1.   Because auto makers hope customers will lease their vehicles again, their captive finance arms are more likely to ignore signs of routine use.

2.   Earnings should rise slightly in the finance arm, General Motors Acceptance Corp., and at the Hughes Electronics subsidiary.

3.   Earnings could rise slightly at its finance arm, General Motors Acceptance Corp., and at the Hughes Electronics subsidiary.

4.   In the deal, GE Capital, the finance arm of General Electric, will acquire the electronics and laboratory and scientific leasing units of Comdisco.

5.   Lloyds sold its corporate finance arm of Hill Samuel Bank Ltd. to Close Brothers Group Plc for an undisclosed sum.

6.   Only Barings Brothers, the corporate finance arm of ING Barings that advised Wellcome, had a better year.

7.   The auto lending practices of Ford Credit and its main rivals, the finance arms of the Chrysler and General Motors corporations, are already under federal scrutiny.

8.   The finance arm of the United Methodist Church will consider a proposal for paying the funds this weekend.

9.   The finance arms of auto companies cut car-loan rates by two or three percentage points, to encourage sales.

10.   The improvement at Lafayette was further underlined by a report by Cofinoga, the consumer finance arm of the company.