Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance

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The aim of this project is to make Wikipedia an authoritative, current, and useful site for anyone interested in better understanding the field of finance. It aims to make the world a better place by demystifying the workings of financial markets, its actors, and the underlying concepts.

Finance
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Start 53 53
Stub 72 72
List 1 1
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[edit] Scope

Finance is based on fundamental concepts in economics, but also encompasses specific real-world phenomena and business practices. The project will include both corporate finance, i.e., the decisions made by firms that need financing for their business decisions; and investment finance, those who provide financing, expecting some kind of return. The project will deal with risk as it relates to these activities, and also the industry and market structures for finance.

This is indeed a subset of Business and Economics, but since it is such a large, complex, and important field in the world economy and world society, it warrants its own wikiproject.

[edit] Goals and objectives

The goals of this project are to:

  • Provide guidelines, recommendations, and standards for articles related to the field of finance and the many related subtopics
  • Provide overarching conceptual frameworks to ensure that articles are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive, including navigational devices and knowledge taxonomy, as needed
  • Provide a forum for discussing topics related to articles about the field of finance

The objectives of this project are to:

  • Organize the topical structure of the field, primarily by way of navigational templates
  • Recruit additional members
  • Identify clear gaps in article topics
  • Agree on quality standards and requirements for articles
  • Assess and prioritize improvement needs for existing articles
  • Bring first article up to Featured Article status

[edit] Participants

If you wish to join this project, please sign below. All participants should feel free to add {{User finance}} to their user pages.

This user is a member of the WikiProject Finance.



  1. --Leifern 19:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
  2. --DrewWiki 19:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
  3. --Pgreenfinch 14:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
  4. --Crocodile Punter 14:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  5. --Grace E. Dougle 09:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  6. --JQ 23:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  7. --AdamSmithee 09:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
  8. -- Egfrank 08:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  9. --The Random Editor 21:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
  10. --Sufaid 12:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
  11. --Crzycheetah 05:41, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  12. --Muchris 18:50, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  13. --Shashi
  14. --akendall 23 May 2007
  15. --Savin Me
  16. --Suicup 10:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  17. --THF
  18. --Smallbones
  19. --User:J 07:20, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
  20. --Neeraj Shokeen
  21. --Ronnotel 02:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
  22. --User:JB 02:00 EST 25 September 2007
  23. --Finnancier 05:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
  24. --InsideGold 20:25, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
  25. --PGPirate 04:54, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
  26. --Deepali·Nimbalkar 08:58, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  27. --Pocopocopocopoco 01:36, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
  28. --Samiharris 10:18, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
  29. Roadrunner (talk) 20:55, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
  30. --CoffeeKing 9:42, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
  31. Nshuks7 (talk) 16:27, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
  32. --E-6B (talk) 16:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
  33. --Racepacket (talk) 19:48, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
  34. --Feco (talk) 06:28, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  35. --Zain Ebrahim (talk) 12:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
  36. --Hankstram33 16:38, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
  37. --Apoorv Khurasia (talk) 17:28, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
  38. --Shanbhag.rohan
  39. --Urbanrenewal (talk) 22:38, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
  40. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 21:36, 20 May 2008 (UTC) If you work on this project, you may bump into me at articles related to WikiProject Companies, WikiProject Cooperatives, or the long overdue WikiProject Investment.

[edit] Structure of finance pages

For a list of important pages, see List of finance topics.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Templates

[edit] Talk page banner

 This article is part of WikiProject Finance, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to Finance. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

{{WikiProject Finance}} is the banner to put at the top of an article's talk page to add it to the project. To use it with its optional parameters, copy and paste this code:

{{WikiProject Finance
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                                        inside {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} -->
|class=                                 <!-- FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Cat, Template and NA -->
|attention=                           <!-- Immediate attention required. Needed by some bots. -->
|peer-review=                         <!-- Need more input on your article? -->
|old-peer-review=yes                     <!-- If this procedure has already taken place -->
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[edit] Templates Created

I'm not a real go-go template guy. Could we get rid of some of the non-functioning templetes listed below? I don't see that the purpose of the project is to create more of this things. 2 or 3 seem fine with me. Smallbones (talk) 21:58, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Top Level

Second Level
Lowest Level

[edit] Templates to be Created

Top Level (Complete)

Second Level
Lowest Level
These Templates will be displayed on the bottom of the article
Financial Markets
Corporate Finance
  • Template:Structured finance (to include Credit Rating Agency and M&A)
  • Template:Accounting and Auditing (to include Financial Statements)
  • Template:Financial Risk Management (to include Capital budgeting)
Personal Finance
  • Template:Retirement (to include Financial Advisors, Financial Planner, Estate Planning)
  • Template:Employment contract
  • Template:Credit and Debt
Public Finance
  • None for Public Finance
Banks and Banking
Financial regulation
  • Templage:Financial regulation and Legislation (to include Legislation, Fraud)
  • Template:Designations and Accredations
History of finance
  • Template:History of finance
  • Template:Investment banking

[edit] Old templates

[edit] Requests

Please add to this list any pages that need to be improved or created.

  • Debt coverage ratio - Not sure how active this project is, but I tripped over this page while doing work for Wikify project. This article needs help badly. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 03:59, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Forex swap and Currency swap - The Forex swap as well as the Currency swap page needs to be review as it is not completely correct. There also seems to be some confusion regarding currency swaps? And cross currency interest rate swaps. It seems that the two mentioned pages details are mixing the foreign exchange type of swap with the interest rate derivative type of swap. An FX Swap / Currency Swap should be defined as: Two Foreign Exchange transactions executed simultaneously Trade 1 spot FX trade and Trade 2 a forward FX trade. Example: BUY USD ag JPY value spot and SELL USD ag JPY forward. This has nothing to do with fixed rate or floating rates or any type of interest rate derivatives. There seems to be some confusion over "FX Swaps" "Currency Swaps" and Interest rate derivatives such as and overnight index swaps (OIS). Jake2pt.lu 18:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Agreed. I have removed the paragraph in the Forex swap page that reads: "The fixed rate in this transaction is the forward rate that is locked in by the forward contract. The floating rate will be the overnight rate that is realized on a daily basis by the spot transaction. Typically, the floating side of these trades are indexed to the Overnight Index Swap (OIS) rate. This rate is an average of the rates that are paid based on a survey." Are there other changes that need to be made? Finnancier 12:24, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Payday loan and Predatory lending - The payday loan article has suffered from back and forth editing from both sides of this issue and could use the expertise of financial editors who can cut through the lobbying/pr/advocate/other noise stuff to get to the encyclopedic tone and sources. I can usually help with sourcing, but please see the article history and Talk:Payday loan. Flowanda | Talk 02:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Enhanced indexing This article needs more clarity to explain the underlying concept. References to related articles would be helpful. Neeraj Shokeen 08:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
  • I've removed information that is repeated on the passive management and active management pages. I've also rewritten the article to remove any advertising material (although the term "enhanced indexing" is, to some extent, an advertising gimmick by investment companies). Please feel free to revert the changes, or post a follow-up request below. Finnancier 05:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Cornish currency This article has no information on it. There are links to references but this entry needs someone more experienced in writing articles about currency.
This is a major turkey, except for medieval history buffs.Smallbones (talk)

Please leave your opinions out of this.Fletch 2002 (talk) 00:59, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Repurchase agreement, Federal funds rate and LIBOR - what is the relationship between these rates? In the US context, the Fed can directly affect the repo rate (i.e., the rate for secured loans with the highest quality collateral) so as to indirectly affect the Fed funds rate (i.e., the rate for unsecured loans between banks for funds held at the Fed). LIBOR is for unsecured loans between banks for funds not held at the Fed. Is that correct? If so, should this relationship be made clear in each of the respective articles? Finnancier (talk) 12:28, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
LIBOR and the other rates are not related at source. Only their spheres of influence may be the same, but even then, exactly what effect they have on the markets may be dissimilar. I think we can add some information about such things. Nshuks7 (talk) 15:20, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
What's left to do in this? Can someone spot what needs to be done? Nshuks7 (talk) 16:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Inflation-indexed bond - Someone added info about Australia's Capital Indexed Bond that needs to be properly referenced and integrated into the main text. Finnancier (talk) 15:47, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Maybe it should be standardized like this: Senior debt and Subordinated debt, of which Mezzanine debt is an example. Finnancier (talk) 07:14, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Money market deposit account is full of guesses and conflicting information with no sources on what should be a simple topic. Someone should go clear it and write a short definitional article with a handful of sources. --Tibbetts2c (talk) 23:58, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
You might like to join WP:Wikiproject Investment where that article is highlighted as a potential candidate for work. Zain Ebrahim (talk) 11:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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