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Non-Standard Finance booked a GBP25.3 million exceptional charge in the half compared to zero the year before.

Provident shares soared 16 per cent yesterday as it fended off the bid, but Non-Standard Finance's stock plunged close to 11 per cent.

Non-Standard Finance (NSF) said that, due to the lack of support for the deal, the merged group would "not have sufficient regulatory capital on a consolidated basis at completion due to the expected level of minority interests at that point".

Both Global Ordnance and CMP have been long-time suppliers of non-standard ammunition and non-standard weapons to US and foreign government entities.

Partially offsetting these positive rating factors are Greenville Casualty's unfavorable five-year combined ratio and operating ratio, which are worse than breakeven and compare unfavorably to its private passenger non-standard auto industry composite average, Best said.

For a non-standard employment contract to have real option value, it must both lead to future choices and enable advantageous access to future opportunities.

Custom specialist machine parts are produced in most metals and sometimes plastics - non-standard items are specials to customer drawings or non-standard sizes to international standards, e.g.

stated, "After significant debate, we pursued and executed a letter of intent to sell our non-standard auto business.

Kingsway Financial Services Incorporated (TSX: KFS)(NYSE: KFS), a holding company functioning as a merchant bank with a focus on long-term value-creation, has entered into a letter of intent to sell its non-standard automobile insurance companies.

Producing non-standard components here, instead of through one of our trusted international manufacturing partners, means we can fulfil special or urgent orders in days rather than weeks."

-- Now that insurance companies have filed their mandated standard and non-standard rating plans and rate levels (required to be filed by March 1.