PERC President Michael Turner will speak on the benefits of including alternative data in consumer and commerical credit reports at the annual conference for the Center for Financial Services Innovation.

PERC and the Brookings Institution outline a project to study and monitor the credit and insurance consequences of catastrophes for individuals, businesses, and communities. For additional information see the event announcement here or the media alert here.

PERC President Michael Turner addresses senior Chinese government officials, academics and leaders of the business community at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. A copy of his presentation is available here.

PERC President Michael Turner and Senior Fellow Robin Varghese present findings from a new study on consumer credit reporting in Latin America. In addition to briefing senior banking executives, central bank staff, and other creditors, Turner briefed television, radio, and print media reporters.

Edward M. Roche, PERC’s Director of Scientific Intelligence, presented a paper to the National Association of Attorney’s General meeting on April 5th, 2006. Entitled: “Economic and Other Harms to Organizational Entities”, the paper explored the cost of Internet and computer-related crimes. A copy of the paper is available here.

The Information Policy Institute and Brookings Urban Markets Initiative cosponsored a roundtable discussion titled “Improving access to capital for urban small businesses” in which a group of issue area experts were assembled to delve into a number of key issues related to urban small business access to capital. See the agenda for the roundtable here.

Dr. Michael Turner will be a panelist at the Urban Markets Initiative’s Inaugural Forum on a panel entitled “Urban Information Gap: Analytical Issues.” For more information on the Urban Markets Initiative see http://www.brookings.edu/metro/umi.htm.

Dr. Turner will speak on the “Predictive Attributes of Alternative Data” at the Annual Conference of the Consumer Data Industry Association.

Institute President Michael Turner was joined on a panel about alternative credit scoring by Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and Pari Sabety, Executive Director of the Urban Markets Initiative. The event was co-hosted by PAID and the Brookings Institution.

Dr. Edward Roche of the Information Policy Institute will be the keynote speaker on an event devoted to Computer-facilitated Identity Theft training. The event is sponsored by the National Association of Attorneys Geneneral and the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law. It will be held at the University of Mississippi Law School.

Dr. Turner will be a featured speaker on a panel to be held at the Marriot Marquis New York and sponsored by the SAS corporation. The topic is “Credit Scoring Vulnerability to Fair Lending Risk.” His fellow panelists will include Glenn Canner of the Federal Reserve, Don McCree of JP Morgan, Jim Howden of HSBC, David Munio of Wells Fargo, and David Gaines of Wachovia.

The Debt Debate - credit limits, default rates & government legislation
As credit levels continue to grow there is increasing concern about the sustainability of Australian household debt. Yet the ability of lenders to make informed credit decisions is hampered by a legislative regime that keeps them in the dark. Dr Michael Turner, an international expert on data and privacy from the Information Policy Institute in the United States, presents research showing the link between the quality of information available to lenders and default rates.

Dr. Turner will deliver the keynote address at Banking on the Future Summit to be held in Trinidad and Tobago.

Institute President, Dr. Michael Turner will participate in a panel discussion of issues related to Latino credit access hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Representative Loretta Sanchez will moderate. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and panelists: Leonardo Simpser, Monica Gonzales, Gary Acosta, and Dr. Michael Turner (from left to right)

The Institute hosts a panel discussion at the National Press Club to discuss the findings of a new Institute study, Giving Underserved Consumers Better Access to the Credit System: The Promise of Non-Traditional Data. Panelists: Michael A. Turner, President and Senior Scholar of the Information Policy Institute; Laura DeSoto, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Experian Credit Information Solutions; Sherrie L.W. Rhine, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Jennifer Tescher, Director at the Center for Financial Services Innovation, Pari Sabety, Director of the Urban Market Initiative at the Brookings Institution.