Finance Resource Guide: International Finance

Includes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates, and other economic and financial indicators. Data is dervied from: International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOP), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOT), Government Finance Statistics (GFS).

Developed by Michigan State University's Center for International Business Education and Research (MSU-CIBER), this site is a web portal that connects international business professionals to information and learning resources on global business activities, including links to data, government, banking, and finance resources. The Money category provides comprehensive, annotated links to banks, finance, and stock exchange resources.

The World Bank provides loans, advice, and technical assistance to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. Its Finance and Private Sector website provides graphed data of topic indicators by country. In addition, it offers downloadable statistics, publications, and key financial reports, in addition to a searchable database covering banking systems, capital markets, financial development and rural and microfinance.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is "30-member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy." The OECD covers financial issues related to banking, securities, and institutional investors. This finance website offers summaries and texts of reports, working papers, case studies, and guidelines. Investment, interest, market, and economic data are freely available. Publications and statistics may be accessed by topic or by country

"The International Monetary Fund is a cooperative international monetary organization whose members currently include 183 countries." It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment. This website provides the texts of the Fund's Quarterly reports and financial reports, monthly data on financial resources, and Financial Data by Country (from 1996 to present)

Includes outstanding purchases and loans, quota amounts, financial arrangements, and projected payments.

The BIS "is an international organization which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks." The website offers full-texts of policy papers, working papers, international financial statistics, and other publications. Includes legal texts, such as the Charter, statutes, and basic agreements. Also provides an updated list of central bank websites.

"The European Central Bank and the national central banks together constitute the Eurosystem, the central banking system of the euro area. The main objective of the Eurosystem is to maintain price stability: safeguarding the value of the euro." This comprehensive website provides daily rate exchanges, texts of legal instruments, including treaties, statutes, and policy procedures, and texts of the ECB Monthly Bulletin.

Includes data, such as balance of payments, investment funds, and securities issues. Research papers and occasional papers are available for downloading.