About Sky Financial Group, Inc.

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The prime rate is a benchmark used to set interest rates on various forms
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prime rate last changed March 22, 2005.websteronline.0 billion in assets,
Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, insurance, financial
planning , trust and investment services through 152 banking offices, 288 ATMs,
telephone banking and the Internet .

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The prime rate last changed on March 22, 2005. Sky's
financial service affiliates include: Sky Bank , commercial and retail banking;
Sky Trust, asset management services; and Sky Insurance, retail and commercial
insurance agency services.00%, effective yesterday, May 3, 2005.

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Sky's asset size places
it among the 50 largest publicly-held bank holding companies in the nation.
For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the
latest annual report, visit the Webster website at
http://www.

Media Contact Investor Contact
Meghan Thompson 203-578-2287 Terry Mangan 203-578-2318
tmangan@websterbank.

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Webster Increases Prime Lending Rate

Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank,
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The company operates over 280 financial centers and more than 300 ATMs serving
communities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana and West Virginia. WATERBURY, Conn.com. For more
information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual
report, visit the Webster website at http://www.

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Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank,
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Sky Financial Group is a $15 billion diversified financial holding company
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, Webster Bank, N.4 billion in assets ,
Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, insurance, financial
planning, trust and investment services through 153 banking offices, 291 ATMs,
telephone banking and the Internet .

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Sky Financial Group Raises Prime Interest Rate

Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending
firm Webster Business Credit Corporation, the insurance premium finance
company Budget Installment Corp .

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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, Sky Financial Group
(Nasdaq: SKYF) announced that it is raising the prime interest rate to 6.

Webster Shareholders Meeting Will Be April 21 2005

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, a subsidiary
of Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), announced that it has raised its
prime lending rate from 5.

Media Contact: Investor Contact:
Meghan Thompson , 203-578-2287 Terry Mangan, 203-578-2318
tmangan@websterbank. Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending
firm Webster Business Credit Corporation, the insurance premium finance
company Budget Installment Corp.com.

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75% to 6. WATERBURY, Conn.
The record date for shareholders to vote at the meeting is February 25,
2005.

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, 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. (Eastern Standard Time) on April 21,
2005 at the Courtyard by Marriott, 63 Grand Street, Waterbury, CT.

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, and Center Capital Corporation, an equipment
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today that its Board of Directors has scheduled the corporation 's annual
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Sky is located on the web at http://www.