consumer loan company

Consumer loan companies have much to do with the suicide rate.

Many banks and consumer loan companies have experienced higher levels of delinquencies in recent months.

The cornerstone of his new venture was a little-known consumer loan company, Consumer Credit, in Baltimore.

With 1.98 trillion yen ($18 billion) in assets, Takefuji is one of the largest consumer loan companies in Japan.

Sapporo Breweries and the consumer loan company Aiful had billboards at the Tokyo Dome.

It owns Avco Finance, a consumer loan company, and the Paul Revere Insurance Company, which specializes in disability insurance.

The Takefuji Corporation, one of Japan's biggest consumer loan companies, was indicted Thursday on charges of wiretapping the conversations of a journalist critical of the company.

American General Finance is the third-largest consumer loan company, after the Household Finance Corporation and the Beneficial Finance Corporation.

Yasuo Takei, the founder and chairman of a consumer loan company, the Takefuji Corporation, resigned almost a week after his arrest on suspicion of illegal wiretapping.

C1 S.E.C. Charges Accountant A former partner with Ernst & Young was charged with obstructing a federal investigation of a now-bankrupt consumer loan company.

Mr. Aldinger joined HSBC last November when the bank bought Household International, the consumer loan company based in Prospect Heights, Ill., for $14.2 billion.

Takefuji, one of Japan's largest consumer loan companies, had its debt rating lowered by Moody's Investors Service, which cited the arrest of the company's chairman, Yasuo Takei.

Not only are consumer loan companies trading at low multiples relative to their earnings, but changing borrowing trends and superior asset and liability management have made a few of them fairly immune to cyclical turns.

Perhaps the best example, they say, is the Beneficial Corporation, a $13 billion financial services company in Wilmington, Del., that is the largest independent consumer loan company in the United States.

"I think it's oversold, but I don't know what it's worth," said Joseph Jolson, who follows Mercury and other consumer loan companies for Montgomery Securities in San Francisco.

In 1952, along with five other island families, Hiram Fong started Finance Factors, one of the first industrial and consumer loan companies, to service the growing minorities who were seeking to start new businesses and buy homes.

"We take a very pragmatic view," said Finn M. W. Caspersen, chairman and chief executive of the Beneficial Corporation, the largest independent consumer loan company in the United States and the biggest corporate contributor of soft money so far this year.

The Travelers Group, based in Manhattan,is the parent company for Travelers Insurance; the Smith Barney securities firm; the Commercial Credit Corporation, a consumer loan company, and Primerica Financial Services, a network of agents, many of them part time, who sell term insurance.

The former partner, Thomas Trauger, who worked in Ernst & Young's office in San Francisco, was charged in a criminal complaint with destroying and altering audit work papers related to a federal examination of the bank subsidiary of NextCard Inc., a consumer loan company that is being liquidated.