Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-045653
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Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: DEF 14A
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14A PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 (AMENDMENT NO. ) Filed by the Registrant ☒ Filed by a Party other than the Registrant ☐ Check the appropriate box:

| ☐ | Preliminary Proxy Statement |

| ☐ | CONFIDENTIAL, FOR USE OF THE COMMISSION ONLY (AS PERMITTED BY RULE14a-6(e)(2)) |

| ☒ | Definitive Proxy Statement |

| ☐ | Definitive Additional Materials |

| ☐ | Soliciting Material Pursuant toSection 240.14a-12 |

FIFTH THIRD BANCORP (NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER) (NAME OF PERSON(S) FILING PROXY STATEMENT, IF OTHER THAN THE REGISTRANT) Payment of Filing Fee (Check all boxes that apply):

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| Lead Independent Director Letter to our Shareholders |

To my Fellow Shareholders, It is with great pride that I invite you to join us at the Fifth Third Bancorp 2025 Annual Shareholders Meeting, which will be held virtually on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. I’m pleased to have served the Board once again this year as Lead Independent Director. In 2024, our Board maintained a focus on ensuring that Fifth Third delivers consistently strong results for our shareholders. The Board remained committed to the core principals of stability, profitability, and growth. Our balance sheet reflects stability through a diversified loan portfolio that is resilient to changes in the interest rate environment. We’ve achieved top-quartile profitability through well-diversified revenue streams and expense discipline. We continue to execute on our growth strategies, as evident in our Southeast expansion, middle market expansion, Commercial payments investment, increase in Wealth and Asset Management sales force, and technology modernization initiatives. With a strong and collaborative management team in place, the Board will continue to focus on a strategy that yields long-term growth and shareholder value. This year, three of our esteemed and long-serving directors will retire. Marsha Williams joined our Board in