Azure Group Raising $5 Million in 13% Senior Debentures

Encino, CA, May 02, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Encino-based Boutique Investment Bank, Azure Group, Inc. (www.azuregroup.net), is raising $5 Million for its 100% daughter-company, Mortgage Capital Corporation of America "MCCA" (www.mccawholesale.com) to expand into several US States.

Azure Group, Inc. is issuing Senior Debentures with a 2-year maturity and a 13% coupon. Interest will be payable quarterly. The company is expected to raise the funds by May 26, 2006. If oversubscribed, the company will issue additionally up to $2 Million in Senior Debentures.

This High Yield Investment Instrument is intended for accredited investors as well for institutional market participants.

For more information, please contact them at:

Azure Group, Inc.
attention: Investor Relations
16501 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 504
Encino, California 91436
United States of America

Fax: 800-861-3178
E-mail: IR@azureholdings.net

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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" concerning Azure Group, Inc. and its subsidiary, Mortgage Capital Corporation of America "MCCA".

By their nature, forward-looking statements are predictive and involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future, many of which are beyond the control of the Azure Group. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following: adverse changes in economic conditions and other conditions affecting the level of demand; introduction by competitors of products of equal or better performance; greater than anticipated competitive activity, including from the emergence of new technology; greater than expected costs associated with the provision of advanced services, including as a result of unanticipated demand concentration, the possibility that technologies will not perform according to expectations or that vendors' performance will not meet requirements; changes in the projected growth and penetration rates of the mortgage industry and lower than expected average revenue margins; the Azure Group's ability to introduce and transition borrowers to new finance vehicles. All written or verbal forward-looking statements attributable to the Azure Group or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the factors referred to above. The Azure Group undertakes no duty to, and does not intend to, update these forward-looking statements or the description of some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ.

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