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Promise can't promise you'll be able to buy anything you desire in the world, but it'll help you get some of the stuff you want. The largest consumer credit company in Japan, Promise provides customers with loans and credit products with a range of interest rates. Promise sells its loans directly and through subsidiaries, and customers can get hooked up with money through automatic contract machines (ACMs, which are not unlike ATMs), branch locations, over the telephone, via the internet, and through the mail. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group owns 20% of Promise.

Provident Community Bancshares (formerly Union Financial Bancshares) is the holding company for Provident Community Bank, which operates about 10 branches in Laurens, Union, Fairfield, Greenville and York counties in northern South Carolina. The bank attracts deposits from local consumers and businesses by offering checking and savings accounts, money market and NOW accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Its lending activities mainly consist of business loans, commercial mortgages, and consumer and installment loans. The bank also offers investments, brokerage services, retirement planning, and credit cards.

Provident Financial Holdings is the holding company for Provident Savings Bank, which operates more than a dozen branches in Southern California's Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Catering to individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank offers such standard retail products as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs, as well as retirement planning services. Real estate loans including single-family, multifamily, and commercial mortgages and construction loans make up essentially all of the company's loan portfolio. Single-family residential mortgages make up more than half of all loans.

Provident wants to be a prominent force in the New Jersey banking scene. Provident Financial Services owns The Provident Bank, which serves customers in about 10 northern and central New Jersey counties. Founded in 1839, the bank offers traditional deposit and lending products, as well as wealth management and trust services, through more than 80 branches. Residential mortgage loans make up about 35% of the bank's loan portfolio; commercial mortgages are around 25%. Business, consumer, and construction loans help to round out its lending activities. The company's Provident Investment Services subsidiary sells life and health insurance and investment products.

Provident New York Bancorp is the holding company for Provident Bank, a community-based thrift operating some 35 offices in New York's Hudson Valley region and another in New Jersey operating as Towncenter Bank. Founded in 1888, the bank attracts consumers and business clients by offering traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts and CDs; its Provident Municipal Bank subsidiary provides deposit services to area municipalities. The bank uses funds from deposits to originate primarily real estate loans and mortgages. Subsidiary Hudson Valley Investment Advisors provides money management services for institutional and individual investors.

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