• American Bankers Association The association’s mission is to serve its member banks and enhance their role as pre-eminent providers of financial services.

• ANNA The Association of National Numbering Agencies ANNA is an association representing member interests in creating a uniform identification structure for use in the  trading and administration of securities in the international securities industry. (More Numbering Agencies available on ANNA's site...)

• Bond Market Association The Bond Market Association represents securities firms and banks that
  underwrite, trade and sell bonds in the international and domestic markets.

• Clearnet The Morris Group manages the Clearnet notification service used by major market data vendors, exchanges, and user firms.

• Depository Trust Company DTC is a national clearinghouse for the settlement of trades in corporate and municipal securities and performs asset services for its participating banks and broker/dealers.

• Federation of Euro-Asian Exchanges FEAS encourages cooperation among the Members in order to promote the development of their respective securities markets.

• Federation of European Stock Exchanges FESE exists to reflect and represent the common interests of European stock exchanges as regulated securities markets.

• Futures Industry Association FIA represents organizations that have an interest in the futures market. FIA has more than 200 corporate members.

• GSTPA.org The Global Straight Through Processing Association is an industry association made up of key members of the global financial community.

• FIBV The International Federation of Stock Exchanges promotes the professional business development of financial markets, both at the national and international levels.

• Investment Company Institute ICI is dedicated to improve public understanding of the investment company industry and the policy issues that affect it. Latest mutual fund facts and figures are provided.

• ISITC-IOA The International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication/International Operations Association is a working committee of securities operations professionals representing custodian banks, investment managers, brokers, and vendors.

• Market Technician's Association Founded in 1973, this associations goals include exchanging and exploring new areas in technical research, educating the public on technical research, and upholding a code of professional standards and ethics.

• National Association for Securities Dealers The largest securities-industry self-regulatory organization in the United States.

• Securities Industry Association The Securities Industry Association brings together the shared interests of more than 740 securities firms to accomplish common goals. SIA member-firms are active in all U.S. and foreign markets and in all phases of corporate and public finance. 

• SWIFT Society For Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications' purpose is to provide technology-based communication services across all financial markets through member banks so that they can profitably meet their own and their end-customers' needs.

• TWIST TWIST stands for the Treasury Workstation Integration Standards Team. TWIST is a working group of several companies formed and led by the treasury operations department of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group that is focused on creating standards to facilitate an efficient, controlled and open dealing marketplace for foreign exchange (FX) and other cash market instruments.

• Wall Street Technology Association WSTA is a non-profit organization for technology professionals in the financial industry.

Government

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• Bureau of Labor Statistics Publications The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates statistical data to the American public, Congress, other Federal agencies, state and local governments, business, and labor.

• International Organization of Securities Commissions Member organizations are devoted to promoting regulation standards. 

• Library of Congress For researching National Digital Library Program. 

• Securities and Exchange Commission The primary mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets.

• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet Details on U.S. legislation available online by the Library of Congress. 

• Securities and Exchange Comission Advisory Committee on Market Information  The market data regulation branch of the SEC.  FISD's director, Michael Atkin, sits on this committee.

Media

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• Agence France-Presse AFP is a French newswire service that distributes news feeds in multiple languages; bureaus and offices worldwide.

• Associated Press News from the wires. 

• Bloomberg.com General business and financial news.

• Bridge.com Financial Web site. 

• Business Wire Business wire news.

• CBS MarketWatch Interactive financial media company, providing information via the Internet, television and radio. 

• ChinaWeb Online financial news and information, in association with Homeway, provider of financial services in the Mainland, and South China Morning Post.

• CNNfn General business and financial news.

• Dow Jones.com From the publishers of the Wall Street Journal.

• Dow Jones Newswires Provider of financial news with real-time newswires and award-winning publications.

• EuropeanInvestor.com Online financial information source for Europe's new technology markets.

• Finextra Research Independent online resource providing news and analysis related to the implementation of technology in the financial services industry.

• FT.com Financial Times online information service.

• Handbook of World Stock, Derivative and Commodity Exchanges Guide to trading, settlement and contract information, worldwide.

• Internet Public Library The first public library of and for the Internet community.

• Operations Management An Institutional Investor publication on operations news of the financial services industry.

• PR Newswire Good source of information from corporations world-wide for media, business, the financial community and individual investors.

• Market Data News Intl. Selection of reports from the Market News professional wire on the major economies, monetary policy, currencies, bonds and derivatives.

• Refdesk.com Search for facts on the Internet.

• Reuters News Business information. 

• Tornado Insider.com European online financial information targeting technology stories.

• Wall Street & Technology Web site and magazine providing news on information technology for securities and investment firms.  

• Waters Information Services Online and print financial newsletters, including Inside Market Data newsletter. (Full text articles for subscribers only).

• Yahoo Finance Business news and information portal.

• ZDNet Financial news channel.

Standards

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• European Telecommunications Standards Institute ETSI is a non-profit making organization whose mission is to produce telecommunications standards in Europe. 

• Information Technology Industry Council Represents U.S. providers of information technology providers and users. 

• International Organization for Standardization The non-governmental ISO Online promotes development of standardization to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, and develop cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.

• North American Industry Classification System NAICS was developed jointly by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics about business activity across North America. 

• SIC The Standard Industrial Classifications Index.