The Board of Directors of Fulton Financial Corporation (NasdaqGS:FULT) authorized a share repurchase program on January 3, 2013. Under the program, the company will repurchase up to 8,000,000 shares of its common stock representing approximately 4.02% of the company's outstanding shares. The purchases may be made from time to time in the open market at prevailing prices.

The repurchase program may be discontinued at any time. The shares will be repurchased until June 30, 2013. As of January 2, 2013, the company had approximately 199,000,000 shares of stock outstanding.