Monthly report
Connecticut Equipment Finance Report, January 2026
Lenders filed 1,168 new UCC financing statements for business equipment in Connecticut in January 2026, down 24% from the month before and down 2% on the same month a year earlier. Kubota Credit filed the most, 46. WebBank, its successors and assignees grew fastest, from 14 to 36. Construction was the largest identified equipment category with 53 filings.
New equipment filings
Month over month
Year over year
New equipment filings, last 12 months
Connecticut, businesses only
| 2025-02 | 1080 |
|---|---|
| 2025-03 | 1423 |
| 2025-04 | 1406 |
| 2025-05 | 1338 |
| 2025-06 | 1240 |
| 2025-07 | 1249 |
| 2025-08 | 1134 |
| 2025-09 | 1203 |
| 2025-10 | 1281 |
| 2025-11 | 1818 |
| 2025-12 | 1544 |
| 2026-01 | 1168 |
Top lenders
New filings in January 2026, change from the month before
- 1Kubota CreditCaptive finance46 +39%
- 2WebBank, its successors and assigneesBank36 +157%
- 3John Deere FinancialCaptive finance26 -7%
- 4Wells Fargo Vendor Financial Services, LLCBank23 +77%
- 5Liberty BankBank22 -50%
- 6Caterpillar FinancialCaptive finance20 -56%
- 7M&T BankBank19 -39%
- 8Navitas Credit Corp.Independent16 +45%
- 9TD BANK, N.A.Bank16 +60%
- 10Thomaston Savings BankBank15 -25%
Equipment categories
New filings in January 2026
- Equipment, type not stated1,059 · 90.7%-25% month over month
- Construction53 · 4.5%-25% month over month
- Agriculture50 · 4.3%+16% month over month
- Manufacturing2 · 0.2%-50% month over month
- IT & office2 · 0.2%-85% month over month
- Trucks & trailers2 · 0.2%+100% month over month
- Vehicles0 · 0.0%-100% month over month
By lender type
Share of filings with a named lender
- Other422 · 36.4%
- Bank400 · 34.5%
- Independent230 · 19.9%
- Captive finance106 · 9.2%
Busiest cities
New filings in January 2026
- Stamford50 · 4.3%
- Milford33 · 2.8%
- Danbury32 · 2.7%
- Hartford29 · 2.5%
- New Haven28 · 2.4%
- Norwalk28 · 2.4%
- Greenwich25 · 2.1%
- West Hartford24 · 2.1%
- Bridgeport22 · 1.9%
- Wallingford22 · 1.9%
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The businesses behind these filings
Every filing in this report is in the Radar with the business, the equipment and a score for when it's likely to finance again.