11. It also owns a mortgage company and a consumer finance company with nationwide operations. 12. Are you a consumer finance company ? " he said. 13. Robert M . Devlin, the insurance and consumer finance company 's chairman and chief executive. 14. Irving, Texas-based Associates is the biggest publicly owned U . S . consumer finance company . 15. Consumer finance companies have had " very rapid growth with insufficient controls, " he said.16. Shares of consumer finance companies also fell amid concern 17. In 1987, he joined Commercial Credit, then a consumer finance company that became part of Citigroup. 18. The consumer finance company said its second-quarter earnings rose 17 percent as consumers borrowed more money. 19. With banks increasingly reluctant to lend money, companies and individuals are turning to consumer finance companies . 20. The consumer finance company didn't discover the increased pace of refinancings until late November, Belter said.