As part of PERC's mission to expand financial opportunity to individuals and small businesses worldwide, PERC will support financial service providers from all over Africa in their discussions of the value of comprehensive credit reporting at Compuscan Conference 2010 in Mombasa, Kenya. For more information, visit Compuscan's website at www.compuscan.co.za.

PERC is proud to sponsor the 2010 World Consumer Credit Reporting Conference (WCCRC). This is a two-day event where representatives from Credit Bureaus around the globe as well as industry related companies from various credit cultures will attend to discuss contemporary issues. Approximately 150 delegates and a total of 250 participants are expected.

The meeting's agenda can be found at http://wccrc2010.com/?PageId=2a30ea2b-9efe-46c6-bf0a-62e4ef1c9aa9

For more information, please visit http://www.wccrc2010.com/.

Michael Nathans will present PERC research on credit information sharing, including credit file data quality and the social and economic impacts of including non-financial payment data in FCRA-regulated consumer and commercial credit files. Other panelists include Vikki Frank of Credit Builders Alliance and Mark Rukavina of The Access Project.

PERC's Dr. Robin Varghese will serve as a presenter of credit information and a moderator of group discussion at APEC's "Getting Credit for Small and Medium Enterprises" seminar this September in Japan. The seminar, part of the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) program (http://www.doingbusiness.org/ExploreTopics/GettingCredit/), will aim to deepen knowledge with regard to utilizing credit information to establish better environment for access to credit.

PERC President Dr. Michael Turner will be attending the third meeting on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) held in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Turner will be participating in discussions about financial identity and credit reporting systems as part of a larger, APEC-wide financial inclusion agenda. For more information, please visit the ABAC website at www.abaconline.org.

Dr. Michael Turner will present at the National Association of Credit Management's Credit Congress 2010. Dr. Turner's presentation will take place on Monday, May 17 as a part of the International Utility Group Conference . For more information, or to register please see NACM's conference website at http://creditcongress.nacm.org/.

Patrick Walker will present on "“Non-Financial Payment Information: Why
and How to Include in the Credit Reporting System," on May 5, the final day of the "Role of the Credit Bureau in Access to Finance and Credit Risk Management" conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Dr. Michael Turner will serve on the keynote panel on April 16, 2010 at FICO World 2010 (formerly called InterACT). The panel, on Regulatory Revolution, will discuss the relationship between governments and financial services, caused (or exacerbated) by the economic crisis.

This panel is part of FICO's annual conference on decision management. For more information, visit their website at http://www.fico.com/en/Company/Events/FICO-World/Pages/default.aspx.

PERC President Dr. Michael Turner and Dr. Robin Varghese, PERC's Director of International Operations, will travel to Nairobi in late February to present an update on the consumer credit information-sharing implementation process in East Africa to leaders of Kenya's financial services sector at the AITEC Banking & Mobile Money COMESA 2010 conference. For more information, visit http://www.aitecafrica.com.

PERC President Dr. Michael Turner will address the Telecommunications Risk Management Association (TRMA) at its 2010 winter conference. His presentation will focus on the costs, benefits, and social and economic impacts of full-file credit reporting. For more information or to register for the event, go to the TRMA website at www.trmanet.org.

The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Advisory Group on Financial System Capacity-Building will hold its first meeting on February 12, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia. PERC and APCC friends and supporters will be represented in Melbourne by Dun and Bradstreet Australasia.

Patrick Walker joins a panel of other experts to discuss how credit scores affect people's lives at the Annie E. Casey Foundation Documentary Debut and Public Discussion, Pursuit of the Dream: Your Credit - Your Score: Building Credit for Life. Walker will focus on how full-file credit reporting by non-financial service providers such as telecommunications companies and utilities can help people build or repair their credit reports and attain financial stability.