---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-135892"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FULT"
cik: "0000700564"
company_name: "FULTON FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2026-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T08:03:45.992026+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 completes acquisition of Blue Foundry Bancorp, becomes $34B firm

## Summary
- Closed April 1, 2026; each Blue Foundry share exchanged for 0.650 Fulton common shares.
- Fulton issued ~12.44M shares; combined company now $34 billion in assets.
- Blue Foundry Bank to operate separately until summer 2026 when it merges into Fulton Bank, N.A.
- Fulton will make a $1.5M contribution to the Fulton Forward Foundation for New Jersey nonprofits.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-135892
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FULT
- cik: 0000700564
- company_name: FULTON FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2026-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000119312526135892/0001193125-26-135892-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000119312526135892/d89081d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-135892.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  FULTON FINANCIAL CORP completed an acquisition involving Blue Foundry Bancorp for 0.650 of a share of common stock, par value $2.50 per share, of Fulton (closed 2026-04-01).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: Blue Foundry Bancorp
  - Consideration: 0.650 of a share of common stock, par value $2.50 per share, of Fulton
  - Closing: 2026-04-01
  source text: m 8-K is being filed in connection with the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 24, 2025 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and between Fulton Financial Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation (“Fulton”), and Blue Foundry Bancorp, a Delaware corporation (“Blue Foundry”). Effective on April 1, 2026 (the “Closing Date”), Fulton completed its previously announced acquisition of Blue Foundry.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000119312526135892/0001193125-26-135892-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.