Webster Financial Corporation Announces Earnings Conference Call

Jan 08, 2007

WATERBURY, Conn., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A., announces the following details for its fourth quarter earnings release and conference call, which will be in listen-only mode.

Earnings Release: Thursday, January 18, 2007, before the market opens

Conference Call: Thursday, January 18, 2007, 2:00 p.m. EST

Dial-in number: (877) 407-8293 or (201) 689-8349 for international
callers

Webcast: Via Webster's website at http://www.wbst.com.

Web Replay: Will be available shortly after the call's completion,
also at http://www.wbst.com

Telephone Replay: Will be available for one week, beginning at 3:00 p.m.
EST on Thursday, January 18, 2007

Replay Number: (877) 660-6853 or (201) 612-7415 for international
calls. The replay account number is 295 and the replay
conference number is 227219.

Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank, National Association and Webster Insurance. With $17.1 billion in assets, Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, insurance, financial planning, trust and investment services through 177 banking offices, 334 ATMs, telephone banking and the Internet. Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending firm Webster Business Credit Corporation, the insurance premium finance company Budget Installment Corp., Center Capital Corporation, an equipment finance company headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut and provides health savings account trustee and administrative services through HSA Bank, a division of Webster Bank.

For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at http://www.websteronline.com. SOURCE Webster Financial Corporation
Media:
Clark Finley, 203-578-2287
cfinley@websterbank.com
or
Investors:
Jim Sitro, 203-578-2399
jsitro@websterbank.com /