Associates Corporation Of North America

Associates Corporation of North America. Associates Corporation of North America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Associates First Capital Corporation. The company is a leading diversified financial services organization which provides finance, leasing, insurance and related services to individual consumers and businesses in the United States and Puerto Rico. The company offers a variety of consumer financing products and services, like home equity and personal loans, retail sales finance and private label credit cards and purchases participations in private label credit card receivables originated by the affiliate. The company also offers retail and wholesale financing, and leasing for heavy-duty and medium-duty trucks and truck trailers, construction, material handling and other industrial and communications equipment, auto fleet leasing and other products and services to commercial consumers. The company incurred $27 million towards year 2000 expenses in 1999.