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.