Fulton Financial Increases Quarterly Dividend to $0.08 per Share From $0.07

Fulton Financial Corporation

will pay a quarterly cash dividend of eight cents per share on its common stock on October 15, 2012 to shareholders of record as of October 1, 2012. This amount is a one cent per share increase over the seven cents per share paid in July 2012. Fulton Financial Corporation, a $16.3 billion Lancaster, Pa.-based financial holding company, has over 3,800 employees and operates mor than 270 branches in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey an Virginia through six subsidiary banks.