Pricing Supplement No.: 19
Filing
Under Rule
424(b)(3)
Date: March 22, 1995
Registration File No.
33-
49719
(to Prospectus dated January 12, 1994 and
Prospectus Supplement dated January 14, 1994)
$400,000,000
PROVIDIAN CORPORATION
Medium-Term Notes, Series D
CUSIP: 74406QAH0
Principal amount: $5,000,000 Floating Rate
Notes:
Interest Rate (if fixed rate): 8.53% Interest Rate
Basis:
Maturity Date: March 28, 2025 Commercial
Paper Rate
Specified Currency: U.S. Dollars Prime Rate
Exchange Rate (if any): LIBOR
U.S. $1.00 = Treasury
Rate
Issue price (as a percentage of CD Rate
principal amount): 100.000% Federal
Funds Rate
Selling Agent's commission (%): 0.75% Index Maturity:
Purchasing Agent's discount or Spread (plus or
minus):
commission (%): Spread
Multiplier:
Net proceeds to the company (%): 99.25% Maximum
Interest Rate:
Settlement date (Original Issue Minimum
Interest Rate:
Date): March 28, 1995 Initial
Interest Rate:
Redemption Commencement Date (if Interest Reset
Date(s) (if
semi-annually
or
any): annually):
Exchange Rate Agent: Third
Wednesday of:
Original Issue Discount Security: Interest Reset
Date (if weekly,
monthly or
Yes: No: XXX quarterly):
A/S
Default Rate (%): Interest
Determination
Date(s):A/S
(applicable only for Original Issue Calculation
Date(s): A/S
Discount Security) Calculation
Agent: A/S
Interest Payment
Date(s):
Third
Wednesday March
of
June
September
October
Redemption Periods: Regular Record
Date(s):
Interest Reset
Period:
Other Provisions: Redemption
Prices:
If such Notes are denominated in other than U.S dollars,
the applicable
Foreign Currency Supplement is attached hereto.
Additional Terms:
As of the date of this Pricing Supplement (i) the
aggregate initial public
offering price (or its equivalent in other currencies or
composite currencies)
of the Notes (as defined in the Prospectus Supplement) which
have been sold
(including the Notes to which this Pricing Supplement
relates) is $131,500,000;
and the aggregate proceeds which the Company has received
from Debt Securities
(as defined in the Prospectus) which have been sold
(including the Notes to
which this Pricing Supplement relates) is $130,664,375.
"N/A" as used herein means "Not Applicable". "A/S" as
used herein means "As
stated in the Prospectus Supplement referred to above".
Effective May 12, 1994, Capital Holding Corporation
changed its name to
Providian Corporation. As a result, all references in the
prospectus to
"Capital Holding Corporation" shall be read as to refer to
"Providian
Corporation".
Goldman Sachs Co.
