Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-045653
Chunk: 87

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 87
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ETING AND VOTING Street Name Shareholders. Shareholders who hold shares in “street name,” that is, through a broker, bank, or other nominee (“beneficial holder” or “street name shareholder”), should instruct their nominee to vote their shares by following the instructions provided by the nominee. Your vote as a shareholder is important. Please vote as soon as possible to ensure that your vote is recorded. Please see “Can my broker vote for me?” below. What if I sign and date my proxy but do not provide voting instructions? A proxy that is signed and dated, but which does not contain voting instructions, will be voted as follows:

| • |     | “FOR” the election of each of the directors nominated by the Fifth Third Bancorp Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee; |

| • |     | “FOR” the ratification of the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent external audit firm (Company Proposal 1); and, |

| • |     | “FOR” the advisory vote on the Company’s compensation of its Named Executive Officers (Company Proposal 2). |

Can my broker vote for me? If you are a beneficial holder of shares and do not provide the organization that holds your shares with specific voting instructions then, under applicable rules, the organization that holds your shares generally has discretionary authority to vote on “routine” matters without receiving instructions from you but cannot vote on “non-routine” matters unless you provide instructions. If the organization that holds your shares does not receive instructions from you on how to vote your shares on a non-routine matter, that organization will inform the inspector of election that it does not have the authority to vote on that matter with respect to your shares. This is generally referred to as a “broker non-vote.” Company Proposal 2 is considered a non-routine matter under applicable rules. A broker, bank, or other nominee cannot vote without instructions on non-routine matters, and therefore broker non-votes may exist in connection with the election of directors and Company Proposal 2. It is important to instruct your broker, bank, or other nominee to vote your shares. The ratification of the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent external audit firm for 2025 (Company Proposal 1) is considered a routine matter under applicable rules. A broker or other nominee generally exercises its discretionary authority to vote on routine matters without instructions. Although brokers and other nominees are not required to exercise discretionary authority, we expect