PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.
("Sovereign") (NYSE: SOV), parent company of Sovereign Bank ("Bank"), today
announced participation in the upcoming Friedman Billings Ramsey 11th Annual
Investor Conference, to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on
November 30-December 1, 2004. Presenting at the conference will be Jay Sidhu,
Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. Sovereign is scheduled to present
on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 11:40 a.m. ET.
Wall Street Webcasting is hosting the conference webcast on behalf of
Friedman Billings Ramsey. Interested parties may access Sovereign's
presentation at: http://wsw.com/webcast/fbr7/sov.
Registration is required prior to accessing the webcast. The webcast
replay will be available for on-demand use 2 minutes after the presentation
and active for 90 days following. Conference information is available on the
FBR website at http://www.fbr.com. Questions about accessing the webcast
should be directed to Wall Street Webcasting.
A PowerPoint presentation will be made available on Sovereign's website
at: http://www.sovereignbank.com >Investor Relations>News>Presentations, along
with a link to the FBR webcast.
Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. ("Sovereign") (NYSE: SOV) is the parent company of
Sovereign Bank, pro forma a $60 billion financial institution with more than
650 community banking offices, over 1,000 ATMs and approximately 9,500 team
members in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. In addition to full-service retail
banking, Sovereign offers a broad array of financial services and products
including business and corporate banking, cash management, capital markets,
trust and wealth management and insurance. Pro forma for pending
acquisitions, Sovereign is the 18th largest banking institution in the United
States. For more information on Sovereign Bank, visit
http://www.sovereignbank.com or call 1-877-SOV-BANK.
SOURCE Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.sovereignbank.com
CONTACT:
FINANCIAL: Jim Hogan, +1-610-320-8496, or
jhogan@sovereignbank.com, or Mark McCollom, +1-610-208-6426, or
mmccollo@sovereignbank.com, or Stacey Weikel, +1-610-208-6112, or
sweikel@sovereignbank.com; or MEDIA: Ed Shultz, +1-610-378-6159,
or eshultz1@sovereignbank.com, all of Sovereign Bancorp
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