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.

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.

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

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.

At the 3rd National Credit and Collection Congress, Dr. Turner presented on the benefits of comprehensive credit assessment and new approaches to lending.

PERC and the Center for Financial Services Innovation will co-host two free symposia on the policy aspects of full-file customer payment reporting by energy utility and telecommunications firms to national credit bureaus.

Patrick Walker and Marcia Sergent patricipated in the Louisiana Recovery Authority’s Housing Information Summit at the University of New Orleans

PERC, along with the Peking University-ACOM Financial Information Research Center (PAFIRC) in Beijing, China, is hosting a two-day conference of presentations by internationally-renowned scholars and industry experts in the field of personal credit reporting. A call for papers has been issued for publication in Financial Times.

The Center for Financial Services Innovation hosted the South Africa Innovation Exchange. Dr. Varghese participated in the 5 day event that examined new strategies for providing financial services to the underserved in South Africa to see what lessons these experiments and new approaches offer the United States.

PERC Fellow Patrick Walker presented and moderated a panel on alternative data at the Consumer Data Industry Association’s annual conference.