Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 8151X

Provident Financial PLC

21 August 2009

 



TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:

Provident Financial plc

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		X
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Invesco Limited
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	19 August 2009
6. Date on which issuer notified:	20 August 2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	16%, 17%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights
			Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
Ordinary shares of 20 8/11p ISIN: GB00B1Z4ST84	21,460,981	21,460,981			22,754,126		17.00%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/  Conversion  Period	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise  price	Expiration  date	Exercise/ Conversion  period	Number of voting  rights instrument  refers to	% of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
22,754,126	17.00%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

ABN Amro Bank - 180,255 Bank of Ireland (Dublin) - 395,057 Bank of New York - 13,667,696 Banque Paribas - 62,939 Banque Paribas (Frankfurt) - 59,818 Bank of New York (Brussels) - 33,999 Bank of New York (Singapore) - 34,025 Credit Agricole Indosuez (Luxembourg) -100,717 Citibank (Hong Kong) -125,152 JP Morgan Chase - 1,855,908 Chase (Frankfurt) - 36,532 Citibank New York - 4,432 Citibank - 1,218,281 Credit Agricole Indosuez - 37,885 Deutsche Bank UK - 5,236 Erste Bank (Vienna) - 13,123 HSBC Bank Plc London - 370,000 KAS Bank, (Amsterdam) - 8,941 Mellon Bank (Pittsburgh) - 165,000 Morgan Stanley (London) - 14,582 State Street (Sydney) - 3,705 State Street Trust & Banking Co (London) - 3,673,732 Trust & Custody Services JP - 4,377 Northern Trust Company (London) - 612,748 UBS (Zurich) - 65,955 Vorarlberger Landes-und Hypothekenbk Akti - 202 Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC - 2,688 Other - 7,141

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:
14. Contact name:	Emma G Versluys Deputy Company Secretary
15. Contact telephone number:	01274 731111 ext 2569

 

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