Weill grabbed hold of sleepy consumer finance company Commercial Credit and used it as his vehicle for conquering the banking industry.

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Widow of Yasuo Takei, founder of consumer finance company Takefuji.

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If the Goldman terms look generous, the ones granted to consumer-finance company CIT Group look like a giveaway.

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Ten years later he was the first to receive permission from Brazil's central bank to introduce consumer credit, using a small finance company he bought that year.

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The tapes contained information about United States branch network customers of CitiFinancial, the company's consumer finance division, as well as customers with closed accounts from CitiFinancial Retail Services.

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Of course, while Fannie Mae's securities state that the company is explicitly not backed by the American taxpayer, large national banks finance mortgages with consumer deposits insured by the government.

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