Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000044
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Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form: DEF 14A
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 SCHEDULE 14A PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 (Amendment No. )

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A Letter from
Our Board’s Leadership

| Stephen D.                   
 Steinour                     | David L. Porteous         |
| Chairman, President, and CEO | Independent Lead Director |

Dear Fellow Shareholders: We are pleased to invite you to the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held virtually on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time via webcast. We hope you will join us online and participate in this year’s meeting to consider the matters described in the following Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement and review highlights of the past year. We drove accelerated growth throughout 2024, delivering sequential revenue expansion and peer-leading loan and deposit growth. This success was supported by our continued investments into our new regional markets including North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas as well as our entry into new profitable commercial verticals. Our existing businesses are growing and performing well. We delivered year-over-year fourth quarter growth in average loans of 6% and average deposits of 7%. Full year fee revenue from our Payments, Wealth Management, and Capital Markets business increased 6%, 11%, and 32%, respectively. We