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Connecticut Equipment Finance Report, December 2025

Lenders filed 1,544 new UCC financing statements for business equipment in Connecticut in December 2025, down 15% from the month before and up 9% on the same month a year earlier. Caterpillar Financial filed the most, 45. Liberty Bank grew fastest, from 20 to 44. Construction was the largest identified equipment category with 71 filings.

1,544

New equipment filings

-15%

Month over month

+9%

Year over year

New equipment filings, last 12 months

Connecticut, businesses only

1,818909Jan 2025: 1,193Jan 25Feb 2025: 1,080Mar 2025: 1,423Apr 2025: 1,406AprMay 2025: 1,338Jun 2025: 1,240Jul 2025: 1,249JulAug 2025: 1,134Sep 2025: 1,203Oct 2025: 1,281OctNov 2025: 1,818Dec 2025: 1,544Dec
New equipment UCC filings per month in Connecticut, 12 months to December 2025
2025-011193
2025-021080
2025-031423
2025-041406
2025-051338
2025-061240
2025-071249
2025-081134
2025-091203
2025-101281
2025-111818
2025-121544

Top lenders

New filings in December 2025, change from the month before

  1. 1Caterpillar FinancialCaptive finance45 +88%
  2. 2Liberty BankBank44 +120%
  3. 3Kubota CreditCaptive finance33 +32%
  4. 4M&T BankBank31 +29%
  5. 5John Deere FinancialCaptive finance28 +12%
  6. 6Thomaston Savings BankBank20 +150%
  7. 7Webster Bank, N.A.Bank19 +58%
  8. 8DLLIndependent18 +157%
  9. 9Western Equipment Finance, a division of Western State BankIndependent16 +300%
  10. 10LEAF Capital Funding, LLCIndependent16 +78%

Equipment categories

New filings in December 2025

  1. Equipment, type not stated1,410 · 91.3%
    -18% month over month
  2. Construction71 · 4.6%
    +39% month over month
  3. Agriculture43 · 2.8%
    +39% month over month
  4. IT & office13 · 0.8%
    +333% month over month
  5. Manufacturing4 · 0.3%
    +300% month over month
  6. Vehicles2 · 0.1%
    -50% month over month
  7. Trucks & trailers1 · 0.1%
    -67% month over month

By lender type

Share of filings with a named lender

  1. Other546 · 35.7%
  2. Bank528 · 34.5%
  3. Independent319 · 20.8%
  4. Captive finance138 · 9.0%

Busiest cities

New filings in December 2025

  1. Stamford78 · 5.1%
  2. New Haven43 · 2.8%
  3. Hartford41 · 2.7%
  4. Norwalk39 · 2.5%
  5. Danbury37 · 2.4%
  6. Waterbury35 · 2.3%
  7. Manchester33 · 2.1%
  8. Greenwich28 · 1.8%
  9. Bridgeport26 · 1.7%
  10. Milford26 · 1.7%

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New equipment UCC filings in Connecticut, 12 months to December 2025
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