Registration No. 333-35460 Rule 424 (b)(2)
                                     Pricing Supplement No:312 Cusip:14912LQ38
                                     Dated:  March 7, 2001

	Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation
	Medium-Term Notes, Series F
	(Floating Rate)
	With Maturities of 9 Months or More from Date of Issue

Principal Amount:       Initial Interest Rate:        Proceed Amount:
$150,000,000              Fed Funds +32                $149,776,835


Original Issue Date:    Commission Fee:               Maturity Date:
03/12/01	  $139,450                      2/24/2003

Dealer:	     Index Maturity:                Spread +/-:
Salomon Smith Barney  50M         Daily   	 +32
Goldman, Sachs & Co. 100M

Specified Currency:     Option to Elect Payment       Authorized Denominations
x U.S. dollars          in U.S. dollars               (only applicable if
_ Other:___________     (only applicable if           Specified Currency is
                        Specified Currency is         other than U.S.
                        other than U.S. dollars):      N/A
                           N/A

The Note is a:                                        Exchange Rate Agent
    X Global Note                                     (if other than U.S.
      Certificated Note                                 Bank Trust, N.A.): N/A
     (only applicable if
      Specified Currency
      is other than U.S. dollars)                     Spread Multiplier: N/A

Interest Rate Basis or Bases:  Fed Funds + 32bps

LIBOR Source (only applicable if LIBOR Interest Rate Basis):
   Reuters         X  Telerate

LIBOR Currency (only applicable if LIBOR Interest Rate Basis): U.S. Dollar


Maximum Interest Rate:  N/A             Interest Payment Period:  Quarterly

Interest Payment Dates: Coupons will pay/reset on the 24th of February, May,
	 August, and November (or next good business
	 day) modified following convention.
                        Initial payment due 05/24/01.

Minimum Interest Rate: N/A

Interest Rate Reset Option:  _ Yes    x No

Optional Reset Dates (only applicable if option to reset spread or spread
multiplier): N/A

Basis for Interest Rate Reset (only applicable if option to reset spread or
spread multiplier): N/A

Minimum Interest Rate:  N/A              Interest Payment Dates:  N/A

Stated Maturity Extension Option:  _ Yes    X No

Extension Period(s) and Final Maturity Date (only applicable if option to
extend stated maturity):  N/A


Basis for Interest Rate During Extension Period (only applicable if option to
extend stated maturity):  N/A


Historical Exchange Rate (only applicable if Specified Currency other than
U.S. dollars):  N/A


Interest Payment Dates: Coupons will pay/reset on the 24th of February, May,
	 August, and November (or next good business
	 day) modified following convention.
                        Initial payment due 05/24/01.

Interest Determination Dates: Daily reset/quarterly pay. Based on previous
                       day's effective Fed Funds rate from H-15 composite, as
                       found on Telerate page 120. Weighted (meaning coupon is
                       good until next business day), with no cut-off prior to
                       coupon payments. Payment dates are 05/24/01, 08/24/01,
                       11/23/01, 02/25/02, 05/24/02, 08/23/02, 11/25/02,
                        02/24/03

Calculation Agent (if other than U.S. Bank Trust, N.A.): N/A

Original Issue Discount Note:  Total Amount of OID: N/A Terms of Amortizing
     __ Yes    x No                                       Notes: N/A
                               Issue Price (expressed
                               as a percentage of
                               aggregate principal
                               amount): 99.94419%

Redemption Date(s) (including                      Redemption Price(s): N/A
any applicable regular or
special record dates): N/A

Repayment Date(s) (including                       Repayment Price(s):  N/A
 any applicable regular or
special record dates): N/A

Other Terms: N/A

     The interest rates on the Notes may be changed by Caterpillar Financial
Services Corporation from time to time, but any such change will not affect
the interest rate on any Note offered prior to the effective date of the
change.  Prior to the date of this Pricing Supplement, $2,109.00MM principal
amount of the Notes had been sold at interest rates then in effect.
Additionally, the total principal amount of the Notes offered by Caterpillar
Financial Services Corporation pursuant to its Prospectus Supplement dated
June 1, 2000 and Prospectus dated May 11, 2000 has been reduced from $4,000.0
mm to $3,500.0 mm.  $500 mm principal amount of debt securities registered
pursuant to Registration Statement No. 333-35460 are being offered by
Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation pursuant to its Prospectus
Supplement and Prospectus each dated September 8, 2000.

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	Pricing Supplement to Prospectus Supplement dated June 1, 2000
	and Prospectus dated May 11, 2000.