WATERBURY, Conn., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Webster Financial
Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A., today
announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash
dividend of $21.25 per share on its 8.50% Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual
Convertible Preferred Stock.
The dividend for the 8.50% Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Convertible
Preferred Stock is payable on March 16, 2009 to shareholders of record on
March 1, 2009.
Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank,
National Association. With $17.6 billion in assets, Webster provides business
and consumer banking, mortgage, financial planning, trust and investment
services through 181 banking offices, 492 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, Conn., 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.
SOURCE Webster Financial Corporation
-0- 02/23/2009
/CONTACT: Media: Ed Steadham, +1-203-578-2287,
esteadham@websterbank.com; Investor: Terry Mangan, +1-203-578-2318,
tmangan@websterbank.com/
/Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050421/NYTH039LOGO/
/Web Site: www.websteronline.com /
(WBS)
CO: Webster Financial Corporation; Webster Bank, National Association
ST: Connecticut
IN: FIN
SU: DIV
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