Fulton Financial Approves Share Repurchase Program of up to 5M Shares

Fulton Financial Corporation

announced that, under a program approved today by its board of directors, it is authorized to repurchase up to five million shares, or approximately 2.5 percent of the company's outstanding shares, through December 31, 2012. As of June 19, 2012, the Corporation had approximately 201 million shares of common stock outstanding.