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Alliance Financing Group Inc.

MEDIA RELEASE

(TSX-V:AFG)

Alliance Financing Group Announces A Marketing
Arrangement with Sun Life Financial Trust

Toronto, September 20, 2001

Alliance Financing Group Inc. (CDNX:YFG), providers of financing solutions for small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) announced today the signing of reciprocal marketing agreements with Sun Life Financial Trust Inc. a member of the Sun Life Financial group of companies, that will allow both organizations to market each other's products.

Under these arrangements, Alliance Financing Group will offer Sun Life Financial Trust's personal lines of credit, as well as high interest personal savings accounts, primarily to business owners, while Sun Life Financial Trust will introduce selected Alliance Financing Group products to their distribution partners to meet the financing needs of their business customers.

Alliance Financing Group's core strategy is the provision of a basket of essential financing and financial products to its SME customers, through five distinct distribution channels: equipment/machinery vendors, Internet Verticals, Internet Portals, Independent Sales Organizations, and finally, direct to the end-user. Alliance Financing Group acts as an aggregator of the financing products of a multitude of best-of-breed partners including Lessors, Commercial Finance Companies and Banks in Canada, the United States, and (on a limited basis) selected other countries.

Bernie Shimkovitz, CEO of Alliance Financing Group states: "Our business model allows us to offer an extremely diverse selection of the best financing products and solutions in the marketplace today. Moreover, the diversity of our underwriting sources allows us to maintain one of the highest approval ratios possible".

Mr. Shimkovitz continues, "Sun Life Financial Trust offers excellent personal line of credit products, as well as one of the best high-interest savings accounts available to Canadians. It is important to us to be able to offer these superior products to our customers. In addition, having Sun Life Financial Trust introduce some of our products to their distribution partners, will lead to additional penetration into the Canadian SME marketplace for Alliance Financing Group".

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About Alliance Financing Group Inc.
Established in 1989, Alliance Financing Group 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 Group 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 Group 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 Group is able to deliver a comprehensive suite of end-to-end financing fulfillment solutions, coupled with live online assistance for the end-user.

For more information about Alliance Financing Group Inc. please visit: www.YourFinanceSource.com ,or contact:

Bernard Shimkovitz
Chief Executive Officer
Alliance Financing Group Inc.
Tel: 905-660-3660 x225, Toll Free: 877-660-3660
Fax: 905-660-3078
Email: bernie@alliancefinancing.com

The Canadian Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.

2001 Articles