Listing Particulars

Provident Financial PLC
02 June 2005




FORMAL NOTICE FOR SPECIALIST SECURITIES
PUBLICATION DATE:            3rd June 2005
Application has been made to the UK Listing Authority for the following securities to be admitted to the Official List
DETAILS OF ISSUE:             £100,000,000 7.125 per cent. Subordinated Step-Up Bonds due 2015
ISSUERS                       Provident Financial plc
INCORPORATED IN:              England
AUTHORISED ADVISER:           The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
Particulars relating to the issue may be obtained during usual business hours for fourteen days from the date of this
formal notice from:
Deutsche Bank AG London                                       Provident Financial plc

Winchester House                                              Colonnade

1 Great Winchester Street                                     Sunbridge Road

London                                                        Bradford

EC2N 2DB                                                      West Yorkshire

                                                              BD1 2LQ
Copies of the particulars relating to the issue may be viewed at the Document Viewing Facility at the Financial Services
Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, London E14 5HS.




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