Drs. Michael Turner and Robin Varghese of PERC are sharing preliminary findings from their assessment of  the credit information sharing implementation process to members of the Kenyan Bankers Association at the Nairobi Hilton. Please see the attached file for a copy of the presentation.

(New Orleans, LA) - Alyssa Stewart Lee, Executive Director of the Markets and Information Nexus (MAIN) at PERC, will present at the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation's Annual Meeting and Commemorative Event: People, Policy and Progress: Investing in Sustainable Communities . This is a commemorative event to reflect on the third anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Patrick Walker from the Political and Economic Research Council and Uli Zeisluft from FairIsaac will represent the APCC at the Asian Bankers Association 25th General Meeting and Conference. For more information, please see the ABA's home page at www.aba.org.tw.

Alyssa Stewart Lee, Founding Executive Director of the  Markets and Information Nexus (MAIN) at PERC will present at the Credit and Collection Symposium of the America. Ms. Lee will share results from his research on the impacts of fully reporting non-financial payment data to consumer credit bureaus. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the impacts upon credit access for Hispanic borrowers broken out by age, gender, income, and credit risk tier. Lee will demonstrate the great potential for sustainable growth in this segment possible through underwriting using non-financial payment data alone or in combination with traditional credit file data.

Dr. Michael Turner will present PERC's findings on alternative data at the 2008 World Consumer Credit Reporting Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For more information about the conference, please visit the official website.

Dr. Michael Turner will speak at theAustralian Institute of Credit Management 2008 National Conference. Dr. Turner will provide conference delegates with insights on the next week's 2008 World Consumer Credit Conference in Rio, and will talk about implications for Australia.

Alyssa Stewart Lee, Executive Director of the Markets and Information Nexus at PERC will speak at the AGA Uncollectibles Workshop. She will present Doing Well by Doing Good: the Case for Fully Reporting Customer Payment Data to Consumer Reporting Agencies

(New Orleans, LA) - Dr. Michael Turner will participate in the Southeast Louisiana Alliance for Economic Inclusion Conference's general session: Small Business Recovery - Where Do We Go From Here?

(Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) - Dr. Michael Turner presented at the 4th SEACEN/ABAC/PECC Public-Private Dialogue for the Asia Pacific Region. The theme of the conference is Basel II Implementation and the Development of Asia's Financial Systems: Experience, Challenges and Regional Cooperation . Dr. Turner, representing the Asia-Pacific Credit Coalition, will present on promoting robust credit reporting standards.

(Washington, DC) - Alyssa Stewart Lee and Patrick Walker held a press conference in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club,to begin at 9:00am. PERC will introduce its new applied study center, The Markets and Information Nexus (MAIN) with the release of You Score You Win: the Consequences of Giving Credit Where Credit is Due . This study shows that fully reporting energy utility and telephone service customer payment data to consumer reporting agencies would help up to 70 million Americans gain access to affordable mainstream sources of credit.

(Yaounde, Cameroon) - Dr. Varghese presented on alternative data in the United States and lessons for microlending at a technology forum sponsored by CGAP and CAPAF in Yaounde, Cameroon. The symposium brings together financial service providers and microlending institution across Africa in a 2 day event that focuses on new approaches to expanding financial access on the continent.

Patrick Walker discusses the use and benefits to low-income consumers from the reporting of utility payment data to credit bureaus.

Dr. Michael Turner will attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and present on the topic “Giving Underserved Consumers Access to the Credit System: The Promise of Non-Traditional Data”. The AGM will be attended by CEOs and Compliance Officers of shareholder lending institutions and CEOs of potential member institutions such as utility companies, insurers and other credit granting institutions.

Dr. Turner will deliver the keynote presentation to senior executives from the financial services, telecommunications, energy utility, and insurance industries. The focus of his presentation will be upon how fully reporting non-financial payment data to CRIB can dramatically broaden and deepen credit access in Sri Lanka.

Patrick Walker presented on the value to adding more types of payment infomration to consumer credit files.