Omega Performance launches the Race to Accelerate Lending Performance at www.Omega-Accelerate.com where financial services lending professionals can access tools to help produce results in today's credit crunch.

CHARLOTTE, NC (September 8, 2008) - Helping financial services lending professionals accelerate performance through today's credit crunch is the focus of a new resource launched by Omega Performance. The company is hosting the Race to Accelerate Lending Performance at www.Omega-Accelerate.com where lenders can access tools to improve credit quality and prepare for a profitable future.

"The credit crisis is in year two and financial services companies continue to have loan volumes and credit quality impacted," said Mario Berard, Omega Performance president and CEO. "The tools in the Race to Accelerate Performance will help lenders to address today's lending and risk management challenges and take advantage of tomorrow's opportunities."

The four-lap Race to Accelerate Lending Performance includes:

1. Credit Skills Assessment (demo) - a diagnostic tool that helps to bring lenders to the same level of consistent performance for long-term credit quality.
   
2. Omega+ Commercial Lending (demo) - eLearning that ensures financial services lending professionals develop skills in a consistent manner for making sound lending decisions that maximize revenue at acceptable risk levels.
   
3. Coaching and Mentoring: Enhancing Education (article) - offers tips and strategies for implementing a successful coaching program to optimize lender performance in today's credit crunch and beyond.
   
4. Diagnosis: Cash-Ache—Analyzing Business Borrowing Causes (eBook) - provides insight into reducing analysis time, improving underwriting quality, and building more rewarding customer relationships.

The Race to Accelerate Lending Performance will run September 8-19, 2008. Racers who complete all four laps will be entered into a drawing to win a laptop; the winner will be drawn on September 26, 2008.

About Omega Performance

Omega Performance has enabled more than 2,500 financial services 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 is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., USA, with major offices in Australia, Canada, China, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and the U.K.