{"id":81369,"date":"2019-02-22T14:49:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/22\/doorstep-lender-provident-financial-gets-1-3bn-takeover-bid\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:49:43","slug":"doorstep-lender-provident-financial-gets-1-3bn-takeover-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=81369","title":{"rendered":"Doorstep lender Provident Financial gets \u00a31.3bn takeover bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move by smaller rival Non-Standard Finance has backing of key shareholderProvident Financial, the controversial doorstep lender that charges interest rates of 535%, has received a surprise \u00a31.3bn takeover bid from a smaller rival led by its former chief executive.The unsolicited bid for the \u201cProvvy\u201d from Non-Standard Finance, run by the former Provident Financial boss John van Kuffeler, has the backing of key shareholder Neil Woodford and others who own more than 50% of the company\u2019s shares. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/feb\/22\/doorstep-lender-provident-financial-gets-13bn-takeover-bid\" target=\"_blank\">Doorstep lender Provident Financial gets \u00a31.3bn takeover bid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move by smaller rival Non-Standard Finance has backing of key shareholderProvident Financial, the controversial doorstep lender that charges interest rates of 535%, has received a surprise \u00a31.3bn takeover bid from a smaller rival led by its former chief executive.The unsolicited bid for the \u201cProvvy\u201d from Non-Standard Finance, run by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}