Vision Financial rebrands as Civista

Sandusky, Ohio-based equipment financing firm Vision Financial Group Inc., which also has gone by VFG Leasing & Finance, has changed its name to Civista Leasing & Finance.

Vision Financial had been a Civista Bank company since October 2022. With the name change, it also is made a transition from being a subsidiary to a division of Civista Bank, effective Aug. 31.

“We are pleased to bring our full breadth of financial services to customers under the Civista brand,” Civista Bank President and CEO Dennis G. Shaffer says.

“Our leasing and finance customers can count on the same great team to handle their financing requests with the responsiveness and industry expertise they have come to know over the past 30 years," says William P. Summers, senior vice president, leasing and finance director with Civista

In 2021, Vision Financial helped host and present a virtual session on recycling equipment as part of a wider online program organized by the Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.

Founded in 1884, Civista Bank is the community banking subsidiary of Civista Bancshares Inc., a Sandusky-based financial services holding company with assets of $3.6 billion that operates from more than 40 offices across Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. Civista Leasing & Finance offers its commercial equipment leasing services nationwide.