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Financial Services

Includes banking, loan and credit categories. Please review the related categories below if you cannot find what you are looking for here.

For quicker placement in the directory please follow these Submission Tips:

Title: Name of Business or Organization

Description: This describes the website and should note distinguishing features found on the site without the use of hype, personal pronouns, or repetitive terms.

Appraisal and Valuation

Appraisal- The act or result of establishing the value of someone or something. Topics include personal, business, and real property assessments for purposes including taxation, estate planning, sale, or insurance.

This category provides links to sites detailing with appraisal and valuation services in general or with multi-discipline appraisals.

For quicker placement in the directory please follow these Submission Tips:

Title: Name of Business or Organization

Description: This describes the website and should note distinguishing features found on the site without the use of hype, personal pronouns, or repetitive terms.

Automobile Buying and Financing

This category has sites that offer automotive financial services, such as buying and financing.

For quicker placement in the directory please follow these Submission Tips:

Title: Name of Site or Organization

Description: This describes the website and should note distinguishing features found on the site without the use of hype, personal pronouns, or repetitive terms.

Banking Services

This category is for banks and financial services companies that issue credit cards or charge cards.

By Region

Financial services include consumer and commercial banking, credit unions, mortgage and other types of loans, financial planning assistance, insurance, tax preparation, investments, and other services relating to monetary transactions or financial security.

Provides linkage to financial service categories throughout the world.

Cash Flow

Cash Flow is the buying, selling and brokering of privately held income streams in the secondary market. An income stream can be any future payment including real estate notes, business accounts receivables, viaticals or senior settlements, structured settlements or prize winnings. Investors purchase all or part of an income stream from sellers at a discount rate. The seller receives immediate cash for an asset that may not mature for many months or years and the investor receives a good return on their investment over time. Often a seller will deal with a cash flow broker who has a network of contacts to find the appropriate investor for the seller's asset. Brokers offer expertise and experience with specific income streams and may save the seller the time and research required to find and select an investor. Brokers earn a commission on each transaction they close which is paid either directly by the investor or as a percentage of the funds to be received by the seller.

Please try to select the most appropriate subcategory for your site. If the company deals with more than one cash flow, your submission will usually belong in "Cash Flow" category itself. However, if the site clearly indicates that the company specializes in a specific type of income stream, then submit the site to the appropriate subcategory.

Brokers and consultants should submit to the appropriate "Brokers" subcategory.

College Financing

This category contains resources for locating and obtaining student loans and other post-secondary education financing.

Commercial Lending

For quicker placement in the directory please follow these Submission Tips:

Title: Name of Business or Organization

Description: This describes the website and should note distinguishing features found on the site without the use of hype, personal pronouns, or repetitive terms.

Computer Financing

Financing services specifically for the purchase of computers. For computer vendors who offer systems for sale and may also offer financing, please see the category Computer: Hardware: Retailers.

Cooperatives

Financial services that follow a cooperative business model. Financial services include banks, trust companies, lenders, insurers, and investment houses.

Please submit only financial businesses with a cooperative (i.e., worker-owned, or collective-owned) business model. Credit unions have their own category:

Business/Financial_Services/Banking_Services/Credit_Unions/

Credit and Collection

Includes categories for collection agencies, credit reporting agencies, repossession companies and skiptracing firms.

Please submit only sites which advertise third party collection agencies to this category. Agencies which specialize in collecting one or two specific types of debt may wish to submit their site to one of the sub-categories dealing with their area of specialization. These sites, however, will only be listed once; in the category representing their primary area of specialization.

Education and Training

This category is only for sites that offer financial training online. If you also offer online training in other areas, or develop training software, please submit instead to Reference/Education/Distance_Learning/Online_Courses/.

Field Service Companies

Segments of the field services industry include inspections (residential mortgage, insurance & commercial), property preservation, notary signing tasks, and mystery shopping. Property preservation involves securing and maintenance of vacant foreclosure properties. This may include lock changes, winterization, debris removal, lawn maintenance, boarding of doors and windows, removal of health and hazardous materials, snow removal, etc. Inspections may include appraisals, occupancy verification, delinquency interviews, insurance loss inspections, construction progress reports, and related services on behalf of lenders. -- From http://www.sofi-usa.com/id18.htm

Financial Consultants

Firms and individuals PRIMARILY offering financial advisory services to businesses and/or consumers.

It is understood that many businesses offer some financial advisory services as part of an overall set of services, but this category is for those which FOCUS on this one area, financial advisory services.

Financial Planning

Business: Financial Services: Financial Planning:

Contains listings of planners who are Certified Financial Planner (CFP) licensees. This designation is issued by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. Individuals must pass an exam devised by the CFP Board and continue to meet its practice standards reequirements.

Holding Companies

Lists companies whose business is the ownership and control of financial service subsidiary companies.

Information Services

The category Business/Financial Services/Information Services is designed for companies specialising in the provision and manipulation of information relevant to the Financial Services industry. This includes the following categories of information : i) Current and historic price data for financial assets ii) Current and historic news feeds on financial matters iii) Forecast and historic company fundamental data (earnings, balance sheet, background) iv) Forecast and historic macroeconomic fundamental data (GDP, trade, inflation) v) Corporate debt and equity valuation analysis vi) Personal and corporate credit analysis and information vii) Financial services market research data If you have any comments or suggestions on the content and aims of this category, please e-mail the editor(s).

Insurance

Includes categories for many types of insurance, and provider listings. Do not submit sites to this category! No sites will be listed on the top level.

Please submit only sites dealing with actuarial science or the actuarial profession.

Investment Banks

Investment Banks advise and process financial transactions for businesses and investors. Through Sales and trading, Research, and Corporate Finance, Investment Banks are the matchmakers between companies that need capital and investors. Typical Investment Bank transactions are IPOs, M&A advisory, Debt and Equity Underwriting, Merchant Banking Services, brokerage operations, Research, and Asset Management.

Investment Services

This category covers investment services that cater to businesses including asset and investment management, 401(K) and pension plan management, capital raising and financing services, and financial advisory services.

Personal Financial planning or services do not belong in this category, they go within Financial consultants or financial planning. Others that aren''t included include, Money Managers and Registered Investment Advisors.

Leasing Services

Contains listings of companies providing lease financing services to businesses, organizations, individuals and/or government-owned entities.

Please submit sites that are primarily focused on and contain content and information on auto leasing.

Dealership web sites are Regional/ and will not be listed, please submit dealer sites to the MOST appropriate category in the http://dmoz.org/Regional/ area.

NON ENGLISH language sites are not appropriate. Please submit them to: http://dmoz.org/World/

Loans

This category contains listings of businesses that primarily offer loans to consumers.

If you are a mortgage lender, then you should submit your URL to an appropriate category in Business/Financial_Services/Mortgages/.

If you are a lender providing commercial financing, then you need to submit your URL to Business/Financial_Services/Commercial_Lending/

DO NOT SUBMIT LEAD GENERATION SITES. WE DO OUR BEST TO ENSURE THAT THEY WILL NOT BE LISTED!!

Marketing and Advertising

This category lists marketing sites targeted to financial services businesses only.

This category comprises web sites about Marketing and Advertising businesses and individuals specifically serving the Financial Services sector.

Excluded from this category are:

Businesses and individuals which offer advertising and marketing services in general, not to finacial services businesses specifically, are listed in the appropriate subcategory of Business: Marketing and Advertising.
Businesses and individuals which offer only local services are listed according to the geographic location.
Companies which offer web design, promotion, and hosting services are listed only in the appropriate subcategory of Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development.

Medical Billing

Please only submit sites that deal directly with starting, running, marketing, and managing a medical billing service.

Merchant Services

Credit card merchant services are provided to businesses by processors through registered ISO/MSP organizations and their registered sales agents who represent financial institutions that are members of one of the two bank card associations (VISA, USA or MasterCard International), or, travel and entertainment card companies such as American Express, Citicorp Diners Club, or, Carte Blanche. This category is for the primary processing companies that sponsor the ISO/MSP and their agents.

Sites submitted to this category must belong to primary processing companies that are directly responsible for the transmission of financial transactions to one of the following institutions;

VISA MasterCard International American Express Citicorp/Diners Club Carte Blanche Discover/Novus JCB

If your site does not represent a primary direct membership to one of these organizations, please do not submit it to this category.

Microfinance

Microfinance provides financial services to low-income clients and solidarity lending groups, including consumers and the self-employed.

Mortgages

Very very few sites will be listed at this level, mainly a few unclassifiable sites or else sites _about_ the mortgage business.

Please submit your site to the appropriate subcategory

Sites with a United States-only focus should go to Business/Financial_Services/Mortgages/Regional/United_States or one of its state subcategories

Very very few sites will be listed at this level, mainly a few unclassifiable sites or else sites _about_ the mortgage business.

Please submit your site to the appropriate subcategory

Sites with a United States-only focus should go to Business/Financial_Services/Mortgages/Regional/United_States or one of its state subcategories

Offshore Services

If you are submitting a site for a chartered bank with offshore services, and you are not listed in another category, this is the category for you.

Outsourcing

Sites that provide outsourcing services related to finance.

Venture Capital

Listed directly in this category are professional venture capital firms that raise fund(s) from investors and then identify, screen, select and invest directly in entrepreneurial business ventures that are typically in their early stages. Venture capital affiliates of corporations are also listed. The subcategory Entrepreneurial Resources and its subcategories list many other sites potentially useful to entrepreneurs, including other forms of access to capital, e.g. angel investors.

Please submit only venture capitalists web sites specializing in providing investments in major industries such as Internet, life sciences, or information technology.

If your venture capital firm invests only in a single state of the United States, it should be listed under Business/Financial_Services/Venture_Capital/Regional/North_America /

If your venture capital firm invests only in a country other than the United States, it should be listed under Business/Financial_Services/Venture_Capital/Regional/

World War II Dormant Accounts

There are many dormant bank accounts and insurance contracts dating from World War II or soon before. This category lists those official organisations (often a government or perhaps affiliated to a financial trade association) that facilitate the claiming of accounts by survivors or their heirs.

Please submit sites of official organisations that facilitate the claiming of accounts by survivors or their heirs. These organisations will typically be affiliated to a government or a financial trade association.