BUZZ-Provident Financial: To raise funds for fines, balance sheet repair - media
** Shares (Berlin: DI6.BE - news) of troubled sub-prime lender down 6.8 pct
** Provident Financial intends to raise as much as 500 mln pounds ($701.55 mln) to pay fines and repair balance sheet, Sunday Telegraph reports (http://bit.ly/2ClJxly)
** Rights issue could even be unveiled alongside Provident's annual results this week - Sunday Telegraph
** On Jan 17, said expects to report a loss of about 120 mln pounds in its consumer credit division for 2017
** Shares have fallen 72 pct since it first issued a profit warning on June 21 2017 ($1 = 0.7127 pounds) (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : justin.varghese.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)