First Standard Finance Corporation has 70 offices nationwide. Its primary purpose is to extend credit facilities to consumers and to industrial, commercial, or agricultural enterprises, by direct lending or by discounting or factoring commercial papers or accounts receivable, or by buying and selling contracts, leases, chattel mortgages, or other evidence of indebtedness, or by financial leasing of movable, as well, as immovable property. SEC Reg. No. ASO93-04331 CA No. 954