American Bankers Association. Dr. Turner will present evidence on the use of alternative data in commercial credit reports as a means to promote entrepreneurialism and to capitalize small businesses in urban and other underserved markets.

Credit Scoring and Risk Strategy Association (CSRSA). Dr. Turner will topline key results from PERC’s work exploring how traditional and alternative data can improve credit scoring and risk mitigation leading to increased and more equitable access to credit and financial services.

National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB). At NAREB’s 60th Spring Conference, which will address issues of sub-prime lending and predatory lending, Patrick Walker will overview findings by PERC on effective ways to increase access to affordable mainstream lending (particularly by those currently underserved) by utilizing non-traditional consumer payment information.

Fair Isaac’s InterACT conference. At the conference where thought leaders gather to discuss new solutions for enterprise decision management, Dr. Turner will disscuss some of PERC’s on-going and completed research.

Coalition for Healthcare Communication. Dr. Turner will discuss findings from PERC’s recent publication The Impact of Provider-Identifiable Data on Healthcare Quality and Cost.

International Financial Corporation (World Bank). Michael Turner and Patrick Walker will participate in a brown bag lunch, the topic of which will be centered on PERC’s report “Give Credit Where Credit is Due”.

Symposium on Automating Alternative Credit. At this Brookings event Dr. Turner will discuss the use and potential of alternative data for underwriting home mortgage loans. See the event agenda here

Center for Financial Services Innovation. Dr. Turner will present key findings from recent joint-study from PERC/Brookings UMI on alternative data and consumer credit reporting.

TransUnion Management Meeting. Dr. Turner will topline findings from recent PERC studies at the premier TransUnion management event.

PERC president, Dr. Michael Turner, presents findings and highlights ways underserved groups can have improved access to the financial mainstream at the National Black Caucus of States Institute’s National Symposium on Financial Literacy. See the event agenda here and Dr. Turner’s presentation here . For more information about NBCSI visit the NBCSI website.

PERC and the Brookings Institution release a study that examines the impact on access to credit among different groups from adding alternaive payment data to credit reports. The event will be held at the Brookings Institution. See the transcript of the event here, the full report here, and the executive summary here. For more information about the Urban Markets Initiative visit the UMI website here.Washington, DC

Dr. Turner addresses regional and national credit reporting issues at the American Chamber of Commerce Singapore.

PERC president Michael Turner presents key findings from PERC’s new study on Japanese credit reporting at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. The event agenda can be found here.

At an Experian event, Vision 2006 Conference, Dr. Edward Roche will discuss recent trends in data collection, with an emphasis on how the widespread reporting of nonfinancial data to consumer reporting agencies can lead to a win-win-win scenario for data furnishers, creditors, and borrowers—particularly thin-file and unscoreable borrowers.

At the World Consumer Credit Reporting Conference PERC President Dr. Michael Turner will topline key findings from recent studies on credit reporting in Latin America, Japan and the use of non-financial data in the U.S. and elsewhere.