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Provident Financial

July 2021

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    More clarity in return to work guidance would help firms avoid liability

    Nils Pratley
    Voluntary rules do not make it easy for companies to stay on the right side of health and safety law

May 2021

  • Provident Financial HQ in Bradford

    Provident Financial to close doorstep lending business after 141 years

    Decision on back of ‘changing industry and regulatory dynamics’ puts 2,100 jobs at risk

March 2021

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Provident Financial's loan problem has landed in the FCA's lap

    Nils Pratley
  • Provident Financial head office in Bradford

    Doorstep lender warns customers surge in mis-selling claims will break firm

February 2020

  • a row of banknotes from £5 to £50

    Complaints over new high-cost loans more than triple

    UK ombudsman taking tougher stance with lenders amid huge rise in cases involving successors to payday loans

June 2019

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Sir Philip Green locks horns with landlords and comes off worst

    Nils Pratley
    Arcadia boss’s talent for bullying deserts him and he now has a week to find a better offer

March 2019

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Provident Financial needs to gets its skates on if it's to save itself

    Nils Pratley
    An unwelcome bid from its former boss’s upstart rival could be short, sharp and painful

February 2019

  • Money in a wallet

    Doorstep lender Provident Financial receives £1.3bn takeover bid

    Move by smaller rival Non-Standard Finance has backing of key shareholder

February 2018

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Comcast's cute timing has tangled Rupert Murdoch's Sky plans

    Nils Pratley
    The wily media mogul finds himself in a battle to secure a Hollywood ending to his reign

January 2018

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Pensions Regulator has questions to answer on Carillion

    Nils Pratley
  • Bank notes in a wallet

    Provident Financial expects £120m loss at doorstep lending arm

December 2017

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Questions remain over the FCA inquiry into RBS

    Nils Pratley
  • Used Ford cars on a dealership forecourt

    FCA investigates Provident Financial's car finance firm Moneybarn

November 2017

  • Manjit Wolstenholme

    Provident Financial executive chairman Manjit Wolstenholme dies

    Bradford-based doorstep lender appointed Wolstenholme to the role in August, with the aim of turning it around

October 2017

  • A woman hands two £50 pound notes to a man

    Provident Financial to hire debt collectors to revive doorstep lending

  • Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

    Observer business agenda
    Philip Hammond faces hot seat as bad news piles up

    Sean Farrell

September 2017

  • Provident Financial HQ

    Former Provident Financial chief forfeits £4m after profit warning

  • Notes in a wallet

    Doorstep lender Morses swipes customers from troubled rival Provident

August 2017

  • Bank notes in a wallet

    Provident appoints new consumer credit boss in bid to stabilise business

  • Pound notes

    Provident Financial in race to fix technical problems and retain staff

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