1. Market data (Quotation, interest and exchange rates, companies' profiles, etc.)

2. Financial information

3. Transactions

4. Financial and economic press

5. Research (economic, academic)

6. Web sites from Professors of Finance

7. Accounting and managerial finance (accounting standards, associations, etc.)

8. Useful and interesting

9. Formation in finance

10. Financial markets (Federation of exchanges, market places, regulatory agencies, etc.)

11. Rating agencies

12. Find a job

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
Yahoo Finance France Yahoo Finance French Canada Yahoo Finance Germany Yahoo Finance Italy Yahoo Finance Spain Yahoo Finance UK & Ireland		Quotes, graphs, consensus, news, analyses, research, pricing models... Everything you need is on Yahoo Finance!
http://www.londonstockexchange.com		The London stock exchange, the first market place in Europe
http://www.euronext.com/		Euronext is a cross border exchange business in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal. On the web site, you can find : quotes, volumes... historical data to download, companies' profiles, statistics, documentation center (trading rules, market organization, etc.), IPOs fillings
http://deutsche-boerse.com		The German stock exchange
http://www.borsaitalia.it		The Italian stock exchange
http://www.bolsasymercados.es		The Spanish Stock exchange
http://www.boursorama.com/		Stock prices, interest and exchange rates, charts, financial analysis and consensus, news, for France as well as Europe : a reference
http://www.europeaninvestor.com/		Stock prices, interest and exchange rates, portfolio management on the main European markets
http://www.chartoperator.com/		Charts and technical analysis on 11 financial markets in the world
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/		Charts especially for American securities, but also for European
http://www.wallstreetcity.com/		Charts, portfolio, markets, news, etc. for the American market

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.hoovers.com/		Free profiles for companies in the US and in the world
http://www.corporateinformation.com/ (http://www.wisi.com/, "company analyses")		Data base on public companies in the world. Many links to other web sources
http://www.hemscott.net/		UK and European companies' investment information : Profiles, Forecasts and consensus, Financial reports

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.oanda.com/		A reference for the exchange rates. You can also download historical exchange rates
http://www.xe.com/		Exchange rate calculation

2. Financial information

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.edgar-online.com/ See also http://www.freeedgar.com/		Financial reports (annual : 10-K and 20-F, interim : 10-Q) and other public reports of companies listed in the United States
http://www.companynewsgroup.com		Corporate information on European companies (press releases)
http://www.amf-france.org/		Website of the French financial market regulatory body. Public companies fillings, releases and other public reports are downloadable.
http://www.business.com/		Very efficient Internet business-focused search engine and directory
http://balo.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/		Official financial information of French public and private companies

3. Transactions

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.zephus.com/		Data base on European transactions (global deals after January 2003), including ranking information. Various deal types are covered including: M&A activity, IPOs, joint ventures and private equity deals. Some free information available
http://www.mergermarket.com/		Data base on global transactions, including ranking information (paying information)
http://mergers.thomsonib.com		M&A information from Thomson Financials (paying information)

4. Financial and economic Press

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.ft.com/		The Financial Times is a reference in daily financial and economic information online news, reports, sectoral information...
http://www.economist.com/		The Economist
http://www.bloomberg.com/		Bloomberg is a reference in terms of financial information. Including Bloomberg TV in different LANGUAGE(S)s
http://www.handelsblatt.com		Web site of the German newspaper
http://www.lesechos.fr/		Web site of the French newspaper
http://money.cnn.com/		CNN web site dedicated to finance and money
http://www.cbs.marketwatch.com/		CBS marketwatch
http://www.pressindex.com/		The press portal : information on press quotations and press releases classified by companies, sector or publication
http://www.zawya.com/		Middle East Business News and Company research

5. Research

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.barclays.com/		Barclays
http://www.abnamro.com/com/		ABN AMRO
http://www.hsbc.com/		HSBC
http://www.mediobanca.it/		Mediobanca
http://www.db.com/		Deutsche Bank
http://www.bnpparibas.com/		Financial report and research : "Global Outlook", "Euronomics"…(see also : http://corp.bnpparibas.com/)
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/		Online journal of McKinsey & Cie with research and reports on corporate finance, economics, operations, marketing, etc. and sectoral information

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.london.edu/faculty_research/		The London Business School faculty & research web site
http://www.ssrn.com/		Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
http://www.uni-bocconi.it		Research at Bocconi
http://www.hec.fr/hec/eng/professeurs_recherche/r_index.html		Research at HEC Business School
http://econwpa.wustl.edu/welcome.html		This award winning service (provided by the Economics Department of Washington University ), is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in economics
http://www.theeir.com/		Web page of The European Investment Review : articles, reports, etc. (free access)
http://www.affi.asso.fr/		Association française de finance (revue Finance, publications…)
http://www.afajof.org/		Journal of Finance
http://jfe.rochester.edu/		Journal of Financial Economics
http://rfs.oupjournals.org/		The Review of Financial Studies
http://link.springer.de/ link/service/journals/00780/		Journal "Finance and Stochastics" (theory of finance, derivatives, insurance, stochastics...)

6. Web sites of professors of finance

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar		Web site of Aswath Damodaran (Professor at Stern University, NY). Courses, models, online exercices. Very complete
http://gsb.uchicago.edu/ fac/eugene.fama/		Web site of Eugene Fama. An online course and its book "Foundation of Finance"
www.people.hbs.edu/mjensen/		Web site of Michael Jensen : articles and reports to download
http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/ pages/faculty/ken.french/		Kenneth French's web site
www.hbs.edu/units/finance/ merton.html		Robert Merton's web site

7. Accounting and managerial finance

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.iasb.org/		International Accounting Standards Board
http://www.fasb.org/		Financial Accounting Standards Board
http://www.iasplus.com/		The Deloitte website about IFRS: comprehensible, regularly updated and very clear

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.imanet.org/		The Institute of Management Accountants provides to members personal and professional development opportunities in management accounting, financial management and information management through education
http://www.mamag.com/		Management Accounting Quarterly : a publication of the IMA
http://www.strategicfinancemag.com/		Strategic Finance Magazine : a publication of the IMA dedicated to strategy
http://www.businessfinancemag.com/		The online version of the well-known Business Finance magazine. Particularly useful for CFOs. See also http://www.penton.com/ for other similar publications.

8. Useful and interesting

WEB SITE	LANGUAGE(S)	DESCRIPTION
http://www.valuepro.net/		This web site provides the intrinsic value of a stock and valuation parameters such as beta, risk premium, wacc, working capital, etc.
http://tradition.axone.ch/		This glossary with over 5000 financial terms in English, German, French and Italian can be used free of charge
http://www.europeansecuritisation.com/		The site of the professionnals of the securitisation markets in Europe
http://www.real-options.com		This website supports the famous book, Real Options: Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World, and also provides introductory information and links on the topic
http://www.evanomics.com/		Site dedicated to EVA(R) : description, documents, forum, etc.
http://www.ecgi.org/		European Coporate Governance Institute
http://www.sternstewart.com/		The consulting firm having created the famous EVA(R)
http://www.gloriamundi.org/		All about Value at risk : articles, news, forum...
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/cmbor/		The Centre for Management Buy-out Research (CMBOR) monitors and analyses management buy-outs in a comprehensive and objective way
http://www.hedgeworld.com		All about hedge funds: news, statistics, research
http://www.behaviouralfinance.net		All about behavioural finance
http://www.evca.com		The website of the European private equity industry. A lot of statistics and studies are available
http://www.dits.deloitte.com		To get corporate income tax rates, VAT rates, with holding tax rates in most countries in the world, produced by Deloitte