Loretta Wallace
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Lexis/Nexis Tip Sheet - Overview of how to use the following.....
1. Connectors
2. Power Search Tab
3. Legal Tab
4. Business Tab
Banking and Finance
Bank Find
http://www2.fdic.gov/idasp/
Bank Find can answer questions such as: Is My Bank Insured? Where are My Bank's Branches Located? Where is My Bank's Home (Main) Office Located? What is My Bank's Web Site Address? What Happened to My Bank (Historical List of Events)? Does My Bank have a New Name? Is My Bank Still Open?
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
http://www.bis.org/
Publishes international banking and financial statistics.
Bureau of Public Debt
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/govt.htm
Find current and historical data and information on the Public Debt.
Conference of State Bank Supervisors
http://www.csbs.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
Interstate banking regulation and links to all state banking regulators.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
http://www.fdic.gov
Contains current and historical statistics on banks in the United States.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's - Regional Economic Conditions
http://www2.fdic.gov/recon/index.asp
Designed to assist the FDIC in the examination process by providing economic information at the state, MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), and county levels.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Statistics on Depository Institutions
http://www3.fdic.gov/sdi/
This site provides you with the ability to create reports containing customized peer groups of FDIC-insured institutions and bank holding companies.
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
http://www.ffiec.gov
The Council is a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions. Includes Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data.
Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB)
http://www.fhfb.gov/
Includes surveys of interest rates, loan terms, and home prices.
Federal Reserve Banks (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Kansas City, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, St. Louis, San Francisco)
http://wwwfederalreserve.gov/otherfrb.htm
Links to the twelve federal reserve districts.
Reuters Financial Glossary
http://glossary.reuters.com/index.php/Main_Page
The Reuters Financial Glossary covers foreign exchange, treasury, money and capital markets, mortgage-based assets, equities, commodities, sovereign and corporate debt, technical analysis, and macro-economic terms.