JERSEY CITY, N.J., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Provident Financial Services, Inc. (the "Company") announced that it has been invited to present at the Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. East Coast Financial Services Conference. The Company is scheduled to give a presentation discussing its business strategy and financial performance on Thursday, November 12, 2009, at 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time.
Attendance at the Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. East Coast Financial Services Conference is by invitation only. Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. will offer a live webcast on the Internet, which may be accessed at http://www.sandleroneill.com/ (go to Conferences tab, then select View Webcast under the East Coast Financial Services Conference heading). The webcast will be available to the general public and will be archived for replay for 30 days after the conference ends.
In addition, a copy of the slides used in the presentation will be available on the Company's website, http://www.providentnj.com/, within the Investor Relations section under the Presentations tab.
Provident Financial Services, Inc., which reported assets of $6.8 billion as of September 30, 2009, is the holding company for The Provident Bank, a community-oriented bank offering a full range of retail and commercial loan and deposit products. Founded in 1839, The Provident Bank currently operates 84 full service branches throughout northern and central New Jersey.
The webcast and slide presentation referenced in this news release may contain a number of "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by reference to a future period or periods, or by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as "may," "will," "believe," "expect," "estimate," "anticipate," "continue," or similar terms or variations on those terms, or the negative of those terms. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those related to the economic environment, particularly in the market areas in which the Company operates, competitive products and pricing, fiscal and monetary policies of the U.S. Government, changes in government regulations affecting financial institutions, including regulatory fees and capital requirements, changes in prevailing interest rates, acquisitions and the integration of acquired businesses, credit risk management, asset-liability management, the financial and securities markets and the availability of and costs associated with sources of liquidity.
The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company also advises readers that the factors listed above could affect the Company's financial performance and could cause the Company's actual results for future periods to differ materially from any opinions or statements expressed with respect to future periods in any current statements. The Company does not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions, which may be made to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events.
Provident Financial Services, Inc.
CONTACT: Thomas M. Lyons, SVP & CFO, Provident Financial Services, Inc.,
+1-201-915-5491
Web Site: http://www.providentnj.com/
http://www.sandleroneill.com/
