Webster Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

Jan 30, 2008
WATERBURY, Conn., Jan 30, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A., announced that its Board of Directors declared today a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.30 per common share.

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The dividend is payable on February 27, 2008 to shareholders of record on February 13, 2008. This is the 82nd consecutive quarterly dividend since Webster first paid a dividend in 1987.

Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank, National Association and Webster Insurance. With $17.2 billion in assets, Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, insurance, financial planning, trust and investment services through 181 banking offices, 343 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. Member FDIC and equal housing lender.

For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.WebsterOnline.com.

Media Contact:
Arthur House, 203-578-2391
ahouse@websterbank.com
or
Investor Contact:
Terry Mangan, 203-578-2318
tmangan@websterbank.com

SOURCE Webster Financial Corporation


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