Company: WBS-PG
Filing Date: 2025-09-05
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-197211
Chunk: 98

Company: WEBSTER FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-09-05
Form: 424B5
Chunk 98
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 has occurred and is continuing, at any time and from time to time during the term of the series of debt securities to defer the payment of interest on one or more series of debt securities for the number of consecutive interest payment periods specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, subject to the terms, conditions and covenants, if any, specified in the prospectus supplement, providedthat no extension period may extend beyond the stated maturity of the debt securities. Material United States federal income tax consequences and special considerations applicable to these debt securities will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement. Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, at the end of the extension period, we will pay all interest then accrued and unpaid together with interest on accrued and unpaid interest compounded semiannually at the rate specified for the debt securities to the extent permitted by applicable law. However, unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, during the extension period neither we nor any of our subsidiaries may:

| • |     | declare or pay dividends on, make distributions regarding, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation 
 payment with respect to, any of our capital stock, other than:                                                |

| • |     | purchases of our capital stock in connection with any employee or agent benefit plans or the satisfaction of our        
 obligations under any contract or security outstanding on the date of the event requiring us to purchase capital stock, |

| • |     | in connection with the reclassifications of any class or series of our capital stock, or the exchange or         
 conversion of one class or series of our capital stock for or into another class or series of our capital stock, |

| • |     | the purchase of fractional interests in shares of our capital stock in connection with the conversion or exchange 
 provisions of that capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged,                                    |

| • |     | dividends or distributions in our capital stock, or rights to acquire capital stock, or repurchases or 
 redemptions of capital stock solely from the issuance or exchange of capital stock, or                 |

| • |     | any non-cash dividends declared in connection with the implementation of 
 a shareholder rights plan by us;                                         |

| • |     | make any payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem, any debt 
 securities issued by us that rank equally with or junior to the debt securities; or                     |

| • |     | make any guarantee payments regarding the foregoing. |

Prior to the termination of any