Document:

Guarantee Agreement dated as of August 8, 2007

 EXHIBIT 4.2 
  

  
 GUARANTEE AGREEMENT 
 by and between 
 FIFTH THIRD BANCORP 
 as Guarantor

 and 
 WILMINGTON TRUST
COMPANY 
 as Guarantee Trustee 
 relating to 
 FIFTH THIRD CAPITAL TRUST V 
  

 Dated as of August 8, 2007

  

  
  

 CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE* 
  

					
	 Section of
 Trust Indenture Act
 of 1939, as amended
	 		  	Section of Guarantee Agreement

	 310(a)
	 		  	        4.1(a)
	 310(b)
	 		  	        4.1(c), 2.8
	 310(c)
	 		  	        Inapplicable
	 311(a)
	 		  	        2.2(b)
	 311(b)
	 		  	        2.2(b)
	 311(c)
	 		  	        Inapplicable
	 312(a)
	 		  	        2.2(a)
	 312(b)
	 		  	        2.2(b)
	 313    
	 		  	        2.3
	 314(a)
	 		  	        2.4
	 314(b)
	 		  	        Inapplicable
	 314(c)
	 		  	        2.5
	 314(d)
	 		  	        Inapplicable
	 314(e)
	 		  	        1.1, 2.5, 3.2
	 314(f)
	 		  	        2.1, 3.2
	 315(a)
	 		  	        3.1(d)
	 315(b)
	 		  	        2.7
	 315(c)
	 		  	        3.1
	 315(d)
	 		  	        3.1(d)
	 316(a)
	 		  	        1.1, 2.6, 5.4
	 316(b)
	 		  	        5.3
	 316(c)
	 		  	        8.2
	 317(a)
	 		  	        Inapplicable
	 317(b)
	 		  	        Inapplicable
	 318(a)
	 		  	        2.1
	 318(b)
	 		  	        2.1
	 318(c)
	 		  	        2.1

	*	This Cross-Reference Table does not constitute part of the Guarantee Agreement and shall not affect the interpretation of any of its terms or provisions. 

 

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
	 ARTICLE I
  
 DEFINITIONS

	 Section 1.1.
	    	Definitions	  	1
	
	 ARTICLE II
  
 TRUST INDENTURE ACT

			
	 Section 2.1.
	    	Trust Indenture Act; Application	  	4
	 Section 2.2.
	    	List of Holders	  	4
	 Section 2.3.
	    	Reports by the Guarantee Trustee	  	5
	 Section 2.4.
	    	Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee	  	5
	 Section 2.5.
	    	Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent	  	5
	 Section 2.6.
	    	Events of Default; Waiver	  	5
	 Section 2.7.
	    	Event of Default; Notice	  	5
	 Section 2.8.
	    	Conflicting Interests	  	6
	
	 ARTICLE III
  
 POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF THE
GUARANTEE TRUSTEE

			
	 Section 3.1.
	    	Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee	  	6
	 Section 3.2.
	    	Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee	  	7
	 Section 3.3.
	    	Compensation; Indemnity; Fees	  	8
	
	 ARTICLE IV
  
 GUARANTEE TRUSTEE

			
	 Section 4.1.
	    	Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility	  	9
	 Section 4.2.
	    	Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee	  	10
	
	 ARTICLE V
  
 GUARANTEE

			
	 Section 5.1.
	    	Guarantee	  	10
	 Section 5.2.
	    	Waiver of Notice and Demand	  	11
	 Section 5.3.
	    	Obligations Not Affected	  	11
	 Section 5.4.
	    	Rights of Holders	  	12
	 Section 5.5.
	    	Guarantee of Payment	  	12
	 Section 5.6.
	    	Subrogation	  	12

					
	 Section 5.7.
	    	Independent Obligations	  	12
	
	 ARTICLE VI
  
 COVENANTS AND SUBORDINATION

			
	 Section 6.1.
	    	Subordination	  	12
	 Section 6.2.
	    	Pari Passu Guarantees	  	13
	
	 ARTICLE VII
  
 TERMINATION

			
	 Section 7.1.
	    	Termination	  	13
	
	 ARTICLE VIII
  
 MISCELLANEOUS

			
	 Section 8.1.
	    	Successors and Assigns	  	13
	 Section 8.2.
	    	Amendments	  	13
	 Section 8.3.
	    	Notices	  	14
	 Section 8.4.
	    	Benefit	  	14
	 Section 8.5.
	    	Governing Law	  	15
	 Section 8.6.
	    	Counterparts	  	15

 GUARANTEE AGREEMENT, dated as of
August 8, 2007 between FIFTH THIRD BANCORP, an Ohio corporation (the “Guarantor”), having its principal office at 38 Fountain Square Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio
45263 and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as trustee (the “Guarantee Trustee”), for the benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) from time to time of the Preferred
Securities (as defined herein) of FIFTH THIRD CAPITAL TRUST V, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuer Trust”). 
 RECITALS OF THE GUARANTOR 
 WHEREAS, pursuant to an Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of the date hereof (the “Amended
Declaration”), among Fifth Third Bancorp, as Sponsor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein, the Issuer Trust is issuing up to
$500,000,000 aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of its 7.25% Trust Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $25 per Preferred Security) (the “Preferred Securities”), representing preferred undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust and having the terms set forth in the Amended Declaration; and 
 WHEREAS, the Preferred Securities will be issued by the Issuer Trust and the proceeds thereof, together with the proceeds from the issuance of the Issuer Trust’s Common Securities (as defined herein), will be used to
purchase the Debentures (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of the Guarantor, which Debentures will be deposited with Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee under the Amended Declaration, as trust assets; and 
 WHEREAS, as an incentive for the Holders to purchase Preferred Securities, the Guarantor desires irrevocably and
unconditionally to agree, to the extent set forth herein, to pay to the Holders of the Preferred Securities the Guarantee Payments (as defined herein) and to make certain other payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase of Preferred Securities by each Holder, which purchase the
Guarantor hereby acknowledges shall benefit the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders from time to time. 
 ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS 
 Section 1.1.  Definitions. 
 For all purposes of this Guarantee Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: 
 (a)  The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as
the singular; 
 (b)  All other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act (as defined herein),
either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein; 
 (c)  The words
“include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase 

 
“without limitation”; 
 (d)  All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect
to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles that are generally accepted in the United States at the date or time of such computation; provided that when two or more principles are so generally
accepted, it shall mean that set of principles consistent with those in use by the Guarantor; 
 (e)  Unless the
context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Guarantee Agreement; and 
 (f)  The words “hereby”, “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar
import refer to this Guarantee Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. 
 “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
“control”, when used with respect to any specified Person, means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing. 
 “Amended Declaration” means the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Issuer Trust referred to in the recitals to this Guarantee Agreement, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time. 
 “Authorized Officer” of any Person means any officer of such Person or any person authorized by or pursuant to a
resolution of the Board of Directors (or equivalent body) of such Person. 
 “Board of Directors” means the
board of directors of the Guarantor or any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder. 
 “Common
Securities” means the securities representing common undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust. 
 “Distributions” has the meaning specified in the Amended Declaration. 
 “Event of
Default” means (i) a default by the Guarantor in any of its payment obligations under this Guarantee Agreement or (ii) a default by the Guarantor in any other obligation hereunder that remains unremedied for 30 days. 

“Guarantee Agreement” means this Guarantee Agreement, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time.

 “Guarantee Payments” means the following payments or distributions, without duplication, with respect to
the Preferred Securities, to the extent not paid or made by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust: (i) any accumulated and unpaid Distributions required to be paid on the Preferred Securities, to the extent the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand
available therefor at such time; (ii) the Redemption Price (as defined in the Amended Declaration) with respect to any Preferred Securities called for redemption by the Issuer 

  

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Trust, to the extent the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time; and (iii) upon a voluntary or involuntary termination,
winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, unless Debentures are distributed to the Holders, the lesser of (a) the Liquidation Distribution (as defined in the Amended Declaration) with respect to the Preferred Securities, to the extent that
the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time, and (b) the amount of assets of the Issuer Trust remaining available for distribution to Holders on liquidation of the Issuer Trust. 
 “Guarantee Trustee” means Wilmington Trust Company, solely in its capacity as Guarantee Trustee and not in its
individual capacity, until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement, and thereafter means each such Successor Guarantee Trustee. 
 “Guarantor” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee Agreement. 
 “Holder” means any Holder (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of any Preferred Securities; provided, however,
that in determining whether the holders of the requisite percentage of Preferred Securities have given any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, “Holder” shall not include the Guarantor, the Guarantee Trustee, or any
Affiliate of the Guarantor or the Guarantee Trustee. 
 “Indemnified Person” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.3(c). 
 “Indenture” means the Indenture, dated as of March 20, 1997, between Fifth
Third Bancorp and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, as amended and supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as of August 8, 2007, as the same may be modified, amended or supplemented from time to time thereafter.

 “Issuer Trust” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee Agreement. 

“Liquidation Distribution” has the meaning specified in the Amended Declaration. 
 “List of Holders” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(a). 
 “Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities” means, except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act,
Preferred Securities representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of all Preferred Securities then Outstanding (as defined in the Amended Declaration). 
 “Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by any two Authorized Officers of
such person. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Guarantee Agreement shall include: 
 (a)  a statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto; 
 (b)  a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by such officer in rendering the
Officers’ Certificate; 
 (c)  a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in
such officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such 

  

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covenant or condition has been complied with; and 
 (d)  a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with. 
 “Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, company, limited liability company,
trust, business trust, statutory trust, unincorporated association, or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature. 
 “Preferred Securities” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Guarantee Agreement. 
 “Successor Guarantee Trustee” means a successor Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1. 
 “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this Guarantee Agreement
was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so
amended. 
 ARTICLE II 
 TRUST INDENTURE ACT 
 Section 2.1.  Trust Indenture Act;
Application. 
 (a)  This Guarantee Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are
required to be part of this Guarantee Agreement and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions. 
 (b)  If and to the extent that any provision of this Guarantee Agreement limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act through operation of Section 318(c)
thereof, such imposed duties shall control. If any provision of this Guarantee Agreement modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this
Guarantee Agreement as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be. 
 Section 2.2.  List of Holders.

 (a)  The Guarantor shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee (a) semiannually, on or
before September 15 of each year, a list, in such form as the Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders (a “List of Holders”) as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the delivery
thereof, and (b) at such other times as the Guarantee Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Guarantor of any such request, a List of Holders as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is
furnished, in each case to the extent such information is in the possession or control of the Guarantor and has not otherwise been received by the Guarantee Trustee in its capacity as such. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Guarantor shall
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given to the Guarantee Trustee by the Guarantor. The Guarantee Trustee may destroy any List of Holders previously given to it on receipt of a new List of
Holders. 
 (b)  The Guarantee Trustee shall comply with the requirements of Section 311(a),
Section 311(b) and Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. 
 Section 2.3.  Reports by the
Guarantee Trustee. 
 Within 60 days after September 15 of each year, commencing September 15, 2007, the
Guarantee Trustee shall provide to the Holders such reports as are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any, in the form and in the manner provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Guarantee Trustee shall
also comply with the requirements of Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act. 
 Section 2.4.  Periodic
Reports to the Guarantee Trustee. 
 The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee, the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the Holders such documents, reports and information, if any, as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and the compliance certificate required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, in the form, in the manner
and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act. 
 Section 2.5.  Evidence of
Compliance with Conditions Precedent. 
 The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such evidence of compliance
with such conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Guarantee Agreement that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer of the
Guarantor pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) may be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate. 
 Section
2.6.  Events of Default; Waiver. 
 The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any
default or Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Guarantee Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereon. 
 Section 2.7.  Event of Default; Notice. 
 (a)  The Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default, transmit by mail, first class
postage prepaid, to the Holders, notice of any such Event of Default known to the Guarantee Trustee, unless such Event of Default has been cured before the giving of such notice, provided that, except in the case of a default in the payment
of a Guarantee Payment, the Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors of the Guarantee Trustee in good faith determines that
the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders. 
 (b)  The Guarantee Trustee shall not be
deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless the Guarantee Trustee shall have received written notice, or an officer of the Guarantee Trustee charged with the administration of this Guarantee Agreement shall have obtained actual
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of Default. 
 Section
2.8.  Conflicting Interests. 
 The Amended Declaration and the Indenture shall be deemed to be specifically
described in this Guarantee Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. 
 ARTICLE III 
 POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS
OF THE GUARANTEE TRUSTEE 
 Section 3.1.   Powers
and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee. 
 (a)  This Guarantee Agreement shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee
for the benefit of the Holders, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this Guarantee Agreement to any Person except to a Successor Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment to act as Guarantee
Trustee hereunder. The right, title and interest of the Guarantee Trustee, as such, hereunder shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee Trustee, upon acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment hereunder, and such
vesting of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the appointment of such Successor Guarantee Trustee. 
 (b)  If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing of which the Guarantee Trustee is deemed to have knowledge pursuant to Section 2.7(b), the Guarantee Trustee shall
enforce this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders. 
 (c)  The Guarantee Trustee, before the
occurrence of any Event of Default, and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Guarantee Agreement, and no implied covenants shall be read
into this Guarantee Agreement against the Guarantee Trustee. The Guarantee Trustee shall, during the existence of any Event of Default of which the Guarantee Trustee is deemed to have knowledge pursuant to Section 2.7(b) and which has not been
cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.6, exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs. 
 (d)  No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be
construed to relieve the Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
 (i)  Prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of
Default that may have occurred: 
 (A)  the duties and obligations of the Guarantee Trustee shall
be determined solely by the express provisions of this Guarantee Agreement (including pursuant to Section 2.1), and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set
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 (B)  in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Guarantee
Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Guarantee Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Guarantee Agreement; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall be under a duty
to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Guarantee Agreement. 
 (ii)  The Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by an officer of the Guarantee Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Guarantee Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts upon which such judgment was made. 
 (iii)  The Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with
respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement. 
 (iv)  No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall require the Guarantee Trustee to expend or risk its own
funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Guarantee Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such funds or
liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Guarantee Agreement or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. 
 Section 3.2.  Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee. 
 (a)  Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1: 
 (i)  The Guarantee
Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by the proper party or parties. 
 (ii)  Any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by this Guarantee Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate unless otherwise prescribed herein.

 (iii)  Whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement, the Guarantee Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established before taking, suffering or omitting to take any action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
request and rely upon an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such request from the Guarantee Trustee, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor. 
 (iv)  The Guarantee Trustee may consult with legal counsel, and the written advice or opinion of such legal
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faith and in accordance with such advice or opinion. Such legal counsel may be legal counsel to the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may be one of its
employees. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Guarantee Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 (v)  The Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by
this Guarantee Agreement at the request or direction of any Holder unless such Holder shall have provided to the Guarantee Trustee such adequate security and indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees
and expenses) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be requested by the Guarantee Trustee; provided that nothing contained in this
Section 3.2(a)(v) shall be taken to relieve the Guarantee Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation to otherwise exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement. 
 (vi)  The Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in
any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may make
such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit at the expense of the Guarantor and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation. 
 (vii)  The Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder
either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed by it with due care hereunder. 
 (viii)  Whenever in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it
desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (A) may request instructions from the Holders, (B) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right
or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (C) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions. 
 (b)  No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred
or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or
obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be a duty to act in accordance with such power and authority. 
 Section 3.3.  Compensation; Indemnity; Fees. 
 The
Guarantor agrees: 
 (a)  to pay to the Guarantee Trustee from time to time such reasonable compensation for all
services rendered by it hereunder as may be agreed by the Guarantor and the Guarantee Trustee from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

  

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 (b)  except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Guarantee
Trustee upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Guarantee Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Guarantee Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or willful misconduct; and 
 (c)  to indemnify the Guarantee Trustee, any Affiliate of the Guarantee Trustee and any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of the Guarantee Trustee (each,
an “Indemnified Person”) for, and to hold each Indemnified Person harmless against, any loss, liability, claim, action, suit, cost, damage or expense of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred without negligence, willful misconduct
or bad faith on the part of the Indemnified Person, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Guarantee Agreement, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection
with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. 
 The Guarantee Trustee will not claim or exact
any lien or charge on any Guarantee Payments as a result of any amount due to it under this Guarantee Agreement. 
 The
provisions of this Section 3.3 shall survive the termination of this Guarantee Agreement or the resignation or removal of the Guarantee Trustee. 
 ARTICLE IV 
 GUARANTEE TRUSTEE 
 Section 4.1.  Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility. 
 (a)  There shall at all times be a Guarantee Trustee that shall: 
 (i)  not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and 
 (ii)  be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and shall be a corporation meeting the requirements of Section 310(a) of
the Trust Indenture Act. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then, for the purposes of this Section 4.1 and to the extent
permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. 
 (b)  If at any time the Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be eligible to so act under Section 4.1(a), the Guarantee Trustee
shall immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.2. 
 (c)  If the Guarantee
Trustee has or shall acquire any “conflicting interest” within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all respects comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of
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 Section 4.2.  Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee
Trustee. 
 (a)  Subject to Section 4.2(c), the Guarantee Trustee may be appointed or removed at any time
by the action of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities delivered to the Guarantee Trustee and the Guarantor (i) for cause or (ii) if a Debenture Event of Default (as defined in the Amended
Declaration) shall have occurred and be continuing at any time. 
 (b)  Subject to Section 4.2(c), the
Guarantee Trustee may resign from office (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by giving written notice thereof to the Holders and the Guarantor and by appointing a successor Guarantee Trustee. The Guarantee Trustee shall appoint a
successor by requesting from at least three Persons meeting the requirements of Section 4.1(a) their expenses and charges to serve as the Guarantee Trustee, and selecting the Person who agrees to the lowest expenses and charges. 
 (c)  The Guarantee Trustee appointed hereunder shall hold office until a Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed
and shall have accepted such appointment. No removal or resignation of a Guarantee Trustee shall be effective until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor
Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor and, in the case of any resignation, the resigning Guarantee Trustee. 
 (d)  If no Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.2 within 60 days after delivery to the Holders and the Guarantor of a notice of resignation, the
resigning Guarantee Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Guarantor, any court of competent jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Guarantee Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem proper,
appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee. 
 (e)  If a resigning Guarantee Trustee shall fail to appoint a successor,
or if a Guarantee Trustee shall be removed or become incapable of acting as Guarantee Trustee and a replacement shall not be appointed prior to such resignation or removal, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Guarantee Trustee for any
cause, the Holders of the Preferred Securities, by the action of the Holders of record of not less than 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of the Preferred Securities then Outstanding (as defined in the
Amended Declaration) delivered to such Guarantee Trustee, may appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee or Trustees. If no successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Holders of the Preferred Securities and accepted appointment, any
Holder, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated, or any other Guarantee Trustee, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Guarantee Trustee. 
 ARTICLE V 
 GUARANTEE

 Section 5.1.  Guarantee. 
 The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay in full to the Holders the Guarantee Payments (subject to the limitations contained in the definition of that term) (without
duplication of amounts theretofore paid by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust), as and when due, regardless of any defense, right of set-off or counterclaim that the Issuer Trust may have or assert, except the defense of payment. The Guarantor’s
obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by direct payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by causing the Issuer Trust to pay such amounts to the Holders. 
  

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 Section 5.2.  Waiver of Notice and Demand. 
 The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Guarantee Agreement and of any liability to which it applies or may apply,
presentment, demand for payment, any right to require a proceeding first against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer Trust or any other Person before proceeding against the Guarantor, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of
redemption and all other notices and demands. 
 Section 5.3.  Obligations Not Affected. 
 The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired
by reason of the happening from time to time of any of the following: 
 (a)  the release or
waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of the performance or observance by the Issuer Trust of any express or implied agreement, covenant, term or condition relating to the Preferred Securities to be performed or observed by the Issuer Trust;

 (b)  the extension of time for the payment by the Issuer Trust of all or any portion of the
Distributions (other than an extension of time for payment of Distributions that results from the extension of any interest payment period on the Debentures as provided in the Indenture), Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or any other sums
payable under the terms of the Preferred Securities or the extension of time for the performance of any other obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Preferred Securities; 
 (c)  any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of the Holders to enforce, assert or
exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Holders pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities, or any action on the part of the Issuer Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind; 
 (d)  the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment
for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Issuer Trust or any of the assets of the Issuer Trust; 
 (e)  any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in, the Preferred Securities; 
 (f)  the settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed hereby or hereby incurred; or 
 (g)  any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or
defense of a guarantor (other than payment of the underlying obligation), it being the intent of this Section 5.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances. 

There shall be no obligation of the Holders to give notice to, or obtain the consent of, the Guarantor with respect to the happening of any of the
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 Section 5.4.  Rights of Holders. 
 The Guarantor expressly acknowledges that: (i) this Guarantee Agreement will be deposited with the Guarantee Trustee to be held for
the benefit of the Holders; (ii) the Guarantee Trustee has the right to enforce this Guarantee Agreement on behalf of the Holders; (iii) the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities have the right to direct
the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this Guarantee Agreement or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement;
and (iv) any Holder may institute a legal proceeding directly against the Guarantor to enforce its rights under this Guarantee Agreement without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer Trust or any other
Person. 
 Section 5.5.  Guarantee of Payment. 
 This Guarantee Agreement creates a guarantee of payment and not of collection. This Guarantee Agreement will not be discharged except by
payment of the Guarantee Payments in full (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by the Issuer Trust) or upon the distribution of Debentures to Holders as provided in the Amended Declaration. 
 Section 5.6.  Subrogation. 
 The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights (if any) of the Holders against the Issuer Trust in respect of any amounts paid to the Holders by the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement;
provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not (except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any rights which it may acquire by way of subrogation or any indemnity, reimbursement or other
agreement, in all cases as a result of payment under this Guarantee Agreement, if, at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due and unpaid under this Guarantee Agreement. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in violation of the
preceding sentence, the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in trust for the Holders and to pay over such amount to the Holders. 
 Section 5.7.  Independent Obligations. 
 The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder
are independent of the obligations of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Preferred Securities and that the Guarantor shall be liable as principal and as debtor hereunder to make Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement
notwithstanding the occurrence of any event referred to in subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, of Section 5.3. 
 ARTICLE VI

 COVENANTS AND SUBORDINATION 
 Section 6.1.  Subordination. 
 The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement will constitute unsecured obligations of the Guarantor and will rank subordinate and junior in right of payment and upon
liquidation to all Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture) of the Guarantor to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Indenture with respect to the Debentures, and the provisions of Article XIII of the Indenture will apply, 

  

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mutatis mutandis, to the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder do not constitute Senior Debt of the
Guarantor. 
 Section 6.2.  Pari Passu Guarantees. 
 The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement shall rank pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under
(i) any similar guarantee agreements issued by the Guarantor on behalf of the holders of preferred or capital securities issued by any statutory trust the assets of which consist of debt securities that are pari passu to the Debentures
and the proceeds thereof, (ii) the Indenture and the Debt Securities (as defined therein) issued thereunder; (iii) any expense agreements entered into by the Guarantor in connection with the offering of preferred or capital securities by
any statutory trust the assets of which consists of debt securities that are pari passu to the Debentures and the proceeds thereof, and (iv) any other security, guarantee or other agreement or obligation that is expressly stated to rank
pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement or with any obligation that ranks pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement. 
 ARTICLE VII 
 TERMINATION

 Section 7.1.  Termination. 
 This Guarantee Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect upon (i) full payment of the Redemption Price (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of all Preferred
Securities, (ii) the distribution of Debentures to the Holders in exchange for all of the Preferred Securities or (iii) full payment of the amounts payable in accordance with Article IX of the Amended Declaration upon liquidation of the
Issuer Trust. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Guarantee Agreement will continue to be effective or will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder is required to repay any sums paid with respect to Preferred Securities or this
Guarantee Agreement. 
 ARTICLE VIII 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 Section 8.1.  Successors and Assigns. 
 All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee Agreement shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and
representatives of the Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities then outstanding. Except in connection with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Guarantor that is permitted under Article VIII of
the Indenture and pursuant to which the successor or assignee agrees in writing to perform the Guarantor’s obligations hereunder, the Guarantor shall not assign its obligations hereunder, and any purported assignment other than in accordance
with this provision shall be void. 
 Section 8.2.  Amendments. 
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material respect (in which case no consent of the Holders will be required), this Guarantee Agreement may only be amended with the prior approval of the
Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities. The provisions of Article VI of the Amended Declaration concerning meetings of the Holders shall apply to the giving of such approval. 
 Section 8.3.  Notices. 
 Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and delivered, telecopied or mailed by first class mail as
follows: 
 (a)  if given to the Guarantor, to the address or facsimile number set forth below or such other
address or facsimile number as the Guarantor may give notice to the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders: 
 Fifth Third Bancorp 
 38 Fountain Square Plaza 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 45263 
 Tel: (513) 534-5300 
 Fax: (513) 534-6757

 Attention: Paul L. Reynolds, Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel 
 (b)  if given to the Guarantee Trustee, at the address or facsimile number set forth below or such other address or facsimile
number as the Guarantee Trustee may give notice to the Guarantor and the Holders: 
 Wilmington Trust Company

 Rodney Square North, 1100 N. Market Street, 
 Wilmington, Delaware 19890 
 Tel: (302) 636-6016 
 Fax: (302) 636-4145

 Attention: Kristin L. Moore, CCTS 
 (c)  if given to any Holder, at the address set forth on the books and records of the Issuer Trust. 
 All notices hereunder shall be deemed to have been given when received in person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, except that if a notice or
other document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date of such refusal or inability to deliver.

 Section 8.4.  Benefit. 
 This Guarantee Agreement is solely for the benefit of the Holders and is not separately transferable from the Preferred Securities. 
  

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 Section 8.5.  Governing Law. 
 THIS GUARANTEE AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED
BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK. 
 Section 8.6.  Counterparts. 
 This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
the parties hereto have executed this Guarantee Agreement as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
		
	By:	 	/s/ MAHESH SANKARAN
		 	Name: Mahesh Sankaran
		 	Title: Senior Vice President and Treasurer

  

			
	 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
   as Guarantee Trustee

		
	By:	 	/s/ KRISTIN L. MOORE
		 	Name: Kristin L. Moore
		 	Title: Senior Financial Services Officer

  

 FITB CAPITAL TRUST V - GUARANTEE AGREEMENTSecond Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 8, 2007

 EXHIBIT 4.4 
  

 SECOND
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE 
 between 
 FIFTH THIRD BANCORP 
 and 
 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY 
 Dated as of August 8, 2007 
 Supplement to Junior Subordinated Indenture, 
 dated as of March 20, 1997 
  

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
	 ARTICLE I
  
 DEFINITIONS

			
	Section 1.1.	    	 Definitions
	  	1
	
	 ARTICLE II
  
 GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE
JSNS

			
	Section 2.1.	    	 Designation, Principal Amount and Authorized Denomination
	  	9
	Section 2.2.	    	 Repayment
	  	9
	Section 2.3.	    	 Form
	  	10
	Section 2.4.	    	 Rate of Interest; Interest Payment Dates
	  	10
	Section 2.5.	    	 Interest Deferral
	  	11
	Section 2.6.	    	 Dividend and Other Payment Stoppages
	  	12
	Section 2.7.	    	 Alternative Payment Mechanism
	  	13
	Section 2.8.	    	 Redemption of the JSNs
	  	15
	Section 2.9.	    	 Events of Default
	  	16
	Section 2.10.	    	 Securities Registrar; Paying Agent; Delegation of Trustee Duties
	  	17
	Section 2.11.	    	 Limitation on Claims in the Event of Bankruptcy, Insolvency or Receivership
	  	17
	Section 2.12.	    	 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest; Direct Action by Holders of Trust Preferred
Securities.
	  	17
	
	 ARTICLE III
  
 REPAYMENT OF JSNS

			
	Section 3.1.	    	 Deposit of Repayment Amount
	  	18
	Section 3.2.	    	 Repayment of JSNs
	  	18
	
	 ARTICLE IV
  
 EXPENSES

			
	Section 4.1.	    	 Expenses
	  	18
	
	 ARTICLE V
  
 FORM OF JSNS

  

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	Section 5.1.	    	 Form of JSNs
	  	19
	
	 ARTICLE VI
  
 ORIGINAL ISSUE OF JSNS

			
	Section 6.1.	    	 Original Issue of JSNs
	  	26
	Section 6.2.	    	 Calculation of Original Issue Discount
	  	26
	
	 ARTICLE VII
  
 SUBORDINATION

			
	Section 7.1.	    	 Senior Debt
	  	26
	Section 7.2.	    	 Compliance with Federal Reserve Rules
	  	27
	
	 ARTICLE VIII
  
 MISCELLANEOUS

			
	Section 8.1.	    	 Effectiveness
	  	28
	Section 8.2.	    	 Modification of Supplemental Indenture
	  	28
	Section 8.3.	    	 Miscellaneous
	  	28
	Section 8.4.	    	 Successors and Assigns
	  	28
	Section 8.5.	    	 Further Assurances
	  	28
	Section 8.6.	    	 Effect of Recitals
	  	28
	Section 8.7.	    	 Ratification of Indenture
	  	29
	Section 8.8.	    	 Governing Law
	  	29

  

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 SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated
as of August 8, 2007 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), between FIFTH THIRD BANCORP, an Ohio corporation (the “Company”), having its principal
office at Fifth Third Center, 38 Fountain Square Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio 45263, and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as trustee (hereinafter called the “Trustee”).

 RECITALS OF THE COMPANY 
 The Company and the Trustee entered into the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of March 20, 1997 (the “Indenture”).

 Fifth Third Capital Trust V, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), has offered to the public its trust preferred
securities known as 7.25% Trust Preferred Securities (the “Trust Preferred Securities”), which are beneficial interests in the Trust, and proposes to invest the proceeds from such offering, together with the proceeds of the issuance
and sale by the Trust to the Company of its common securities (the “Trust Common Securities” and, together with the Trust Preferred Securities, the “Trust Securities”), in the JSNs (as defined herein). 

Section 9.1 of the Indenture provides that the Company and the Trustee may, without the consent of any Holder, enter into a supplemental
indenture to establish the form or terms of securities of any series as permitted by Section 2.1 or 3.1 thereof. 
 Pursuant to Sections
2.1 and 3.1 of the Indenture, the Company desires to provide for the establishment of a new series of Securities under the Indenture, the form and substance of such Securities and the terms, provisions and conditions thereof to be set forth as
provided in the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture. 
 The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and an
Officers’ Certificate pursuant to Section 9.3 of the Indenture to the effect execution of this Supplemental Indenture is authorized or permitted by the Indenture. 
 The Company has requested that the Trustee execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture and satisfy all requirements necessary to make this
Supplemental Indenture a valid instrument in accordance with its terms, and to make the JSNs, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, the valid obligations of the Company and all acts and things necessary have
been done and performed to make this Supplemental Indenture enforceable in accordance with its terms, and the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized in all respects. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the JSNs by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the JSNs, as follows: 
 ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS

 Section 1.1.      Definitions For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture, except as otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: 
 (a)        Terms
defined in the Indenture or the Amended Declaration (as defined herein) have the same meanings when used in this Supplemental Indenture unless otherwise specified herein. 
  

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 (b)        The terms defined in this Article have
the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular. 
 (c)        The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision, and any reference to an Article, Section or other subdivision refers to an Article, Section or other subdivision of this Supplemental Indenture. 
 (d)        Any reference herein to “interest” includes any Additional Interest.

 “Amended Declaration” means the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of August 8, 2007, among the
Company, as sponsor, Wilmington Trust Company, as the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees. 
 “Business Combination” means a merger, consolidation, amalgamation or conveyance, transfer or lease of assets substantially as an entirety by one Person to any other Person. 
 “Capital Treatment Event” means the Company’s reasonable determination that, as a result of the occurrence of any amendment to, or
change (including any announced prospective change) in, the laws (or any rules or regulations thereunder) of the United States or any political subdivision thereof or therein, or as a result of any official or administrative pronouncement or action
or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws, rules or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or which pronouncement, action or decision is announced on or after the date of issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities, there
is more than an insubstantial risk that the Company will not be entitled to treat an amount equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Trust Preferred Securities as “Tier 1 capital” (or the then equivalent thereof) for purposes of
the capital adequacy guidelines of the Federal Reserve, as then in effect and applicable to the Company. 
 “Calculation
Agent” means Wilmington Trust Company, or any other firm appointed by the Company, acting as calculation agent. 
 “Common
Stock” means the common stock of the Company. 
 “Common Equity Issuance Cap” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.7(a). 
 “Company” has the meaning specified in the Recitals. 
 “Current Stock Market Price” means, with respect to Common Stock on any date, (i) the closing sale price per share (or if no
closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions by the Nasdaq Global Select
Market or if Common Stock is not then listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, as reported by the principal U.S. securities exchange on which Common Stock is traded or quoted on the relevant date, (ii) if Common Stock is not listed on any
U.S. securities exchange on the relevant date the last quoted bid price for Common Stock in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or similar organization, or (iii) if Common Stock is not
so quoted the average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for Common Stock on the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for this purpose. 

 

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 “Deferral Period” means the period commencing on an Interest Payment Date with respect
to which the Company elects to defer interest pursuant to Section 2.5 and ending on the earlier of (i) the tenth anniversary of that Interest Payment Date and (ii) the next Interest Payment Date on which the Company has paid the
amount deferred, all deferred amounts with respect to any subsequent period and all other accrued and unpaid interest on the JSNs. The settlement of all deferred interest pursuant to Section 2.5(c), whether it occurs on an Interest Payment Date
or another date, will immediately terminate the Deferral Period. 
 “Eligible Proceeds” means, for each relevant Interest
Payment Date, the net proceeds (after deducting underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, commissions or discounts and other expenses relating to the issuance or sale) the Company has received during the 180-day period prior to such
Interest Payment Date from the issuance or sale of Qualifying APM Securities (excluding sales of Common Stock in excess of the Maximum Share Number and sales of Qualifying Preferred Stock in excess of the Preferred Stock Issuance Cap, respectively)
to Persons that are not the Company’s Subsidiaries. 
 “Federal Reserve” means the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, together with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, or any successor federal bank regulatory agency having primary jurisdiction over the Company. 
 “Guarantee Agreement” means the Guarantee Agreement between the Company, as guarantor, and Wilmington Trust Company, as guarantee trustee, dated as of August 8, 2007. 
 “Indenture” has the meaning specified in the Recitals. 
 “Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure” has the meaning specified in the Replacement Capital Covenant. 
 “Interest Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.4. 
 “Interest
Period” means the period from, and including, any Interest Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Interest Period, August 8, 2007) to but excluding the next Interest Payment Date. 
 “Investment Company Event” means the receipt by the Trust of an opinion of counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a
result of any amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective change) in, the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of any official
administrative pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or which pronouncement or decision is announced on or after the date of issuance of the Trust Preferred
Securities, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Trust is or will be considered an “investment company” that is required to be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. 
 “JSN” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1. 
 “LIBOR” means, with respect to any quarterly Interest Period, the rate (expressed as a percentage per annum) for deposits in U.S. dollars for a three-month period commencing on the first day of that
quarterly Interest Period that appears on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the LIBOR Determination Date for that quarterly Interest Period. If such rate does not appear on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page, three-month
LIBOR will be determined on the basis of the rates at which deposits in U.S. dollars for a three-month period commencing on the first day of that quarterly Interest Period, as 

  

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applicable, and in a principal amount of not less than $1,000,000, are offered to prime banks in the London interbank market by four major banks in the
London interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent (after consultation with the Company), at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on the LIBOR Determination Date for that quarterly Interest Period. The Calculation Agent will request the
principal London office of each of such banks to provide a quotation of its rate. If at least two such quotations are provided, three-month LIBOR with respect to that quarterly Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean (rounded upward if necessary
to the nearest whole multiple of 0.00001%) of such quotations. If fewer than two quotations are provided, three-month LIBOR with respect to that quarterly Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean (rounded upward if necessary to the nearest whole
multiple of 0.00001%) of the rates quoted by three major banks in New York City selected by the Calculation Agent, at approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first day of that quarterly Interest Period, as applicable, for loans in U.S.
dollars to leading European banks for a three-month period commencing on the first day of that quarterly Interest Period and in a principal amount of not less than $1,000,000. However, if fewer than three banks selected by the Calculation Agent to
provide quotations are quoting as described above, LIBOR for that quarterly Interest Period will be the same as LIBOR as determined for the previous Interest Period or, in the case of the quarterly Interest Period beginning on August 15, 2057,
5.36%. The establishment of LIBOR for each quarterly Interest Period, as applicable, by the Calculation Agent shall (in the absence of manifest error) be final and binding. 
 “LIBOR Determination Date” means the second London Banking Day immediately preceding the first day of the relevant quarterly Interest
Period. 
 “London Banking Day” means any day on which commercial banks are open for general business (including dealings in
deposits in U.S. dollars) in London, England. 
 “Major Subsidiary Depository Institution” means a major subsidiary
depository institution of the Company within the meaning of the Federal Reserve’s risk-based capital guidelines applicable to bank holding companies. As of the date of this Supplemental Indenture, Fifth Third Bank and Fifth Third Bank
(Michigan) are the Company’s Major Subsidiary Depository Institutions. 
 “Make-Whole Redemption Price”, with respect
to a redemption after the occurrence of a “Rating Agency Event”, shall be equal to 
 (x) 100% of the principal amount of the JSNs
being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date, or 
 (y) if greater, the sum of the present values of the principal
amount of the JSNs and each interest payment thereon that would have been payable to and including August 15, 2012 (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the Redemption Date), discounted from August 15, 2012
or the applicable Interest Payment Date to the Redemption Date on a quarterly basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus 0.50%, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the
Redemption Date. 
 “Market Disruption Event” means, with respect to the issuance or sale of Qualifying APM Securities
pursuant to Section 2.7, the occurrence or existence of any of the following events or sets of circumstances: 
 (i)        Trading in securities generally (or in the Common Stock or Preferred Stock specifically) on the New York Stock Exchange or any other national securities exchange, or in the over-the-counter
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Stock is then listed or traded shall have been suspended or the settlement of such trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices
shall have been established on any such exchange or market by the relevant exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental agency having jurisdiction, and the establishment of such minimum prices materially disrupts or otherwise has a
material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, Qualifying APM Securities; 
 (ii)        The Company would be required to obtain the consent or approval of a regulatory body (including, without limitation, any securities exchange) or governmental authority to issue or sell
Qualifying APM Securities and such consent or approval has not yet been obtained notwithstanding the Company’s commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such consent or approval; 
 (iii)        A banking moratorium shall have been declared by the federal or state authorities of
the United States and such moratorium materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, the Qualifying APM Securities; 
 (iv)        A material disruption shall have occurred in commercial banking or securities
settlement or clearance services in the United States and such disruption materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, the Qualifying APM Securities; 
 (v)        The United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been an
escalation in hostilities involving the United States, there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or there shall have occurred any other national or international calamity or crisis and such event
materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, the Qualifying APM Securities; 
 (vi)        There shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general domestic or international economic, political or financial conditions, including as a result of
terrorist activities, and such change materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, the Qualifying APM Securities; 
 (vii)        An event occurs and is continuing as a result of which the offering document for
such offer and sale of Qualifying APM Securities would, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading and either (a) the disclosure of that event at such time, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, is not otherwise required by law and would have a material adverse effect on the business of the Company or (b) the
disclosure relates to a previously undisclosed proposed or pending material business transaction, the disclosure of which would impede the ability of the Company to consummate such transaction, provided that no single suspension period
contemplated by this paragraph (vii) shall exceed 90 consecutive days and multiple suspension periods contemplated by this paragraph (vii) shall not exceed an aggregate of 90 days in any 180-day period; or 
 (viii)        The Company reasonably believes that the offering document for such offer and sale
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regulation of the Commission (for reasons other than those referred to in paragraph (vii) above) and the Company is unable to comply with such rule or
regulation or such compliance is unduly burdensome, provided that no single suspension period contemplated by this paragraph (viii) shall exceed 90 consecutive days and multiple suspension periods contemplated by this paragraph
(viii) shall not exceed an aggregate of 90 days in any 180-day period. 
 “Maximum Share Number” has the meaning
specified in Section 2.7(a)(iii). 
 “Parity Securities” means debt securities or guarantees of the Company that rank
upon liquidation of the Company on a parity with the JSNs, and includes the JSNs. 
 “Paying Agent” means, with respect to
the JSNs, Wilmington Trust Company or any other Person, including an affiliate of the Company, authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or interest on the JSNs on behalf of the Company. 
 “Paying Agent Office” means the office of the applicable Paying Agent at which at any particular time its corporate agency business will
principally be administered in a Place of Payment, which office at the date hereof in the case of Wilmington Trust Company, in its capacity as Paying Agent with respect to the JSNs under the Indenture, is located at Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney
Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration. 
 “Permitted
Remedies” has the meaning specified in the Replacement Capital Covenant. 
 “Preferred Stock” means the preferred
stock of the Company. 
 “Preferred Stock Issuance Cap” has the meaning specified in Section 2.7(a). 
 “Prospectus Supplement” means the prospectus supplement dated August 1, 2007 to the prospectus dated March 26, 2007, pursuant
to which the Trust Preferred Securities and the JSNs were offered to investors. 
 “Qualifying APM Securities” means Common
Stock, Qualifying Preferred Stock and Qualifying Warrants. 
 “Qualifying Preferred Stock” means non-cumulative perpetual
preferred stock of the Company (a) as to which the transaction documents provide for no remedies as a consequence of non-payment of distributions other than Permitted Remedies and (b) that (i) is subject to Intent-Based Replacement
Disclosure and has a provision that prohibits the Company from making any distributions thereon upon its failure to satisfy one or more financial tests set forth therein or (ii) is subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant.

 “Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant” has the meaning specified in the Replacement Capital Covenant. 
 “Qualifying Warrants” means net share settled warrants to purchase Common Stock that (a) have an exercise price greater than the
Current Stock Market Price as of the date the Company agrees to issue such warrants and (b) the Company is not entitled to redeem for cash and the holders of which are not entitled to require it to repurchase for cash in any circumstances.

  

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 A “Rating Agency Event” means an amendment, clarification or change has occurred in the
equity credit criteria for securities such as the JSNs of any nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1 under the Exchange Act that then publishes a rating for the Company (in this definition, a
“rating agency”), which amendment, clarification or change results (i) in the length of time for which such current criteria are scheduled to be in effect being shortened with respect to the JSNs or (ii) in a lower equity
credit for the JSNs than the then respective equity credit assigned by such rating agency on the date hereof. 
 “Replacement Capital
Covenant” means the Replacement Capital Covenant, dated as of August 8, 2007, by the Company, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the provisions thereof and Section 2.2(b). 

“Responsible Officer” means, with respect to Wilmington Trust Company in its capacity as Paying Agent, any officer within the
Corporate Trust Department (or any successor department, unit or division of Wilmington Trust Company) assigned to the Paying Agent Office of Wilmington Trust Company, in its capacity as Paying Agent, who has direct responsibility for the
administration of the Paying Agent functions of the Indenture. 
 “Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page” means the display designated
on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or such other page as may replace the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page on the service or such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers’ Association for the purpose of displaying London interbank
offered rates for U.S. Dollar deposits). 
 “Securities Registrar” means, with respect to the JSNs, Wilmington Trust
Company, or any other firm appointed by the Company, acting as securities registrar for the JSNs. 
 “Securities Registrar
Office” means the office of the applicable Securities Registrar at which at any particular time its corporate agency business will principally be administered, which office at the date hereof in the case of Wilmington Trust Company, in its
capacity as Securities Registrar under the Indenture, is located at Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration. 
 A “Supervisory Event” shall commence on the date the Company has notified the
Federal Reserve of its intention and affirmatively requested Federal Reserve approval both (1) to sell Qualifying APM Securities and (2) to apply the net proceeds of such sale to pay deferred interest on the JSNs, and the Company has been
notified that the Federal Reserve disapproves of either of these actions, and shall cease on the Business Day following the earlier to occur of (i) the 10th anniversary of the commencement of any Deferral Period or (ii) the day on which the Federal Reserve notifies the Company in writing that it no longer disapproves of the Company’s intention to both (1) issue or sell
Qualifying APM Securities and (2) apply the net proceeds from such sale to pay deferred interest on the JSNs. 
 “Stated
Maturity Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(a). 
 “Supplemental Indenture” means this instrument
as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more agreements supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof. 
 “Tax Event” means that the Company has requested and received an opinion of counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a
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 (i)        amendment to or change (including any
announced prospective change) in the laws or regulations of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority of or in the United States that is enacted or becomes effective after the initial issuance of the Trust Preferred
Securities; 
 (ii)        proposed change in those laws or regulations that is
announced after the initial issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities; 
 (iii)        official administrative decision or judicial decision or administrative action or other official pronouncement interpreting or applying those laws or regulations that is announced after
the initial issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities; or 
 (iv)        threatened
challenge asserted in connection with an audit of the Trust, the Company or its Subsidiaries, or a threatened challenge asserted in writing against any other taxpayer that has raised capital through the issuance of securities that are substantially
similar to the JSNs or the Trust Preferred Securities; 
 there is more than an insubstantial increase in risk that: 
 (i)        the Trust is or will be subject to United States federal income tax with respect to
income received or accrued on the JSNs; 
 (ii)        interest payable by the
Company on the JSNs is not, or will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part, for United States federal income tax purposes; or 
 (iii)        the Trust is or will be subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties or other governmental charges. 
 “Trading Day” means a day on which Common Stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, or if not then listed on the Nasdaq Global
Select Market, a day on which Common Stock is traded or quoted on the principal U.S. securities exchange on which it is listed or quoted, or if not then listed or quoted on a U.S. securities exchange, a day on which Common Stock is quoted in the
over-the-counter market. 
 “Treasury Dealer” means UBS Securities LLC. (or its successor) or, if UBS Securities LLC (or its
successor) refuses to act as treasury dealer for this purpose or ceases to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer specified by us for
these purposes. 
 “Treasury Rate” means the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Treasury Security that
corresponds to the Treasury Price (calculated in accordance with standard market practice and computed as of the second trading day preceding the Redemption Date). 
 “Treasury Security” means the United States Treasury security that the Treasury Dealer determines would be appropriate to use, at the time of determination and in accordance with standard market
practice, in pricing the JSNs being redeemed in a tender offer based on a spread to United States Treasury yields. 
 “Treasury
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published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on that trading day and designated “Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government
Securities”, except that: (i) if that release (or any successor release) is not published or does not contain that price information on that trading day; or (ii) if the Treasury Dealer determines that the price information is not
reasonably reflective of the actual bid-side price of the Treasury Security prevailing at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on that trading day, then Treasury Price will instead mean the bid-side price for the Treasury Security at or around 3:30 p.m.,
New York City time, on that trading day (expressed on a next trading day settlement basis) as determined by the Treasury Dealer through such alternative means as the Treasury Dealer considers to be appropriate under the circumstances. 
 “Trust” has the meaning specified in the Recitals. 
 “Trust Common Securities” has the meaning specified in the Recitals. 
 “Trustee” has the meaning specified in the Recitals. 
 “Trust Preferred Securities” has the
meaning specified in the Recitals. 
 “Trust Securities” has the meaning specified in the Recitals. 
 “Underwriting Agreement” means the Underwriting Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2007, among the Trust, the Company and the
underwriters named therein. 
 ARTICLE II 
 GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE JSNS 
 Section 2.1.      Designation, Principal Amount and Authorized Denomination 
 There is hereby authorized a series of Securities designated the Junior Subordinated Notes (the “JSNs”), the amount of which to be issued will be as set forth in any Corporation Order for the authentication and delivery of
JSNs pursuant to the Indenture. The denominations in which JSNs will be issuable are $25 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. The maximum aggregate principal amount of JSNs that may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture and
this Supplemental Indenture is $500,010,000 (except for JSNs authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or exchange for, or in lieu of, other JSNs pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 9.6 or 11.6 of the Indenture or
Section 3.5 of this Supplemental Indenture); provided, however, that the Company may from time to time authenticate and deliver under the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture up to $75,000,000 additional principal amount of
JSNs, which JSNs may accrue interest from a different date than the JSNs, as may be specified pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture, so long as the Company reasonably determines that the additional JSNs so authenticated and delivered will be
fungible for United States federal income tax purposes and, if the JSNs are held by the Property Trustee, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the Amended Declaration with respect to the issuance of additional Trust Preferred
Securities. From time to time the Company may execute and deliver, and upon Corporation Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, additional JSNs. 
 Section 2.2.      Repayment 
 (a)        Stated Maturity Date. The principal of, and all accrued and unpaid interest on, all outstanding JSNs will be due and payable on August 15, 2067 or, if such day is not a Business
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the following Business Day (the “Stated Maturity Date”), regardless of the amount of Qualifying APM Securities the Company may have issued
and sold by that time. 
 (b)        Amendment of the Replacement Capital
Covenant. The Company shall not amend the Replacement Capital Covenant to amend the definitions incorporated into this Supplemental Indenture pursuant to Section 1.1 except with the consent of holders of a majority by liquidation amount of
the Trust Preferred Securities or, if the JSNs have been distributed by the Trust to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, a majority by principal amount of the JSNs. Except as aforesaid, the Company may amend or supplement the Replacement
Capital Covenant in accordance with its terms and without the consent of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities or the JSNs. 
 Section 2.3.      Form 
 The JSNs will be issued in fully registered definitive form without
interest coupons. Principal of and interest on the JSNs issued in definitive form will be payable, the transfer of such JSNs will be registrable and such JSNs will be exchangeable for JSNs bearing identical terms and provisions and notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the JSNs and the Indenture may be served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company appoints the Trustee as its agent for the foregoing purposes, provided that payment of
interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the Holder at such address as will appear in the Securities Register or by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the bank account number of the Holder specified in
writing by the Holder not less than 10 days before the relevant Interest Payment Date and entered in the Securities Register by the Securities Registrar, provided, further, that if the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, is the sole
Holder of the JSNs then payment of interest will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to a bank account number specified by the Property Trustee. The JSNs may be presented for registration of transfer or exchange at the Securities
Registrar Office. 
 Section 2.4.      Rate of Interest; Interest Payment Dates 
 (a)        Rate of Interest. The JSNs will bear interest at the rate of (i) 7.25%
per annum, from and including August 8, 2007 to but excluding August 15, 2057, and (ii) three-month LIBOR plus 2.57% thereafter. The interest will accrue from August 8, 2007 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to
which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest will be computed on the basis of (i) a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months with
respect to any Interest Period ending on or prior to August 15, 2057 and (ii) a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed with respect to any other Interest Period. Accrued interest that is not paid on the applicable Interest
Payment Date (after giving effect to the adjustments described in the second to last sentence of Section 2.4(b)), including interest deferred pursuant to Section 2.5, will bear Additional Interest, to the extent permitted by law, at the
then-applicable rate described in this paragraph from the relevant Interest Payment Date, compounded on each subsequent Interest Payment Date. 
 (b)        Interest Payment Date. Subject to the other provisions hereof, interest on the JSNs will be payable (i) quarterly in arrears on
February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15 of each year, beginning on November 15, 2007 (each such date, an “Interest Payment Date”). If any Interest Payment Date scheduled on or prior to the
regularly scheduled Interest Payment Date in August, 2057 occurs on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of interest for such Interest Payment Date shall be made (or such interest shall be made available for payment) on the next succeeding
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relevant Interest Payment Date. If any Interest Payment Date scheduled after the regularly scheduled Interest Payment Date in August, 2057 occurs on a day
that is not Business Day, the applicable Interest Payment Date shall instead occur on the immediately succeeding Business Day, unless such immediately succeeding Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, then such Interest Payment Date
shall occur on the immediately preceding Business Day. 
 Section 2.5.      Interest Deferral

 (a)        Option to Defer Interest Payments. The following provisions
shall apply to the JSNs in lieu of Section 3.11 and the first paragraph of Section 10.7 of the Indenture: 
 (i)        The Company will have the right at any time and from time to time, to defer the payment of interest on the JSNs for one or more consecutive Interest Periods up to 10 years; provided
that no Deferral Period will extend beyond the Stated Maturity Date or the earlier redemption of the JSNs. Upon termination of any Deferral Period and upon the payment of all deferred interest then due on any Interest Payment Date, the Company
may elect to begin a new Deferral Period pursuant to this Section 2.5. 
 (ii)        At the end of any Deferral Period, the Company will pay all deferred interest on the JSNs to the Persons in whose names the JSNs are registered in the Securities Register at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date with respect to the Interest Payment Date at the end of such Deferral Period. 
 (iii)        The Company may elect to pay interest on any Interest Payment Date during any Deferral Period to the extent permitted by Section 2.5(b). 
 (b)        Payment of Deferred Interest. The Company will not pay deferred interest on the
JSNs before the Stated Maturity Date or at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing from any source other than Eligible Proceeds. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the Company may pay current interest during a Deferral
Period or at any other time from any available funds and (ii) if a Supervisory Event has occurred and is continuing, then the Company may (but is not obligated to) pay deferred interest with cash from any source. In addition, if the Company
sells Qualifying APM Securities pursuant to Section 2.7 but a Supervisory Event arises from the Federal Reserve disapproving the use of the proceeds to pay deferred interest, the Company may use the proceeds for other purposes and continue to
defer interest on the JSNs. 
 (c)        Business Combination Exception. If
the Company is involved in a Business Combination where immediately after its consummation more than 50% of the voting stock of the Person formed by such Business Combination, or the Person that is the surviving entity of such Business Combination,
or the Person to whom such properties and assets are conveyed, transferred or leased in such Business Combination, is owned by the shareholders of the other party to such Business Combination, then Section 2.5(b) and Section 2.7 will not
apply to any Deferral Period that is terminated on the next Interest Payment Date following the date of consummation of such Business Combination (or if later, at any time within 90 days following the date of consummation of the Business
Combination). The Company will establish a Special Record Date for the payment of any deferred interest pursuant to this Section 2.5(c) on a date other than an Interest Payment Date. 
 (d)        Notice of Deferral. The Company will give written notice of its election to
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of the JSNs, to the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee no more than 30 and no less than five Business Days before the earlier of (A) the next
succeeding date on which the distributions on the Trust Preferred Securities are payable and (B) the date the Property Trustee is required to give notice to holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of the record or payment date for the related
distribution, or (y) if the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, is not the sole Holder of the JSNs, to each Holder of the JSNs and the Trustee no more than 30 and no less than five Business Days before the next Interest Payment Date.
Notice of the Company’s election of a Deferral Period will be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than three Business Days after the Property Trustee receives written notice from the Company to
each holder of Trust Securities at such holder’s address appearing in the Security Register. 
 Section
2.6.      Dividend and Other Payment Stoppages 
 (a)        During Deferral Period. So long as any JSNs remain Outstanding, if the Company has given notice of its election to defer interest payments on the JSNs but the related Deferral Period
has not yet commenced or a Deferral Period is continuing, the Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to: 
 (i)         declare or pay any dividends or distributions, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of capital stock of the Company; 
 (ii)        make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay,
purchase or redeem any Parity Securities or any debt securities or guarantees of the Company that ranks pari passu with or junior in interest upon liquidation to the JSNs; or 
 (iii)        make any payments under any guarantee by the Company that ranks junior to the
Guarantee Agreement; 
 provided, however, the restrictions in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above do not apply to:
(1) any purchase, redemption or other acquisition of shares of the Company’s capital stock by the Company in connection with (A) any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or
more of its employees, officers, directors or consultants, (B) a dividend reinvestment or shareholder purchase plan, (C) transactions effected by or for the account of customers of the Company or any of its affiliates or in connection with
the distribution, trading or market-making in respect of the Trust Preferred Securities or (D) the issuance of the Company’s capital stock, or securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock, as consideration in an
acquisition transaction entered into before the applicable Deferral Period, (2) any exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s capital stock, or the capital stock of one of its Subsidiaries, for any other class or
series of its capital stock, or of any class or series of its indebtedness for any class or series of its capital stock, (3) any purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or
exchange provisions of such capital stock or the securities being converted or exchanged, (4) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any shareholder rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any shareholder
rights plan, or the redemption or purchase of rights pursuant thereto, (5) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights
is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks equally with or junior to such stock, (6) any payment of current or deferred interest on Parity Securities that is made pro rata to the amounts due on such Parity
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interest on Parity Securities that, if not made, would cause the Company to breach the terms of the instrument governing such Parity Securities or
(7) any payment of principal on Parity Securities necessary to avoid a breach of the instrument governing the same. The distribution restrictions and exceptions in this Section 2.6 will be in lieu of the distribution restrictions and
exceptions in Section 3.12 of the Indenture. 
 (b)        Additional
Limitation upon Deferral Lasting over One Year. If any Deferral Period lasts longer than one year, the Company will not repurchase or acquire any securities ranking junior to or pari passu with any Qualifying APM Securities the proceeds of which
were used to settle deferred interest during the relevant Deferral Period before the first anniversary of the date on which all deferred interest on the JSNs has been paid, subject to the exceptions listed in clauses (1) through (7) of
Section 2.6(a). However, if the Company is involved in a Business Combination where immediately after its consummation more than 50% of the voting stock of the Person formed by such Business Combination, or the Person that is the surviving
entity of such Business Combination, or the Person to whom such properties and assets are conveyed, transferred or leased in such Business Combination, is owned by the shareholders of the other party to such Business Combination, then the limitation
set forth in this Section 2.6(b) will not apply to any Deferral Period that is terminated on the next Interest Payment Date following the date of consummation of such Business Combination (or if later, at any time within 90 days following the
date of consummation of the Business Combination). 
 Section 2.7.      Alternative Payment Mechanism

 (a)        Obligation to Issue Qualifying APM Securities. Commencing not
later than the earlier of (i) the first Interest Payment Date following the commencement of any Deferral Period on which the Company pays any current interest on the JSNs from any source of funds or (ii) the fifth anniversary of the
commencement of such Deferral Period, the Company shall, subject to the occurrence and continuation of a Supervisory Event or a Market Disruption Event as described under Section 2.7(b) and subject to Section 2.5(c), issue one or more
types of Qualifying APM Securities until the Company has raised an amount of Eligible Proceeds at least equal to the aggregate amount of accrued and unpaid deferred interest on the JSNs and applied such Eligible Proceeds on the next Interest Payment
Date to the payment of deferred interest in accordance with Section 2.5, provided that: 
 (i)        the foregoing obligations will not apply to the extent that, with respect to deferred interest attributable to the first five years of any Deferral Period, the net proceeds of any issuance
of Common Stock (or Qualifying Warrants if the definition of Qualifying APM Securities has been modified to exclude Common Stock) applied during such Deferral Period to pay interest on the JSNs pursuant to this Section 2.7, together with the
net proceeds of all prior issuances of Common Stock and Qualifying Warrants so applied during such Deferral Period, would exceed an amount equal to 2% of the product of the average of the Current Stock Market Prices of the Common Stock on the 10
consecutive Trading Days ending on the second Trading Day immediately preceding the date of issuance multiplied by the total number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock as of the date of the Company’s then most recent publicly
available consolidated financial statements (the “Common Equity Issuance Cap”); provided that the Common Equity Issuance Cap will cease to apply after the ninth anniversary of the commencement of any Deferral Period, at which
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Share Number and any Supervisory Event or Market Disruption Event; and provided, further, that if the Common Equity Issuance Cap is reached
during a Deferral Period and the Company subsequently repays all deferred interest, the Common Equity Issuance Cap will cease to apply at the termination of such Deferral Period and will not apply again unless and until the Company starts a new
Deferral Period; and 
 (ii)        the Company shall not be permitted to issue
Qualifying Preferred Stock to pay deferred interest on the JSNs, and the foregoing obligations will not apply, to the extent that the net proceeds of any issuance of Qualifying Preferred Stock applied to pay interest on the JSNs pursuant to this
Section 2.7, together with the net proceeds of all prior issuances of Preferred Stock so applied during the current and all prior Deferral Periods, would exceed 25% of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding JSNs (the
“Preferred Stock Issuance Cap”); and 
 (iii)        the Company
shall not be permitted to sell more than 165 million shares of Common Stock (such number, as it may be adjusted from time to time, the “Maximum Share Number”) for purposes of paying deferred interest on the JSNs; provided that
if the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock shall have been changed into a different number of shares or a different class by reason of any stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend, reclassification, recapitalization, split-up,
combination, exchange of shares or other similar transaction, then the Maximum Share Number shall be correspondingly adjusted. 
 For the avoidance of doubt, (x) once the Company reaches the Common Equity Issuance Cap for a Deferral Period, the Company will not be required to issue more Common Stock (or Qualifying Warrants if the definition of Qualifying APM
Securities has been modified to exclude Common Stock) with respect to deferred interest attributable to the first five years of such Deferral Period pursuant to this Section 2.7, even if the amount referred to in clause (i) of this
Section 2.7 subsequently increases because of a subsequent increase in the Current Stock Market Price of Common Stock or the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, and (y) so long as the definition of Qualifying APM Securities has
not been amended to eliminate Common Stock, the sale of Qualifying Warrants to pay deferred interest is an option that may be exercised at the Company’s sole discretion and the Company is not obligated to sell Qualifying Warrants or to apply
the proceeds of any such sale to pay deferred interest on the JSNs, and no class of investors of the Company’s securities, or any other party, may require the Company to issue Qualifying Warrants. 
 (b)        Market Disruption Event and Supervisory Event. Section 2.7(a) will not
apply with respect to any Interest Payment Date if the Company shall have provided to the Trustee (and to the Property Trustee of the Trust to the extent the Trust is the sole Holder of the JSNs) no more than 15 and no less than 10 Business Days
before such Interest Payment Date an Officers’ Certificate stating that (i) a Market Disruption Event or Supervisory Event was existing after the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date and (ii) either (x) the Market
Disruption Event or Supervisory Event continued for the entire period from the Business Day immediately following the preceding Interest Payment Date to the Business Day immediately preceding the date on which such Officers’ Certificate is
provided or (y) the Market Disruption Event or Supervisory Event continued for only part of such period but the Company was unable to raise sufficient Eligible Proceeds during the rest of that period to pay all accrued and unpaid interest due
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Company from applying the net proceeds of sales of Qualifying APM Securities to pay deferred interest on such Interest Payment Date. 
 (c)        Partial Payment of Deferred Interest. 
 (i)        If the Company has raised some but not all Eligible Proceeds necessary to pay all
deferred interest on any Interest Payment Date pursuant to this Section 2.7, such Eligible Proceeds will be allocated to pay accrued and unpaid interest on the applicable Interest Payment Date in chronological order based on the date each
payment was first deferred, subject to the Common Equity Issuance Cap and the Preferred Stock Issuance Cap, and payment on each installment of deferred interest will be distributed to Holders of such installment on a pro rata basis.

 (ii)        If the Company has outstanding Parity Securities under which the
Company is obligated to sell securities that are Qualifying APM Securities and apply the net proceeds to the payment of deferred interest or distributions, then on any date and for any period the amount of net proceeds received by the Company from
those sales and available for payment of the deferred interest and distributions will be applied to the JSNs and those other Parity Securities on a pro rata basis up to the Maximum Share Number, the Common Equity Issuance Cap and the
Preferred Stock Issuance Cap (or comparable provisions in the instruments governing those other Parity Securities) in proportion to the total amounts that are due on the JSNs and such other Parity Securities, or on such other basis as the Federal
Reserve may approve. The Company may make such pro rata payments on such Parity Securities so long as it shall have paid or deposited with the Paying Agent for the JSNs or segregated and holds in trust for payment the pro rata amount
of deferred interest payable on the JSNs. 
 (d)        Qualifying APM Securities
Definition Change. The Company will send written notice to the Trustee (which notice the Trustee will promptly forward upon receipt to the Administrative Trustees, who will forward such notice to each holder of record of Trust Preferred
Securities) prior to the effective date of any change in the definition of Qualifying APM Securities to eliminate Common Stock or Qualifying Warrants. 
 Section 2.8.      Redemption of the JSNs 
 (a)        Redemption. Section 11.7 of the Indenture shall not apply to the JSNs. The Company may redeem the JSNs (i) in whole or in part, any time on or after August 15, 2012 at
a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of JSNs being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest through the Redemption Date, (ii) in whole but not in part at any time within 90 days after the occurrence of a Tax Event, Capital
Treatment Event or Investment Company Event at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of JSNs being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date and (iii) in whole but not in part at any time within 90 days
after the occurrence of a Rating Agency Event at a redemption price equal to the Make-Whole Redemption Price. The Company will notify the Trust of the Make-Whole Redemption Price (if applicable) promptly after the calculation thereof and the Trust
will have no responsibility for calculating the Make-Whole Redemption Price. The Company may not redeem the JSNs in part if the principal amount of the JSNs has been accelerated and such acceleration has not been rescinded unless all accrued and
unpaid interest including deferred interest has been paid in full on all outstanding JSNs for all Interest Periods terminating on or before the Redemption Date. Notice of 

  

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any redemption will be mailed at least thirty (30) days but not more than sixty (60) days before the redemption date to each holder of JSNs to be
redeemed at its registered address. 
 (b)        Sinking Fund. The JSNs are
not entitled to any sinking fund payments or similar provisions. 
 Section 2.9.      Events of Default

 (a)        Paragraphs (1) through (5) of Section 5.1 of the
Indenture will not apply to the JSNs, the occurrence of an event described therein will not be an Event of Default with respect to the JSNs, and such paragraphs are replaced with the following subparagraphs (i) through (iv), the occurrence of
any of which shall be an Event of Default with respect to the JSNs. 
 (i)        the default in the payment of interest, including Additional Interest, in full on the JSNs for a period of 30 days after the conclusion of a 10-year period following the commencement of any
Deferral Period; 
 (ii)        the entry of a decree or order by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable Federal or
State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its property or ordering the winding up
or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; 
 (iii)        the institution by the Company of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency
proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of
any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or

 (iv)        a receiver is appointed for a Major Subsidiary Depository Institution
under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act or other applicable law. 
 (b)        The
JSNs shall not have the benefits of Section 5.3 of the Indenture. 
 (c)        So long as any JSNs are held by or on behalf of the Trust, the Trustee will provide to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities such notices as it will from time to time provide under
Section 6.2 of the Indenture. In addition, the Trustee will provide to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities notice of any Event of Default or event that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of
Default with respect to the JSNs within 30 days after the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of such Event of Default or other event. 
  

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 (d)        For the avoidance of doubt, and
without prejudice to any other remedies that may be available to the Trustee, the Holders of the JSNs or the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities under the Indenture, no breach by the Company of any covenant or obligation under the Indenture or
the terms of the JSNs will be an Event of Default with respect to the JSNs other than those specified as Events of Default in Section 2.9(a). 
 (e)        The Company shall not enter into any supplemental indenture with the Trustee to add any additional event of default with respect to the JSNs to the definition of
Event of Default without the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of outstanding JSNs. 
 Section
2.10.      Securities Registrar; Paying Agent; Delegation of Trustee Duties 
 (a)        The Company appoints Wilmington Trust Company as Securities Registrar and Paying Agent with respect to the JSNs. 
 (b)        Notwithstanding any provision contained herein, to the extent permitted by applicable
law, the Trustee may delegate its duty to provide such notices and to perform such other duties as may be required to be provided or performed by the Trustee under the Indenture, and, to the extent such obligation has been so delegated, the Trustee
will not be responsible for monitoring the compliance of, nor be liable for the default or misconduct of, any such designee. 
 Section
2.11.        Limitation on Claims in the Event of Bankruptcy, Insolvency or Receivership 
 Each Holder, by such Holder’s acceptance of the JSNs, agrees that if a Bankruptcy Event of the Company shall occur before the redemption or repayment of such JSNs, such Holder shall have no claim for, and thus no right to receive, any
deferred interest pursuant to Section 2.5 that has not been paid pursuant to Sections 2.5 and 2.7 to the extent the amount of such interest exceeds the sum of (x) the first two years of accumulated and unpaid interest on such Holder’s
JSNs and (y) an amount equal to such Holder’s pro rata share of the excess, if any, of the Preferred Stock Issuance Cap over the aggregate amount of net proceeds from the sale of Qualifying Preferred Stock that the Company has
applied to pay such deferred interest pursuant to the Alternative Payment Mechanism. Each Holder of JSNs shall be deemed to agree that, to the extent the claim for deferred interest exceeds the amount set forth in clause (x), the amount it receives
in respect of such excess shall not exceed the amount it would have received the claim for such excess ranked pari passu with the interests of the Holders, if any, of Qualifying Preferred Stock. 
 Section 2.12.        Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest;  

                               Direct Action by Holders of Trust Preferred
Securities. 
 Section 5.8 of the Indenture will not apply to the JSNs. 
 Notwithstanding any other provision in the Indenture, each Holder of the JSNs shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.8 of the Indenture) interest (including any Additional Interest) on the JSNs on the Stated Maturity Date (or in the case of redemption on the Redemption Date) and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. So long as any JSNs are held by or on behalf of the Trust, any holder of the Trust Preferred Securities issued by the
Trust shall have the right, upon (i) the breach by the Company of its obligations under Section 2.7(a) to issue Qualifying APM Securities or (ii) the occurrence of an Event of Default described in Section 2.9(a), to institute a
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such other remedies as may be available and (b) in the case of (ii) above, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of principal of (premium, if
any) and (subject to Section 3.8 of the Indenture) interest (including any Additional Interest) on the JSNs having a principal amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of such Trust Preferred
Securities. 
 ARTICLE III 
 REPAYMENT OF JSNS 
 Section 3.1.      Deposit of
Repayment Amount 
 Before 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Stated Maturity Date, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with
one or more Paying Agents (or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company will segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.3 of the Indenture) an amount of money sufficient to pay the principal amount of, and any
accrued interest on, all the JSNs. 
 Section 3.2.      Repayment of JSNs 
 On presentation and surrender of such JSNs at a Place of Payment specified in the JSNs, the said securities will be paid by the Company at their
principal amount, together with accrued interest to the Stated Maturity Date. 
 ARTICLE IV 
 EXPENSES 
 Section
4.1.      Expenses 
 In connection with the offering, sale and issuance of the JSNs to the Property
Trustee on behalf of the Trust and in connection with the sale of the Trust Securities by the Trust, the Company, in its capacity as borrower with respect to the JSNs, will: 
 (a)        pay, and reimburse the Trust in full for, all costs and expenses relating to the
offering, sale and issuance of the JSNs, including commissions to the underwriters payable pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and compensation and indemnification of the Trustee under this Supplemental Indenture in accordance with the provisions
of this Supplemental Indenture; 
 (b)        be responsible for and will pay, and
reimburse the Trust in full for, all debts and obligations (except for any amounts owed to holders of the JSNs in their respective capacities as holders) and all costs and expenses of the Trust (including, but not limited to, costs and expenses
relating to the organization, maintenance and dissolution of the Trust), the offering, sale and issuance of the Trust Securities (including commissions to the underwriters in connection therewith), the indemnities, fees and expenses (including
reasonable counsel fees and expenses) of the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees, the Securities Registrar and the Paying Agent, the costs and expenses relating to the operation of the Trust, including, without
limitation, costs and expenses of accountants, attorneys, statistical or bookkeeping services, expenses for printing and engraving and computing or accounting equipment, paying 

  

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agent(s), registrar(s), transfer agent(s), duplicating, travel and telephone and other telecommunications expenses and costs and expenses incurred in
connection with the acquisition, financing, and disposition of Trust assets and the enforcement by the Property Trustee of the rights of the Holders of the JSNs; and 
 (c)      pay, and reimburse the Trust in full for, any and all taxes (other than United States withholding
taxes attributable to the Trust or its assets) and all liabilities, costs and other expenses with respect to such taxes of the Trust. 
 Such
payment obligation includes any such costs, expenses or liabilities of the Trust that are required by applicable law to be satisfied in connection with a dissolution of the Trust. 
 Notwithstanding any provision contained herein, Section 10.6 of the Indenture will not apply for the purposes of the JSNs. 
 The Company’s obligations under this Section 4.1 will be for the benefit of, and will be enforceable by, any Person to whom such debts,
obligations and costs are owed (a “Creditor”) whether or not such Creditor has received notice hereof. Any such Creditor may enforce the Company’s obligations under this Section 4.1 directly against the Company and the
Company irrevocably waives any right or remedy to require that any such Creditor take any action against the Trust or any other Person before proceeding against the Company. The Company agrees to execute such additional agreements as may be
necessary or desirable in order to give full effect to the provisions of this Section 4.1. 
 ARTICLE V 
 FORM OF JSNS 
 Section 5.1.      Form of JSNs 
 The JSNs are to be substantially in
the following form and will bear any legend required by Section 2.4 of the Indenture and include the Trustee’s certificate of authentication in the form required by Section 2.5 of the Indenture: 
  

			
	 No.
 Issue Date:
	  	Principal Amount:    $                    

 FIFTH THIRD BANCORP 
 7.25% JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2067 
 FIFTH THIRD BANCORP, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Ohio (hereinafter called the “Company”, which term
includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                     ,
or registered assigns, the principal sum of                      ($
                    ) and all accrued and unpaid interest thereof on August 15, 2067, or if such day is not a Business Day, the following
Business Day (the “Stated Maturity Date”). 
 The Company further promises to pay interest on said principal sum from and
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paid or duly provided for, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable (i) quarterly in arrears on
February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15 of each year, beginning on November 15, 2007 (each such date, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of (i) 7.25% per annum, from and
including August 8, 2007 to but excluding August 15, 2057, and (ii) three-month LIBOR plus 2.57% thereafter (computed on the basis of (i) a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months with respect to any Interest Period ending
on or prior to August 15, 2057 and (ii) a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed with respect to any other Interest Period), plus Additional Interest, if any. Accrued interest that is not paid on the applicable Interest Payment
Date (after giving effect to the adjustments described in the second to last sentence of Section 2.4(b) of the Supplemental Indenture), including interest deferred pursuant to Section 2.5 of the Supplemental Indenture, will bear Additional
Interest, to the extent permitted by law, at the then-applicable rate described in the second sentence of this paragraph, from the relevant Interest Payment Date, compounded on each subsequent Interest Payment Date. If any Interest Payment Date on
or prior to the regularly scheduled Interest Payment Date in August, 2057 occurs on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of interest for such Interest Payment Date shall be made (or such interest shall be made available for payment) on the
next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if such payment were made on the relevant Interest Payment Date. If any Interest Payment Date scheduled after the regularly scheduled Interest Payment Date in August, 2057 occurs on a
day that is not a Business Day, the applicable Interest Payment Date shall instead occur on the immediately succeeding Business Day, unless the immediately succeeding Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, then such Interest Payment
Date shall occur on the immediately preceding business day. A “Business Day” will mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or any other day on which banking institutions and trust companies in New York, New York, Wilmington,
Delaware or Cincinnati, Ohio, are permitted or required by any applicable law to close, or on or after August 15, 2057, a day that is not a London banking day. A “London banking day” means any day on which commercial banks are
open for general business (including dealings in deposits in U.S. dollars) in London, England. The interest installment so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to
the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest installment, which will be the date that is the last day of the month immediately
preceding the month in which such Interest Payment Date falls (whether or not a Business Day). Any such interest installment not so punctually paid or duly provided for (other than interest deferred in accordance with the next paragraph) will
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof will be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days before such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. 
 So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company has the right at any time or from time to time during the term of this
Security to defer payment of interest on this Security for one or more consecutive Interest Periods up to 10 years; provided, however, that no Deferral Period will extend beyond the Stated Maturity Date or the earlier redemption of any
Securities of this series. Upon the termination of any Deferral Period and upon the payment of all deferred interest then due, the Company may elect to begin a new Deferral Period, subject to the above requirements. Except as provided in
Section 2.7 of the Supplemental Indenture, no interest will be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof. 
  

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 So long as any Securities remain outstanding, if the Company has given notice of its election to defer
interest payments on the Securities but the related Deferral Period has not yet commenced or a Deferral Period is continuing, the Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of the Company to, (i) declare or pay any dividends or
distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the Company’s capital stock, (ii) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, purchase or redeem
any debt securities or guarantees of the Company that rank upon the Company’s liquidation on a parity with this Security (including this Security, the “Parity Securities”), or junior in interest to this Security (except for
partial payments of interest with respect to the Security) or (iii) make any payments under any guarantee by the Company that ranks junior to the Guarantee Agreement (other than (a) any purchase, redemption or other acquisition of shares
of the Company’s capital stock in connection with (1) any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more of its employees, officers, directors or consultants, (2) a dividend
reinvestment or stockholder purchase plan, (3) transactions effected by or for the account of customers of the Company or any of its affiliates or in connection with the distribution, trading or market-making in respect of the Trust Preferred
Securities or (4) the issuance of the Company’s capital stock, or securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock, as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into before the applicable Deferral Period;
(b) any exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s capital stock, or the capital stock of one of its subsidiaries, for any other class or series of the Company’s capital stock, or any class or series of the
Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of its capital stock; (c) any purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the
securities being converted or exchanged; (d) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any rights plan, or the redemption or purchase of rights pursuant thereto;
(e) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks
equally with or junior to such stock), (f) any payment of current or deferred interest on Parity Securities that is made pro rata to the amounts due on such Parity Securities, provided that such payments are made in accordance
with Section 2.7(c) of the Supplemental Indenture to the extent it applies, and any payments of deferred interest on Parity Securities that, if not made, would cause the Company to breach the terms of the instrument governing such Parity
Securities or (g) any payment of principal on Parity Securities necessary to avoid a breach of the instrument governing the same). In addition, if any Deferral Period lasts longer than one year, the Company will not repurchase or acquire any
securities ranking junior to or pari passu with any of its Qualifying APM Securities the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred interest during the relevant Deferral Period before the first anniversary of the date on which all
deferred interest on this Security has been paid, subject to the exceptions listed above. 
 The Company will give written notice of its
election to begin or extend any Deferral Period, (x) if the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, is the sole holder of the Securities, to the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee not more than 30 and at least five Business Days before
the earlier of (A) the next succeeding date on which the distributions on the Trust Preferred Securities are payable and (B) the date the Property Trustee is required to give notice to holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of the
record or payment date for the related distribution, or (y) if the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, is not the sole Holder of the Securities, to Holders of the Securities and the Trustee at least five Business Days before the next
Interest Payment Date. 
 Payment of the principal of and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company
maintained for that purpose in the United States, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company
payment of interest may be made (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address will appear in the Securities Register or (ii) by 

  

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wire transfer in immediately available funds at the bank account number as may be designated by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Securities
Register in writing not less than ten days before the relevant Interest Payment Date. 
 The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to
the extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this
Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and will be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided
and (c) appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his acceptance hereof, waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the Indenture by each
holder of Senior Indebtedness, whether now outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said provisions. 
 Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. 
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
will not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 
 IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed. 
  

			
	FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
		
	By:	 	 
		 	PRESIDENT OR VICE PRESIDENT

  

	
	Attest:
	
	  
	SECRETARY OR ASSISTANT SECRETARY

 Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication 
 This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the Indenture referred to hereinafter. 
  

			
	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE
		
	By:	 	 
		 	Authorized Officer

 (FORM OF REVERSE OF JSNs) 
 This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued
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as of March 20, 1997 (herein called the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee (the
“Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 8, 2007, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture,
the “Indenture”), to which Indenture and all other indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the
Company and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. By the terms of the Indenture, the Securities are issuable in series that may vary as to amount, date of maturity,
rate of interest, rank and in any other respect provided in the Indenture. 
 All terms used in this Security that are defined in the
Indenture or in the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of August 8, 2007, as amended (the “Amended Declaration”), for Fifth Third Capital Trust V among Fifth Third Bancorp, as Sponsor, Wilmington Trust Company,
as the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees, will have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture or the Amended Declaration, as the case may be. 
 The Company may redeem this Security (i) in whole or in part, at any time on or after August 15, 2012 at a redemption price equal to 100% of
the principal amount of this Security plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date, (ii) in whole but not in part at any time within 90 days after the occurrence of a Tax Event, Capital Treatment Event or Investment Company Event at
a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of this Security plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date and (iii) in whole but not in part at any time within 90 days after the occurrence of a Rating Agency Event at a
redemption price equal to the Make-Whole Redemption Price. 
 No sinking fund is provided for the Securities. 
 The Indenture contains provisions for satisfaction and discharge of the entire indebtedness of this Security upon compliance by the Company with certain
conditions set forth in the Indenture. 
 The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the Company and the Trustee at
any time to enter into a supplemental indenture or indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations of the Company and of the Holders of the Securities, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities to be affected by such supplemental indenture. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding, on behalf
of the Holders of all Securities, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security will be
conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Security. 
 As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default (other than an Event of
Default specified in Sections 5.1(1) through 5.1(5) of the Base Indenture) with respect to the Securities at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare the entire principal amount and all accrued but unpaid interest of all the Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders);
provided that, in the case of the Securities issued to and held by Fifth Third Capital Trust V, or any trustee thereof or agent therefor, if upon an Event of Default, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
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Securities to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities then outstanding
shall have such right by a notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee, and upon any such declaration the principal amount of and the accrued but unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities will become immediately
due and payable; provided that the payment of principal and interest (including any Additional Interest) on such Securities will remain subordinated to the extent provided in Article XIII of the Base Indenture. 
 So long as any Securities are held by or on behalf of Fifth Third Capital Trust V, any holder of the Trust Preferred Securities issued by Fifth Third
Capital Trust V shall have the right, upon (i) the breach by the Company of its obligations under Section 2.7(a) of the Supplemental Indenture to issue Qualifying APM Securities or (ii) the occurrence of an Event of Default described
in Section 2.9(a) of the Supplemental Indenture, to institute a suit directly against the Company (a) in the case of (i) above, to enforce such obligations or for such other remedies as may be available and (b) in the case of
(ii) above, for enforcement of payment to such holder of principal of (premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.8 of the Base Indenture) interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities having a principal amount equal to
the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of such Trust Preferred Securities. 
 The Holder of this Security,
by such Holder’s acceptance hereof, agrees that if a Bankruptcy Event of the Company shall occur before the redemption or repayment of such Security, such Holder shall have no claim for, and thus no right to receive, any deferred interest
pursuant to Section 2.5 of the Supplemental Indenture that has not been paid pursuant to Sections 2.5 and 2.7 of the Supplemental Indenture to the extent the amount of such interest exceeds the sum of (x) the first two years of accumulated
and unpaid interest on this Security and (y) an amount equal to such Holder’s pro rata share of the excess, if any, of the Preferred Stock Issuance Cap over the aggregate amount of net proceeds from the sale of Qualifying Preferred
Stock that the Company has applied to pay such deferred interest pursuant to the Alternative Payment Mechanism; provided that such Holder shall be deemed to agree that, to the extent the remaining claim exceeds the amount set forth in clause
(x), the amount it receives in respect of such excess shall not exceed the amount it would have received had the claim for such excess ranked pari passu with the interests of the Holders, if any, of Qualifying Preferred Stock. 
 No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture will alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. 
 As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Securities Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer
at the office or agency of the Company maintained under Section 10.2 of the Base Indenture duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar duly executed by,
the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service
charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. 
 Before due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the
Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent will be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  

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 The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $25 and
integral multiples thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of a different authorized denomination, as requested by
the Holder surrendering the same. 
 The Company and, by its acceptance of this Security or a beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and
any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in, this Security agree to treat for United States Federal income tax purposes (i) the Securities as indebtedness of the Company, and (ii) the stated interest on the Securities as ordinary
interest income that is includible in the Holder’s or beneficial owner’s gross income at the time the interest is paid or accrued in accordance with the Holder’s or beneficial owner’s regular method of tax accounting, and
otherwise to treat the Securities as described in the Prospectus. 
 The Indenture and this Security will be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York. 
 This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.

 ASSIGNMENT 
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the
undersigned assigns and transfers this Security to: 
  
  

  

  

 (Insert assignee’s social security or tax identification number) 
  
  

  

  

 (Insert address and zip code of assignee) 
 agent to transfer
this Security on the books of the Securities Registrar. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her. 
  

					
	Dated:	  		  	Signature:
			
		  		  	Signature Guarantee:

 (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security) 
 Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Securities Registrar, which requirements include
membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Securities Registrar in addition to, or in substitution
for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
  

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 ARTICLE VI 
 ORIGINAL ISSUE OF JSNS 
 Section
6.1.      Original Issue of JSNs 
 JSNs in the aggregate principal amount of $500,010,000 may, upon
execution of this Supplemental Indenture, be executed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent for authentication, and the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent will thereupon authenticate and deliver said JSNs in
accordance with a Corporation Order. Subject to the maximum aggregate principal amount of JSNs specified in Section 2.1, from time to time after the execution of this Supplemental Indenture, additional JSNs having the same terms
(provided that such JSNs, if issued on or after the first Interest Payment Date, shall bear interest from the most recent Interest Payment Date) may be executed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent for
authentication, and the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent will thereupon authenticate and deliver said JSNs in accordance with a Corporation Order. Any such JSNs shall become part of the same series as the JSNs originally issued hereunder.

 Section 6.2.      Calculation of Original Issue Discount 
 If during any calendar year any original issue discount shall have accrued on the JSNs, the Company will file with each Paying Agent (including the
Trustee if it is a Paying Agent) promptly at the end of each calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on Outstanding Securities as of the end of such
year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time. Neither the Company nor the Trust would make actual payments
on the JSNs, or on the Trust Preferred Securities, as the case may be, during a Deferral Period. 
 ARTICLE VII 
 SUBORDINATION 
 Section
7.1.      Senior Debt 
 (a)        The
subordination provisions of Article XIII of the Indenture will apply to the JSNs, except that for the purposes of the JSNs (but not for the purposes of any other Securities unless specifically set forth in the terms of such Securities),
“Senior Debt” or “Senior Indebtedness” is defined as the principal, premium, if any, unpaid interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating
to the Company whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceeding), fees, charges, expenses, reimbursement and indemnification obligations, and all other amounts payable under or in respect of the types of debt generally
described below: 
 (i)        debt for money the Company has borrowed; 

(ii)        debt evidenced by a bond, note, debt security, or similar instrument (including
purchase money obligations) whether or not given in connection with the acquisition of any business, property or assets, whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise, but not any account payable or other obligation created or assumed in
the ordinary course of business in connection with the obtaining of materials or services; 
  

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 (iii)         debt which is a direct or
indirect obligation which arises as a result of banker’s acceptances or bank letters of credit issued to secure the Company’s obligations; 
 (iv)         any debt of others described in the preceding clauses (i) through (iii) hereof which the Company has guaranteed or for which the Company is otherwise
liable; 
 (v)           debt secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien,
charge, encumbrance or any security interest existing on the Company’s property; 
 (vi)          the Company’s obligation as lessee under any lease of property which is reflected on the Company’s balance sheet as a capitalized lease; 
 (vii)         any deferral, amendment, renewal, extension, supplement or refunding of any
liability of the kind described in any of the preceding clauses (i) through (vi) hereof; and 
 (viii)        the Company’s obligations to make payments under the terms of financial instruments such as securities contracts and foreign currency exchange contracts, derivative instruments and
other similar financial instruments. 
 For purposes of the JSNs, senior debt and senior indebtedness will exclude the following: 

(i)            the guarantee of the Trust Preferred Securities;

 (ii)           any indebtedness or guarantee that is by its terms
subordinated to, or ranks equally with, the JSNs and the issuance of which, in the case of this clause (ii) only, (x) has received the concurrence or approval of the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the staff of the
Federal Reserve or (y) does not at the time of issuance prevent the JSNs from qualifying for Tier 1 capital treatment (irrespective of any limits on the amount of the Company’s Tier 1 capital) under the applicable capital adequacy
guidelines, regulations, policies or published interpretations of the Federal Reserve; and 
 (iii)           trade accounts payable and other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business. 
 (b)        Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of the Indenture or of this
Supplemental Indenture, provided that the Company is not subject to a bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation or similar proceeding, the priority of the JSNs in right of payment as to Parity Securities is subject to the provisions of Section 2.6
and the Company will be permitted to pay interest or principal on Parity Securities in accordance with Section 2.6. 
 Section
7.2.      Compliance with Federal Reserve Rules 
 The Company will not incur any additional
indebtedness for borrowed money that ranks pari passu with or junior to the JSNs (if then subject to Article XIII of the Indenture), except in compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines of the Federal Reserve. 
  

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 ARTICLE VIII 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 Section 8.1.      Effectiveness

 This Supplemental Indenture will become effective upon its execution and delivery. 
 Section 8.2.      Modification of Supplemental Indenture 
 Without the consent of any Holders of the JSNs, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time,
may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, to eliminate Common Stock or Qualifying Warrants (but not both) from the definition of “Qualifying APM Securities” if the Company has been
advised in writing by a nationally recognized independent accounting firm that there is more than an insubstantial risk that the failure to do so would result in a reduction in its earnings per share as calculated for financial reporting purposes.

 Notwithstanding any other provision in the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture to the contrary, the Company and the Trustee, without
the consent of any holder of JSNs, may enter into a supplemental indenture for the purpose of conforming the terms of the Indenture and/or this Supplemental Indenture and the JSNs to the description of the JSNs contained in the Prospectus
Supplement. 
 No modification or amendment to the Indenture will be effective against any holder without its consent that would reduce the
requirements contained in the Indenture for quorum or voting, or make any change to the subordination of the JSNs in a manner adverse to the holders. 
 Section 8.3.      Miscellaneous 
 The Company will promptly give notice
to Holders, in the manner provided for in the Indenture, of any amendment to the definition of “Qualifying APM Securities” eliminating Common Stock or Qualifying Warrants pursuant to Section 8.2. 
 Section 8.4.      Successors and Assigns 
 All covenants and agreements in the Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture, by the Company will bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not. 
 Section 8.5.      Further Assurances 
 The Company will, at its own cost and expense, execute and deliver any documents or agreements, and take any other actions that the Trustee or its
counsel may from time to time request in order to assure the Trustee of the benefits of the rights granted to the Trustee under the Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture. 
 Section 8.6.      Effect of Recitals 
 The recitals contained herein and in the JSNs, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, will be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any
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sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or of the JSNs. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent will be accountable for the use or application by
the Company of the JSNs or the proceeds thereof. 
 Section 8.7.      Ratification of Indenture

 The Indenture as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and this Supplemental Indenture
will be deemed part of the Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided. 
 Section
8.8.      Governing Law 
 This Supplemental Indenture and the JSNs will be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. 
 * * * * 
 This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed will be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts will
together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto
have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
		
	By:	 	/s/ MAHESH SANKARAN
		 	Name: Mahesh Sankaran
		 	Title: Senior Vice President and Treasurer

 Attest: 
  

			
		
	By:	 	/s/ PAUL L. REYNOLDS

  

			
	 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
         as Trustee

		
	By:	 	/s/ KRISTIN L. MOORE
		 	 Name: Kristin L. Moore
 Title: Senior Financial
Services Officer

 Attest: 
  

			
		
	By:	 	/s/ MICHAEL G. OLLER

  

 FITB CAPITAL TRUST V - SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE

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