Welcome to the "Your Project Management" page for the Banking and Finance Sectors.

The Banking and Financial Services Industries page presents links and information from both inside and outside of AIPM which are relevant to project managers.

This page is similar to the Defence and Construction, and is still evolving.

Click here to submit a link for consideration. Please forward any comments to IRC Manager Rob Tucker. 

Banking & Finance Useful Links

Regulatory Bodies - Australia

• APRA - Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
• ASIC - Australian Securities and Investments Commission
• Dept. of Finance and Administration
• Reserve Bank of Australia
• Treasury

Regulatory Bodies - International

• Asian Development Bank
• European Central Bank
• International Monetary Fund
• OECD
• World Bank: Global Projects   Projects by Subject/Theme 
• All World Central Banks (AIBF Monsterlinks page)

Australasian Professional Associations & Institutes: Banking, Financial Services & Insurance

• Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Ltd
• Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia
• Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance - check out their monster links! Best on the web.
• FINSIA (ex AIBF)
• Australian Bankers Association (ABA)
• Australian Financial Markets Association
• Australian Insurance Institute
• Australian Payments Clearing Association Ltd
• Australian Society of CPA's
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
• Institute of Financial Services
• Investment and Financial Services Association Limited
• National Institute of Accountants
• National Insurance Brokers Association of Australia
• Securities Institute
• All Australian Banking & Finance Associations (AIBF Monsterlinks Page)
• All New Zealand Banking & Finance Associations (AIBF Monsterlinks Page)

Online News Sites & Publications (all industries)

• AFR - Australian Financial Review
• BRW
• finextra.com - excellent source for what is going on right across the sector

Articles and Resources

• Banking and Finance Project Case Studies - finextra.com
• Banking and Finance Project White papers - finextra.com
• Banking and Finance Project Research - finextra.com
• Risk Management for Internet Banking (ISACA article)
• Financial Services Projects White Papers - TechRepublic (login & password required for this site)

If you know of a good case study, white paper, or article on project management in the banking and finance sectors to add to this section, please let me know 

Glossaries (Australian & Global)

• AAMI Glossary of Insurance Terms - Australian Insurance terms
• Bloomberg.com financial glossary - authoritative and detailed
• HBA Health Insurance Glossary - know your "aromatherapy" from your "ancillary cover"...
• investorwords.com - "The biggest best investing glossary on the web"
• moneymanager.com.au glossary - excellent source of general and Australian financial terminology

 

Banking and Finance Salary Surveys: Hays, May 2005

• Accountancy and Finance
• Professional Services (Audit, Tax etc)
• Banking and Finance
• Insurance

These salary surveys are industry specific and do not mention "project managers" as such - if you are a Banking & Finance IT Project Manager, see the main Salary Surveys useful links section.

Don't forget to check the AIPM Jobs Listing for increasingly regular Banking and Financial Services project jobs!

 

AIPM Banking & Finance Resources

Recent Financial Services News Items:

Banking and Finance Organisations awarded the Project Managed Organisation (PMO) to date:

• Australian Tax Office ATO 
• AXA Asia Pacific

Project Management Achievement Awards (PMAA) Winners:

• AXA Asia Pacific - National PMAA Winners for 2004
• EDS and ATO win the 2004 ACT Chapter PMAA Award

AIPM Bibliographies:

The IRC has many recently compiled bibliographies on numerous topics across the discipline of project management - these are a few that are relevant to the Business and Finance sectors: 

- Banking and Finance Projects	- Aid and International Development Projects
- Public Private Partnerships	- Virtual Teams & Global Projects
- Implementing IT Projects Successfully	- Benefits Realisation in IT & Change Projects
- Business Analysis and Project Offices	- Project Approval Processes in the Private Sector

You can find these bibliographies in the IRC Bibliographies Section (login and password required). You can also get your own bibliography compiled on the topic of your choice via the IRC Literature Searches section, and request any of the articles you see in them via the IRC Document Supply Service.

Banking and Finance Online Discussion Forum

There is a Banking and Finance Discussion Forum (login and password required) which badly needs new contributions...Feel free to start a new stream!

Quotations

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
 Kin Hubbard

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."
Benjamin Franklin

"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour."
Lord Byron

"October:  This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.  The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."
Mark Twain 

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