Ally Financial, Inc. engages in the provision of online banking, securities brokerage, and investment advisory services. The company is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and currently employs 11,100 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-04-10. The firm's segments include Automotive Finance operations, Insurance operations, Mortgage Finance operations, and Corporate Finance operations. The Automotive Finance operations segment is engaged in providing services, such as retail installment sales contracts, loans and operating leases, offering term loans to dealers, financing dealer floorplans and other lines of credit to dealers, and other services. Insurance operations is a complementary automotive-focused business offering both consumer finance protection and insurance products sold primarily through the automotive dealer channel, and commercial insurance products sold directly to dealers. The Mortgage Finance operations segment includes its direct-to-consumer Ally Home mortgage offering and bulk purchases of jumbo and LMI mortgage loans originated by third parties. The Corporate Finance operations segment provides senior secured asset-based and leveraged cash flow loans.