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WATERBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2003--Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, will announce fourth quarter earnings and host a conference call on January 22, 2003. The conference call is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m.

• Earnings Release: Before the market opens on Wednesday, January 22, 2003.
• Conference Call: 2:00 p.m. eastern time, Wednesday, January 22, 2003.
• Dial-in number: (800) 521-5469 (listen only)
• Access Code: 2858838
• Webcast: www.wbst.com

• Conference Call Replay: Available via phone from approximately 4:00 p.m., 1/22/03 until 1/29/03. Dial-in number: (888) 211-2648 Access Code: 2858838 Webcast: www.wbst.com

The webcast is also be distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investor can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments(R) (Fidelity.com) and others. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). StreetEvents allows institutional investors to identify, organize, and track the hundreds of conference calls that occur each day during earnings season, to download events of interest to their Outlook calendar, and to RSVP to events online.

Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank and Webster Insurance. With $13 billion in assets, Connecticut-based Webster Bank provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, insurance, trust and investment services through more than 110 banking offices, 214 ATMs and the Internet (www.websteronline.com). Webster Financial Corporation is majority owner of Chicago-based Duff & Phelps, LLC, a leader in financial advisory services. Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending firm, Whitehall Business Credit Corporation, Center Capital Corporation, an equipment financing company headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut and Webster Trust Company, N.A.