no summarization.
- A heading is accepted as a section only when it is not a table-of-contents row (a trailing page number), not a quoted reference in prose, and names its own section; the span must then clear a per-item length band and carry readable text after the heading. Anything that fails a gate is served as 'not extracted' with the reason — never as a default value.
- An effectiveness conclusion is read only from a sentence that names its own control set (disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting) and states an outcome. Conditional sentences — the standard limitations paragraph and forward-looking remediation language — are excluded, because they are hypotheses rather than conclusions.
- When a filing's own sentences disagree — an effective conclusion beside an unremediated material-weakness disclosure, or two conclusions of opposite sign — no verdict is asserted. A wrong 'controls were effective' reading is worse than no reading.
- Every verdict is shown beside the verbatim sentence it was read from. The excerpt is the filing's own words, capped at 1,200 characters; the filing itself is one link away.