WATERBURY, Conn., April 21 /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 June 15, 2009 to shareholders of record on June
1, 2009.
Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank,
National Association. With $17.3 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
CONTACT: Media, Ed Steadham, +1-203-578-2287, esteadham@websterbank.com,
or Investors, Terry Mangan, +1-203-578-2318, tmangan@websterbank.com, both of
Webster Financial Corporation
/Web Site: http://www.websteronline.com
(WBS WBS)