No foot traffic, empty parking lot- I always thought it was some money laundering outfit.
Guess I wasn’t far off.

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I was in IT then and working for Wachovia/First Union when that happened. When I questioned someone about the goofy name Fifth/Third, I was told that when they merged, the execs of the new combined bank were afraid that the name 3rd/5th Bank was too close to the nickname for bottles of alcohol (a fifth) and people would think that 3rd/5th would sound bad, as the temperance movement was in full swing during that period. So, they reversed the order and has had that goofy sounding name ever since.

Probably the dominant bank in that town my entire life.

Fifth Third Bank is out of Ohio, but about 20 years go they made a major push to open branch suburban offices in Southwestern Pennsylvania, and probably elsewhere. Whenever the banking laws got loosened or eliminated, they jumped into the fray. Well needless to say, most of those little offices are now closed or sold off. I don't think I've seen any Fifth Third branch offices anywhere in Pittsburgh, but I'm not really looking for them either.

They’ve been good for me.
I got a Bridge Loan from them when I moved from Ohio back to Michigan. I had a house payment for 2 months. Sold my house in Ohio the day I put it up for sale and paid off my new house in 2 months. So, I’ve kept them for most of my banking.
All of the tellers know me by name as I do no online banking, only inline banking. I go to the bank and stand in line.

We bought an rv from camping world. We have bought many rv's and this time, we were forced to purchase their insurance. I was appalled. They would not complete the deal without it. We have good insurance that has always covered our rv's. They said it was a Washington state law. The insurance company they forced down our throats was also owned by them.

for the executives of this bank.

But this is America, we just fine them.

It seems to be ignored when a giant corporation is at fault. So they stole $billions and have to pay some fines of a fraction of what they stole. The company says these fines are saving them money by ending this.

In the meantime, people who lost their cars have to accept pennies on the dollar for their losses.

Turned out, they did an, "add on service," for some kind of insurance to my mortgage in Calif. without approval from me. So, refund + interest. But, they've been stringing the process out now since January.

They are the worst of the worst. They've tried to make this sound like something their internal auditors found, but I think they got caught--again--with their hands in the cookie jar. This is the second time they've had to send me a refund for doing that.

that I hadn't even known I was a party in. They were apparantly running checks through people's accounts in such a way as to maximize overdraft penalties. I think the amount I received was the overdraft fees plus some interest. I left BoA for my credit union way before I got the check from the lawyers. The reason was that they had so many fees for all kinds of stuff. What I didn't know was that they were purposefully manipulating things so as to maximize overdraft fees on checks. Let's say three checks came in to the bank on the same day for (50, 30 and 35 dollars) and there were 75 dollars in the account. Instead of running the two smaller ones trough first and then applying an overdraft fee to the third one, they would run 50 dollar one first so as to apply two overdraft fees. And it wasn't as if they were just running them through randomly. They were going out of their way to cause the most overdrafts.

If the bank gets caught stealing from people, they get told to do things differently next time.

There's a lack of justice in the way we treat banks.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been on the gopper chopping block since before it even existed. Luckily, Rapey the Clown was too incompetent to totally destroy it, but he wants another bite at the apple. Democrats see protecting Americans as the job of the president. Whether it be Russian hackers, disease, or greedy institutions, Democrats know who the enemy is. Republicans feed Americans to the wolves at no cost.