---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000737468-24-000049"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WASH"
cik: "0000737468"
company_name: "WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2024-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T04:28:54.837866+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Washington Trust announces $55M common stock offering with 30-day option for additional 15%

## Summary
- Offering of $55M in common stock; underwriter BofA Securities granted 30-day option to buy up to 15% more shares.
- Proceeds to support organic growth, balance sheet optimization including sale of lower-yielding loans and AFS securities.
- Repayment of wholesale funding and purchase of debt securities with current market yields expected.
- Preliminary prospectus supplement filed Dec. 12, 2024; offering registered under shelf registration statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000737468-24-000049
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WASH
- cik: 0000737468
- company_name: WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2024-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/737468/000073746824000049/0000737468-24-000049-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/737468/000073746824000049/wash-20241212.htm

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