41. But even as they pump up volumes, credit card issuers and consumer finance companies face the flip side-- rising defaults. 42. J . C . Bradford & AMP; Co . led the group of underwriters for the consumer finance company 's securities. 43. Aegis is the latest consumer finance company to restate earnings after loans they made paid off faster than originally expected. 44. A year later, he helped Weill orchestrate the acquisition of Commercial Credit, a big consumer finance company based in Baltimore. 45. Yesterday, Credit Lyonnais offered to sell its 54 percent interest in Woodchester Investments Plc, a profitable Irish consumer finance company . 46. A rising level of personal bankruptcies throughout the U . S . has hurt Chase and other consumer finance companies . 47. American International Group Inc . in December bought most of the Thai consumer finance company Bangkok Investment Public Co . Ltd. 48. Norwest agreed to buy Island Finance, a consumer finance company serving Puerto Rico, several Caribbean islands and parts of Central America. 49. In late 1996, the funds bought a large stake in Cityscape Financial, a consumer finance company that subsequently filed for bankruptcy. 50. Rising consumer default rates are casting doubt on consumer finance companies and on the $ 360 billion market for credit-card securities.
