Item 8.01 Other Events.

Offering of 6.361% Fixed Rate/Floating Rate Senior Notes Due 2028. On October 27, 2022, Fifth Third issued $1,000,000,000 in principal amount of its 6.361% Fixed Rate/Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2028 (the "Senior Notes Offering") sold pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Fifth Third Securities, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and RBC Capital Markets, LLC. On October 27, 2022, Fifth Third entered into a Supplemental Indenture with Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee, which modifies the existing Indenture for Senior Debt Securities dated as of April 30, 2008, as amended by Article 4 of the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 25, 2022 between Fifth Third and the Trustee. The Supplemental Indenture and the Indenture define the rights of the 6.361% Fixed Rate/Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2028 (the "Senior Notes"), which Senior Notes are represented by Global Securities dated as of October 27, 2022. The net proceeds from the sale of the Senior Notes after the underwriting discount and estimated expenses to be paid by Fifth Third are approximately $994,713,800.

The Senior Notes Offering is described in Fifth Third's prospectus supplement dated October 24, 2022, together with the related prospectus dated March 28, 2022, filed with the SEC under Rule 424(b) on October 25, 2022.

The Underwriting Agreement, the Supplemental Indenture and the Global Securities representing the Senior Notes contain various representations, warranties and agreements by Fifth Third, conditions to closing, indemnification rights and obligations of the parties, and termination provisions. The descriptions of the Underwriting Agreement, the Supplemental Indenture and the Global Securities, and other documents relating to this transaction do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of such securities and documents, forms or copies of which are attached hereto as exhibits and incorporated herein by reference.


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The Senior Notes sold in the Senior Notes Offering were registered by Fifth Third pursuant to an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (SEC File No. 333-263894) filed with the SEC on March 28, 2022.

Concurrent with the Senior Notes Offering, Fifth Third Bank, National Association, Fifth Third's bank subsidiary, issued $1,000,000,000 in principal amount of its 5.852% Fixed Rate/ Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2025 in a separate private placement.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

Exhibits below relate to Registration Number 333-263894 on Form S-3 of Fifth Third Bancorp and are filed herewith for incorporation by reference in such Registration Statement:

1.1 - Underwriting Agreement dated as of October 24, 2022 among Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Fifth Third Securities, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and RBC Capital Markets, LLC.

4.1 - Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 27, 2022 between Fifth Third Bancorp and Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee, to the Indenture for Senior Debt Securities dated as of April 30, 2008 between Fifth Third Bancorp and the Trustee, as amended by Article 4 of the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture dated April 25, 2022 between Fifth Third Bancorp and the Trustee.

4.2 - Form of 6.361% Fixed Rate/Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2028.

5.1 - Opinion of Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP regarding legality of the 6.361% Fixed Rate/Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2028.

23.1 - Consent of Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP (included in opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1).

104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

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