Websites

10 Myths About Financial Derivatives

Derivatives Links - Provides links and descriptions to futures, options, and other derivative sites - segregated by topic areas.

Futures and Options Bibliography - Lists articles with new information on futures, options, and other derivatives.

Futures Guide - Provide quotes, market updates, financial news, futures glossary, and links to related sites.

Hot Links for Traders - Provides links to futures sites.

Schaeffer's Investment Research, Inc. - Market commentaries, options quotes, investment material, and options trading information.

Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets Derivatives Commentary and Data - Provides market commentaries, links, and basic derivatives definitions.

SwapLaw - Provides legal research of OTC transactions and related links.

The Derivatives Zone - Provides derivatives-related information, links and Q&A, and derivatives dictionary.

Waldemar's Futures List - Comprehensive links to futures sites.

Articles / Reports

Regulating Derivatives: The Current System and Proposed Changes

Supervisory Information Framework for Derivatives and Trading Activities (BASLE)

Survey of disclosures about trading and derivatives activities 1996 (BASLE)

Survey of disclosures about trading and derivatives activities of banks and securities firms (BASLE)

Trading and Derivatives Disclosures of Banks and Securities Firms: Results of the Survey of 1997 Disclosures (IOSCO)

Websites

Campbell R. Harvey's Finance Links - Contains various financial links.

Cato Institute - Provides studies and reports on federal budget, social security, monetary policy, and international trade.

FinanceWise - A search engine focusing on financial-only content; special reports on risk management, the Euro, and Latin America, and over 220 links.

Financial Conferences Directory - An online database of financial courses and conferences.

Finweb - Provides working papers on economics and finance and links to related sites.

Global Investor - Provides information on international capital markets, and an online financial bookstore.

Global Treasury News - A source of industry information for corporate treasurers.

Institute of International Finance, Inc. (IIF) - 1,400 links in a range of international affairs topics, including finance.

International Finance & Commodities Institute (IFCI) - Provides finance related articles, computer-based training courses, and conferences and seminars.

Investment Company Institute - Provides information on policy issues that would affect the investment company industry.

InvestmentSeek.com - A guide to investment resources on the Web for the institutional investment community.

InvestorMap - A comprehensive financial site providing over 3,000 links with descriptions.

Journal of Finance: Link Collection - Features links to numerous finance journals and research papers.

Milken Institute - Provides seminars, publications, research reports, and working papers on economics.

S&P Global Markets - A comprehensive market information site.

The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources - International business and economics resource

WallSt.com - Provides free quotes, intraday charts, portfolio tracking, and over 500,000 detailed reports.

Websites

Finmath.com - Financial engineering & risk management information.

IFCI Financial Risk Site - IFCI's guide to regulation and control of financial risk. Includes Gastineau's glossary/dictionary.

Portfolio Theory and Risk Management with VaR Applications - A course on risk management.

RiskCenter.com - Features financial and risk management calculators, educational and training material, and a repository of financial data and templates.

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practices - Contains feature articles.

Value-at-Risk Resources - Provides papers, regulatory material, conferences, bookstore, and a list of consultants.

Articles / Reports

A New Capital Adequacy Framework (BASLE)

Amendment to the capital accord to incorporate market risks (BASLE)

Best Practices for Credit Risk Disclosure (BASLE)

Broker-Dealer Risk Management Practices (SEC)

Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BASLE)

Explanatory Note: Modification of the Basle Capital Accord of July 1988, as amended in January 1996 (BASLE)

International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) - Provides conferences, documents and links to related sites

Methodologies for Determining Minimum Capital Standards for Internationally Active Securities Firms Which Permit the Use of Models Under Prescribed Conditions (IOSCO)

On the Use of Information and Risk Management by International Banks (BASLE)

Overview of amendment to the capital accord to incorporate market risks (BASLE)

Philip Jorion's Orange County Case

Principles and Practices for The Oversight & Management of Financial Risk (Treasury Management Association)

Principles for the Management of Credit Risk (BASLE)

Principles for the Management of Interest Rate Risk (BASLE)

Recommendations for Public Disclosure of Trading and Derivatives Activities of Banks and Securities Firms (BASLE)

Regulating Derivatives: The Current System and Proposed Changes

Risk based approach to supervision of banks (FSA)

Risk Management and Control Guidance for Securities Firms and their Supervisors (IOSCO)

Risk Standards for Institutional Investment Managers and Institutional Investors

Sound Practices for Hedge Fund Managers - a document prepared in response to a recommendation from the PWG's (President's Working Group) report Hedge Funds, Leverage and the Lessons of Long-Term Capital Management.

Sound Practices for Loan Accounting and Disclosure (BASLE)

Supervisory framework for the use of "backtesting" in conjunction with the internal models (BASLE)

Supervisory Guidance for Managing Settlement Risk in Foreign Exchange Transactions (BASLE)

The General Accounting Office - the investigative arm of Congress.

The Group of 30 - This group, established in 1978, is a private, nonprofit, international body composed of senior representatives of the private and public sectors and academia.

Trading and Derivatives Disclosures of Banks and Securities Firms: Results of the Survey of 1997 Disclosures (IOSCO)