PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.
("Sovereign") (NYSE: SOV), parent company of Sovereign Bank ("Bank"), today
announced participation in the upcoming RBC 2008 Financial Institutions
Conference, to be held at the Four Seasons Boston in Boston, Massachusetts
from Monday, September 15 through Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Sovereign is
scheduled to participate in a panel discussion on Wednesday, September 17,
2008 from 8:30 a.m.- 9:25 a.m. ET.
The event will be webcast by RBC and hosted by Wall Street Webcasting.
Interested parties may access the webcast by logging onto
http://www.wsw.com/webcast/rbc92/panel9/ .
An audio only webcast replay will be archived by archived by RBC for 30
days following the event.
Sovereign Bancorp, Inc., ("Sovereign") (NYSE: SOV), is the parent company
of Sovereign Bank, a financial institution with principal markets in the
Northeastern United States. Sovereign Bank has 750 community banking offices,
over 2,300 ATMs and approximately 12,000 team members. Sovereign offers a
broad array of financial services and products including retail banking,
business and corporate banking, cash management, capital markets, wealth
management and insurance. For more information on Sovereign Bank, visit
http://www.sovereignbank.com or call 1-877-SOV-BANK.
SOURCE Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.