Purchase of Own Securities

Provident Financial PLC 19 September 2001 Provident Financial plc ('the Company) Share repurchase Provident Financial plc announces that, pursuant to the authority conferred at the Annual General Meeting on 26 April 2001, it has today purchased 500,000 Ordinary shares for cancellation at a price of 635p per share through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Securities Limited. This purchase represents 0.20% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.
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