Our Founder Was Someone Like You

Fred Nives

Omni's Founder, Fred Nives, during WW II

Omni Financial® is a member of the Omni Financial® group of lending companies whose founder started lending exclusively to military service members over 63 years ago.

In 1945, near the end of World War II, while stationed in France, a young staff sergeant tried to get a loan - and was denied. The reason? They said he was only a young serviceman with no credit experience. He vowed that one day he'd start a company that would help people like him - people like you - obtain personal loans.

In 1950, he made good on his vow - and opened his first military-lending company serving America's armed forces around the globe. Then, in 1970, he started the Omni Loans® group of military loan companies specializing in making consumer loans to service members stationed both stateside and overseas.

Today, over a half century after he started it all, that young staff sergeant is our chairman. The Omni Military Loans® group of military loan companies has lent money to hundreds of thousands of U.S. Service members who needed money - just like he did back in 1945.