Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 7456U

Provident Financial PLC

26 October 2017

TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS (to be sent to the relevant issuer and to the FCA in Microsoft Word format if possible)ⁱ

1a. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attachedⁱⁱ:			Provident Financial Group (PFG LN)
1b. Please indicate if the issuer is a non-UK issuer (please mark with an "X" if appropriate)
Non-UK issuer
2. Reason for the notification (please mark the appropriate box or boxes with an "X")
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights						X
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments						X
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify)ⁱⁱⁱ:
3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation^iv
Name			The WindAcre Partnership LLC
City and country of registered office (if applicable)			Delaware, United States
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)^v
Name			UBS Securities LLC (as nominee company)
City and country of registered office (if applicable)			N/A
5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached^vi:			19 September 2017 - 4% threshold. (This is a late disclosure. There was also a prior crossing of the 3% threshold on 8 September 2017 that in error was not disclosed. Please see details in section 11. Additional Information)
6. Date on which issuer notified (DD/MM/YYYY):			25/10/2017
7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation
	% of voting rights attached to shares (total of 8. A)	% of voting rights through financial instruments (total of 8.B 1 + 8.B 2)		Total of both in % (8.A + 8.B)	Total number of voting rights of issuer^vii
Resulting situation on the date on which threshold was crossed or reached (4% threshold, 19 Sept 2017)	0.26%	3.81%		4.07%	6,040,300
Position of previous notification (if applicable)	N/A	N/A		N/A

8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached^viii
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares ISIN code (if possible)	Number of voting rights^ix						% of voting rights
	Direct (Art 9 of Directive 2004/109/EC) (DTR5.1)			Indirect (Art 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC) (DTR5.2.1)			Direct (Art 9 of Directive 2004/109/EC) (DTR5.1)		Indirect (Art 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC) (DTR5.2.1)
Ordinary shares ISIN GB00B1Z4ST84	387,000						0.26%

SUBTOTAL 8. A	387,000						0.26%

B 1: Financial Instruments according to Art. 13(1)(a) of Directive 2004/109/EC (DTR5.3.1.1 (a))
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date^x		Exercise/ Conversion Period^xi			Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted.			% of voting rights

			SUBTOTAL 8. B 1

B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to Art. 13(1)(b) of Directive 2004/109/EC (DTR5.3.1.1 (b))
Type of financial instrument		Expiration date^x	Exercise/ Conversion Period ^xi		Physical or cash settlement^xii			Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
Total Return Swap		Various	N/A		Cash			5,563,300	3.81%

					SUBTOTAL 8.B.2			5,653,000	3.81%

9. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation (please mark the applicable box with an "X")
Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does not control any other undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) issuer^xiii				X
Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity^xiv(please add additional rows as necessary)
Name^xv	% of voting rights if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold	% of voting rights through financial instruments if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold	Total of both if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold


10. In case of proxy voting, please identify:
Name of the proxy holder
The number and % of voting rights held
The date until which the voting rights will be held

11. Additional information^xvi
The form is being filed as a late notification of the crossing of the 4% threshold on 19 September 2017. The information in the body of this form relates to the crossing of the 4% threshold only. There was a prior crossing of the 3% threshold on 8^th September 2017 that in error was not notified. The details of the prior crossing of the 3% threshold are as follows: On 8^th September 2017, as a result of purchasing additional economic interests via a total return swap, the 3% threshold was crossed. The resulting position at 8^th September 2017 was a total economic interest equivalent to ownership of 3.08% or 4,573,128 voting rights, all of which was in total return swaps. A timely notification was not made in error due to a misunderstanding regarding the filing requirements around purely synthetic positions, which we mistakenly believed were not in the scope of the regulations. The late notification of the crossing of the 4% threshold also arises as a result of the same mistaken belief. The shareholder identified in Section 4 of this form is the shareholder of record for the shares physically owned and identified in Section 8A.