Portfolio Recovery Associates to Announce Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Results on February 15

NORFOLK, VA — Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRAA), a company that purchases and manages portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables and provides a broad range of receivables management and payments processing services, will announce its fourth quarter and full year 2010 results on Feb. 15, 2011.

The earnings announcement, which will be released after the market closes, will be followed at 5:30 p.m. EST by a conference call with investors to discuss the results.

Investors can access the call by dialing 888-679-8037 for domestic callers or 617-213-4849 for international callers using the pass code 72893346. In addition, investors may listen to the call via a taped replay by dialing 888-286-8010 for domestic callers and 617-801-6888 for international callers using the pass code 28959430. The replay will be available approximately one hour after the call ends and will remain available for seven days.

Investors also may listen to the conference call via web cast, both live and archived, at the company’s website, www.portfoliorecovery.com at the Investor Relations main page.

About Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc.
Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. (PRA) is the parent of companies whose business revolves around the detection, collection, and processing of both unpaid and normal-course receivables originally owed to credit grantors, governments, retailers and others. PRA’s primary business is the purchase, collection and management of portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables. These are the unpaid obligations of individuals to credit originators, which include banks, credit unions, consumer and auto finance companies, and retail merchants. PRA also provides fee-based services, including collateral-location services for credit originators via its IGS subsidiary; revenue administration, audit and debt discovery/recovery services for government entities through its consolidated Government Services subsidiaries, and class action claims recovery services and related payment processing through its CCB subsidiary.