Monthly report
Connecticut Equipment Finance Report, April 2026
Lenders filed 1,393 new UCC financing statements for business equipment in Connecticut in April 2026, down 5% from the month before and down 1% on the same month a year earlier. Kubota Credit filed the most, 46. John Deere Financial grew fastest, from 15 to 39. Construction was the largest identified equipment category with 69 filings.
New equipment filings
Month over month
Year over year
New equipment filings, last 12 months
Connecticut, businesses only
| 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 |
| 2026-02 | 1077 |
| 2026-03 | 1467 |
| 2026-04 | 1393 |
Top lenders
New filings in April 2026, change from the month before
- 1Kubota CreditCaptive finance46 +84%
- 2Liberty BankBank44 0%
- 3John Deere FinancialCaptive finance39 +160%
- 4DLLIndependent30 +88%
- 5Wells Fargo Vendor Financial Services, LLCBank26 +100%
- 6Webster Bank, N.A.Bank24 +33%
- 7Caterpillar FinancialCaptive finance22 -48%
- 8M&T BankBank21 -28%
- 9Sheffield Financial, A Division of Branch Banking and Trust CompanyBank17 +325%
- 10WebBank, its successors and assigneesBank17 +13%
Equipment categories
New filings in April 2026
- Equipment, type not stated1,247 · 89.5%-9% month over month
- Construction69 · 5.0%+21% month over month
- Agriculture59 · 4.2%+51% month over month
- IT & office8 · 0.6%+100% month over month
- Vehicles5 · 0.4%n/a month over month
- Trucks & trailers4 · 0.3%+100% month over month
- Blanket liens1 · 0.1%n/a month over month
- Manufacturing0 · 0.0%-100% month over month
By lender type
Share of filings with a named lender
- Bank481 · 34.9%
- Other438 · 31.7%
- Independent318 · 23.0%
- Captive finance143 · 10.4%
Busiest cities
New filings in April 2026
- Stamford53 · 3.8%
- Bridgeport46 · 3.3%
- Norwalk41 · 2.9%
- Hartford37 · 2.7%
- Greenwich33 · 2.4%
- New Haven33 · 2.4%
- Waterbury32 · 2.3%
- Manchester27 · 1.9%
- West Hartford27 · 1.9%
- Bristol23 · 1.7%
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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.