16 December 1999. Find select BIS publications and a frequently updated list of Central Banks on the Web. 9 May 2002. Read this federal law as codified. For more information, see FDIC Bank Holding Company Act at the Web site of the FDIC. 30 June 2004. The Bank of England publishes information about financial sanctions against groups and individuals suspected of financing terrorist activities. The lists make available information about new sanctions, and do not incorporate existing sanctions. Therefore, researchers should check all of the lists provided on the Web site. 16 December 1999. Intelligent Life Corp. offers this site, formerly known as Bank Rate Monitor. It provides financial data, industry news and commentary. Find today's averages for mortgage rates, auto loans, savings deposits and personal loans. High Five reveals the "best" deals on interest rates around the country. 6 December 2001. Published 8 times per year, the Federal Reserve Bank offers "anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector." 5 December 2003. The Bloomberg news service reports on markets, economies, companies and other topics daily. Its news stories appear in newspapers around the world. The Web site provides a mix of free and fee-based information. Using it requires free registration. A special feature lets you find current stock information by entering a ticker symbol. Another search feature helps you find the ticker symbol by company or mutual fund name. 9 May 2002. Read this federal law as codified. For more information, see the Community Reinvestment Act Web site of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). 11 December 2001. Revised 8 August 2003. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) offers information about Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) lending activity. The CRA "is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate." Obtain statistics about small business or small farm loans or community development lending by county, metropolitan statistical area (MSA) or financial institution. Also find CRA ratings and reports. The site provides a search engine. 30 July 2001. Revised 24 January 2003. Bankers Systems, Inc., a Wolters Kluwer company, offers information about compliance issues in lending (consumer and commercial), residential real estate, deposit, IRA accounts, and privacy. In addition to commentary and quick answers, visitors will find a free federal and state legislative watch service, an email alert service, compliance news, and research links. Those wanting to stay current with compliance issues should check out Compliance Points, which appears under the topical tabs (Lending, Residential Real Estate, Deposits/Ops, IRA, Privacy). Moreover, the legislative watch service also covers relevant federal regulations and city ordinances. The Bureau of Labor Statistics offers Consumer Price Indexes, news releases, reports and fact sheets. 16 December 1999. Find various tools for converting currency including one that converts current exchange rates and one that provides historical data. 2 August 2005. A German company is building a portal to information about finance and economics. Its mission is to provide access to free professional resources. Currently, it links to resources providing market overviews, historical trade data and forecasts, working papers and glossaries, global and regional news, institutions, jobs, university rankings and information, and more. 14 March 2006. This section of the FDIC's Web site is devoted to information about failed banks. Find a list of failed banks, which starts with bank failures as of 1 October 2000, the latest dividends from failed banks, statistical information on bank and thrift failures since the FDIC was established in 1934, summaries of bank failures from 1991 to the present, information on obtaining a lien release from a failed bank and information on unclaimed funds. 10 August 2005. The Financial Crimes Section of the FBI reports on crimes against the national and international financial communities. After a brief introduction, sections of the report cover corporate fraud, health care fraud, mortgage fraud, identity theft, insurance fraud, telemarketing fraud and money laundering. The report provides statistics and summaries of key cases. 16 December 1999. Revised 8 August 2003. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) offers databases containing information about individual banks and the banking industry. Find the status of insured depository institutions, their financial condition and their condition relative to other institutions. Specific databases include the Institution Directory, Call and Thrift Financial Reports, FDIC/OTS Summary of Deposits, Deposit Market Share Report, Trust Institutions Information, Bank and Thrift Rating Services for Consumers, Uniform Bank Performance Reports (UBPR), FDIC Enforcement Decisions and Orders, Final Orders from the Board of Directors, Merger Decisions, FDIC Failed Financial Institution Information and Reports of Changes to Financial Institutions and Offices. Also find applications for profiling the banking industry and analyzing national and regional trends, summaries of financial data and historical studies. 4 January 2006. The FDIC Institution Directory provides the latest comprehensive financial and demographic data for every FDIC-insured institution, including the most recent quarterly financial statements, with performance and condition ratios. You will find the date the institution was established, the date it was insured, its headquarters location, number of branches and Web site. There are separate search interfaces for easy bank look-up (Bank Find), finding holding companies, finding FDIC insured banks and thrifts and finding branch offices. 14 November 2000. This new database by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation provides statistics "helpful in the analysis of risks facing financial institutions." Select a state, and then a county or MSA (metropolitan statistical area). Then scroll down the page to find the kinds of statistical charts, tables, or maps you can retrieve. Do NOT confuse the shopping cart icons with fee-based information.
Load items of interest into the shopping cart by checking them, and then clicking the appropriate button (add all data/add selected data). Click the "view" button to display the data.
Some of the data available includes personal bankruptcy filings, unemployment rates, home sales, per capita personal income, and mortgage delinquencies. 7 September 1999. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco offers this database of annotated citations to Federal Reserve publications in print. Many entries include hyperlinks to the publication on the Web. Publications include the Federal Reserve Bulletin, FRB Finance and Economic Discussion Series, FRB of Chicago Emerging Issues, FRB of Dallas Southwest Economy, and more. 9 May 2002. Read this federal law as codified. For more information, see FDIC Law, Regulations, Related Acts at the Web site of the FDIC. 16 December 1999. The Federal Reserve Board offers Release H.15 on selected interest rates. It provides daily interest rates for U.S. Treasury and private money market and capital market instruments. 16 December 1999. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis offers historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rates, balance of payments and select regional economic data. 9 May 2005. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City hosts this educational Web site on economics and personal finance. Teachers and students will find instructional materials and tools that educate about the Federal Reserve, economics and finance. Topics include consumer banking, consumer protection, economics, home ownership and mortgages, interest rates and loans and credit. There is also a history of the Federal Reserve, as well as information about its structure, monetary policy, banking supervision and financial services. 27 March 2002. Revised 28 February 2005. The Federal Reserve makes available this utility for obtaining information about Fedwire participants. Fedwire is the Federal Reserve Banks' electronic funds transfer network. It "is usually used to transfer large amounts of funds and U.S. government securities from one institution's account at the Federal Reserve to another institution's account." (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
You may search for Fedwire participants by name, location or routing number. Results provide the name of the authorized institution, its location, routing number, telegraphic name and eligibility for specific types of transfers. 4 January 2006. The Federal Reserve enables searching for information about financial institutions. Search by name or location to find basic information, such as the institution's legal name, address and type as well as the regulating agency and parent company. A pull-down menu beneath the institution's basic information lets you display public filings, such as balance sheets, assets and liabilities, income statements and more. 6 August 2007. The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCLS) compiles legislative developments in the 50 states concerning financial privacy generally. It also compiles legislative activity on credit card numbers, social security numbers and consumer security breach notification.
General coverage goes back to the year 2000, while coverage of legislation related to SSN privacy goes back to 2004. Legislative activity on credit card numbers covers this information on receipts (1999-2005) and skimming devices (2001-2006). Legislation on disclosing breaches goes back to 2002. 1 September 2000. Economy.com, "provider of economic, financial, and industry research" for investors, offers this database of economic and financial statistics. Users must register to retrieve data, but more than 1 million data series are available for downloading, or display, free of charge.
Some of data includes the House Price Index, new non-residential construction, bankruptcies, imports, exports, consumer loans, bank balance sheets, interest rates, unemployment, and more.
13 September 2000. This Xenon Labs utility converts 180 different currencies from over 250 geographic locations. According to Tourbus, September 12, 2000, Xenon's sources are "live, real-time rate feeds containing data from foreign exchange markets around the world." 10 October 2000. Find English translations of the banking laws of several countries including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, European Union, Germany, Indonesia, Latvia, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, and Tunisia. 14 February 2002. Revised 18 April 2008. Find current, proposed, and Federal Reserve Board (FRB) holding companies. Search by holding company name, location, or other criteria to find holding company name, parent company, address, supervisory region, holding company type, public trade type, and other information. The database is updated daily. 11 December 2001. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council offers several reports on home mortgage lending and insurance (PMI) activities. Obtain statistics about conventional loans, refinancings, home improvement loans, and more by metropolitan statistical area (MSA) or financial institution. Also find a copy of Regulation C, which requires certain mortgage lenders to disclose data regarding HMDA reportable loans, as well as staff commentary. 9 May 2002. Read this federal law as codified. This is also the law on savings associations. For more information, see 1994 Home Owners' Loan Act/Savings Association Powers by the Office of Thrift Supervision. 12 May 2005. Revised 6 August 2007. The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) maintains this Web site devoted to state and federal legal information about policies and strategies for combating identity theft. Find a chart of abstracted state laws that deal with identity theft as well as separate charts of abstracted pending and enacted state legislation from 2002 to 2005. In addition, there are charts of state legislation on issues such as the use of credit card numbers on receipts and consumer report security freezes. Researchers will also find related off-site resources as well as related NCSL publications. 14 February 2002. Find institutions regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision. These include state and federal stock and mutual associations. Search by name, location, assets, or other criteria to find name, address, docket number, officer name, title, and address, charter type, assets, fax number, and other data. The database is updated daily. 2 August 2005. The Federal Reserve Board's new journal, which is hosted by the Bank for International Settlements, will be published quarterly. It will feature "articles on central bank theory and practice, with a special emphasis on research relating to monetary and financial stability." Articles provide an abstract as well as the full-text (in PDF). Access is free. 16 June 2003. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited offers this searchable financial dictionary. Use English spellings (e.g., securitisation, not securitization) to search for terms or browse the publication alphabetically. Definitions include hyperlinked terms and cross-references and are easy to understand. 21 May 2002. Cornell's Legal Information Institute offers a brief summary of U.S. banking law with links to federal banking statutes and regulations, state materials, relevant federal agencies, and other sources. 16 December 1999. Find several databases offering data from Call Reports. Locate individual banks, foreign branches of U.S. banks or U.S. branches of foreign banks, merger and acquisition data, information about bank holding companies, and performance reports. 30 June 2004. The Canadian Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) publishes information about companies and individuals suspected of terrorist activities. A current list of names is available as an Excel or ascii text download. Memorandums to all banks regarding new information are also available in PDF format. 29 October 2007. The law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, maintains this blog on privacy and security law. Lawyers comment on events in the news and legal developments, such as court decisions and state or federal legislation. The blog has an RSS feed and e-mail alert service for keeping up with new postings. The topics links on the home page take you directly to related commentary. You will also find this subject index in the site map. 29 March 2001. Based on a Harvard Business School research project, this site serves as a portal to project finance print and Web-based resources. Each resources has a bibliographic citation or brief description. 2 June 2000. Currently in beta, Washburn University School of Law offers a database of articles and other commentary appearing in journals, newsletters, and other serial publications on government Web sites. Search by subject, title, or SuDoc number (classification). Clicking through on query matches retrieves the entire article. 21 September 1999. Northern Light offers this research guide and current awareness service on the topic of bank mergers. Find recent and pending mergers, relevant government Web sites, commentary, laws and regulations, news from the banking industry, and more. 6 August 2007. The legislative research librarians at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) track legislative activity in the 50 states on disclosure requirements related to security breaches involving consumer personal or financial information. The tracking begins in 2002. 26 February 2001. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) offers a database containing deposit data for FDIC-insured institutions. Researchers may retrieve data by institution or geographic area. The site also offers pre-defined summaries of certain data; e.g., a statewide summary of all FDIC-insured deposits by county, as well as graphs and charts (e.g., Assets of FDIC-Insured Institutions, 1986-2000). 14 March 2006. The Federal Reserve Board provides a map of the 12 Federal Reserve districts. Find links to the Web sites of the individual districts as well as their addresses and phone numbers. 21 May 2002. Maintained by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), this portion of the larger FFIEC Web site offers Uniform Bank Performance Reports. These reports reveal "the impact of management decisions and economic conditions on a bank's performance and balance-sheet composition." They shed light on a bank's financial condition. Search by FDIC certificate number, institution name, or other criteria. 15 March 2006. Revised 30 June 2004. The World Bank makes available information about companies and individuals ineligible for World Bank-financed contracts for the specified periods. Those on the list were found to have violated the fraud and corruption provisions of certain World Bank guidelines. The list appears in reverse chronological order by the effective date of the ineligibility period, and not alphabetically by the name of the sanctioned individual or company. At the end of the list appears the names of those who have received letters of reprimand, but who remain eligible for financing. |
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