Encore Capital Group, Inc. to Present at the Brean Murray, Carret & Co. Small Cap Institutional Investor Conference ’06

Encore Capital Group, Inc., today announced that J. Brandon Black, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Paul Grinberg, Chief Financial Officer, will be presenting at the Brean Murray, Carret & Co. Small Cap Institutional Investor Conference ’06 on January 31, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. EST. The conference will be held at The Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York, NY.

For more details visit:

http://www.breanmurraycarret.com/winter2006conference.html

A link to the live webcast of Encore Capital’s presentation will be available through the following website:

http://www.wsw.com/webcast/bmry2/ecpg/

A replay of the webcast will be archived at that link for 90 days after the presentation.