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Banks and Banking This bibliography lists directories, sources of U.S. banking data and analysis (international banking data sources are contained in the bibliography International Financial Statistics), an index to statistics that includes U.S. banking statistics, dictionaries, encyclopedias, financial tables, and a specialized banking periodical index. Other relevant bibliographies are Company Information, Industry Information, Business Indexes and Abstracts, U.S. Economic Data. This guide is arranged in the following sections:

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Directories

Bank Directory. Annual. (LATEST EDITION ONLY RETAINED;NEXT LATEST AT VIRGINIA CAMPUS LIBRARY)
Location: REFERENCE HG 1536.P633
Two of the five volumes cover U.S. banks. Includes some financial data.

Mergent Bank & Finance Manual. Annual. 1944-50, 1955-
Location: REFERENCE HG 4961.M65 (EARLIER EDITIONS IN STACKS.)
Provides historical and financial information on leading U.S. Banks. The center blue pages contain listings of the largest banks (not limited to U.S. banks) and other statistical data on the industry. Updates are at News Reports (http://www.mergent.com/publish/news_reports.asp) and are compiled on a monthly basis in Mergent Corporate News Reports Monthly REF HG 4965 .M66.

Mergent Online
Location: ALADIN
This provides historical and financial information on U.S. companies including banks. It generally includes the information contained in the Mergent Bank and Finance Manual (see above).

U.S. Banking Statistics

All Bank Statistics, United States, 1896-1955.
Location: HG 2493.A517

Banking and Monetary Statistics, 1914-1941.
Location: HG 2493.A521 1943. Also at http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/bms/

Banking and Monetary Statistics, 1941-1970.
Location: HG 2493.U54 1976A. Also at http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/bms2/

Historical Statistics on Banking
Location: http://www2.fdic.gov/hsob/
This "provides annual statistical information...beginning in 1934." The data is for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)-insured banks and savings institutions and can be aggregated for each state, territory, and possession.

Statistics on Banking: A Statistical History of the United States Banking Industry.
Location: HG 2493.H673 1995 V. 1
This includes, "both structure and financial data on [FDIC] insured banks," from 1934 to 1994.

Data Book, Operating Banks and Branches. Annual. 1993, 1995-1997
Location: HG 1660.U5B36
"Summary of Deposits in All FDIC-Insured Commercial and Savings Banks and U.S. Branches of Foreign Banks."

Datastream.
Location: Selected Stations on the Ground Floor
This online service provides a wealth of financial data including banking statistics. A manual is kept at the Reference Desk.

FDIC Statistics on Banking. December 31, 1992 -
Location: http://www2.fdic.gov/SDI/SOB/
Also available HG 2401.S76 (1991-1999) and Government Document Fiche (Third Floor) Y3.F31/8:1-2 (1997, 1999-2001).
This web site of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, "is a quarterly publication that provides detailed aggregate financial information as well as key structural data (number of institutions and branches) for all FDIC-insured institutions." The paper and microfiche are annual publications.

Statistics on Depository Institutions (SDI)
Location: http://www3.fdic.gov/sdi/
Allows creation of detailed financial reports for "any combination of single FDIC-insured institutions or bank holding companies, custom peer groups of FDIC-insured institutions or bank holding companies, or standard peer groups-insured institutions."

Statistical Abstract of the United States. Annual. 1879-1885, 1887, 1889, 1891-1892, 1895-1911, 1913-1917, 1919-1924, 1926, 1928- 1946, 1948-
Location: REFERENCE HA 202 (ALSO READY REFERENCE; EARLIER EDITIONS IN STACKS). Also http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab.
This primary source for U.S. statistics includes a good deal on banking. A subject index leads to tables of data with footnotes indicating the sources of data.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present
Location: ALADIN and REF HA 202 .H57 2006

Stat-USA.
Location: http://www.stat-usa.gov and ALADIN
The State of the Nation section includes monetary statistics and the State of the Nation Library contains minutes of Federal Open Market Committee meetings.

Statistics: Releases and Historical Data.
Location: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/
This provides Federal Reserve Board historical data and daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual releases.

Federal Reserve Bulletin. Monthly. 1915-
Location: THIRD FLOOR (1915-1974 ON MICROFILM, 1975-ON MICROFICHE; CURRENT IN PAPER)
The first place to look for current U.S. monetary and banking statistics.

American Statistics Index. Monthly. 1974-
Location: REFERENCE Z 7554.U5A46
Indexes and abstracts of U.S. government statistical publications. Annual cumulations. Indexing is by subject and name, category (age, race, geographic area, etc.), and title. There is quite a bit on banking. The library owns a number of the publications indexed on microfiche (1984-2004) and in paper. Some can be accessed online. For assistance, ask at the reference desk.

Analysis

FDIC Outlook. Quarterly. 1st quarter, 1997-
Location: http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/regional/index.html
"[P]rovides a quarterly analysis of current national and regional trends that may affect the risk exposure of insured depository institutions," published by the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation and appearing in a national and eight regional editions.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Dictionary of Banking.
Location: REFERENCE HG 151 .W64 1994

Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Banking and Finance to 1913.
Location: HG 2461 .B33 1990
There is an index at the end.

Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Banking and Finance, 1913-1989,
Location: HG 2481 .B325 1990
There is an index at the end.

Encyclopedia of Banking and Finance.
Location: REFERENCE HG 151.E52 1994

New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance.
Location: REFERENCE HG 151 .N48 1992
Really an encyclopedia, despite the title.

Periodical Index

Banking Information Source. 1971 -
Location: ALADIN
Indexes and provides much full text to scholarly journals, trade magazines, and newsletters covering the banking and financial services industry.

Tables

Business and Financial Converters and Calculators.
Location: http://www.csgnetwork.com/financialconverters.html

Thorndike Encyclopedia of Banking and Financial Tables (Third Edition)
Location: REFERENCE HG 1626 .T49 1987 (Also at the Virginia Campus Library)
A huge collection of tables.

Thorndike Encyclopedia of Banking and Financial Tables Yearbook
Location: REFERENCE HG 1626 .T493
These supplement the third edition of the encyclopedia (see above).

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