Provident Financial Holdings is a savings and loan holding company. Through its subsidiary, Provident Savings Bank, F.S.B. (the Bank), Co. is engaged in providing financial services focused on serving consumers and small to mid-sized businesses in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. The lending activity of the Bank is primarily comprised of the origination of single-family, multi-family and commercial real estate loans and, to a lesser extent, construction, commercial business, consumer and other mortgage loans to be held for investment. Additional lending activities include originating saleable single-family loans, primarily fixed-rate first trust deed mortgages.