Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-045653
Chunk: 54

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 54
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2024, filed on February 24, 2025. Prohibition on Hedging and Pledging. The Company’s Insider Trading Policy prohibits all employees and directors from engaging in speculative trading and hedging shares of Company securities. This includes prohibitions against day trading or short-selling of Company securities and transactions in any derivative of Company securities, including buying and writing options. Employees and directors are restricted from buying Company securities on margin or using Company securities as collateral for a loan. Additionally, the Company’s Insider Trading Policy prohibits trading for directors and certain employees during designated blackout periods and requires approval by the Legal Department prior to any trade. Clawbacks and Recoupments. The Company’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and its Compensation Clawback and Disclosure Policy provide that the Company reserves the right to seek restitution of any bonus, commission, or other incentive compensation received if the Company is required to prepare an accounting restatement to correct an error in previously issued financial

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COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS statements that is material to the previously issued financial statements, or that would result in a material misstatement if the error were corrected in the current period or left uncorrected in the current period in accordance with 17 C.F.R. §240.10D-1. Additionally, the Company reserves the right to seek restitution of any bonus, commission, or other compensation received as a result of an employee’s fraudulent or illegal conduct or misconduct; breach of any noncompetition, non-solicitation, confidentiality or other restrictive covenant; engaging in activity that could cause material harm to the Company’s assets, financial condition, operations or, reputation; violation of any Company code of ethics, conflict of interest, insider trading, or similar policy; failure to comply with or satisfy risk management requirements or objectives or failure to comply with requirements of applicable laws, rules, or regulations. Practices Related to the Timing of Equity Awards. The Committee’s practice prohibits timingor selecting grant dates of any stock options or stock-based awards in coordination with the release of material non-public information, which includes grant dates of equity awards for our executive officers and employees. In each case, the exercise price of any stock options (or base price of any SARs) granted must equal the closing price of our common stock on the grant date. The Committee does not take into account material non-public information when determining the timingor terms of option or SAR awards, nor does the Company timedisclosure of material non-public information for the