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Table of Contents
Index to Financial Statements
I, Leonard C. Purkis, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of E*TRADE Group, Inc;
2. Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the
period covered by this annual report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material
respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual
report;
4. The registrant’ s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have:
a
)
designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being
prepared;
b
)
evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’ s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this
annual report (the “Evaluation Date”); and
c
)
presented in this annual report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on our evaluation
as of the Evaluation Date;
5. The registrant’ s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the registrant’ s auditors and the audit
committee of registrant’ s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):
a
)
all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the registrant’ s ability to record,
process, summarize and report financial data and have identified for the registrant’ s auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls;
and
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