11.  Its employees also get lower mortgage rates through lending companies and rebates from real estate companies when they buy or sell a home.

12.  Jayhawk Acceptance Corp. denied a published report that said the lending company has stopped financing automobile purchases for people with bad credit.

13.  Lending companies like CIT depend heavily on cheap financing for the loans they make.

14.  Lower interest rates, though, are biting banks with large home loan books as they try to compete with home lending companies offering cut-price interest rates.

15.  Shares of banks, insurers and consumer lending companies rallied as bond yields continued a weeklong drop.

16.  Shinsegi Investment Trust Co., a Korean money lending company, was suspended from doing business by the government.

17.  Still, they cautioned that getting rid of all or part of the lending companies would make the company more vulnerable during an economic slowdown.

18.  The lending company said it would report its first quarterly loss in nine years because of higher-than-expected defaults on credit card loans.

19.  The Naeway Economic Daily said the committee will study the possibility of mergers and acquisitions among leasing companies, credit card companies, merchant banks and other lending companies.

20.  The two largest consumer lending companies, in terms of domestic offices, are the Associates and American General, Willumstad said.