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Most WWW sites for banks are well-designed advertising and sales tools, and don't have much beyond advertising, sales, and on-line banking services. (Virutally all banks offer on-line banking.) However, some bank sites do have some redeeming features for those of us not interested in on-line banking: Fleet Bank offers original economic reports, Bank of America has U.S. and global economic reports and indicators, and Royal Bank Financial Group has a great economics section.

Please note that as I'm not at all interested in on-line banking (I really appreciate the benefits of having a real relationship with my banker!) I haven't made special note of which banks offer which on-line banking features; bank sites which offer personal finance information appeal much more to me. Thus the listing of banks on this page is a bit ecletic--the banks I use, banks I recognize, and ones I've found interesting.


Bankrate.com
From !ntelligent Life Corp. News, education and bank rate quotes. All aspects of consumer and small business banking.
Bank of America
Free U.S. and global economic reports and indicators. Personal finance section with mortgage information and calculators, insurance quotes, and savings calculators and information. Also has a money tip of the day.
Chase Investment Banking
Citibank
Fleet Bank
Retirement planning section. Fleet Kids, an educational area for kids interested in learning about personal finance. Weekly and quarterly economic reports written by one of their employees. Quarterly market outlook. Calculators, planning worksheets, etc... in Helpful Tools.
HSBC (Marine Midland)
Key Bank
Retirement planning section with lots of information about various aspects of this topic, good selection of financial calculators.
Telebank Online
Wells Fargo
Some educational information in personal investing section--retirement, trusts, estate planning, and asset allocation. News and tools section has good information and weekly economic commentary.
 
Canadian Banks
Bank of Montréal
Several different calculators and planning aids in Tools.
Royal Bank Financial Group
Economics section with market trends (available to all ) and market forecasts (available only to registered customers). Market trends include analysis, national accounts (U.S. and Canada), housing, daily and weekly commodity prices, monthly calendar, and federal and provincial budgets. Daily and weekly financial markets updates in .pdf (Adobe) format
Toronto Dominion
Morning market update and daily market summary in Real Player format.
 
International Banks
The World Bank Group
Reports on regions and countries (key economic indicators and country briefs), development topics, publications, data.
 
Finding Other Banks
Banks of the world
Includes offshore banks and cyber banks.
BankWeb
"The most comprehensive directory of banks on the Internet." Includes national and state associations, federal banking sites, and banking-related sites.
Foreign Central Banks
From Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Links to foreign central banks with links to pages in English and in native languages.
Yahoo! Business and Economy:Companies:Financial Services:Banking:Banks
Banks
From Ohio State University. A good (but not recently updated) international list of banks.
 


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