Form 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): December 4, 2013

 

 

 

LOGO

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

 

Ohio   001-33653   31-0854434

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  

(Commission

File Number)

  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

Fifth Third Center

38 Fountain Square Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio

   45263
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

(800) 972-3030

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Item 8.01 Other Events.

On December 4, 2013, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) announced administrative settlements with Fifth Third Bancorp (the “Company”) and Mr. Daniel T. Poston, the Company’s executive vice president and chief strategy and administrative officer, to resolve the Commission’s previously reported investigation of the Company’s historical accounting and reporting with respect to certain commercial loans that were sold or reclassified as held-for-sale by the Company in the fourth quarter of 2008. The terms of the approved settlement were consistent with those previously disclosed in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 5, 2013.

For more details about the settlement, please refer to the full text of the Commission’s order being filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

Exhibit 99.1    Order Instituting Public Administrative and Cease-and-Desist Proceedings Pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 4C and 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 102(e) of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, Making Findings, and Imposing Remedial Sanctions and Cease-and-Desist Orders and Penalties

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

FIFTH THIRD BANCORP

(Registrant)

December 4, 2013   By:   /s/ KEVIN T. KABAT
    Kevin T. Kabat
    Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer