Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000035527-25-000212
Chunk: 19

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 7
Chunk 19
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 258 Net interest margin (FTE)(c)3.10 %2.88 %Net interest rate spread (FTE)(c)2.38 2.05 Interest-bearing liabilities to interest-earning assets74.31 75.12 

(a)Changes in interest not solely due to volume or yield/rate are allocated in proportion to the absolute dollar amount of change in volume and yield/rate.

(b)The FTE adjustments included in the above table were $15 and $18 for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

(c)This is a non-GAAP measure. For further information, refer to the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section of MD&A.

(d)Effective January 1, 2025, foreign office deposits are included in interest checking. Prior periods have been adjusted to conform to current period presentation.

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Table of ContentsManagement’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (continued)

Provision for Credit Losses

The Bancorp provides, as an expense, an amount for expected credit losses within the loan and lease portfolio and the portfolio of unfunded commitments that is based on factors discussed in the Critical Accounting Policies section of the Bancorp’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. 

The provision for credit losses was $197 million and $544 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, compared to $160 million and $351 million during the same periods in the prior year. Provision expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 increased primarily driven by the impairment of an asset-backed finance commercial loan which included a charge-off of $178 million and a specific allowance of $20 million. The increase in provision expense for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was partially offset by factors that reduced the ACL from June 30, 2025, including improvement in the economic forecast used to calculate the ACL and impacts of changes in loan portfolio mix. The increase in provision expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was partially offset by factors that reduced the ACL from December 31, 2024, including impacts of changes in loan portfolio mix, as the improvement in the economic forecast used in the third quarter was more than offset by deterioration in the forecast used in the first and second quarters of 2025. 

The ALLL decreased $87 million from