Most Cheshires have nine lives. This one has had more than that, and is still alive to tell about it. The Cheshire Building Society is the product of more than a dozen mergers dating back to the 1960s. The Society provides savings accounts, mortgage financing and brokerage, real estate leasing and sales, investments, and insurance. With more than 450,000 members, it operates a network of more than 40 branches and about 15 Cheshire Estate Agency property service branches throughout northwest England. Nationwide Building Society, the world's largest building society with assets of more than £200 billion ($333 million), acquired Cheshire Building Society in December 2008.

Cimarron Mortgage Company is a Mississippi licensed corporation formed in 1992 to focus on mortgage lending and servicing activities. Cimarron is an approved seller/servicer and subservicer for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, HUD, USDA Rural Housing and various private investors and servicers.Cimarron, based in Jackson, MS, services $900 million in mortgages in over 30 states. Cimarron also originates and purchases loans in the Southeastern section of the United States.

CitiMortgage sells through retail, online, and correspondent channels. In 2009 Citigroup separated CitiMortgage and other money-losing units such as CitiFinancialinto a new business called Citi Holdings. The reorganization allows Citigroup to spin off or sell struggling assets if it needs to raise money.Whether your potential home is in the city or the country, CitiMortgage wants to help you buy it. Or fix it up. The mortgage lending unit of Citigroup, CitiMortgage originates and services residential mortgages throughout the US. It manages most of its parent's $170 billion mortgage portfolio. CitiMortgage also offers refinancing and investment products.

Cohen & Company merged with external manager Cohen Brothers in late 2009. The combined company has access to greater capital resources, allowing it to pursue more investment opportunities in a distressed market.Cohen & Company is an investment firm with a focus on credit-related fixed income assets. The company's asset management division invests in domestic trusts, international hybrid securities and real estate debt, and other investment types; it manages some $16 billion in assets. Cohen & Company also has a capital markets division, which issues, sells, and trades corporate and securitized products. Formerly a specialty finance real estate investment trust (REIT) named Alesco Financial.

Coventry Building Society was set up to construct houses in the 1800s. Coventry acquired smaller building society Stroud & Swindon in 2010.Yanks may confuse it with bricks and mortar, but in the UK it stands for building for the future. Coventry Building Society, one of the top financial cooperatives in the UK, serves more than one million members. The building society has diversified over the years to offer mortgage banking, investment, personal loans ranging from £1,000 to £15,000 ($1,600 to $25,000), health and travel insurance services, and online banking. The society has more than £18 billion ($27 billion) in assets under management.

In 2007 C-BASS bought Fieldstone Investment Corporation, which signaled the beginning of the end when Fieldstone's mortgage unit declared bankruptcy. C-BASS could not meet lenders' margin calls and had to throw in the towel itself and begin liquidation. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2010. When the subprime market got fishy, C-BASS had to be thrown back. Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitization (C-BASS) purchased and securitized credit-sensitive and nonperforming single-family residential mortgages, investing in whole loans, subordinated securities, and properties on the verge of being foreclosed upon. It also developed loan-default management technology.

CreXus Investment Corp. acquires, manages and finances commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate debt, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and other commercial real estate-related assets. We have elected to be taxed as a REIT, and therefore pay out at least 90% of our earnings to our shareholders in order to avoid taxation at the corporate level. Our stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CXS. CreXus is externally managed by Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company (FIDAC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Annaly Capital Management, Inc.

CW was founded in 1991 and has about 15 offices in the US. Fortress Investment Group acquired the company in 2010. The deal increased CW's financial strength and helped expand its lending platforms. CW Financial Service (CW) invests in commercial real estate. It mainly focuses on lending money for multifamily and health care projects. The company offers primary servicing, special servicing, investment management, and research consulting. CW offers loans through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA programs and services about 12,000 commercial and multifamily loans worth some $160 billion. It operates through three subsidiaries: CWCapital, CWCapital Asset Management, and CWCapital Investments.

Deerfield Capital Corp acquired Charlotte-based Nova Credit Investment Management in 2010; it now plans to merge with Commercial Industrial Finance Corp (CIFC), which has some $6 billion under management.Specialty finance company Deerfield Capital grazes on a green pasture of investments. Through its subsidiaries, Deerfield Capital Management (DCM) and Columbus Nova Credit Investments, the company invests in and manages client assets such as residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), bank loans, government securities, and asset-backed securities. They offer some 30 investment products, including separately managed accounts and a private investment fund. Deerfield has some $9.4 billion of assets under management.

The Derbyshire owns and operates some 50 offices in the UK. Burned by bad money-market investments and subprime mortgages, the company was taken over in late 2008 by Nationwide Building Society, the largest in the world. In the race to savings, Derbyshire Building Society (or, as it is better known, The Derbyshire) evens the odds. The company offers personal financial services such as deposit and savings accounts, mortgages, fixed-rate bonds, and homeowners, mortgage, and term life insurance. Other insurance and investment products are available through an agreement with Norwich Union (now part of Aviva).

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