Peter Gill, Head of the Financial Services Team at KPMG Corporate Finance, quoted in MarketWatch

March 22, 2007

In the March 22, 2007, edition of MarketWatch, KPMG Corporate Finance had an opportunity to contribute to Alistair Barr's article, "Unlikely companies offer subprime mortgages.  Originators owned by GE, GMAC, CIT may be stronger than independents"

Peter Gill, Head of the Financial Services Team at KPMG Corporate Finance, was interviewed with respect to his thoughts on the latest trend in subprime mortgage lending.

"There's a risk that companies that originate any subprime mortgages are being painted with the same brush as the specialists," said Peter Gill, head of the financial-services team at KPMG Corporate Finance LLC, an investment bank. "Diversified lenders with a wider range of standard products are really not going to see much of an impact from this.

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