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Vanquis Banking Group (formerly: Provident Financial Plc)

Capital/Financing Update May 20, 2011

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Capital/Financing Update

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20 May 2011

PROVIDENT FINANCIAL PLC

Issue of €14,500,000 Floating Rate Guaranteed Notes due May 2015 Guaranteed by Provident Financial Management Services Limited, Provident Personal Credit Limited, Greenwood Personal Credit Limited and Provident Investments plc under the £2,000,000,000

Euro Medium Term Note Programme

PART A - CONTRACTUAL TERMS

Terms used herein shall be deemed to be defined as such for the purposes of the Conditions set forth in the Offering Circular dated 10 September 2010 and the Supplement dated 1 March 2011 which together constitute a base prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Directive (Directive 2003/71/EC) (the Prospectus Directive). This document constitutes the Final Terms of the Notes described herein for the purposes of Article 5.4 of the Prospectus Directive and must be read in conjunction with the Offering Circular as so supplemented. Full information on the Issuer, the Guarantor(s) and the offer of the Notes is only available on the basis of the combination of these Final Terms and the Offering Circular as so supplemented. The Offering Circular and the Supplement are available for viewing at www.providentfinancial.com and during normal business hours at Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, 1 Great Winchester Street, London EC2N 2DB and copies may be obtained from Provident Financial plc, No. 1 Godwin Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 2LQ.

1. (a) Issuer: Provident Financial plc
(b) Guarantors: Provident Financial Management Services Limited
Provident Personal Credit Limited
Greenwood Personal Credit Limited
Provident Investments plc
2. (a) Series Number: 3
(b) Tranche Number: 1
3. Specified Currency or Currencies: Euro $(\epsilon)$
4. Aggregate Nominal Amount:
(a) Series: €14,500,000
(b) Tranche: €14,500,000
5. Issue Price: 100 per cent. of the Aggregate Nominal Amount
6. (a) Specified Denominations: €50,000
(b) Calculation Amount: €50,000
7. (a) Issue Date: 24 May 2011
(b) Interest Commencement
Date:
Issue Date
8. Maturity Date: Interest Payment Date falling in or nearest to May 2015
9. Interest Basis: Three month $EURIBOR + 4.00$ per cent. Floating Rate
(further particulars specified below)
10. Redemption/Payment Basis: Redemption at par
11. Change of Interest Basis or
Redemption/Payment Basis:
Not Applicable
12. Put/Call Options: Issuer Call (further details specified below)
13. (a) Status of the Notes: Senior
(b) Status of the Guarantee: Senior
(c) Date Board approval for
issuance of Notes and
Guarantees obtained:
20 May 2011 and 20 May 2011, respectively
14. Method of distribution: Non-syndicated
PROVISIONS RELATING TO INTEREST (IF ANY) PAYABLE
15. Fixed Rate Note Provisions Not Applicable
16. Floating Rate Note Provisions Applicable
(a) Specified Period(s)/
Specified Interest Payment
Dates:
24 August, 24 November, 24 February and 24 May in each year from,
and including, 24 August 2011 to, and including, the Maturity Date
(b) Business Day Convention: Modified Following Business Day Convention
(c) Additional Business
$Centre(s)$ :
Not Applicable
(d) Manner in which the Rate
of Interest and Interest
Amount is to be
determined:
Screen Rate Determination
(e) Party responsible for
calculating the Rate of
Interest and Interest
Amount (if not the Agent):
Not Applicable
(f) Screen Rate Determination:
$\bullet$ Reference Rate: Three month EURIBOR
Interest
Determination
$Date(s)$ :
The second day on which the TARGET2 System is open prior to the
start of each Interest Period
Relevant Screen
Page:
Reuters EURIBOR01
(g) ISDA Determination: Not Applicable
(h) Margin(s): $+4.00$ per cent. per annum
(i) Minimum Rate of Interest: Not Applicable
(j) Maximum Rate of Interest: Not Applicable
(k) Day Count Fraction: Actual/360
(1) Fallback provisions,
rounding provisions and any
other terms relating to the
method of calculating
interest on Floating Rate
Notes, if different from
Not Applicable
Conditions: those set out in the
17. Zero Coupon Note Provisions Not Applicable
18. Index Linked Interest Note
Provisions
Not Applicable
19. Provisions Dual Currency Interest Note Not Applicable
PROVISIONS RELATING TO REDEMPTION
20. Issuer Call: Applicable
(a) Optional Redemption Date: 24 May 2014
(b) Optional
$amount(s)$ :
Redemption
Amount and method, if
any, of calculation of such
€50,000 per Calculation Amount
(c) If redeemable in part:
(i) Minimum
Redemption
Amount:
Not Applicable
(ii) Maximum
Redemption
Amount:
Not Applicable
(d) as
Conditions):
Notice period (if other than
set
out
in
the
The Issuer may, having given not less than 5 Business Days' notice to
the Noteholders (in accordance with Condition 14), the Trustee and to
the Agent (which notices shall be irrevocable and shall specify the date
fixed for redemption) redeem all or some only of the Notes then
outstanding on the Optional Redemption Date and at the Optional
Redemption Amount together, if appropriate, with interest accrued to
(but excluding) the Optional Redemption Date.
21. Investor Put: Not Applicable
22. Final Redemption Amount: €50,000 per Calculation Amount
23. Early Redemption Amount payable
on redemption for taxation reasons
or on event of default and/or the
method of calculating the same (if
required or if different from that set
out in Condition 7.5):
€50,000 per Calculation Amount
GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THE NOTES
24. Form of Notes:

Temporary Global Note exchangeable for a Permanent Global Note $\tilde{\mathbf{c}}$ $(a)$ Form: which is exchangeable for definitive Notes only upon an Exchange Event $(b)$ New Global Note: Yes Not Applicable 25. Additional Financial Centre(s) or

Payment Days: other special provisions relating to
26. Talons for future Coupons or
Receipts to be attached to definitive
Notes (and dates on which such
Talons mature):
No
27. Details relating to Partly Paid
Notes: amount of each payment
comprising the Issue Price and date
on which each payment is to be
made and consequences of failure
to pay, including any right of the
Issuer to forfeit the Notes and
interest due on late payment:
Not Applicable
28. Details relating to Instalment Notes:
(a) Instalment Amount(s): Not Applicable
(b) Instalment Date(s): Not Applicable
29. Redenomination applicable: Redenomination not applicable
30. Other final terms: Not Applicable
DISTRIBUTION
31. (a) If syndicated, names of
Managers:
Not Applicable
(b) Date of Subscription
Agreement:
Not Applicable
(c) Stabilising Manager(s) (if
any):
Not Applicable
32. If non-syndicated, name of relevant
Dealer:
J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd.
33. U.S. Selling Restrictions: Reg. S Compliance Category 2; TEFRA D
34. Additional selling restrictions: Not Applicable

PURPOSE OF FINAL TERMS

These Final Terms comprise the final terms required for issue and admission to trading on the London Stock Exchange's Regulated Market and admission to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority of the Notes described herein pursuant to the £2,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme of Provident Financial plc.

RESPONSIBILITY

The Issuer and the Guarantors accept responsibility for the information contained in these Final Terms.

Signed on behalf of Provident Financial plc:

By Duly authorised

Signed on behalf of Provident Financial Management Services Limited, Provident Personal Credit Limited, Greenwood Personal Credit Limited and Provident Investments plc:

$E_{\text{Duly authorised}}$ By: $\qquad \qquad$

$\tilde{\alpha}$

PART B - OTHER INFORMATION

$\mathbf{1}$ . LISTING AND ADMISSION TO TRADING

  • $(i)$ Listing and Admission to Application has been made by the Issuer (or on its behalf) for the Notes trading to be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange's Regulated Market and admission to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority with effect from 24 May 2011.
  • £3,600 $(ii)$ Estimate of total expenses related to admission to trading:

$2.$ RATINGS

Ratings:

The Notes to be issued under the Programme have generally been rated:

BBB Fitch Ratings Ltd:

Fitch Ratings Ltd is established in the European Union and has applied for registration under Regulation (EC) No. 1060/2009, although notification of the corresponding registration decision has not yet been provided by the relevant competent authority.

INTERESTS OF NATURAL AND LEGAL PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE ISSUE $3.$

Save for any fees payable to the Dealer, so far as the Issuer is aware, no person involved in the issue of the Notes has an interest material to the offer.

REASONS FOR THE OFFER, ESTIMATED NET PROCEEDS AND TOTAL EXPENSES 4.

See "Use of Proceeds" in the Offering Circular $(i)$ Reasons for the offer

5. OPERATIONAL INFORMATION

$(i)$ ISIN Code: XS0627787335 $(ii)$ Common Code: 062778733 $(iii)$ Any clearing system(s) Not Applicable other than Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. and Clearstream Banking, société anonyme and the relevant identification number(s): $(iv)$ Delivery against payment Delivery: $(v)$ Names and addresses of Not Applicable additional Paying Agent(s) $(if any):$ $(vi)$ Intended to be held in a manner which would allow Eurosystem eligibility:

Yes. Note that the designation "yes" simply means that the Notes are intended upon issue to be deposited with one of the ICSDs as common safekeeper and does not necessarily mean that the Notes will be recognised as eligible collateral for Eurosystem monetary policy and intra-day credit operations by the Eurosystem either upon issue or at any or all times during their life. Such recognition will depend upon satisfaction of the Eurosystem eligibility criteria.

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