Dr. Robin Varghese presented at the Federal Reserve Board’s Credit Scoring Forum in Washington, DC.

Dr. Michael Turner will be moderating a panel on the use of non-traditional data in credit files at the National Training and Information Center’s Housing and Banking Summit.

Dr. Turner will be at the Brookings Institution UMI to give a presentation on the use of alternative data in credit files.

Patrick Walker will moderate a panel on alternative credit data at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s conference, “Innovative Financial Tools for Serving the Underserved.”

At InfoCentricity’s third annual Xeno Users’ Exchange, Dr. Turner will give a presentation on alternative data.

At a risk management meeting of the American Gas Association, PERC Fellow Patrick Walker will discuss how reporting customer data to consumer reporting agencies can help utility companies reduce arrearages while assisting lower income customers build a positive credit history.

he UNC’s Center for Community Capitalism statewide conference on Asset Building and Financial Literacy. Patrick Walker will discuss the potential be

Dr. Turner and Dr. Robin Varghese will present PERC’s new study on Brazilian credit reporting to regulators, government officials, academics, and the media in Brasilia and São Paulo.

As the keynote speaker at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s quarterly luncheon, Dr. Michael Turner will discuss specific demographic findings in the PERC report Recovery, Renewal, and Resiliency: Gulf Coast Small Businesses Two Years Later.

At the World Bank offices, a two day conference-“Gaining scale in microfinance”-held by WB/ IFC/ CGAP and VISA, will will focus on microfinance, credit reporting and the use of new technologies to improve the microfinance industry. PERC president, Dr. Michael Turner, will overview PERC’s research into the areas of credit reporting and the use of technologies, such as credit scoring, for the purposes of increasing access to credit.

At the Pan American Life Insurance Building in New Orleans, Dr. Michael Turner will release the preliminary findings of a PERC phone survey of small business owners in the Katrina recovery areas as part of an ongoing, two-year long project designed to quantify the economic well-being of Gulf Coast residents, communities, and small businesses.

At the Fair Isaac Small Business and Consumer Lending Conference, Dr. Turner will discuss issues relating to small business credit access.

Risk Management Association. At the Retail Risk Conference Dr. Turner will topline key findings from PERC’s alternative data work and broadly discuss ways financial companies can expand into untapped markets.

Risk Management Association. At the Retail Risk Conference Dr. Turner will topline key findings from PERC’s alternative data work and broadly discuss ways financial companies can expand into untapped markets.

Center for Financial Services Innovation. At the 2nd Annual Underbanked Financial Services Forum Dr. Turner will present results from the landmark PERC/Brookings UMI study “Give Credit Where Credit is Due” and preview findings from their ongoing work on the topic of alternative data and alternative scoring.