FIFTH THIRD BANCORP (FITB)

Fifth Third Bancorp is an Ohio corporation organized in 1975 and a diversified financial services company. It is a bank holding company that has elected to be treated as a financial holding company, and it is the indirect holding company of Fifth Third Bank, National Association. As of December 31, 2025, it had $214 billion in assets. Its common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol FITB.

The Bancorp operates three main businesses: Commercial Banking, Consumer and Small Banking, and Wealth and Asset Management. Its subsidiaries offer checking, savings and money market accounts, wealth management solutions, payments and commerce solutions, securities products and services, insurance services, and credit products such as commercial loans and leases, mortgage loans, credit cards, installment loans and other lending products. Its trust and registered investment advisory businesses had about $690 billion in total assets under care and managed $80 billion in assets for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit organizations.

Customers include commercial, financial, retail, governmental, educational, energy and healthcare sectors. Fifth Third operates 1,130 full-service Banking Centers and 2,199 Fifth Third branded ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama. Products and services are delivered through banking centers, other offices, telephone sales, the internet and mobile applications. The text also mentions a pending acquisition of Comerica Incorporated.

The Bancorp is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and had 18,676 full-time equivalent employees at the end of 2025. Primarily through the Bank, it competes for deposits, loans and other banking services in its principal geographic markets and in selected national markets. Competitors include other banks, securities dealers, brokers, mortgage bankers, investment advisors, specialty finance, private credit, financial technology and insurance companies. The Bancorp and the Bank are subject to extensive regulation by the Federal Reserve Board, the OCC, the FDIC and the CFPB, and the Bank's deposits are insured through the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund. Both are currently classified as Category IV banking organizations under the Federal Reserve's tailoring rules, and they expect to become Category III institutions by the end of 2026 following the Comerica acquisition.