Fifth Third Bank closed 81 branches after taking over Comerica, and 75 of them were in Michigan. The closures appeared on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s website, Banking Dive reported in June. Michigan’s branches were set to shut on September 3 and 4, and the bank finished moving Comerica customers onto its systems over Labor Day weekend.
Where the 81 closures landed
Of the 81 branches, 59 were originally Comerica locations. Banking Dive counts 75 in Michigan, four in Florida, one in California and one in Texas. Fifth Third said most of the closing branches have another of its locations within a mile.
In Michigan, 55 of the 75 were former Comerica branches and 20 were Fifth Third’s own, according to Michigan Public. A Comerica branch in downtown Ann Arbor was among them. After the closures, the bank counts 227 combined branches in the state, against 163 for Fifth Third and 143 for Comerica before the merger.
Fourteen of the Michigan closings were in West Michigan. The merger itself closed February 1, 2026, in a $10.9 billion deal, and the conversion of Comerica customers to Fifth Third’s systems was announced finished on September 8.
The Michigan closings fell on a Thursday and Friday, the two days before the Labor Day weekend conversion. Customers who bank at a branch on the list should confirm where their accounts are now serviced. Davis said, “We want our customers to see a familiar face and have familiar service.”
Comerica was founded in Detroit in 1849 and moved its headquarters to Texas in 2007. Fifth Third now says it holds the top retail deposit share in Michigan, and the Detroit network is the largest in the city, with 19 locations. Twenty of the 75 Michigan closures were Fifth Third’s own branches, not Comerica’s.
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What Fifth Third says it gets from the consolidation
Steve Davis, Fifth Third’s Michigan region president, told Michigan Public the two networks overlapped heavily. “When we put the two organizations together, we knew that we had a lot of overlap in our branch network,” he said. “In a number of cases, literally they share parking lots.”
The bank says it weighed historical use, location, traffic patterns and the age of each facility. After the customer conversion, existing Fifth Third customers in Michigan can reach 42 percent more branches and former Comerica customers 60 percent more, WOOD-TV reported. Davis added that customers already had interchangeable access to both banks’ ATMs.
Tim Spence, Fifth Third’s chairman, president and chief executive, framed the work as a merger of teams. “The power of this merger comes from what we can accomplish together as one team,” he said in the company’s conversion announcement. The announcement put the combined bank at about 1,500 branches and 21,300 ATMs.
The closures in Michigan sit beside expansion elsewhere. Fifth Third has set a target of about 1,750 branches by 2030, with more than half of them in Texas, the Southeast, Arizona and California. In Detroit, the bank says it will hold the largest network, with 19 locations.
The conversion covered about 600,000 customers and 293 former Comerica banking centers across Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan and Texas. A Fifth Third spokesperson said the bank is “building a stronger, more efficient branch network that supports customers today.” The company is also opening new branches in Coconut Creek, Florida; Chapin, South Carolina; and Fairburn, Georgia.
The jobs behind the branches
Fifth Third did not confirm how many people lost jobs, but two state layoff notices point to more than 700 in Oakland County. One covers 234 workers in Auburn Hills and the other 502 in Farmington Hills. A spokesperson said the bank’s priority had been “supporting impacted employees with transparency, respect and care.”
Banking Dive reported earlier cuts at Comerica: 184 employees in Frisco, Texas, in March, and hundreds more in May. Davis said Fifth Third would try to keep staff from closed branches by moving them into the receiving branches where possible.
The bank signaled the cuts months earlier. A Fifth Third spokesperson said in January, “While these decisions are never easy, we believe these actions position us to deliver greater future value.” A Comerica spokesperson in Dallas said then that both companies were “thoughtfully aligning roles to support future business needs.”
What the closures do to deposits
Closing a branch does not change deposit insurance. The FDIC’s standard coverage is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category. Customers who held accounts at both Fifth Third and Comerica can use the agency’s “Are My Deposits Insured?” tool to see where they stand.
The change customers will feel is distance. Most closing branches have a Fifth Third location within a mile, according to the bank, and Michigan customers gain access to more locations overall. What each closed branch offered beyond routine banking has not been published.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
Warren Cohen is a finance writer based in Phoenix, Arizona, covering personal finance topics including credit, banking, and beginner investing. He earned his degree in business administration from Arizona State University and began his career working in consumer finance, where he gained direct experience with lending and credit systems. He now writes for personal finance websites and fintech platforms, focusing on clear, practical content that helps readers make informed financial decisions.
