UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

DATE OF REPORT (Date of earliest event reported): December 3, 2014 (December 3, 2014)

Springleaf Finance Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

601 N.W. Second Street,

Evansville, Indiana 47708

(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)

(812) 424-8031

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 1.01                   Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On December 3, 2014, Springleaf Finance Corporation (“SFC,” “we,” “us” or “our”) issued $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of SFC’s 5.25% Senior Notes due 2019 (the “Notes”) under an Indenture, dated as of December 3, 2014 (the “Base Indenture”), among SFC, Springleaf Holdings, Inc. (“SHI”), as guarantor, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 3, 2014 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), among SFC, SHI and the Trustee.  The Notes were offered pursuant to a Prospectus Supplement, dated November 25, 2014, to the Prospectus, dated November 20, 2014, filed as part of SFC’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-200408-01) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The Notes will be guaranteed on an unsecured basis by SHI.

Concurrently with the offering of the Notes, SFC repurchased approximately $370 million aggregate principal amount of SFC’s outstanding Medium Term Notes due 2017 (the “2017 Notes”) at a premium to principal amount from certain beneficial holders of the 2017 Notes (the “Repurchase”). Certain beneficial owners of the 2017 Notes agreed to purchase in the offering of the Notes approximately $441 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes. SFC intends to use a portion of the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes for the Repurchase. SFC intends to use the remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include further debt repurchases and possible acquisitions.

The Notes will mature on December 15, 2019 and bear interest at a rate of 5.25% per annum, payable semiannually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, beginning on June 15, 2015. The Notes are our senior unsecured obligations and rank equally in right of payment to all of our other existing and future unsubordinated indebtedness from time to time outstanding.  The Notes are guaranteed by our indirect parent company, SHI, but the Notes will not be guaranteed by any of our subsidiaries or any other party.  The Notes are effectively subordinated to all of our secured obligations to the extent of the value of the assets securing such obligations and structurally subordinated to any existing and future obligations of our subsidiaries with respect to claims against the assets of such subsidiaries.

The Notes may be redeemed at any time and from time to time, at the option of SFC, in whole or in part at a “make-whole” redemption price specified in the Indenture. The Notes will not have the benefit of any sinking fund.

The Indenture contains covenants that, among other things, limit SFC’s ability to create liens on assets and restrict SFC’s ability to consolidate, merge or sell its assets. The Indenture also provides for events of default which, if any of them occur, would permit or require the principal of and accrued interest on the Notes to become, or to be declared, due and payable.

The foregoing summary of the Base Indenture and Supplemental Indenture is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Base Indenture and Supplemental Indenture, copies of which are filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 4.1 and 4.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

Item 2.03.                Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

The disclosure provided in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

Item 9.01                   Financial Statements and Exhibits. 

(d) Exhibits

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Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: December 3, 2014

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EXHIBIT INDEX

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