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ROMA FINANCIAL ANNOUNCES DIVIDEND POLICY
ROBBINSVILLE, N.J.-- Roma Financial Corporation (NASDAQ GSM: ROMA) (the
"Company"), the holding company of Roma Bank, announced today that its mutual
holding company, Roma Financial Corporation, MHC (the "MHC"), filed a notice
with its primary regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision (the "OTS"), of its
intent to waive the quarterly dividends proposed to be paid by the Company in
the coming year. Such notice was filed with the OTS on March 19, 2007, and the
Company anticipates declaring a dividend to its minority stockholders as soon as
the OTS notifies the MHC that it does not object to the MHC's waiver of
dividends. The Company expects to be able to declare its first dividend prior to
its first annual meeting of stockholders of the Company, scheduled to take place
on April 25, 2007.
The Company became aware on March 28, 2007 that one of its stockholders filed
preliminary proxy material with the Securities and Exchange Commission
indicating that he would conduct a proxy contest recommending that votes be
withheld for the directors to be elected at the upcoming annual meeting of
stockholders. He states that his interest is in a "stockholder-friendly capital
allocation plan." Senior management and the Board of Directors of the Company
have been instituting actions to deploy the capital raised by the public
offering in accordance with the plans described in the prospectus which
accompanied the offering. Additionally, the feasibility of a dividend program
has been carefully deliberated. The Company intended to announce the payment of
a dividend after it received the consent of the OTS to the waiver of dividends
by the MHC. However, in light of the action by this stockholder, which could
cause the Company to incur unnecessary expenses, the Company believes it is
important to announce it has already begun a dividend plan and anticipates the
commencement of dividends in the near future. The Company completed its stock
offering in July 2006; of the 12 mutual holding companies that completed
offerings during 2006, only two have paid dividends thus far.
Roma Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:ROMA) is the holding company of Roma Bank, a
community bank headquartered in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Roma Bank has been
serving families, businesses and the communities of Central New Jersey for over
86 years with a complete line of financial products and services, and today Roma
Bank operates branch locations in Mercer, Burlington and Ocean counties in New
Jersey. Visit Roma online at www.romabank.com. Forward Looking Statements
The foregoing material contains forward-looking statements concerning the
Company. We caution that such statements are subject to a number of
uncertainties and readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking
statements. The Company does not undertake, and specifically disclaims, any
obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions that may be made to
any forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or
unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statements.