About Us

Hitachi Capital (UK) PLC is a leading financial services company with over 35 years’ experience in providing innovative finance solutions. With net earning assets of £4.8bn and over 1,200 colleagues based over five locations, we are one of the UK's largest lenders and have consistently grown our revenues and increased profitability for the past nine years. What we do Every day we service over one million consumers, SMEs and corporate multinationals in the UK and mainland Europe and help them realise their ambitions. We focus on markets where we can provide innovative solutions that require high service levels and a commitment to customer care. Our services include retail point of sale finance, motor finance and personal loans, asset finance and invoice finance, and vehicle funding and fleet management providers. We also develop funding programs with Hitachi and Mitsubishi Group businesses across Europe. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Capital Corporation, one of Japan’s largest non-bank financial institutions and an affiliate of both Hitachi Ltd, a world leader for manufacturing and technology, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., one of the world’s largest banking and financial groups. Our business units Based in Leeds, Hitachi Capital Consumer Finance is the UK’s leading retail point of sale finance provider and also has a significant presence in both the motor finance and personal loans sectors. With sites in Newbury and Trowbridge, Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions has more than 25 years’ experience in providing bespoke vehicle funding and fleet management services for business car leasing and specialist commercial vehicles, as well as personal contract hire. Hitachi Capital Business Finance, based in Staines, is a leading provider of business asset finance in sectors including transport, agriculture, construction, manufacturing, materials handling and financial services providers. Operating from our Telford office, Hitachi Capital Invoice Finance provides cash flow solutions to over 700 clients across a wide range of sectors in the UK and places great emphasis on outstanding service to UK SMEs as well as transparent and simple pricing. The European Vendor Solutions team executes the Hitachi Capital Corporation common strategy in Europe by developing innovative funding programs with Hitachi and Mitsubishi Group businesses and their distribution channels, and Hitachi Capital Corporation key accounts. Our vision, mission and values We believe great businesses are those with a strong vision, mission and core values that are used to shape their culture and behaviours both internally and externally. Our vision is to be the trusted brand of financial services in the UK and across Europe, with exceptional people providing outstanding customer experiences today. Our values of ‘Harmony’, ‘Sincerity’ and ‘Pioneering Spirit’ reflect our heritage and are integral to everything we do and are what make our culture, teams and business what it is today. This means we work one team – we build trust, respect each other and treat everyone fairly, from our customers to our colleagues. We do what we say we're going to do. We listen and take action. And we have the courage to try new things and have fun along the way