Techniques for assessing risk and building client relationships will be shared by commercial banking specialist Omega Performance during Understanding Corporate Finance -- coming to Chicago and Cleveland this November.

CHARLOTTE, NC (August 20, 2008) - The key to long-term success in today's sophisticated commercial banking environment is knowing how to effectively assess credit risk and build profitable client relationships, two skills that credit training specialist Omega Performance will teach during Understanding Corporate Finance—its first U.S. public seminar to be held on November 6, 2008 in Chicago, Ill., and on November 13, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Designed for commercial lending staff who need to understand clients' investment and financing decisions or who underwrite and approve credit risk, the one-day, highly interactive seminar will enable participants to:

• Build stronger relationships by identifying corporate finance opportunities and assisting clients to appropriately assess options
• Better understand clients' capital investment options by using the principles of time value of money
• Assist clients in evaluating appropriate financing options by quantifying and evaluating a company's cost of capital
• Effectively advise clients by assessing corporate finance strategies
• Determine appropriate strategies by applying business valuation techniques
• Determine the most appropriate capital structure using corporate finance instruments, including debt and equity issues

Understanding Corporate Finance will be facilitated by 32-year commercial banking veteran, Dr. Jerry Crigger, Omega Performance's vice president and senior consultant: credit and risk management and Dr. Gary Powell DBA, CFA, a professor of finance who has taught at the university level for over 20 years.

"For over three decades, Omega Performance's world-renowned self-study, workshop, and online credit training solutions have helped clients improve credit quality and increase profitability," said Mario Berard, Omega Performance's president and CEO. "With our first public seminar, Understanding Corporate Finance, we're expanding our portfolio of credit training solutions and giving financial services companies another way to build commercial lending skills."

For more information about Understanding Corporate Finance, visit www.omega-performance.com.

About Omega Performance

Omega Performance has enabled more than 2,500 firms worldwide to drive and sustain improved business results. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Informa plc (INF on the London Stock Exchange), the leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities. Informa has over 150 offices in more than 40 countries and employs over 7,000 staff around the world. Omega Performance is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., USA, with major offices in Australia, Canada, China, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

Credit training specialist Omega Performance will deliver U.S. Personal Tax Return Analysis online training on August 12, 14, and 19, 2008.

CHARLOTTE, NC (July 29, 2008) - Skyrocketing gas prices and shrinking training budgets won't keep bankers from attending vital credit training this summer with Omega Performance's online training series, U.S. Personal Tax Return Analysis. The online learning sessions provide convenient, cost-effective, and timely training to help bankers reduce problem assets and minimize losses by more effectively analyzing personal tax returns, cash flow, and debt service capacity—without the hassle and cost of traveling to a live workshop.

Highlights of U.S. Personal Tax Return Analysis include:

• Exploring the anatomy of a personal tax return, including the flow of information among the various forms and schedules, and the linkages between them
  
• Using Schedule E and K-1s to identify pass-through items from various business ventures that can affect the accuracy of cash flow calculations
  
• Identifying actual cash inflows and outflows from sole proprietorships, rental and royalties, partnerships, S corporations, and estates and trusts
  
• Isolating and calculating total cash flow to or from the taxpayer from each entity
  
• Calculating total cash flow and debt service capacity

Jan Abrams, Omega Performance's vice president and product manager for consumer credit and sales solutions will facilitate the online training series, U.S. Personal Tax Return Analysis. Abrams says, "Many bankers using personal tax returns to evaluate credit requests are unaware of the nature and location of non-cash information that is included in many of the tax return lines that are commonly used for cash flow analysis. This credit training will help bankers locate and evaluate these items, enabling them to more accurately calculate debt service capacity and make better credit decisions."

Register for this online training at www.omega-performance.com.

About Omega Performance

Online learning and credit training specialist, Omega Performance, has enabled more than 2,500 firms worldwide to drive and sustain improved business results. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Informa plc (INF on the London Stock Exchange), the leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities. Informa has over 150 offices in more than 40 countries and employs over 7,000 staff around the world. Omega Performance is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., USA, with major offices in Australia, Canada, China, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

Consulting, training, and coaching specialist to the financial services industry, Omega Performance, launches Ideas You Can Bank On -- a new business blog aimed at financial services executives and managers seeking advice on how to improve credit quality, sales and profitability, and the customer experience.

CHARLOTTE, NC (July 22, 2008) - Finding trusted, timely advice on topics like surviving and thriving in today's uncertain credit environment and delivering an outstanding customer experience has just gotten easier for financial services professionals. With the launch of its new business blog, Ideas You Can Bank On, Omega Performance has brought together the unique voices of banking experts to share advice, information, and the latest trends in the financial services industry--all aimed at helping readers improve business performance.

With posts written by financial services experts Dr. Jerry Crigger and Mark Faircloth, Ideas You Can Bank On is a lively and informative forum that will appeal to executives and managers in both commercial and consumer lines of business. Their posts will cover a wide range of topics focusing on credit and risk management issues as well as sales and customer service issues specific to the financial services industry. Comments from blog readers are welcome and will be reviewed and responded to by Crigger and Faircloth.

"Omega Performance's business blog exists not only to share the thoughts of two of the banking industry's most well-known and respected experts, but also to encourage readers to share their own thoughts and experiences through comments," said Mario Berard, Omega Performance's chief executive officer. "This is a great forum for financial services executives and managers who want to get trusted opinions on current trends in the industry and speak out about their own ideas and opinions at the same time."

Visit Ideas You Can Bank On at http://blog.omega-performance.com/.

About Omega Performance

Omega Performance has enabled more than 2,500 firms worldwide to drive and sustain improved business results. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Informa plc (INF on the London Stock Exchange), the leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities. Informa has over 150 offices in more than 40 countries and employs over 7,000 staff around the world. Omega Performance is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., USA, with major offices in Australia, Canada, China, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.