Finance / Banking Industry Resources
Courses / Tutorials (12)
- Capital Budgeting Analysis

- Creating Value through Financial Management

- Evaluating Financial Performance

- Finance Essentials Tutorial

- Financial Planning & Forecasting

- Introduction to Options

- Managing Cash Flow

- Mergers and Acquisitions(1)

- Mergers and Acquisitions(2)

- Strategic Planning

- TeachMeFinance

- The Management of Capital

Links (22)
- ABCs of Figuring Interest

- Bondsonline

- Finance Courses on the Web

- Finance Site List

- Financial Data Finder

- Financial Management Training Center

- Financial Scandals

- Glossary of Terms Used in Payments and Settlements Systems

- Historical Statistics on Banking

- Hypertextual Finance Glossary

- Introduction to Options

- InvestorWords

- Money: What It Is and How It Works

- Multilingual Financial Terminology Database

- Northern Light Special Edition: Banking Industry

- Rice University Seminar Series in Finance

- RiskCenter

- Teachmefinance.com

- The Knowledge Guide to the Euro

- Trillion Dollar Bet (PBS Nova)

- Wachowicz's Web World: Web sites for discerning finance students

- William F. Sharpe's Website

Articles (61)
- A Guide to the ATM and Debit Card Industry

- A Non-Random Walk Through Financial Innovation: Four Titans Explain How It Occurs

- Adapting to the Winds of Change

- Asset-Based Financing Gains Ground

- Attention Shoppers: Try Valuing This

- Banking on International Financial Stability

- Banks Shift Gears in Drive for Top-Line Growth: Focus Turns to Customers in the Financial Services Industry

- Basel's New Balance

- Better Than the Alternatives

- Bubble Trouble - And What Policymakers Should Do About It

- Commercial Paper Chase

- Compromising Positions

- Crisis? What Crisis?

- Deflecting Check Fraud

- Development of an Internet Payment Processing System

- Does Decimalization Harm or Help Institutional Investors?

- Elastic Plastic: How Consumers Respond to Changes in Credit Card Limits and Rates

- Equity Loans: How to Sell What You Do Not Own

- European Banks on Shopping Spree in U.S.

- Financial Services Industry Sectors: Implications of the Split

- From Consolidation to Regulation FD: Financial Services Face a Major Upheaval

- Getting International Banking Rules Right

- Giving Europeans an On-Line Push

- Globalization of Financial Institutions: Evidence from Cross-Border Banking Performance

- Good to Rate

- Has Bank Consolidation Been Good for Customers, or Bad?

- Have Banks, After 25 Years, Made Peace with the Community Reinvestment Act?

- How Foreign Firms Can Attract U.S. Investors: Overcoming 'Home Bias'

- How Money Migrates

- How to Fix China's Banking System

- How Well Do 401(k) Plans Work, and Who Benefits Most From Them?

- Losing faith in PayPal

- Luxury Goods and the Equity Premium

- New Payment Methods Give Old-fashioned Checks and Credit Cards a Run for Their Money

- Now Anyone Can Be a Venture Capitalist

- Operational Risk Poses Challenges to Financial Institutions and Regulators

- Other People's Money

- Private Banks as Corporate Shareholders: Lessons from History

- Private Equity's New Challenge

- Raising Equity Online

- Regulatory Challenges Facing U.S. Equity Markets

- Remaking Market Making

- Rewriting the Letter of Credit

- SBA Loans: Myths and Realities

- Stock Option Repricing: Employees Benefit But What about Investors?

- Thailand Builds a Bond Market

- The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence

- The Dynamic Relationship Between the Federal Funds Rate and the Treasury Bill Rate

- The impact of corporate risk management on monetary policy transmission: some empirical evidence

- The Information Content of Share Repurchase Programs

- The Practice of Central Bank Intervention: Looking Under the Hood

- The Regulator Who Isn't There

- The Role of Central Banks in Fostering Efficiency and Stability in the Global Financial System

- The Triumph of 1914

- There's Still a Lot of Life Left in These Old Economy Companies

- To Guide or Not to Guide

- Unite And Conquer

- Wall Street's Toxic Tool

- What Drives Companies to Repurchase Their Stock?

- Why Harvard Is Bad for Wall Street

- Why Your Bank May Cut You Loose

Cases (9)
- BIS Banking Systems (A & B)

- Customer Relationship Management at Capital One (UK)

- First Direct: Branchless Banking

- First Tennesee National: Tapping the Hidden Value of People

- People Plus Technology Determines CRM Success

- Scrambled Egg: The Making and Breaking of an Online Bank

- Tying the Knot: IT Systems in a Merger

- UBS Private Banking

- Using Networking for Competitive Advantage: The Lippo Group of Indonesia and Hong Kong

Downloadable Files (4)
- FRM2+Errata+Sheet.doc
- Revised Tax Template
- Valuation & Return Dynamics of New Ventures
- Valuing an Expansion Option
Thought Leader Interviews (8)
- Arthur Levitt

- Charles Sanford

- David Komansky

- David Pottruck

- George Soros

- Michael Bloomberg

- Paul Volcker

- Sandy Weill

Market Research (84)
- 401(k) Report Card
- Advanced ATM
- Aggregation Finding Its Place in Online Banking
- Asset-Based Financing in the U.S.
- ATM Cards: American as Apple Pie
- ATM Statistics
- Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in the U.S.
- B2B Payment Activity Via the ACH Network
- Bank ATMs - Software and Revenues
- Banks Ramp Up Tech Spending
- Banks' Tech Spending Levels Rise in 2002
- Cards 'More Popular than Cash' in UK
- CFO Compensation, 2002 vs. 2001
- Charting the IPO Revival
- Checks
- Click-Banking Market Multiplies
- Convenience of Banking Online
- Credit Cards Come to China
- Debit Card Users Wary of Debt
- Defined-Benefit and Defined-Contribution Plans in the US
- Demand Increasing for Online, Electronic Payment Methods
- Derivatives Market
- Does Your Plan Measure Up?
- E-Bill Presentment: Turf War Time
- E-Checking Users
- E-Payments Balloon
- Eastern Europe Banking Market
- EBPP Promise and Reality
- Elastic Plastic: How Consumers Respond to Changes in Credit Card Limits and Rates
- Email and Credit Card Payments Market (U.S.)
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Future Scenarios for Financial Services
- Growing Cost of Identity Theft
- Hacker Economy / Black Market
- Identity Theft Costs
- Impact of ATMs on Bank Teller Employment
- Interest in Electronic Billing Up Slightly
- International Market Comparisons: Depth and Liquidity
- IPO Market 2005
- Is Online Banking at a Crossroads or Traffic Jam?
- Leveraged Buyout (LBO) Activity
- mBanking in Western Europe
- Micropayments Are Multiplying
- Mobile Payments to Grow
- Money Laundering in the U.S.
- More Community Banks Offering Online Services to Customers
- Much Ado About Dividends
- Number of Bills Viewed Online
- One-third of Americans to bank online by 2005
- Online Banking in Europe
- Online Banking in Latin America
- Online Banking in the U.S.
- Online Banking in Western Europe
- Online Banking Increased 47 Percent Since 2002
- Online Bill Payment: Where's the Profit?
- Online Billing in the US
- Online Lending: Crossing Channels Is Best
- Online Mortgage Market
- Online Mortgage Sales on the Rise
- Online P2P Payment / Funds Transfer / Credit Card Markets
- Online Payment Market Pushes On
- P2P Payments: Who Controls the Play?
- Paper Checks and Electronic Payments in the U.S.
- Paper Checks and Electronic Payments in the U.S.
- Paying with Plastic
- PIPE Activity 2000-2004
- Reaching Credit Card Applicants through Direct Mail
- Rising to the Growth Challenge: A.T. Kearney's Financial Institutions Organic Growth Index, 2005
- Small Biz Bank Online
- Sources of Funding for Small Businesses
- Survey: Finance Department Pay Up 8%
- The Check Is Still in the Mail
- The Fed and US Banking Transactions
- The Right to Bear Checks
- Total US Online Banking Households to Rise
- U.S. Banking Industry M&A Activity 1980-1998
- U.S. Check Fraud
- U.S. Households Receiving and/or Paying Bills Online
- U.S. Leasing Industry - IT Hardware
- Using Credit Cards in the US
- Value of Securitized Trade Receivables
- Watching out for Online Fraud
- Where Are All the Europeans?
- Wireless Financial Services (mBanking) Forecast
Associations / Organizations (18)
- Associations Gateway
- Associations Unlimited CD-ROM
- America's Community Bankers

- American Bankers Association

- Association for Financial Professionals

- Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR)

- Bank Administration Institute

- Commercial Finance Association (CFA)

- Financial Managers Society

- International Finance & Commodities Institute

- Mortgage Bankers Association

- National Association of Federal Credit Unions

- National Association of Mortgage Brokers

- National Association of Personal Financial Advisors

- National Association of Professional Mortgage Women

- National Home Equity Mortgage Association

- National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association

- Society of Financial Service Professionals

- The Bond Market Association

- Urban Financial Services Coalition

Other Useful Resources
- Yahoo! Industry Center
- Industry Tutor
- First Research - Industry analysis and market research reports geared toward sales professionals
- BizMiner — marketing and financial profiles of over 16,000 business categories in the United States
- Career Guide to Industries (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
- HBS Baker Library Industry Guides
- Business.com Industry Analysis Category
- Industry Research Desk
- Industry Portals & Hubs - links to over numerous industry portal and hub websites
- Vault.com - Research Industries Section
- WetFeet Industry Profiles
- Hoovers - Online corporate and industry research site
- IndustryClick - Collection of Industry Portals
- CFO's Cost Management Survey
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