Unlike his counterpart, David Nissen at GE's consumer finance business, Neal passes by such booming markets as China, Russia and Brazil.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Merrill announced last week it was selling the lion's share of its consumer finance unit, Merrill Lynch Capital, to GE Capital, the financial unit of General Electric.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Merrill announced last week it was selling the lion's share of its consumer finance unit, Merrill Lynch Capital, to GE Capital, the financial unit of General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ).

FORBES: Merrill Still Shopping

GE, a conglomerate that runs one of the world's largest consumer-finance businesses, recently bought Lake, Japan's fifth-largest provider of consumer loans.

ECONOMIST: Japanese consumer finance