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Shareholder Meeting to Be Held on April 13, 2021.

 

          

 

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Meeting Information

 

Meeting Type:             Annual Meeting

For holders as of:       February 19, 2021

Date:   April 13, 2021       Time: 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time

Location: Meeting live via the Internet-please visit

   www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/FITB2021.

 

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Voting Items

     

 

 

The Board of Directors recommends a vote “FOR” the election of all Directors, “FOR” Items 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7, and FOR “1 YEAR” on Item 4.

 

        

        

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

 

 

 

 

    

    

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1.  Election of all members of the Board of Directors to serve until the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2022:

 

Nominees:

 

1a.   Nicholas K. Akins

 

1b.   B. Evan Bayh, III

 

1c.   Jorge L. Benitez

 

1d.   Katherine B. Blackburn

 

1e.   Emerson L. Brumback

 

1f.    Greg D. Carmichael

 

1g.   Linda W. Clement-Holmes

 

1h.   C. Bryan Daniels

 

1i.    Mitchell S. Feiger

 

1j.    Thomas H. Harvey

 

1k.    Gary R. Heminger

 

1l.    Jewell D. Hoover

 

1m.    Eileen A. Mallesch

 

1n.    Michael B. McCallister

 

1o.    Marsha C. Williams

     

2.  Ratification of the appointment of the firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP to serve as the independent external audit firm for the Company for the year 2021.

 

3.  An advisory vote on approval of the Company’s executive compensation.

 

4.  An advisory vote to determine whether the shareholder vote on the compensation of the Company’s executives will occur every 1, 2, or 3 years.

 

5.  Approval of the Fifth Third Bancorp 2021 Incentive Compensation Plan.

 

6.  Approval of an amendment to the Fifth Third Bancorp Articles of Incorporation to eliminate statutory supermajority vote requirements.

 

7.  Approval of an amendment to the Fifth Third Bancorp Articles of Incorporation to eliminate cumulative voting.

  

 


 

 

               
  

 

  
  

 

  

 

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