---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-294477"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FULT"
cik: "0000700564"
company_name: "FULTON FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-11-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T17:08:27.206094+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fulton Financial to acquire Blue Foundry Bancorp in stock-for-stock merger at 0.650x exchange ratio

## Summary
- Each Blue Foundry share will convert to 0.650 Fulton common share; options and restricted stock cashed out.
- Blue Foundry termination fee of $9.69M payable under certain conditions.
- Boards of both companies unanimously approved; Blue Foundry stockholder vote and regulatory approvals required.
- Merger expected to close after customary conditions, including Fed, OCC, and NJ banking approvals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-294477
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FULT
- cik: 0000700564
- company_name: FULTON FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-11-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000119312525294477/0001193125-25-294477-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000119312525294477/d98598d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-294477.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  FULTON FINANCIAL CORP entered into Agreement and Plan of Merger with Blue Foundry Bancorp (effective 2025-11-24).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Blue Foundry Bancorp
  - Effective: 2025-11-24
  source text: On November 24, 2025, Fulton Financial Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation (“Fulton”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Blue Foundry Bancorp
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000119312525294477/0001193125-25-294477-index.htm

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