ESG News For Webster Bank, National Association

Webster Bank, together with Associates for Human Services’ Taunton Area School to Career, program, celebrated the opening of the Webster Bank/TASC Finance Lab, a program created to provide local students the skills needed for financial empowerment and future financial well-being.

Webster is providing grants of $100,000 each to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence, R.I. and Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester, Mass., and SCO Family of Services on Long Island, N.Y.

Since 2022, $1.7 million invested in Finance Labs$100,000 grants to partners in Providence, R.I., Dorchester, Mass., and on Long Island, N.Y.

As students head #BacktoSchool, we’re proud to help prepare them for success through our network of Webster Finance Lab partnerships with nonprofits throughout our footprint.

While women are taking the business and entrepreneurial world by storm, they are still faced with inequalities and obstacles that their male counterparts are not. Here are four challenges women business owners are facing today — and ways to overcome them.

Webster Bank announced that Jason Soto, executive vice president, Chief Credit Officer, has been named Co-Chair of the Bank’s enterprise-wide Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Council.

Webster Bank, together with the Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury, celebrated the opening of the Webster Bank/Hispanic Coalition Finance Lab, a program created to provide students the skills needed for financial empowerment and future financial well-being.

Webster announced it will commit $100,000 to support seven non-profits in its founding city of Waterbury.

In the past year, Webster has earned more than 50 recognitions for our performance, our focus on excellence and serving our clients and communities.

Since we established the Office of Corporate Responsibility (OCR) in 2022, we have continued to execute on our multi-year Community Investment Strategy (CIS), with a focus on our commitment to driving economic vitality in our communities.

Webster welcomes this year’s class of 31 summer interns, who represent 23 universities and supporting 29 different departments throughout Webster, including HSA Bank, a division of Webster Bank, N.A.

Our 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report is a demonstration of our ongoing commitment to environmental, social and governance principles. It summarizes our strategic approach to creating a positive social and environmental impact within an effective governance framework.

As we approach our third annual Community Impact Month, we recognize all our colleagues who have volunteered and made a difference and continue to do so every day.

Webster’s Pan Asian Collective (PAC) proudly celebrated AAPI month with company-wide events like “Passport to Pan Asia” to honor and create awareness of the different Pan Asian cultures.

Webster Bank has long supported the communities we serve by providing loans, investments, technical assistance, and financial services to individuals and small businesses in low- to moderate-income (LMI) areas.

In recognition of Financial Literacy Month, Webster Bank and YWCA Hartford Region recently celebrated the opening of the Webster/YWCA Hartford Region Finance Lab in Hartford, Connecticut.

Webster Bank announced that Patricia Sampson joined the Bank as Senior Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility Reporting & Analytics, CRA and Fair and Responsible Banking Officer. She will report directly to the Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer.

Webster Bank's Multi-Generations BRG encourages a collaborative environment where colleagues of all ages recognize strengths and skills in each other and opportunities for growth and development.

Webster’s Supplier Diversity Program integrates diversity and inclusion into the procurement process by implementing policy, practices and procedures that ensure equal opportunity.

Webster Bank announced the launch of its first Special Purpose Credit Program (SPCP) aimed at expanding homeownership opportunities for low-to-moderate income (LMI) first-time homebuyers, and those who are seeking to refinance, in historically underserved areas.

Webster Bank, together with Wakeman Boys & Girls Club, recently celebrated the opening of the Webster/Wakeman Boys & Girls Club Finance Lab, a program created to provide students the skills needed for financial empowerment and future financial well-being.