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GIG Announces Agreement with Alliance Financing

Toronto, Ontario - August 2001, 2001 - GLOBAL INVESTMENT FINANCIAL GROUP INC. ("GIG-V") ALLIANCE FINANCING GROUP ("TSX-V:AFG") -

Global Investment Financial Group Inc. announces that it has signed an agreement with Alliance Financing Group to offer a co-branded financing program through the Global Investment Group to business and individual users.

Alliance is a Canadian based financial company, which engages in the origination and facilitation of leasing and other financing transactions. As such, Alliance maintains established, contractual relationships with some of the top lease underwriting institutions in Canada, United States and internationally, as well as selected private financing sources. These relationships will allow GIG to work with Alliance to originate and facilitate financing transactions for Established and New Businesses of all types, Governments and Government Agencies, as well as Institutions. The diverse sources of funding available to Alliance, allows for a very high credit approval ratio while providing very competitive rates.

"Teaming up with Alliance allows GIG to offer another global financial service to our customer and user base," stated Leo Chamberland, President and CEO. "Whether our customer is a business which sells equipment or other capital assets and is looking to increase its revenue or a business which requires financing for their own needs, GIG is able to offer a solution to one of many financial needs of its customers."

About Global Investment Group
Global Investment Group (GIG) is dedicated to becoming the leading provider of secure Web-based interactive financial transaction systems in a virtual marketplace environment that will function as online investment exchanges for a broad variety of investment instruments complimented with associated products and services. Under the umbrella of its transaction services group, Global Investment Group is currently implementing a revenue-driven financial portal - at www.investment.com - offering a variety of online products and services including searchable directories with active client profiles dedicated to the investment community. Meanwhile, the company's media properties group produces a number of complementary financial publications dedicated to improving reader understanding of investment opportunities

About Alliance Financing Group Inc.
Established in 1989, Alliance Financing is proving itself as a leader in providing leasing and financing solutions for all types of businesses in both the traditional bricks and mortar marketplace, and since early 2000, the Internet marketplace. Alliance Financing is a "one-stop financing shop", acting as an aggregator of the products and services of top lease-financing companies, commercial finance institutions and banks, and delivering these products and solutions to the end-user customer. Employing a "high-tech, human-touch" philosophy, Alliance Financing has migrated its B-to-B financing solutions to the Internet via its primary Internet offering, YourFinanceSource.com and through its proprietary private labeled technology for online vendors, Internet verticals and portals. Using this technology, Alliance Financing is able to deliver a comprehensive suite of end-to-end financing fulfillment solutions, coupled with live online assistance for the end-user.

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