Item 8.01 Other Events.

On February 18, 2009, the Board of Directors of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated ("Huntington"), cancelled Huntington's common stock repurchase program authorized in April 2006 (the "2006 Repurchase Program"). Under the 2006 Repurchase Program, Huntington was authorized to repurchase from time to time up to 15 million shares of its common stock (subject to adjustment for any stock dividends, stock splits, reverse stock splits, and other similar changes in capitalization made with respect to the Corporation's common stock) by means of various methods including, but not limited to, open market purchases and privately negotiated transactions. As of February 18, 2009, the Corporation had purchased 11,150,000 of such shares previously authorized under the 2006 Repurchase Program, with the last purchase made in fourth quarter of 2006.

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