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 (62)
- 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?
- Systemic Banking Crises: A New Database
- 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 (10)
- 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
- The First Customers
- 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 (94)
- 401(k) Report Card
- A Stirring in the Loan Market
- 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 Card Usage Remains Low
- Credit Cards Come to China
- Credit-Card Mailings Drop 26%; Offers to Wealthy Hold Steady
- Credit-Card Mailings Rise 34%; Debt Rises Too
- Debit Card Users Wary of Debt
- Defined-Benefit and Defined-Contribution Plans in the US
- Demand Increasing for Online, Electronic Payment Methods
- Demystifying Swiss Bank Accounts
- 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 Fraud Hits 11M US Adults
- 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?
- Juniper: NFC Payments To Reach $50 Billion Worldwide By 2014
- Leveraged Buyout (LBO) Activity
- mBanking in Western Europe
- Micropayments Are Multiplying
- Mobile Payments Take Hold Around the World
- Mobile Payments to Grow
- Mobile Payments To Triple To $670B By 2015; Digital Goods Will Represent 40% Of Transactions
- 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
- Remote Mobile Payment Users to Reach 2.5B in '15
- 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 (21)
- The Directory of Associations
- 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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