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Purpose of Research Guide

This guide curates research and information sources for banking. Use the side menu to navigate to relevant sources.

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Business Source Premier
Covers scholarly articles for all business subjects: marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Also includes financial data, MarketLine company profiles, Harvard Business Review articles, SWOT analyses, and more.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies widely.
Nexis Uni
Covers general, regional, and international news, company and financial information, legal information (including law reviews, case law and legal rulings), and other topics such as biographical information. Many files are full-text.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Factiva
One-stop source for full-text news, general business and industry articles, as well as information on companies and industries; provides headlines from top newspapers and cover stories from leading business magazines.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies. 9,000 sources are updated on the day of publication.
Language: Primarily English. Over 20 languages total.

Federal Reserve
Provides selected interest rates, including the Bank Prime Rate.
Aggregate Reserves of Depository Institutions and the Monetary Base
Provides current and historical release data from the Federal Reserve.
Money Stock and Debt Measures
Provides current and historical release data from the Federal Reserve.
FRED
FRED monitors the economic and financial literature and produces research in the areas of money and banking, macroeconomics, and international and regional economics.
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
Reports monthly interest rates; provides information about the Federal Home Loan Bank System.

American Bankers Association
Provides banking industry and economics news, surveys, and statistics.
Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA)
Represents the community banking industry.
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
Provides industry, mortgage, and economics new and statistics for the real estate finance industry.

FDIC Bank Data Statistics
Provides comprehensive financial & structural information about every FDIC-insured institution.

Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
Contains recent Supreme Court decisions, as well as U.S. Code and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) dealing with banking law.

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Subjects: Accounting, Banking, Business, Company Information, Country Economics, Country Information, Economic Data/Statistics, Economics, Economics Literature, Entrepreneur/Small Business Information, Global Business, Industry Information, Investment Information, Marketing, POLI: Political Science, Political Science