Fifth Third Bancorp

Fifth Third Bancorp (trade name Fifth Third Bank, "5/3 Bank") is a Cincinnati, Ohio–based bank holding company headquartered at Fifth Third Center, 38 Fountain Square Plaza. Its bank roots trace to the Bank of the Ohio Valley, opened June 17, 1858; the holding company itself was organized as an Ohio corporation in 1974–75. It is publicly traded on NASDAQ under ticker FITB and is an S&P 500 component (company 10-K; Wikipedia). It reports roughly 18,600–19,000 employees, total assets of about $214.6 billion (year-end 2023), and annual revenue in the $9–13 billion range depending on the measure used (Yahoo Finance; FT/LSEG; Wikipedia). No parent company owns it.

Operations. Fifth Third operates through three segments: Commercial Banking (credit intermediation, cash management, capital markets, asset-based lending, leasing and syndicated finance); Consumer and Small Business Banking (deposits, residential mortgages, home equity, credit cards, auto and indirect lending); and Wealth & Asset Management (wealth planning, investment management, trust, insurance, brokerage and institutional advisory). It runs roughly 1,100 branches and 2,400 ATMs across twelve states, primarily in the Midwest and Southeast (Yahoo Finance; Wikipedia). Notable deals include MB Financial (2018), solar lender Dividend Finance (2022), Rize Money and Big Data Healthcare (2023), and the all-stock acquisition of Comerica announced October 2025 and completed February 1, 2026, creating a roughly $294 billion-asset institution (Wikipedia; WSJ).

Litigation posture. Fifth Third is a pure operating-company defendant: one tracked case as defendant, zero as plaintiff. The sole tracked matter is Intellectual Ventures I & II LLC v. Fifth Third Bancorp et al., filed June 4, 2013, in the Southern District of Ohio. The plaintiff, Intellectual Ventures, is a well-known patent assertion entity. The venue was Fifth Third's home district rather than a plaintiff-friendly forum such as the Eastern District of Texas.

Context. The IV suit sits alongside non-patent regulatory and consumer litigation — a 2015 DOJ/CFPB auto-lending discrimination settlement, a CFPB cross-selling action resolved in 2024, and a 2024 Minnesota attorney general suit against subsidiary Dividend Finance — but the tracked patent record shows only defensive exposure.