ATMS IN NEW ENGLAND WALGREEN STORES WILL CARRY WEBSTER BANK BRAND.

Webster Bank this week signed an ATM-branding agreement with Walgreen Co. to expand the bank's consumer brand awareness into a new region. Under the agreement, Webster, a subsidiary of Waterbury, Conn.-based Webster Financial Corp., will place its brand on 158 Cardtronics ATMs in Walgreen stores in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Webster will begin and complete the branding in the first quarter of next year. Webster Bank is concentrated in Connecticut but wants to move its brand Northeast toward Boston, says Arthur House, managing director of public affairs for Webster Financial Corp. …