Jerry Oldham, CEO of 1stWEST Financial Corporation, will be participating as an instructor at the Fraud Awareness Workshop sponsored by the Commercial Finance Association in Chicago, Illinois from Tuesday, March 31 through April 2, 2009.

The Fraud Awareness Workshop is a three day program presenting best practices in the prevention and detection of borrower fraud while also recommending fraud prevention procedures for a variety of Asset Base Lending disciplines.  Reinforcing each learning point through numerous case studies, the goal of the program is for participants to understand their roles in mitigating the risk of fraud with the organization.

1stWEST is a worldwide leader in providing financial background investigations, asset searches and fraud investigations for the corporate finance industry and other professionals in need of satisfying background due-diligence requirements on prospect companies, management teams and principals.  1stWEST's premier product is a financial background investigation report, the Risk Profile Report.  This Report is critical to the due-diligence process by assisting in assessing the possible contingent liability risk that might otherwise reside in an investment decision because of undisclosed financial or character issues of the prospect company, its managers or owners.

For more information and registration instructions, visit the Commercial Finance Association website for this event at www.CFA.com.  In addition, 1stWEST customers may take advantage of a CFA sponsored 5% discount on airfares for this event offered by American Airlines and Frontier Airlines.  Details on airfare discounts can be found under Travel Information via the event registration link above.

For more information about 1stWEST can be obtained at www.1stWEST.com.