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This release contains forward-looking statements which include, but are not limited to, statements about the benefits of the Company’s acquisition of LH-Finance, including the Company’s plans, expectations, goals and outlook for the future. Statements in this press release that are not historical facts should be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements of this type speak only as of the date of this news release. By nature, forward-looking statements involve inherent risk and uncertainties. Various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, (i) the possibility that the acquisition does not close when expected or at all because required conditions to closing are not received or satisfied on a timely basis or at all; (ii) the risk that the benefits from the transaction may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected, including as a result of any delay in or failure to receive regulatory approval of the proposed loan production office through which LH-Finance will be operated, changes in general economic and market conditions, interest and exchange rates, monetary policy, laws and regulations and their enforcement, and the degree of competition in the geographic and business areas in which the Company and LH-Finance operate; (iii) the ability to promptly and effectively integrate the business of LH-Finance into the Company; (iv) the reaction to the transaction of the Company’s and LH-Finance’s customers, employees and counterparties; and (v) diversion of management time on acquisition-related issues. Additional factors that might affect the Company’s financial results are described in reports the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including those factors set forth in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 filed with the SEC on February 26, 2019.