Fifth Third Bancorp to Announce First Quarter 2009 Earnings, Host Conference Call on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM

CINCINNATI, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fifth Third Bancorp is scheduled to report first quarter 2009 financial results on April 23, 2009. The announcement will be available at http://www.53.com/ at approximately 6:30 AM ET. The Company will host a conference call at 8:30 AM ET to discuss results.

This conference call will be webcast live by Thomson Financial and may be accessed through the Fifth Third Investor Relations website at http://www.53.com/ (click on "About Fifth Third" then "Investor Relations"). The webcast also is being distributed over Thomson Financial's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through Thomson Financial's individual investor center at http://www.earnings.com/ or by visiting any of the investor sites in Thomson Financial's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson Financial's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com/).

Those unable to listen to the live call may access a webcast replay through the Fifth Third Investor Relations website at the same web address. Additionally, a telephone replay of the conference call will be available until approximately Thursday, May 7 by dialing [phone] for domestic access or [phone] for international access (passcode 92753311#).

Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Company has $120 billion in assets, operates 16 affiliates with 1,311 full-service Banking Centers, including 95 Bank Mart(R) locations open seven days a week inside select grocery stores and 2,354 ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia and North Carolina. Fifth Third operates five main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, Investment Advisors and Fifth Third Processing Solutions. Fifth Third is among the largest money managers in the Midwest and, as of December 31, 2008, has $179 billion in assets under care, of which it managed $25 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit organizations. Investor information and press releases can be viewed at http://www.53.com/. Fifth Third's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ(R) National Global Select Market under the symbol "FITB."

Fifth Third Bancorp

CONTACT: Investors, Jeff Richardson, [phone], or Jim Eglseder,
[phone], or Media, Debra DeCourcy, APR, [phone]

Web Site: http://www.53.com/