GREG Cunningham has been promoted to Provident Financial's regional operations manager for Worcester, Redditch, Stourbridge and Dudley areas, with nearly 30,000 customers.

Mr Cunningham joined Provident in 1990 as manager of a handful of agents in Worcester and was promoted to area manager in 1996.

He oversees 240 staff as they provide small loans, issued and collected each week.

"In my region alone, we make almost 1.5 million visits to customers a year," he said.