September 6, 2007

Boca Raton, Florida—Imperial Finance & Trading, LLC a leader in premium finance for life insurance, announces the appointment of Deborah Benaim as Senior Vice President, Retail Premium Finance.

Benaim has been involved in the financial services and healthcare industries for the past twenty years.

She was most recently managing director of Peach Holdings' structured settlement division and was responsible for all day-to-day operations of the organization. While there, she expanded their new originations to become the second-largest in the industry.

“Imperial's competitive edge and industry leadership is a direct result of our experienced staff and the in-depth knowledge we have of the premium finance and life settlement industries,” Benaim says. “It's an exciting endeavor and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.”

At E.F. Hutton & Co. in New York, Benaim helped design and implement hedge funds at the inception of that industry. At Prudential-Bache, she co-managed a large institutional energy trading group on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange at the World Trade Center and had an upstairs trading office at corporate headquarters.

In 1990, she joined a healthcare service company, and helped expand it to be the seventh-largest healthcare service/assisted living provider in the country. Benaim took the company public in March of 1998. She has served on the executive board of the American Senior Housing Association, and has been involved in debt/equity transactions for the past several years. Her main expertise lies in business development and strategic alliances.

About Imperial

Imperial Finance & Trading, LLC is a specialty finance company focused on the premium finance and life settlement industries. Premium financing is a service which enables individuals to secure a life insurance policy without liquidating their current assets for establishing estate planning. A life settlement is the sale of an existing life insurance policy to an unrelated investor for an amount greater than the policy's cash surrender value but lower than the face amount of the policy. Imperial is located in Boca Raton, Florida. For more information visit www.imprl.com.

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