Webster Financial Corporation (Webster) operates as a bank holding company and financial holding company.
Webster Bank (Webster Bank, National Association) is a commercial bank with a national bank charter focused on providing financial products and services to businesses, individuals, and families. While its core footprint spans the Northeast from the New York metropolitan area to Rhode Island and Massachusetts, certain businesses operate in extended geographies. Webster Bank offers three diff...
Webster Financial Corporation (Webster) operates as a bank holding company and financial holding company.
Webster Bank (Webster Bank, National Association) is a commercial bank with a national bank charter focused on providing financial products and services to businesses, individuals, and families. While its core footprint spans the Northeast from the New York metropolitan area to Rhode Island and Massachusetts, certain businesses operate in extended geographies. Webster Bank offers three differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Healthcare Financial Services, and Consumer Banking.
Acquisitions and Joint Ventures
On January 24, 2024, the bank acquired all of the equity interest in Ametros from Long Ridge Capital Management. Ametros is a custodian and administrator of medical funds from insurance claim settlements that helps individuals manage their ongoing medical care through its CareGuard service and proprietary technology platform.
On July 19, 2024, the company, through its subsidiary MW Advisor Holding, LLC, entered into an agreement with Marathon Asset Management and formed MW Advisors, LLC, a private credit joint venture, which will deliver direct lending solutions for sponsor-backed middle market companies across the country. The company and Marathon Asset Management each own 50 percent of MW Advisors, LLC. The company expects to begin activities through MW Advisors, LLC in the first half of 2025.
Subsidiaries
The company’s active consolidated subsidiaries include the bank and MW Advisor Holding, LLC. As of December 31, 2024, the bank’s active consolidated subsidiaries included: Webster Licensing, LLC, Webster Wealth Advisors, Inc., Bend Financial, Inc., InterLINK Insured Sweep LLC, Ametros Financial Corporation, Webster Servicing LLC, Webster Public Finance Corporation, Webster Mortgage Investment Corporation, Sterling National Funding Corp., Sterling REIT, Inc., Sterling Business Credit LLC, Webster Preferred Capital Corporation, and Webster Investment Services, Inc.
Segments
The company’s operations are organized into three reportable segments that represent its differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Healthcare Financial Services, and Consumer Banking.
Commercial Banking delivers financial solutions both nationally and regionally to a wide range of companies, investors, government entities, and other public and private institutions. Commercial Banking helps its clients achieve their business and financial goals with expertise in Commercial & Institutional Lending, Commercial Real Estate, Capital Markets, Capital Finance, and Treasury Management. Its Private Banking team also pairs holistic wealth solutions, including tailored lending, with commercial banking services.
Healthcare Financial Services includes HSA Bank and Ametros. HSA Bank is one the country’s largest providers of employee benefits solutions, including being one of the leading bank administrators of HSAs, emergency savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts administration services in 50 states. Ametros, the nation’s largest professional administrator of medical insurance claim settlements, helps individuals manage their ongoing medical care through their CareGuard service and proprietary technology platform.
Consumer Banking delivers customized financial solutions for individuals and families, private clients, and small business owners across 196 banking centers throughout the Northeast. Consumer Banking offers a full suite of deposit, lending, treasury management, and wealth management solutions delivered by experienced relationship managers and financial advisors. Consumer Banking also provides a fully digital banking experience through its mobile banking apps and BrioDirect.
Deposits
The bank offers a wide variety of checking and savings deposit products designed to meet the transactional and investment needs of its consumer and business customers. The bank’s deposit services include, but are not limited to, ATM and debit card use, direct deposit, ACH payments, mobile banking, internet-based banking, banking by mail, account transfers, and overdraft protection, among others.
Investment Securities
As of December 31, 2024, the company’s investment securities included government agency debentures; municipal bonds and notes; agency CMO; agency MBS; agency CMBS; CMBS; corporate debt securities; private label MBS; and other securities.
Supervision and Regulation
As a registered bank holding company and a financial holding company, the company is subject to regulation under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended and to inspection, examination, and supervision by its primary federal regulator, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
As a publicly traded company, the company is subject to the disclosure and regulatory requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are administered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As a publicly traded company with securities listed on the NYSE, the company is subject to the rules of the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange).
The bank is organized as a national banking association under the National Bank Act, as amended, and is subject to the supervision of and regular examination by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), its primary federal regulator, as well as by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), its deposit insurer. As a national banking association, the bank derives its lending, investment, and other bank activity powers from the National Bank Act, as amended, and the regulations of the OCC promulgated thereunder. The company’s non-bank subsidiaries are also subject to regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and other applicable federal and state agencies.
As an insured depository institution with more than $10 billion in total assets, the bank is subject to supervision by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). There are also a number of federal laws, which the bank has been subject to, that are designed to protect borrowers and promote lending, including, but not limited to, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Procedures Act, the Truth in Lending Act, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, the Real Estate Settlement Practices Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010, and the Gramm Leach Bliley Act regarding Privacy of Consumer Financial Information.
The bank has a responsibility under the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act of 1977) to help meet the credit needs of its communities, including low and moderate-income neighbourhoods.
The effectiveness of a financial institution in combating money laundering activities is a factor to be considered in any application submitted under the Bank Merger Act. The company has in place a Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT Act compliance program and engages in very few transactions of any kind with foreign financial institutions or foreign persons. The company also complies with the sanctions administered by the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which is responsible for administering economic sanctions that affect transactions with designated foreign countries, nations, and others.
History
Webster Financial Corporation was founded in 1870. The company was incorporated under the laws of Delaware in 1982.