Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000044
Chunk: 47

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form: DEF 14A
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 duties, the Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024, with Huntington management and with Huntington’s independent registered public accounting firm, PwC. This discussion included the selection, application, and disclosure of critical accounting policies, as well as the independent registered public accounting firm’s views on fraud risks and how it demonstrates its independence and skepticism. The Audit Committee has also reviewed and discussed with PwC its judgment as to the quality, not just the acceptability, of Huntington’s accounting principles and such other matters required to be discussed under auditing standards generally accepted in the United States, including the applicable requirements of the PCAOB and the SEC. The Audit Committee has received and reviewed the written disclosures and the letter from PwC required by the applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding PwC’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence and has discussed with PwC its independence from Huntington. Based on this review and discussion, and a review of the services provided by PwC during 2024, the Audit Committee believes that the services provided by PwC in 2024 are compatible with, and do not impair, PwC’s independence. Based on these reviews and discussions, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board that the audited consolidated financial statements be included in Huntington’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, which was filed with the SEC on February 14, 2025. Submitted by the Audit Committee

| Richard W. Neu, Chair |     | Ann B. (Tanny) Crane |     | Gina D. France |     | Jeffrey L. Tate |

| 110 | Huntington Bancshares Incorporated      2025 Proxy Statement |

Ownership of Voting Stock

| Ownership of 
 Voting Stock |     | This                                                                                                                              
 section provides shareholders with an understanding of the ownership of our Directors, nominees for Director, executive officers, 
 and largest shareholders. We believe that shareholders’ interests are better served when our Directors, nominees for              
 Director, and executive officers hold a meaningful number of shares of the Company. Holding such shares more closely aligns       
 the interests of these individuals with those of our shareholders.                                                                |

Security Ownership of Directors and Executive Officers The table below sets forth the beneficial ownership of Huntington common stock by each of our Directors, nominees for Director, Named Executive Officers, and the Directors and all executive officers as a group. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC