Instant Intel: Fifth Third Bank Payments Trigger

🚀 Battle Card: Fifth Third Bank

• Bridgit Chayt, Head of Commercial Payments · 🔗 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fifth-third-bank/)

• Jessica Rohrkemper, Director, Commercial Payments & Treasury Management Support Services · 🔗 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fifth-third-bank/)

• Recognition highlights a renewed push to scale modern B2B payments tech and deepen client engagement. → Source

• Outdated payments infrastructure can’t keep up with $17T+ volume.

• Maintaining top-five market share across six payment categories under cost pressure.

• Primary: Cloud-native B2B payments platform → real-time processing & visibility

• Expansion: Embedded finance APIs → new revenue streams & tighter integrations

• HQ: Cincinnati, OH

• Employees: ≈ 20,000

• Rev: ≈ $7.9 B

• Website: [53.com](https://www.53.com)

🤼 Competitive Intel

• FIS — Commercial Payments
• Edge: Deep banking integration & global reach
• Evaluated by Head of Commercial Payments for scale

• Fiserv — Payments & Treasury
• Edge: End-to-end treasury solutions
• Evaluated by Treasury Mgmt. Support for risk controls

• ACI Worldwide — Real-time Payments
• Edge: Proven real-time rails expertise
• Evaluated by Ops for uptime SLAs

• Bottomline — Payment Automation
• Edge: AI-driven exception handling
• Evaluated by Finance for efficiency gains

• Jack Henry & Associates — Core & Payments
• Edge: Integrated core-to-payments stack
• Evaluated by IT for deployment ease

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

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📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Bridgit
COMPANY     = Fifth Third Bank
DEPT        = Commercial Payments
SIZE        = ≈ TBD
BOTTLENECK  = outdated payments infrastructure
EVENT       = American Banker Most Powerful Women list
DETAIL      = being named to American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking lists
PAIN        = legacy payments systems can't handle growing volume
SRC         = http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=ftfLlWd9aZbF2NXfwppam3Bd664=&newsLang=en&newsId=20251006595308&div=41152219
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EMP_EST     = ≈ 20,000
REV_EST     = ≈ $7.9B

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Subject: ≈ TBD-person Commercial Payments

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That’s when outdated payments infrastructure slows growth.

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PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ TBD.

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