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Compiling a worldwide list of D-SIBs
Recently I have contributed a lot to expand the List of systemically important banks. It now evolved into being more of an article, featuring both a G-SIB list and a chapter with D-SIB lists. To say it short, the structure is in place, but it takes a lot of time to find and report the D-SIB lists for each nation in the world (as no single published source exist with overall info for all states). So I need as much of your help as possible - to succeed doing this for each nation. From a starting point, the priority is to compile complete info for USA, 31 EEA states, Switzerland, Japan and China. My ambition is, that this work shall be completed during the next year. So far I have updated the table with complete current info for Denmark + Sweden + Norway + Switzerland, but have not got any time left to continue the work during the next 3 months. So you are more than welcome to help me fill in the remaining empty spots.
You can find the missing D-SIB info for each nation, by visiting the official website of its Financial Supervisory Authority. The new European D-SIB regulation, demand that each EEA-member state shall have identified their D-SIB list and associated info about new total capital ratio requirements - at the latest on 31 December 2015. So this mean, that some EEA member states (like UK), haven't yet completed their identification of D-SIBs. However, approximately 50% of the EEA-member states have already identified their D-SIBs, and hence it make sense to start compiling the lists already now. In regards of the already featured D-SIB list for USA, it shall be noted the data is outdated (based on financial data from 2011), so here we need someone to update it - and also note how big the capital requirements are. If you have time and interest for this subject, please help me with the work. :-) Best regards, Danish Expert (talk) 11:42, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
Managed this weekend to find some time to expand the list with info for Canada + Australia + USA. Still need your help, though, with all the remaining states, and also need a person to look into the capital requirements applying in USA towards their identified SIBs. Hope someone have time to help me, as I do not have anymore time to expand the list with info for the remaining states. Best regards, Danish Expert (talk) 14:01, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello. A student named 1992MC has developed the Bank of Albania article as part of a class project. I think the article looks good, but more comments would be welcome. Could anyone here say hello to this new Wikipedian and give any comment on this article? Thanks for any attention that you can give. Blue Rasberry (talk)19:42, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Update to Softcard page
Hi, Tracey2626 from Softcard, a mobile payments company. While the Softcard entry isn’t currently a part of this WikiProject, I was hoping to start a dialogue with the volunteers here about considering updates to our page. You’ll see some of my comments on the Talk page there. Can anyone assist? Thank you. Tracey2626 (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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I was expecting to find some coverage of this topic already but Debt restructuring was the closest I could find. Is anyone here interested in working on this abandoned submission? ~KvnG21:50, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
I have created Glossary of stock market terms to house a few trivial terms that do not merit articles of their own, but don't really fit anywhere else (and have added a few major terms to the mix). Please expand with your great and powerful market knowledge. Cheers! bd2412T16:25, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I'm looking for some help improving the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive article and hoping that someone at WikiProject Finance might be interested. The current article is missing details, there is some confusing wording and generally there's a lack of sources, so I'm making some suggestions to fix these issues.
As I am working on behalf of the Managed Funds Association and have a financial conflict of interest, I won't make any direct edits. Instead, I've proposed the corrections and updates on the Talk page here. If an editor who's active here and interested in international finance is able to review and make the changes as they feel are appropriate, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 11:58, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
The "usury" article needs help putting links to other articles
I was surprised there is not more interlinking with other articles on the topic of the 2008 financial crisis, how money is created, quantitive easing, buffers that banks need to have in relation to the loans they can write out, how consumers and society is protected from irresponsible behaviour from bankers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury#Usury_law Only the measures in the USA, Canada Japan are mentioned. Nothing about the EU or any of the other big economies. Can anybody help?
Scoreboard article for the 2008 financial crisis bailout?
Is there something like this on the wikipedia? :
"The Bailout Scorecard
Last update: Apr. 20, 2015
Altogether, accounting for both the TARP and the Fannie and Freddie bailout, $615B has gone out the door—invested, loaned, or paid out—while $390B has been returned.
The Treasury has been earning a return on most of the money invested or loaned. So far, it has earned $280B. When those revenues are taken into account, the government has realized a $55.1B profit as of Apr. 20, 2015."
https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/ - It shows what bank or organisation received how much it received, in what form etc, how much it has paid back in interest to the state, how much in dividents if the state became a share-holder, etc. ProPublica was a recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting and a 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting. Thank you --SvenAERTS (talk) 14:45, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
@SvenAERTS: Very interesting question: I wasn't aware of that research. Do you propose to create an article about ProPublica's scorecard, or do you want Wikipedia to make its own scorecard?
The long table in the Participants section of the Troubled Asset Relief Program article looks like a kind of scorecard. (I noticed that 2009 ProPublica research is used as a source for the long table. Does that need updating?)
I have nominated Actuary for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:07, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I'm working on behalf of MetLife to suggest improvements to their article. A few weeks ago, I proposed some changes to the article's History section here, but thus far I haven't had any feedback. Since the article is of interest to this WikiProject, I'm hoping someone here might be curious enough to help. Because of my COI, I will not be making any edits myself and am looking for editors to review my suggestions. If you're able to take a look, I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 21:43, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello again, everyone, I received some help regarding my earlier post about the MetLife History section, and I'm now looking for editors to look at the creation of an Operations section in that article. I'd love some feedback from editors who are active here. If you have time, please can you take a look and let me know what you think! Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 21:59, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Merger proposal: Cashier's check and Banker's draft
Hello! I recently suggested a few updates for The Bank of New York Mellon article on the Talk page. Most of the requests have been completed, but there is one left related to an award. I made the suggestions on behalf of BNY Mellon, so I do not want to make the edit myself. I'm hoping someone here can review the request, determine if its worth including in the article, and, if so, add it in. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 00:43, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
This book looks relevant to alternative financial services, poverty industry, payday loan etc: How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy by Mehrsa Baradaran, 2015, Harvard University Press. Per the Chronicle weekly booklist it "Traces the emergence of a two-tier system of banking in the United States in which a large portion of the population is forced to rely on pay-day lenders and check-cashing services." Maybe interesting if anybody wants to expand on/discuss cultural impact in the U.S. in those articles or related ones. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 00:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
About a month ago, I requested some small changes to the article about my employer at Talk:Point72 Asset Management. So far I haven’t gotten a response. Could somebody take a look? These specific edits are very straightforward factual corrections and updates; however, there are more significant issues with the article I would like to address, and I don't want to do so without the input of independent Wikipedians. I would appreciate someone taking a look. Thank you. -AlexReads (talk) 17:17, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Correct name of a job
Could anyone help me with correct naming of a bank job? I have to translate it from Russian (my native language), but dictionaries are totally messy about it. It is a lady, who is just one step above a teller and perform following things:
issuing money orders;
registering money orders in the cash journal;
signing entries in the cash book;
checking documents she recieves from a teller;
cross-cheking of the cash book and cashier's paper's.
She's required to be qualified as a bookkeeper. In some russian organizations she directly deals with corporate clients recieving cash from them and cheking and signing relevant documents. Literal translation from Russian is: "bookkeeper-controller" (although she is, apparently, well below a controller in western organizations) or "bookkeeper-checker (cheking-bookkeeper)". I understand allmost nothing in banking, finance and bookkeeping, but I tried to describe the subjet as close to the sources, as I can. Эйхер (talk) 14:51, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Note: she's harly a head teller because she might or might not have subordinate tellers. She simply is more educated have more permissions than a teller. Эйхер (talk) 15:01, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Эйхер, in the United States people who do this are known collectively as platform personnel. An individual may be referred to as a platform associate or platform representative, as well as other bank-specific titles. John M Baker (talk) 20:04, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
Perhaps You are right, Mr Baker. On the other hand, what I have googled, suggests quite a broad range of jobs for the term "platform associate/representative", not necesserally associated with accounting/bookkeeping. Wouldn't an accounting associate fit better? Here I must note, that I've probably got it wrong that the lady in question masters tellers. Rather her job is to check out tellers' work ensuring that nothing is screwd-up, and to file necessary papers in the end of the banking day for accounting purposes. She's not expected to draw clients or to promote the bank's services - she's just the lowest link in the bank's accounting chain. Эйхер (talk) 18:40, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Is Motley Fool a reliable source? I ask re: its use in the article on judge Robert Gerber -- note that the source is apparently MF's discussion fora, which make my eyes glaze over. Similarly, is the BankruptcyLawReview thing reliable? Thanks in advance. DS (talk) 18:53, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
These particular sources are blog posts, so not the most reliable sources. (Bankruptcy Law Review also publishes edited articles that should be reliable.) However, the information in the article is badly out of date. Judge Gerber retired at the end of 2014, continuing to act as a recall judge in 2015 and handle the Lyondell case. There were significant later developments in that case, including a decision in November 2015. John M Baker (talk) 17:09, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I'm posting because I recently added a few updates for consideration to the Bank of New York Mellon's Talk page. Would any editors here be interested in taking a look? I am working as a paid consultant on behalf of BNY Mellon, and I will not be making any changes myself. Instead, I'm hoping others will review my proposals and make edits where they think it is appropriate. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Heatherer (talk) 18:36, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Greetings, I believe there is need for a correction re: the description of the terms of the entities involved in a home mortgage. I believe the lender is the mortgagee (giving the debt/loan) and the borrower is the mortgagor (obtaining debt/loan) compared to the article's (misspelled) reverse referencing. Thanks for thinking about it.209.181.105.143 (talk) 14:16, 22 March 2016 (UTC) Keith Sartorius 3/22/16
While it is true that the borrower is the mortgagor and the lender is the mortgagee, it isn't clear to me which article is in need of correction. John M Baker (talk) 14:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
Using either term mortgagee or mortgagor would require definition and citation. Jonathan G. G. Lewis 13:00, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Binary options could use more attention. The binary options industry is in turmoil right now. The Times of Israel just ran a multi-part expose, "The wolves of Tel Aviv: Israel’s vast, amoral binary options scam exposed"[1]. They report that the whole industry is crooked. Most of the "brokers" are actually bucket shops; they claim to be brokers, but they're really the counterparty, or "house". Worse, "at some binary options firms, the online platform is manipulated to provide false results that ensure the customer loses." The Times of Israel even interviewed a programmer who worked on the "backdoor" for that.
But, as it turns out, BdB wasn't the only one. There are more of these scam companies, many more. They may be connected; about half use the Spotoption platform. Since the Times of Israel expose, Israel's financial regulator is shutting down the binary option industry with respect to sales to Israelis. The US hauled two more outfits into court this week. There are crackdowns from Canada to Malta underway. An upcoming lawsuit in the UK names 120 firms.
The Times of Israel article indicates that these companies engage in heavy search engine optimization activity to make binary options look legitimate. We need to watch for this spilling over into Wikipedia.
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Hi all! Would anyone from this WikiProject be able to help with reviewing some updates to the article for David Harding? Harding is the founder of investment management firm Winton Capital Management, so may be of interest to this WikiProject. The full request is detailed on the article's Talk page here, but key updates include the addition of new details regarding his role with Britain Stronger in Europe as well as correcting some existing information in the article. As full disclosure, I am consulting for Harding via Robin Eggar at MBD Communications as part of my work at Beutler Ink and will not make any edits to the article myself due to this COI. Instead, I am seeking uninvolved editors to review and make such changes as they feel are appropriate. Thanks in advance, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:06, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
User:Smallbones and I have been in a debate on whether the 2016 Brexit stock market crash deserves to be listed at List of stock market crashes and bear markets over on its talk page at Talk:List of stock market crashes and bear markets. I felt that several instances of major media entities declaring it a crash and the fact that we have had the biggest worldwide one-day and two-day losses of stock market value of the equivalents of 2 trillion USD and 3 trillion USD would make this a crash. User:Smallbones thinks that a crash must cause a drop in 10% to 20% of an index to be a stock market crash. Is this a stock market crash or just a short term bear market? Jesse Viviano (talk) 01:24, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Request for CreditSuppliers
Hi all, I'm new to the Wiki community, so please excuse any ineptitude in my request. Is there anybody in this WikiProject that would be willing to create a page for CreditSuppliers, LLC? For disclosure, I am an employee at CreditSuppliers, so I will not be creating and/or editing the article due to this COI. I am requesting that an unbiased editor create an informative page about the company as they see fit. I appreciate any consideration.
Below I have listed a brief description of the company, along with resources and supported documentation:
CreditSuppliers, LLC is a pioneering fintech company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company specializes in providing funding for construction materials purchases by contractors. [2] It's cloud-based platform gives construction professionals the ability to track and manage their cashflow, as well as provide working capital on a job to job basis, enabling growth in the industry. CreditSuppliers' proprietary systems make it the first company of it's kind. [3]
There's an anon which keeps adding a rambling religious condemnation of short selling to the article and there don't appear to be any editors watching the article to remove it. I had to remove it just now after it had been up there for several days. The entire recent history of the page is the anon repeatedly adding it and usually other anons like me having to remove it. --87.224.68.42 (talk) 09:42, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
Help with BNY Mellon
Hi there. I recently posted several small updates to the BNY Mellon Talk page for review here. I am working as a paid consultant on behalf of BNY Mellon to make these suggestions, so I will not be making the changes myself. Instead, I'd like others' help in reviewing them and making the edits where they think it is appropriate. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 14:41, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello. I've published this request on the Pension_Protection_Fund talk page, haven't had a response yet, and wondered if I could rely on the help from WikiProject Finance.
I work for a PR agency called Lansons, working on behalf of one of our clients the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). We’ve reviewed the PPF’s Wikipedia page and have spotted a number of factual inaccuracies that we would like to suggest changes for. We have references for them.
We're engaging as a member of the Wikipedia community having signed the official agency/Wikipedia agreement set out here Wikipedia:Statement_on_Wikipedia_from_participating_communications_firms. This means we adhere to the guidelines, most importantly understanding we have a conflict of interest, meaning we let members of the Wikipedia community decide (or not decide) to make changes for us. Would somebody without COI be able to work with us please to make changes?
The first change we would like to suggest is the Chairman of the Pension Protection Fund is changed to Arnold Wagner, who has replaced Lady Barbara Judge. You can find a third-party reference for this announcement here [4]
We would also suggest changing the word ‘pensioners’ in the first sentence to ‘members’ as the PPF doesn’t just protect people who have already retired, but protects 11 million people who belong to defined benefit pension schemes. Almost half of its 225,000 members are ‘deferred’ members who have not yet retired. We would suggest referencing this Government source [5] for the change.
Hi wikifinance project editors, the creator of Lloyd Greif has asked me to notify you of the above afd. I have added it to a number of afd lists, but have not been involved with the afd or article in any other way. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:06, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
… Come on, Zigzig20s. Don't try to suggest that Roy did anything wrong here. The AfD was closed 16 days after the nomination despite not having been relisted. You can't complain that it was closed too early. If having notification placed here were as essential as you seem to be implying, then you were derelict in not having done so in the weeks previous. And I imagine that many (or most?) editors interested in finance-related AfDs keep an eye on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Businesspeople anyway. Lastly, don't take "numerically […] very close" out of context. It was a phrase used in the context of a closing statement that said there was a clear consensus for deletion given the lack of reasonable arguments for the article to be kept. Graham (talk) 17:57, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
Please stop your long-time habit of accusing anyone who disagrees with you of harassment. As Roy wrote at the end of his closing statement, "And please don't confuse editorial review with harassment." Graham (talk) 18:23, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
Please stop replying to every single message I write on Wikipedia. You are clearly watching my contributions and replying to everything I say to criticize me. You have been doing this since you found me on a Hillary Clinton-related talkpage. Please stop. I guess you are trying to discourage me from editing Wikipedia, and you are getting there as it is becoming unbearable, but please stop.Zigzig20s (talk) 18:25, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
Anyway, the article has now found its way in my userspace: User:Zigzig20s/Lloyd Greif. Editors at WP Finance (NOT Graham), feel free to let me know if you think this should have been deleted, and how it could be improved further. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 14:32, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
What exactly is desired here? I just became aware of this AfD. I don't agree with the deletion, but the combativeness of some of the comments didn't help matters at all. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 19:12, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
How often do the components of FTSE MIB change? Is it frequent enough to make the article unmaintainable? I just declined the speedy deletion A7 request of ANIMA (Anima Holdings) on the grounds that membership of FTSE MIB was a credible claim of importance, but after seeing that the [Borsa Italiana site does not list it as a components, I deleted the article anyway as promotion. If the list changes frequently, it is not really suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia (I mean just the list, not the article itself). It would be better to just provide an external link where the reader can find the up to date information. SpinningSpark15:34, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hello. As I've done in the past, I'm posting here to seek assistance with a few edits to the The Bank of New York Mellon article. You can see the edits in my Talk page note—they're all very small updates. I won't make the edits myself, because I am monitoring the article on behalf of BNY Mellon and have a financial COI. I welcome anyone to make the changes or leave me feedback on the Talk page. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 17:54, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Hey all! Can someone take a look at Law of reflux? It has been tagged with pretty much every problem tag template we have. Is it salvageable? Thanks a bunch! Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 23:01, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Separation of investment and retail banking
There's a Cfd to delete a related category, so I threw together a skeleton article on the Separation of investment and retail banking by recycling the ledes of some related articles. I'm no expert on the area, but this is a very topical subject and an important one. We've got quite good coverage of Glass-Steagall etc in other articles, my aim was to try and push this article towards a more global overview - any Europe and Asia experts are more than welcome to contribute! Le Deluge (talk) 01:45, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm new to both Wikipedia and the Finance project, but hope to start producing edits and articles in the coming weeks. I recently added comments on the Broker-dealer article Talk, but it appears that the original author didn't have a User name, and that others have not been involved for several years. No one has responded to my comments, so I'm trying to redirect to people currently active in the project. Thanks WikiDorset (talk) 02:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC) 8 March 2017
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Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at SMC Global Securities Limited and assessing it? I tried cleaning out some of the promotion stuff, but the sourcing is not very good and the company does not seem to meet WP:NORG. There may also be some COI editing involved by different IPs. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:57, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
The article refers to TeamWox, and then to a "public commercial version of TeamWox", and then the introduction of MT5. Is MT4 the "public commercial version of TeamWox"? If not, when was MT4 first released?SvensKenR (talk) 17:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Private Equity Real Estate
This article contains a number of inaccuracies and mistaatements.
Private equity real estate is NOT the same as institutional real estate.
Institutional real estate pertains to the ownership of the asset -- i.e., when the asset is owned by a professional manager for the benefit of an institutional investor (pension fund, foundation, endowment, sovereign wealth fund, insurance company, bank holding company, real estate investment trust, etc.) Institutional real estate assets are managed by third parties for the benefit of others, vs. indnividual investing, where a single individual investor owns the asset. The term "institutional' has nothing to do with the type of real estate in which the institution is investing.
In fact, private equity real estate obviously can be held by both individuals or institutions. There's nothing specifically "institutional" about private equity real estate.
More specifically, private equity real estate is only one of the four quadrants of the real estate capital markets (private equity, public equity, private debt and public debt).
Private equity real estate refers to investing in real estate assets privately. Typically, this is done either through a fee simple interest or via some kind of holding company or entity that holds the fee simple title. It also includes derivative types of investments, such as investments in ground leases, air rights and other land holding rights associated with and sometimes stripped out of fee simple interests. Investors often will invest in a portfolio of assets through some kind of fund structure. Fund structures vary, from LLCs, Limited Partnerships, Private REITs, Collective Investment Trusts, Group Trusts, Insurance Company Separate Accounts, and several others. Investments can be made in pooled fund vehicles or in the securities of real estate operating companies, or venture capital operating companies.
The article suggests that debt funds are part of private equity real estate. Nonsense. Debt funds are part of the private debt real estate quadrant.
Public equity refers to investing in the traded equity securities of public companies that hold real estate assets, such as real estate investment trusts and publicly traded real estate operating companies.
Private debt refers to investing in whole loan commercial or residential mortgages, or partiipations in single or non-securitized or private securities of portfolios of whole loan commercial or residential mortgages. Investors also sometimes invest in the private (non-traded, non-listed) debt secruities isssued by both private and public real estate operating companies.
Public debt real estate refers to investing in securitized debt interests, including residential mortrgage backed securities, commercial mortgage backed secruities, and debt (bond) issuance from public or private real estate operating companies.
Some Institutional investors invest in all four quadrants, some only in private equity, some in two or three quadrants.
Furthermore, institutional investors invest in a host of different formats, not just closed-end funds. These include open-end funds, closed-end funds, individually managed (separate accounts), direct joint ventures, and club deals (organized by the investors rather than the investment manager, but sometimes organized by the investment manager).
The article also suggests that the term "institutional real estate" has been replaced by "private equity real estate." This simply is not true, for the reasons explained above.
Geoffrey Dohrmann
President and CEO
Institutional Real Estate, Inc.
Since 1987, publishers for and Consultants to the institutional real estate investment community
g.dohrmann@irei.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.252.140.85 (talk • contribs) 02:04, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
Your feedback is requested at Flat rate withholding tax (Abgeltungsteuer)
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Seeking some feedback
I have been making some changes and additions to Authorize.Net. It was not part of any WikiProjects, and I just added this one. I've been doing my best to use high quality citations and neutral/factual material; but since I work for the company, I'd like to have some feedback from experienced Wikipedia editors. There are some further changes I'd like to make, but I don't want to go too far without feedback, and it seems that nobody is watching the article very closely right now. Could somebody take a look please? -d.unay (talk) 17:44, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Please note that Intermediate good, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBottalk00:05, 14 August 2017 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team
Hello, I've been working with BNY Mellon to suggest improvements to the article about the company. I posted this edit request asking for routine updates to the article, including fresh figures and the most up-to-date information on company executives and board members. Regarding company executives and board members, the article is inaccurate in its current form: Karen Peetz is not president, Gerald Hassell is not CEO, and the makeup of the board of directors is not the same as it was in February 2015. Also, at present the article contradicts itself: The infobox correctly says Charles Scharf is CEO, whereas the body of the article does not. I posted the edit request a few weeks back and have yet to hear from editors. Perhaps editors at WikiProject Finance are interested in reviewing the proposed updates? Thanks in advance, Danilo Two (talk) 19:40, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject Finance. I'm drafting an article on the Democratic Republic of the Congo's first government, User:Indy beetle/Lumumba Government. At one point I discuss the debt this country had to handle. The numbers given by the source are in British pounds (circa 1960 valuation), but I would like to render these in Congolese francs (which at the time were given the same value as Belgian francs, 1960). Could anyone help me with the conversion? -Indy beetle (talk) 21:07, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
Edit request: add a financial data vendor in the list
Hello, I suggest adding Devexperts to the List of notable financial data vendors in Financial data vendor. I've also posted a request to create the company's page, providing the relevant links, as in the List section there is a demand to have a company's wikipedia article which should be linked.
Please have a look and thanks in advance, --Tyhdra (talk) 10:54, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Edit request: BNY Mellon
Hello, I've been working with BNY Mellon to suggest improvements to the article about the company. I posted this edit request asking for routine updates to the article, including fresh figures and the most up-to-date information on company executives and board members. Regarding company executives and board members, the article is inaccurate in its current form: Karen Peetz is not president, Gerald Hassell is not CEO, and the makeup of the board of directors is not the same as it was in February 2015. Also, at present the article contradicts itself: The infobox correctly says Charles Scharf is CEO, whereas the body of the article does not. I posted the edit request a few weeks back and have yet to hear from editors. Perhaps editors at WikiProject Finance are interested in reviewing the proposed updates? Thanks in advance, Danilo Two (talk) 19:40, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject Finance. I'm drafting an article on the Democratic Republic of the Congo's first government, User:Indy beetle/Lumumba Government. At one point I discuss the debt this country had to handle. The numbers given by the source are in British pounds (circa 1960 valuation), but I would like to render these in Congolese francs (which at the time were given the same value as Belgian francs, 1960). Could anyone help me with the conversion? -Indy beetle (talk) 21:07, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
Edit request: add a financial data vendor in the list
Hello, I suggest adding Devexperts to the List of notable financial data vendors in Financial data vendor. I've also posted a request to create the company's page, providing the relevant links, as in the List section there is a demand to have a company's wikipedia article which should be linked.
Please have a look and thanks in advance, --Tyhdra (talk) 10:54, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Help with Sageworks (financial tech company)
Hi! I'm wondering if WikiProject Finance editors might be interested in some proposed updates for the article on Sageworks, which makes financial data and analysis software, and collects financial data on the private sector. In full disclosure, I'm here on behalf of Sageworks as part of my work with Beutler Ink. To start with, I've suggested a proposal for the History section, to provide some background on how the firm got started and a few major milestones. I'm keen to get input from editors from this WikiProject since you may have some familiarity with this type of company and their offerings. At Talk:Sageworks I've provided some background on the history of the page and why I'm offering new drafts. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 19:57, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Worthington National Bank until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Theprussian (talk) 16:53, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Category:Behavioral and social facets of systemic risk
was Category:Systemic Risk - Behavioral & Social Facets
I'm the original author of two category pages
Category:Systemic risk This has a related article page Systemic risk that I did not author but could use updating. There may also be key Wikipedia pages that could be tagged with this category. Help from ASIA would be really nice!!!
Category:Behavioral and social facets of systemic risk I did not write an article page on this but would participate in a group to write one. See the talk page for more. This is bleeding edge research - 10 toes over the front of the surfboard type stuff. However its very real and have found at least one initial survey article (top quality in a heavily refereed journal) so its undeniably legitimate. Would love help here!!!
Hi, as well as my request for Sageworks (above), I'm working on proposing some article updates to New York Life Insurance Company. I'm wondering if editors from this WikiProject might be interested in giving this a review. To start, I've suggested a proposal to update the infobox. You'll see on the Talk page that I'm looking to correct the Net income to Operating income, add Products, Assets under management, and update the Number of employees. In full disclosure, I'm here on behalf of New York Life Insurance Company as part of my work with Beutler Ink. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 21:04, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Project merger
I have become aware, as a member, that this project is becoming increasingly more inactive.
I recently revived the WikiProject Investment and it has been growing.
So I would like to propose a merger of these two projects.It would benefit the general coverage of finance and investment on Wikipeda ´, as both of these topics have much in common.
Please let me know of what your opinion on this is.
@Figureofnine: The two topics have a lot in common.Merging the project can definietly make "attracting" new members easier as more interests and a larger scope are/is represented.Currently the projects are neglected from a lack of active members and as one combined project it could have a bigger opportunity in becoming successful in improving Wikipedia.
I support a merger. Investments is arguably a subset of Finance anyway, and in any case, there is clearly substantial overlap in subject matter. We also have a limited number of interested editors, and editors on the two projects also tend to overlap. John M Baker (talk) 15:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
I am not sure how many users are needed to comment or approve this so to speak, but I guess it is reasonable to wait until more members of the Finance Project give their input.If this doesnt happen then can we just merge the projects? Cheers! WikiEditCrunch (talk) 19:07, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
This is enough support if opposition does not emerge, but I would give it three or four more days to make sure that everyone has a chance to comment. If opposition emerges, you might want to give it the full 30 days, see WP:Merge. John M Baker (talk) 16:08, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
That name makes sense. I see no harm with a merger. I've been watchlisting this page for seven years and I can't recall the last time anything of interest surfaced. Merger seems to be a good remedy for the blahs. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 16:21, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
As the merger is pretty much finished, I would like to propose a name change for the project to WikiProject Finance & Investment.
I suppose Figureofnine somewhat agrees but getting some more opinions would probably be right.
Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A proposal to review crypto-currency articles in a more organized way
It has been my impression that WikiProject_Medicine is fully aware of the potential harm that could occur if there were errors in the articles within their remit— potentially far more serious than if say some random biography contained an error. While economic and investment articles are not the same league as the literally life-and-death issues in medical articles, the potential harm in mistaken articles is considerable. We know that there are many editors, often SPA's, more interested in making sure that an article about some crypto currency reads favorably, than making sure it is a neutral unbiased encyclopedia article. A recent post on Jimbo's talk page User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Bitcoin,_Tulips,_Facebook,_ICOs,_binary_options,_and_Slash_Gear identified the problem. While I'm not fully on board with the implicit solutions, I do agree with Jimbo's observation that perhaps a wiki project should take on the task of more formally reviewing the relevant articles and ensuring that they meet our standards.
While I haven't been active in this wiki project. I do have decades of experience in finance and have frankly not worked on finance articles mean because it seemed more like work than fun, but the sounds like something that deserves more attention. What do others think?--S Philbrick(Talk)19:44, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
While this sounds like an excellent idea, you should be aware that this is an only modestly active project, so this may not be the best place to launch such a review. John M Baker (talk) 19:59, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello! Letting members of this WikiProject know that there's a request for comment at New York Life Insurance Company about whether it's appropriate to have a section based on a government report. Your input would be most welcome! Thanks in advance, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 13:24, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Greetings. There is an ongoing discussion in the Talk page of the article "Haircut (finance)." It concerns the alternative meaning the term has taken, specifically in the context of sovereign-debt write downs during and after the global financial crisis, i.e. the reduction in the face value of the troubled borrower's debts. I invite everyone to participate in it since the issue is rather important for the subject. Take care. -The Gnome (talk) 11:26, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
Help with replacing defective article?
Hello, anyone watching this page: I'm writing to seek help updating the article for Broadridge Financial Solutions. It has been very bad for a long time, and more recently has been snipped back (not unfairly) to a mere stub where the extensive warning tag is almost longer than the article itself. I have a financial COI here, as I've been retained by the company to try to improve the situation. I've elected to write a new draft, and am looking for an unconnected volunteer to review it and, ideally, move it into the mainspace. If you're willing to give it a look, please check out the proposed replacement draft, as well as my talk page explanation. Any comment or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 15:00, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
It needs some more editing and a little bit more work before it can be submitted as a mainpage. Anybody interested in crowdfunding real estate platforms/investing and want to work on it? Neurogal913 (talk) 19:47, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Stash COI edit requests
Hi all, I've posted some COI edit requests over at Talk:Stash. It's been about a month and I haven't received a response, so hoping someone here will take pity on me, take a look, and share any feedback. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 02:42, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
Seeking Editor Assistance for Consumer Bankers Association article
Hello, Wikipedia! I work for Consumer Bankers Association (CBA), and I'd like to suggest some improvements for the CBA article. I've made a post on the article's talk page, but there hasn't been any movement on the article yet.
The current article is very short and has not been updated since 2008. I've proposed a draft to add more content to the existing sections and build off of those as sourcing allows. Feel free to take a look at my proposed draft here - User:CBA NS/Consumer Bankers Association. I know about conflict of interest rules, and have done my best to follow the suggested procedures.
Are there any editors on Wikiproject Finance & Investment who can take a look at the draft and copy over content or provide any feedback? Thanks! CBA NS (talk) 19:11, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
This article may have been the object of long term disruptive editing. I encourage any editor with knowledge of the article and or subject to review the article and its editing history carefully in order to remove any questionable material. It may be necessary to revert the article to an earlier version. I have temporarily semi-protected the page. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:42, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Help with problematic Magnetar Capital article
Hi there! Reaching out to members of this WikiProject to see if someone with an interest in investment firms would be able to review an edit request at Magnetar Capital to clean up the infobox and add some clarification to the introduction. As disclosure, I do have a financial conflict of interest, as I am here on behalf of Magnetar Capital as part of my work at Beutler Ink. I'm looking for input from uninvolved editors and assistance making edits if they're appropriate. Thanks in advance, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 22:03, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello again! Letting members of this WikiProject know that I've left a message at Talk:Magnetar Capital flagging major issues that need to be addressed on this problematic article, and I'm hoping editors experienced in writing about finance and investment can take a look. I've outlined many of the issues I see with the article and (as mentioned above) have also separately posted a first edit request to work towards resolving them, but would love to get editors' feedback on how best to work through some of the more thorny aspects in a way that best meets Wikipedia's standards. Disclosing again, I do have a financial conflict of interest, as I am here on behalf of Magnetar Capital as part of my work at Beutler Ink. Thanks in advance, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:26, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Up until early January 2019 the article List of banks (alphabetically) was described as List of all banks, but then many banks starting with V were deleted and a few days later the article's description was changed by the same editor to List of notable banks. As this article has been of Top-Importance for our project, I was wondering whether this change was ok and which criteria for notability might be valid for banks.--Bob Smit (talk) 11:07, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello @Bob Smit:, thanks for the question, and sorry I had not yet replied to you on my talk page. Because Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, list articles such as these are limited to notable entries only. The relevant guideline is at WP:CSC: "Every entry meets the notability criteria for its own non-redirect article in the English Wikipedia. Red-linked entries are acceptable if the entry is verifiably a member of the listed group, and it is reasonable to expect an article could be forthcoming in the future. This standard prevents Wikipedia from becoming an indiscriminate list, and prevents individual lists from being too large to be useful to readers." Banks fall under the notability standard for companies. Any other questions, let us know. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:52, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
Seeking help clarifying and correcting the Advisor Group page. Currently, it contains typos, a single (misnamed) link, outdated information and factual errors. Moreover, most of the article is compressed into a single paragraph, making it difficult to digest the information it contains. I've added corrections and suggestions to the article's Talk page. Hoping someone can take a look. As a self-employed copywriter who does occasional work for Advisor Group, I'm a COI contributor, so can't make the changes myself. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. --Richardmlange (talk) 21:16, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
Sergeybuldakovv, At the bottom of the subject company’s article, but before the interwiki links (if any are present), add the name of the category, (i.e.: [[Category:Financial_software_companies]] ), and save your edit. The company will be added automatically. John M Baker (talk) 11:14, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
Discussion of Value Investor Insight on the reliable sources noticeboard
Rathfelder I think that those are different types of companies, although one company could fulfill both roles. I suggest the following references, which I have not completely reviewed but at first glance look reasonable to me.
Thank you. I'm afraid the more I read the more confused I get. Especially as I find more associated categories, like Category:Asset management. The general rule is that a category should have an article to anchor it, which explains the definition, among other things. We dont really seem to have that here, and I'm not very sure it would help, as it appears that the terms used are pretty flexible, and indeed that the organisations change over time and space. I'd like advice about whether the distinction between Category:Investment companies and Category:Investment management companies is helpful. My inclination is to combine them into one category, because, apart from any other consideration, apart from the UK and the USA, there are not sufficient articles to justify more than one category in a country. Quite a few articles appear in both categories. Rathfelder (talk) 10:52, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
I'm told an Investment Management Company would manage my money. An Investment Company would manage its own money - but I might be able to buy shares in it. Is that a reasonable summary. Rathfelder (talk) 11:58, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Yes, that should be the answer. But in practice, the use of these categories seems to be hopelessly confused. It doesn't help that the anchor articles don't make sense. It also doesn't help that "investment company" is itself a vague term. It can mean either a company for the purpose of investment, without further specificity, or a company that is subject to regulation in the United States under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which seems overspecific. The latter clearly doesn't work, because the category includes non-U.S. funds and because U.S. investment companies (in the 1940 Act sense) tend to be in other categories, such as Category:Mutual funds of the United States. Investment fund might be a better anchor article. But then you get to the consideration that, in actuality, there are very few investment companies/investment funds that are notable enough to have a Wikipedia article. It looks like most of the companies in either category are actually investment managers. I don't think we even have an article for investment management firms, although we do have an article on investment management. John M Baker (talk) 22:08, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, it's Jessica from JLL. I have some suggestions to update incorrect information and add missing information in the "Operations section" of the JLL (company) article. This WikiProject is listed on the JLL talk page. You may review the full request with at Talk:JLL_(company)#Suggestions_to_Operations_section.
Due to my conflict of interest, I will only post to talk pages and refrain from making direct edits. Feedback or questions are welcome!
Thank you. JKatJLL (talk) 15:17, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
OANDA
Apparently OANDA was AFD'd almost three years ago. They are widely used in cites and as a data source on enwiki (and likely other wikis) and their analysts are quoted virtually daily by top-tier news sources, including CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, and the BBC. I'm sure anyone with financial markets experience would find them "notable". Don't get me wrong – I'm definitely familiar with notability policy and constantly defend the wiki against commercial promotion. If someone keen on article creation is interested in finding the appropriate sources, I would think they have to be out there (sorry it's not my thing, and I do hate to ask others). Added to WP:RA. —[AlanM1(talk)]—21:49, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
This article includes a list of examples that I'm not too keen on generally, but one uncited example under the heading "Finance" said that credit and debit card statements show refunds as "negative debits." I removed this because "negative debits" are nonexistent in accounting, and as far as I know finance more generally. Debits are reversed by credits and nothing else. A debit of 10 is not reversed by a debit of -10 or a credit of -10, but by a credit of 10 (though a credit can have a minus sign before or after the number to show that it is a credit). I provided a source (a textbook) that says this very specifically. The removal was disputed on the talk page by editors who say that it was accurate as written and references to accounting are irrelevant. After back-and-forth, I tried rewriting the example and neighboring examples with more precise language instead of removing them. This was also reverted and I was told that I can't change it at all without consensus, but I don't see much chance of that if there isn't even agreement about what the subject is.
I would appreciate opinions on the talk page as to how these examples might be improved, and what kind of sources should or should not be used. 73.71.251.64 (talk) 03:29, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Rule of 78s
Can someone with knowledge check out this IP editor edit to Rule of 78s? I don't have the background to assess it, but I'm always leery of unexplained changes and additions to mathematical formulae; nor do I want to blindly revert it. TJRC (talk) 22:13, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Lee Fixel
Resolved
Hello! I've submitted a request to update the Early life and education section of the Lee Fixel article as part of my work with Beutler Ink. Lee Fixel is an American venture capitalist and investor and I'm hoping to update some straightforward biographical information. You can view my full request here, which seeks to improve flow and fix a few inaccurate details. Will someone please review this request? Given my COI, I'm asking independent editors to confirm accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability. I'll happily address any questions or concerns that may arise. Thanks in advance! Inkian Jason (talk) 16:00, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
On behalf of New York Life Insurance Company, I have a (hopefully) quick and simple request for some edits to update infobox figures and a couple of pieces of dated information at the New York Life Insurance Company Talk page. Would any editors here might be able to help? Although the requested updates are straightforward, I'm looking for uninvolved editors to review and make the changes since I have a conflict of interest. (I've added the request edit template, but not received any reply.) Thank you in advance, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 01:58, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
2020 oil war
The 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war is currently rated low-importance, but with oil prices falling below zero (producers paying people to take their oil), this seems to be of more import? Especially since it is an oil industry crash for regions with hard access oil (oil shale, oil sand, etc). And regional economic crashes for producers of higher priced production oil. Also, oil stocks being in freefall. -- 65.94.170.207 (talk) 08:06, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Seeking help updating the JLL article
Hello, Wikipedia! It's Jessica from JLL here with some suggestions to update improperly sourced and inaccurate information in the "History section" of the JLL (company) article. You may review the full request at Talk:JLL_(company)#Update_History_section,_remove_tag.
I will only post to talk pages and refrain from making direct edits due to my conflict of interest. Please let me know if you have any feedback or questions. Thank you! JKatJLL (talk) 20:06, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
A long time ago an acknowledged paid editor asked me to add some things to this article and ever since I've had it on my watchlist. One of the things that people keep adding to the article is the idea that Busquets is a "co-founder" of Net-a-Porter, but there's a lot more material that's been added. I know nothing about fashion or finance, so I'd appreciate some new eyes. There's some relevant conversation on the talk page. Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨ 03:24, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
Help correcting mistakes about world's largest digital currency asset manager
Hi. There are various mistakes and omissions in the article about Digital Currency Group, specifically for Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset manager in the world. I have endeavored to write with a NPOV and only include educational content. Since anything regarding digital currency is somewhat controversial and complicated and requires careful independent consideration, I hope that someone from this project might do a review. Talk:Digital Currency Group#Corrections and Updates for Review July 17 Thank you! CertifiedTurtle (talk) 12:56, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Warburg Pincus
I have proposed some important corrections to the history of the historically pivotal private equity firm Warburg Pincus The proposal can be found here: Talk:Warburg Pincus#Request Edit August 2020 I hoped someone in this group might be interested in reviewing the proposals -- as I have a conflict as someone with a personal relationship to a company co-founder. (But I am unpaid and have no professional relationship to the subject.) Thank you! Fvogelstein (talk) 19:59, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Help with article
In case anyone is interested, I have submitted a draft article about a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions over at AfC Draft:Bimal_V._Patel. I have a COI, so I'd appreciate any input and/or an AfC review. Capecodcontributor (talk) 21:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Sharing in case this is of interest to anyone here: a draft article about Paxos Trust Company is currently under review in the AfC queue. I have a COI here – Paxos hired me to create and submit this article draft. Happy to answer any questions, and appreciate any feedback. Thanks! Mary Gaulke (talk) 21:29, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
Robert Rubin and the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act
The current article about former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin currently contains no mention of his role in promoting the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act. On the talk page for his biographical article, I have posted some example sources verifying the fact, and even a short draft of what a section about it could look like. I am looking for help because I have a COI with the topic, as I am working on his behalf to improve the entry. (I also posted this notice to two other wikiprojects last week, but have not received any response.) Is there an editor here who would be interested in having a look at this request and weighing in on the Rubin talk page? Thanks, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 15:11, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
A lot of Stock Exchange lists (by region) include a column for number of listings, but they're mostly empty. List of stock exchanges in the Americas for example, has dozens of entries, but only 1 cell filled in for Listings! List of stock exchanges in Oceania has none, List of Asian stock exchanges has a smattering. List of African stock exchanges looked pretty good until I started examining the pages- I picked Camaroon's Douala Stock Exchange on a whim and the exchange doesn't even exist anymore! The number of actively trading public companies by country is good info, but it's changing too fast and sorely neglected on these list pages. The List of stock exchanges, which covers the most active markets in the world, doesn't even have such a column.
The tone is a bit promotional and the company seems a bit on the new/small side and the references seem a bit on the "routine" side or they are a reflection of the company's own marketing efforts (e.g. the NASCAR sponsorship).
I'm asking of companies like this one - in terms of size, product/service offerings, and age - are routinely considered "likely to have reliable sources, if only someone would look" (every Fortune 50 company would fall in this category), if they are in the category of "huh? This better have some darn good sourcing" (your mom-and-pop company would fall in this category), or if they are in between.
If they are not in the first group, I'm strongly inclined to reject based on "failure to demonstrate notability" but I wanted to get some feedback from this WikiProject's editors first. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 15:29, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
@Davidwr: Thanks for the feedback. The genesis behind the page in the first place was based on other Neobanks listed on this page who are very similar in notability. There is a page for the NASCAR sponsorship but no page for the company sponsoring it. Albeit that the genesis of the sponsorship is derived from them. Understand the page is somewhat limited. Was hoping to get something in place and allow others to review / provide more substance. Perhaps in due course we will get feedback from more editors. Fountainofyouth (talk) 20:18, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
There are currently over 200 links from articles to the disambiguation page Liquidity. Could you take a look at the current list and make some of the links point to a relevant article to help readers reach the right place?— Rodtalk10:35, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
It's a developing story and we need people to watch and edit the article who are familiar with the financial systems. Gotta make sure people are using reliable third party sources. Harizotoh9 (talk) 04:53, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
I've expanded the area where 3rd parties gained. However I lack a deep understanding of economics, so please double check what i wrote that it both makes sense and actually lines up with the sources. Harizotoh9 (talk) 21:06, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
Would anyone here be willing to take a look at the discussion and weigh in, especially on questions of notability/WP:BLP? We haven't had many contributors to the discussion on either side, and I'd welcome input (or even just suggestions on how to improve the article) from folks that are more experienced with this space.
Greetings Wikipedians! I've expanded this "high-importance" stub article: Convertible Security and added multiple citations to reliable sources. Is it time to remove the stub designation? If so, do I do that, or someone else? My modest qualifications for the edits to this article can be found in my user profile. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 21:37, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, an IP has added about 16k of strange content to BNY Mellon over the course of the last month. I am going to attempt to verify this stuff. Any help is appreciated. JBchrchtalk21:12, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Ceaușescu's debt shenanigans: the uncertain conclusion
I'm in a situation that bugs me, a lot. Sources say that he made Romania debt-free. Then other sources say that Romania in 1989 had virtually (key word here) zero debt. This intrigued me, so I proceeded to look for hard numbers. Well, the 1990 CIA World Factbook lists Romania's debt as "none" as of mid-1989 (source 1). But then I find another source which breaks down all Soviet bloc external debts and...it ain't 0, not really. It's 0.4 billion as of 1989. What is zero in this source is the debt to the big bodies (IMF, World Bank) (source 2). Initially I thought that the Factbook overlooked this as too small, hence listing it as "none". But that can't be right, for the 1991 edition lists Romania's debt as of mid-1990 as...precisely 400 million, what the other source lists as the 1989 debt (source 3). I think of two possibilities: either the Factbook says "external debt" but actually means "public debt" (ie the state's debt, not including its individual citizens, but then again this was a totalitarian Communist state), or Romania somehow borrowed $400 million in the last days of 1989 after Ceaușescu was overthrown. Can anyone please help me make sense of all this? Is the debt 0 or 0.4 billion? Cause I want to write a comprehensive paragraph about the end result of his austerity policy, and I want to make sure I get it right. Transylvania1916 (talk) 17:57, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Transylvania1916. Frankly, I think the sources are kinda sub-par to deal with a subject like this. What you would need is some good scholarly source about the economics of Romania or the economic history of Romania. I have found something, which says that in 1990 Romanian public debt was basically 0. I have just typed "Romania public debt" on Google but I am sure there is more somewhere. JBchrchtalk21:23, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
JBchrch I apologize for the long-delayed answer. I did some research, and resolved the issue. See, Ceausescu didn't seem to care much for internal debt. Thus, in terms of public debt, Romania was still not even in the global top 10 lowest as of 1989, in spite of its 0 external debt. Yet, it shot to 1st place in 1990. Ceausescu's successors used fiscal surpluses to write off the internal debt. I wrote it all in this paragraph. Transylvania1916 (talk) 22:21, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
Francisco Partners
Hello, WikiProject Finance & Investment. I have an outstanding update I requested on the Francisco Partners Talk page. At the bottom of the ongoing discussion, you will see I am hoping editors can update the amount of committed capital Francisco Partners has raised, as well as its offices. Is there a volunteer who is willing to incorporate these changes into the live article for me? I will not make my own updates to the page as I respect the rules in place for my conflict of interest as an employee of Francisco Partners. Thanks for any consideration. Janice at FP (talk) 23:13, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering how to display the stock price of a company. I'm working on a draft about the Evergrande liquidity crisis and would find it useful to be able to do so. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Talk09:08, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
I tried removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view to this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Partners. Can someone review and maybe help me get rid of the maintenance template?
I have started a draft article about Draft: John Vogelstein, who started Warburg Pincus with Lionel Pincus. He’s a major figure in the history of finance and there’s no article about him. Would someone in this project like to offer advice and help with the draft? I have a COI because I have a personal relationship with Vogelstein.
Hi. This is Jeremy Juhasz from the public relations firm Cookerly on behalf of our client Deluxe Corporation. I'm reaching out to get assistance with an edit request for the Deluxe Corporation article. I proposed some additional changes to the article's History section here and was wondering if someone would be willing to review? Thank you in advance! JeremyJuhasz (talk) 17:30, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
I started an article about the German investor Michael Greve, but it was rejected in its original form. I have now changed a few things and added references. I would be grateful for help with this draft, as I am convinced that the relevance for a contribution is definitely given. --Draicwing (talk) 17:34, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Sequoia Capital: Request for review
Hello! I recently posted a request to the Sequoia Capital article talk page asking editors who watch the page to review some proposed revisions to the History section. My request can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sequoia_Capital
As you'll see on the Talk page, there has been discussion about which of Sequoia's investments are worth discussing in the History section and which should only be mentioned in the Investments section. I think hearing from other voices on this issue—and on the preferred structure of the article in general—would be useful to help make sure the content aligns with the overall consensus.
Due to my conflict of interest (I work for Sequoia Capital) I will not make any changes to the article myself. Instead, I’ve reached out to experienced Wikipedia editors to review my proposals and hopefully implement changes when they believe the new material will improve the article.
I've just completed a substantial rewrite of the par yield article, which hadn't had much attention in a long time. See that article's talk page. It's rated low importance, but I think it belongs in a higher category. The US Treasury publishes par value yield curve rates every day, so it must be important. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 18:22, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Requests for Interactive Brokers
Hello! I'm "K at IBKR", Director of Public Relations for Interactive Brokers. I've created a Wikipedia account to represent the company and propose changes on the article's Talk page for editors to consider. I've submitted two requests to correct existing text. I've used the edit request template but haven't received any responses yet. Are any editors here at WikiProject Finance & Investment able to take a look? Thanks! K at IBKR (talk) 20:24, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I've often found finance and investment articles to be incomplete, failing to meet WP policies and guidelines, or in need of attention. I've often found in other WikiProjects that I participate in that having co-ordinators can help guide efforts to improve this, so I was wondering if there was interest in setting up some group of editors to co-ordinate the WikiProject for a temporary period of 6 months and see if this is beneficial to it. Other ideas are also welcome. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me!09:29, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
@User:A. C. Santacruz, I'm interested in helping out with this. I have time on my hands and a background in finance/investments. I share your concerns. I've come across a surprising number of articles in this area that seem to have been created in the early days of Wikipedia, before policies and guidelines were well-developed, and have barely been touched since then. Such articles need to be brought up to today's standards. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 13:40, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
BuzzWeiser196 and JBchrch: it's been suggested to me that maybe the most sensible option would be to make WP:FINANCE a WP:ECONOMICS task-force. What are y'all's thoughts on this? I think that makes more sense seeing how low the activity is in this area as well as the overlap between both projects. Of course, if y'all agree to this I'd have to start a discussion in the WP:ECONOMICS talk page and see what their thoughts are, but I like the idea. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me!22:37, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping. In general, finance as a whole is not considered to be a sub-field of economics. Of course, there are substantial overlaps between the two disciplines, including financial economics and monetary policy. But a very large part of the writing about (and teaching of) finance is done in business schools. Masters of Finance degrees are typically awarded by business schools. The overwhelming majority of bank and private equity CEOs don't have a formal education in economics. JBchrchtalk23:44, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
I agree they are not the same thing, I'm just trying to gauge what option would be the most likely to increase participation here (as someone without much experience with these kinds of processes, for what it's worth). On a related note, should I add a discussion notice to WP:ECONOMICS to get their thoughts on this at this time or would that be premature? A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me!00:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
I think it would be useful to just wait for the opinion of the participants to this project before launching a broader discussion. Pinging also Mx. Granger to this discussion as a participant to the project's mainspace. JBchrchtalk02:08, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping. I agree that many articles within this project's scope need a lot of work, and I support a collaborative effort to improve them. I'm happy to help out where I can – I have some knowledge of options trading and can help with articles in that area. —Mx. Granger (talk·contribs) 14:47, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
It doesn't hurt to try, but it seems to me like coordination is useful for thriving projects with many active editors, which is unfortunately not the stage we are at. JBchrchtalk17:51, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
I think if we get some initiative going, establish some clearer order to the project, and perhaps create a more beginner-friendly list of tasks we might be able to increase the number of editors. There are many articles like Debt where even newbies could be very helpful if we give some guidance. I feel like when others visit the WP:FINANCE they might be a bit lost or see it as a bit unfriendly visually and so don't stay too long. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me!08:26, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
@User:A._C._Santacruz - I've always viewed "finance and investment" as separate from economics, although obviously they're related. That said, bringing some economics editors into the discussion can't hurt. BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 12:31, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I thought an easy start would be to improve the layout of the WikiProject page to improve navigability. I'll be working on that for the next few weeks, and probably base myself off WP:MILHIST, WP:GOCE, and WP:LGBT due to my personal appreciation of their design. I'm brainstorming things like content drives and stuff for later (e.g. a month long stock market drive, or collaborating with WP:ECONOMICS on a month long debt drive) that could help attract contributions, but I'm still working out some kinks and researching other projects' drives before I propose anything here. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me!10:03, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
@Mx. Granger, JBchrch, BuzzWeiser196, and Fintor: I've added some tabs to the project for easy navigation so that the main page isn't a massive wall of text. I was thinking that maybe we could create a content drive for April to improve content related to the stock market. Is this something y'all would be interested in? A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me!11:08, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
@A. C. Santacruz:: Good work on those tabs. I don't know how I feel about a content drive on the stock market. How do we know that area needs improvement? Is there something lacking about the stock market content now? I'd suggest we step back and come up with some criteria to focus our improvement efforts: for example, pages that haven't been touched in years, pages that lack citations, articles classified as stubs, etc. Regards, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 12:51, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
BuzzWeiser196, my personal opinion is that all areas need improvement. I proposed the stock market as that is an area that many are interested in, new editors or those that aren't experts in finance could help with (e.g. history of Amsterdam Stock Exchange), and covers a wide range of articles. I take inspiration from contests like WP:Atdrag, where a general focus on a topic area is encouraged. My perspective is that content contests rather than cleanup drives may attract the most new editors (what this project needs), although it is possible we could have something like GAN Backlog drives and tackle the list of Finance stub articles. Brainstorming welcome :) A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me!17:13, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
I've done a bit more work with the layout, I think a very serious issue was that there were 3 or 4 different pages where assessment requests, edit requests, open tasks, and other feedback requests were listed but none of these pages were really all that visible (even the list on the main page was at the bottom). Hopefully the tabs will help prevent people like Fintor having assessment requests outstanding for years on end. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me!21:29, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
User:A._C._Santacruz: Idea #1 by itself connotes currency, foreign exchange, etc. We're broader than that. So adding the something more to Idea #1 is important in my view. How about a simple stock certificate image? Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 10:25, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Done This has now been completed. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 17:38, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Resolved
Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance & Investment/Private Equity Task Force/Welcome, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance & Investment/Private Equity Task Force/Welcome and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance & Investment/Private Equity Task Force/Welcome during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 16:34, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
