JUST as the scale of the subprime-mortgage crisis hit home in the summer of 2007, CIT sponsored a lavish ball on the Queen Mary 2, docked at the time in New York.

• 2007年夏天，次贷危机席卷全美，那时，美国CIT集团还赞助了在“玛丽女王二号”游轮上举办的一场奢华舞会，游轮当时就停泊在纽约。