PNC Bank 2009 Annual Report Download - page 13

• Insurance companies,
• Private equity firms, and
• Other investment vehicles.
In providing asset management services, our businesses
compete with the following:
• Investment management firms,
• Large banks and other financial institutions,
• Brokerage firms,
• Mutual fund complexes, and
• Insurance companies.
We include here by reference the additional information
regarding competition included in the Item 1A Risk Factors
section of this Report.
EMPLOYEES Employees totaled 55,820 at December 31, 2009.
This total includes 49,761 full-time and 6,059 part-time
employees. This total also includes 4,450 GIS employees.
SEC REPORTS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
INFORMATION
We are subject to the informational requirements of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act),
and, in accordance with the Exchange Act, we file annual,
quarterly and current reports, proxy statements, and other
information with the SEC. Our SEC File Number is
001-09718. You may read and copy this information at the
SEC’s Public Reference Room located at 100 F Street NE,
Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. You can obtain
information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by
calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330.
You can also obtain copies of this information by mail from
the Public Reference Section of the SEC, 100 F Street, NE,
Washington, D.C. 20549, at prescribed rates.
The SEC also maintains an internet website that contains
reports, proxy and information statements, and other
information about issuers, like us, who file electronically with
the SEC. The address of that site is www.sec.gov. You can
also inspect reports, proxy statements and other information
about us at the offices of the New York Stock Exchange, 20
Broad Street, New York, New York 10005.
We also make our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and
amendments to those reports filed or furnished to the SEC
pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
available free of charge on or through our internet website as
soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such
material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. PNC’s corporate
internet address is www.pnc.com and you can find this
information at www.pnc.com/secfilings. Shareholders and
bondholders may also obtain copies of these filings without
charge by contacting Shareholder Services at 800-982-7652 or
via the online contact form at
www.computershare.com/contactus for copies without
exhibits, or by contacting Shareholder Relations at
800-843-2206 or via e-mail at [email protected] for
copies of exhibits. The interactive data file (XBRL) exhibit is
only available electronically.
Information about our Board and its committees and corporate
governance at PNC is available on PNC’s corporate website at
www.pnc.com/corporategovernance. Our PNC Code of
Business Conduct and Ethics is available on our corporate
website at www.pnc.com/corporategovernance. In addition,
any future amendments to, or waivers from, a provision of the
PNC Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to our
directors or executive officers (including the Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer and the
Controller) will be posted at this internet address.
Shareholders who would like to request printed copies of the
PNC Code of Business Conduct and Ethics or our Corporate
Governance Guidelines or the charters of our Board’s Audit,
Nominating and Governance, or Personnel and Compensation
Committees (all of which are posted on the PNC corporate
website) may do so by sending their requests to George P.
Long, III, Corporate Secretary, at corporate headquarters at
One PNC Plaza, 249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15222-2707. Copies will be provided without charge to
shareholders.
Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE) under the symbol “PNC.”
INTERNET INFORMATION
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.’s financial reports
and information about its products and services are available
on the internet at www.pnc.com. We provide information for
investors in portions of our corporate website, such as the
Investor Events and Financial Information areas that you can
find under “About PNC – Investor Relations.” In this section,
we will from time to time post information that we believe
may be important or useful to investors. We generally post the
following shortly before or promptly following its first use or
release: financially-related press releases (including earnings
releases), various SEC filings, presentation materials
associated with earnings and other investor conference calls or
events, and access to live and taped audio from such calls or
events. When warranted, we will also use our website to
expedite public access to time-critical information regarding
PNC in advance of distribution of a press release or a filing
with the SEC disclosing the same information. You can also
find the SEC reports and corporate governance information
described in the section above in the Investor Relations
section of our website.
Where we have included web addresses in this Report, such as
our web address and web addresses of the SEC and of
BlackRock, we have included those web addresses as inactive
textual references only. Except as specifically incorporated by
reference into this Report, information on those websites is
not part of this Report.
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