Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-045653
Chunk: 73

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 73
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. Bryan Daniels Gary R. Heminger Kathleen A. Rogers

| Fifth Third 2025 Proxy Statement |     | 83 |

Principal Independent External Audit Firm Fees The following table sets forth the aggregate fees billed to Fifth Third Bancorp for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 by the Company’s independent external audit firm Deloitte & Touche LLP.

|                       |      | December 31, |            |     |      |     |            |
|                       | 2024 |              |            |     | 2023 |     |            |
| Audit fees            |      |              | $5,717,850 |     |      |     | $5,548,950 |
| Audit-related fees(1) |      |              |  1,487,700 |     |      |     |  2,212,900 |
| Tax fees(2)           |      |              |  1,112,878 |     |      |     |    385,762 |
| All other fees(3)     |      |              |     21,450 |     |      |     |     19,815 |
|                       |      |              | $8,339,878 |     |      |     | $8,167,427 |

| (1) | Includes fees for services related to benefit plan audits, stand-alone statutory audits, examinations of management’s assertion, reports pursuant to Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 18, loan servicing reports, comfort letters, and trust compliance. |

| (2) | Includes fees for services related to tax compliance and tax consulting and planning. Of these amounts, for 2024, $830,686 represents fees for tax compliance services and $282,192 represents fees for tax consulting and planning services; and for 2023 $285,756 represents fees for tax compliance services and $100,006 represents fees for tax consulting and planning services. |

| (3) | Includes fees for accounting subscription services. The Audit Committee has concluded that the provision of these services is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence. |

The Audit Committee is responsible for pre-approving all auditing services and permitted non-audit services to be performed by the independent external audit firm, except as described below. The Audit Committee will establish general guidelines for the permissible scope and nature of any permitted non-audit services in connection with its annual review of the audit plan