The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "bank loans" ...
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Following the Money
Cochran's powerpoint explores the use of data to cover the financial crisis. He provides an overview of banks, and a link to the BankTracker project, by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, that tracks the quarterly reports each bank submits to the FDIC. He also provides information on how to obtain data from the FDIC, and tips on tracking a bank with some details on the types of data available in this data.
Tags: financial crisis; banking; FDIC; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; assets; loans; securities; real estate; loan losses; interest income; non-interest income
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What you need to know to cover an economy in crisis
Brooks discusses the important issues of the current economic crisis, and provides links to helpful material to assist in covering the current state of the economy.
Tags: subprime; mortgage; economics; economy; federal reserve; banking; savings and loans; S&L; pension; bankruptcy
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Banking on the Poor: Documenting the Big Business of Poverty
This tipsheet serves as a guide for any reporter looking to delve into the "fringe financial industry." This industry serves people who lack access to banks and other mainstream financial institutions; it includes payday lenders, car title lenders, pawn shots and check cashing outlets. Nixon's tipsheet explains each of these institutions and offers advice on how and where to get the data to report on them.
Tags: check cashing; poverty; pawnshops; lenders; loans; interest; taxes; demographics; census
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Borrower Beware
This tipsheet is a print-off of a Milliron's power point presentation. It includes information bout the money-lending industry, with a special emphasis in Georgia. It is a good review of the AJC's investigation into the industry.
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Banking on the Poor: Documenting the Big Business of Poverty
This tipsheet serves as a guide for any reporter looking to delve into the "fringe financial industry." This industry serves people who lack access to banks and other mainstream financial institutions; it includes payday lenders, car title lenders, pawn shots and check cashing outlets. Nixon's tipsheet explains each of these institutions and offers advice on how and where to get the data to report on them.
Tags: credit; rapid refund loans; rent-to-own; census data; UCC
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Tips for covering government contracts
Fazlollah's tipsheet on ways to investigate government contracts gives reporters a guide to checking for municipal malfeasance. Sources include campaign finance disclosure reports, Thomson Financial's bond data, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, a Web site to check the backgrounds of brokers and securities firms, airport concession contracts, minority business contracts, and bank loans to government officials.
Tags: government contracts; contracting; bonds; campaign finance; CAR; computer-assisted reporting; securities dealers; pension funds; SEC; NASD; airport; bank loans; minority business contracts
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Burrowing into HMDA
A run down on what you need to have to do HMDA data based stories and what pitfalls to watch out for in said data. A list of upcoming changes to the HMDA data is also included.
Tags: HMDA; home mortgage; lending; loans; banks; racial discrimination; access; database; data; mortgage; loans; Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
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Spare Change
This tipsheet provides a list of sources for tracking businesses including banks and savings and loans, hospitals, revenue bonds and online sources.
Tags: None
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Money, That's What I Want
Redlining exists in just about every city in the country. It takes different forms: sometimes loans will be more difficult to obtain in poor and minority areas; sometimes banks will be scarce there; sometimes homeowners will be denied full-coverage insurance. This handout explains how to use the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and insurance data to uncover abuses in your communities. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org
Tags: Money; redlining; loans; banks; minorities
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Investigating Banks and Savings and Loans
"Investigating Banks and Savings and Loans" is a thorough review of all aspects of the topic, including who the regulators are, a history of deregulation and its affects, how to read banking documents, warning signs to look for, how to research financial institutions, good stories that accompany a bank takeover and how to network.