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No. Abbreviations Meaning
1 2FA Two Factor Authentication
2 3DS Three-Domain Secure
3 A2A Account to Account
4 AAB Authorized Agent Bank
5 ABF Asian Bond Fund
6 ABMI Asian Bond Markets Initiative
7 ACH Automated Clearing House
8 ADB Asian Development Bank
9 ADBI Asian Development Bank Institute
10 ADRs American Depository Receipts
11 AECM Aggregate Effective Currency Mismatch
12 AFAS ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services
13 AFS Annual Financial Statement
14 AI Artificial Intelligence
15 AIFIs All India Financial Institutions
16 AIIB Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
17 ALBM Automated Lending and Borrowing Mechanism
18 ALBRS Automated Lending and Borrowing under Rolling Settlement
19 AMC Asset Management Company
20 AMFI Association of Mutual Funds in India
21 AML Anti-money Laundering
22 AP Accounts Payable
23 APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
24 APSC ASEAN Political Security Community
25 APY Annual Percentage Yield
26 AR Accounts Receivable
27 ARDL Auto Regressive Distributed Lag
28 ARMA Auto Regressive Moving Average
29 ASBA Applications Supported by Blocked Amount
30 ASC Accounting Standards Committee
31 ATM Automated Teller Machine / At-The-Money
32 ATS Alternative Trading System
33 AUM Assets Under Management
34 AVG Average
35 B2B Business to Business
36 B2C Business to Consumer
37 BBB Better Business Bureau
38 BBC Brand to Brand to Complementation
39 BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
40 BCP Business Continuity Plan
41 BIFR Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction
42 BIS Bank for International Settlement
43 BLESS Borrowing and Lending Securities Scheme
44 BMC Base Minimum Capital
45 BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa
46 BS Balance Sheet
47 BSE The Stock Exchange, Mumbai
48 BSP Billing and Settlement Plan
49 CA Capital Allowance
50 CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate
51 CAL Capital Account Liberalization
52 CAO Chief Accounting Officer
53 CAPEX Capital Expenditures
54 CBDC Central Bank Digital Currency
55 CBDT Central Board of Direct Taxes
56 CC Clearing Corporation
57 CCIL Clearing Corporation of India Limited
58 CCO Chief Compliance Officer
59 CCU Common Currency Unit
60 CD Certificate of Deposit
61 CDS Credit Default Swap
62 CDSL Central Depository Services (India) Limited
63 CEIC Census and Economic Information Center
64 CEPT Common Effective Preferential Tariff
65 CET Common External Tariffs
66 CF Cash Flow
67 CFA Chartered Financial Analyst
68 CFM Carry Forward Margin
69 CFO Chief Financial Officer
70 CFP Certified Financial Planner
71 CFRS Carry Forward under Rolling Settlement
72 CGFS Committee on the Global Financial System
73 CGIF Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility
74 CH Clearing House
75 CIA Certified Internal Auditor
76 CIMA Certified Investment Management Analyst
77 CIMC Collective Investment Management Company
78 CIP Covered Interest Parity
79 CISs Collective Investment Schemes
80 CIVs Collective Investment Vehicles
81 CLF Collateralized Lending Facility
82 CM Common Market / Clearing Member
83 CM Segment Capital Market Segment of NSE
84 CMD Capital Market Development
85 CMIE Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy
86 COB Close of Business
87 COGS Cost of Goods Sold
88 COO Chief Operating Officer
89 COSI Committee on Settlement Issues
90 COTI Committee of Trade Issues
91 CP Custodial Participant
92 CPA Certified Public Accountant
93 CPI Consumer Price Index
94 CPP Certified Payroll Professional
95 CPs Commercial Papers
96 CRA Credit Rating Agency / Central Record Keeping Agency
97 CRISIL Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited
98 CRR Cash Reserve Ratio
99 CSD Central Securities Depository / Collateral Security Deposit
100 CSE Calcutta Stock Exchange
101 CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
102 CU Customs Union
103 CV Coefficient of Variation
104 CVC Card Validation Code
105 DBI Descriptive Billing Information
106 DCA Department of Company Affairs
107 DCC Dynamic Conditional Correlation
108 DCC-GARCH Dynamic Conditional Correlation – Generalized Auto Regressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity
109 DDBs Deep Discount Bonds
110 DEA Department of Economic Affairs
111 DFIs Development Financial Institutions
112 DNS Deferred Net Settlement
113 DPG Deferred Payment Guarantee
114 DPN Demand Promissory Note
115 DPs Depository Participants
116 DRI Differential Rate of Interest
117 DRR Debenture Redemption Reserve
118 DSCE Debt Securities Convertible into Equity
119 DSCR Debt Service Coverage Ratio
120 DTAA Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
121 DVP Delivery versus Payment
122 EBIT Earnings Before Interest and Taxes
123 EBITDA Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization
124 ECB Euro Commercial Borrowings
125 ECM Error Correction Model / European Common Market
126 ECNS Electronic communication Networks
127 EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval
128 EDI Electronic Data Interchange
129 EDIFAR Electronic Data Information Filing and Retrieval
130 EFT Electronic Fund Transfer
131 ELSS Equity Linked Saving Schemes
132 EPS Earnings Per Share
133 ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
134 ETFs Exchange Traded Funds
135 F&O Futures and Options
136 FA Fixed Assets
137 FCCBs Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds
138 FDI Foreign Direct Investment
139 FDRs Foreign Deposit Receipts
140 FDs Fixed Deposits
141 FIBV International World Federation of Stock Exchanges
142 FIIs Foreign Institutional Investors
143 FIMMDA Fixed Income Money Markets and Derivatives Association
144 FINC Financial Inclusion
145 FINTECH Financial Technology
146 FIs Financial Institutions
147 FPI Foreign Portfolio Investment
148 FRAs Forward Rate Agreements
149 FSL Financial Services Liberalization
150 FSMP Financial Sector Master Plan
151 FTA Free Trade Area Or Agreement
152 FTSE Financial Times Stock Exchange
153 FVCIs Foreign Venture Capital Investors
154 FX Foreign Exchange
155 FY Financial Year
156 G-Sec Government Securities
157 G20 Group of 20- Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, PRC, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, UK, USA and EU
158 G7 Group of Seven-Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The United Kingdom & The USA
159 GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principle
160 GARCH Generalized Auto Regressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity
161 GATS General Agreement on Trade Services
162 GATT General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs
163 GDP Gross Domestic Product
164 GDRs Global Deposit Receipts
165 GDS Gross Domestic Savings
166 GFC Global Financial Crisis
167 GFDD Global Financial Data Base
168 GFEVD Generalized Forecast Error Variance Decomposition
169 GIRF Generalized Impulse Response Function
170 GL General Ledger
171 GMM Generalized Method of Moments
172 GNP Gross National Product
173 GOI Government of India
174 GST Goods and Services Tax
175 HDI Human Development Index
176 HNX Hanoi Stock Exchange
177 HOSE Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange
178 HSBC Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
179 I-BEX ICICI Securities Bond Index
180 IAIS International Association of Insurance Supervisors
181 IAS International Accounting Standards
182 IBAN International Bank Account Number
183 IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
184 ICAI Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
185 ICAPM International Capital Asset Pricing Model
186 ICB Industry Classification Benchmark
187ICDRIssue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements
188ICICIIndustrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Limited.
189ICORIncremental Capital Output Ratio
190ICSDInternational Central Securities Depository
191ICSEInter-Connected Stock Exchange of India Limited
192ICTInformation and Communication Technology
193IDBIIndustrial Development Bank of India
194IDCWIncome Distribution Cum Capital Withdrawal
195IDXIndonesia Stock Exchange
196IFCInternational Finance Corporation
197IFRSInternational Financial Reporting Standards
198IFSDInterest Free Security Deposit
199IIMIndian Institute of Management
200IISLIndia Index Services and Products Limited
201IMFInternational Monetary Fund
202IOCImmediate or Cancel
203IOSCOInternational Organization of Securities Commission
204IPFInvestor Protection Fund
205IPOInitial Public Offer
206IPRsIntellectual Property Rights
207IRDAInsurance Regulatory and Development Authority
208IRRInternal Rate of Return
209IRSInterest Rate Swap
210ISINInternational Securities Identification Number
211ISSAInternational Securities Services Association
212ITInformation Technology
213ITMIn-The-Money
214KCMIKorea Capital Market Institute
215KPEIKliring Penjaminan Efek Indonesia
216KSEICustodian Sentral Efek Indonesia
217LAFLiquidity Adjustment Facility
218LGDLoss Given Default
219LIBORLondon Interbank offer Rate
220LIBOR-OISLIBOR – Overnight Index Swap
221LICLife Insurance Corporation of India Limited
222LLCLimited Liability Company
223LSTILoan Service-to-Income
224LTROLonger-term Refinancing Operation
225MAAFMulti-Asset Allocation Fund
226MASMonetary Authority of Singapore
227MCCMerchant Category Code
228MCFSModified Carry Forward System
229MCRMinimum Capital Requirement
230MDAMaximum Distributable Amount
231MFsMutual Funds
232MFSSMutual Fund Service System
233MGARCHMultivariate GARCH
234MIBIDMumbai Inter-bank Bid Rate
235MIBORMumbai Inter-bank Offer Rate
236MMFsMoney Market Funds
237MMMFMoney Market Mutual Fund
238MNCsMulti National Companies
239MOUMemorandum of Understanding
240MTMMark-To-Market
241NASDAQNational Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System
242NAVNet Asset Value
243NBFCsNon-Banking Financial Companies
244NCANational Competent Authority
245NCAERNational Council for Applied Economic Research
246NCBNational Central Bank
247NCDsNon-convertible Debentures
248NCFMNSE’s Certification in Financial Markets
249NDFsNon-Deliverable Forwards
250NDSNegotiated Dealing System
251NEATNational Stock Exchange Automated Trading
252NFCNear Field Communication
253NFONew Fund Offer
254NGOsNon Government Organizations
255NIBISNSE’s Internet-based Information System
256 NIC National Informatics Centre
257 NISM National Institute of Securities Markets
258 NP Normative Perspective
259 NPA Non-Performing Assets
260 NPL Non-Performing Loan
261 NRIs Non Resident Indians
262 NSE National Stock Exchange
263 NSCCL National Securities Clearing Corporation of India Limited
264 NSDL National Securities Depository Limited
265 NTBs Non-Tariff Barriers
266 NYSE New York Stock Exchange
267 OCA Optimum Currency Area
268 OCBs Overseas Corporate Bodies
269 OECD Organization for Economic Co-Operation & Development
270 OECLOB Open Electronic Consolidated Limit Order Book
271 OGARCH Orthogonal Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity
272 OIS Overnight Index Swaps
273 ORS Order Routing System
274 OTCEI Over the Counter Exchange of India Limited
275 OTM Out-of the-Money
276 OTP One-Time Password
277 P/E ratio Price Earning Ratio
278 P&L Profit and Loss statement
279 PaaS Payments as a Service
280 PAN Permanent Account Number
281 PCA Prompt Corrective Action
282 PCI DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
283 PCM Professional Clearing Member
284 PDAI Primary Dealers Association of India
285 PDO Public Debt Office
286 PDs Primary Dealers
287 PLCs Public Listed Companies
288 POS Point of Sale
289 PPP Purchasing Power Parity, Public-Private Partnership
290 PRC People’s Republic of China
291 PRI Principal Return Index
292 PRISM Parallel Risk Management System
293 PSD2 Payment Services Directive 2
294 PSE Philippines Stock Exchange
295 PSS Payment and Settlement Systems
296 PSUs Public Sector Undertakings
297 PV Present Value
298 QIBs Qualified Institutional Buyers
299 RBI Reserve Bank of India
300 ROA Return on Asset
301 ROCs Registrar of Companies
302 RT-RPS Real Time-Retail Payments System
303 RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement
304 RTP Real-Time Payment
305 S&P Standard and Poor’s
306 SAP Strategic Action Plan
307 SAT Securities Appellate Tribunal
308 SC(R)A Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956
309 SC(R)R Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957
310 SCA Strong Customer Authentication
311 SCCP Securities Clearing Corporation of the Philippines
312 SCMRD Society for Capital Market Research and Development
313 SD Standard deviation
314 SDs Satellite Dealers
315 SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India
316 SEC Security and Exchange Commission
317 SET Stock Exchange of Thailand
318 SGF Settlement Guarantee Fund
319 SGL Subsidiary General Ledger
320 SGX Singapore Stock Exchange
321 SGX-DT The Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited
322 SIPC Securities Investor Protection Corporation
323 SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio
324 SME Small And Medium Enterprises
325 SPAN Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risks
326 SPV Special Purpose Vehicle
327 SROs Self Regulatory Organizations
328 SSS Securities Settlement System
329 STP Straight Through Processing
330 STRIPS Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities
331 SUS 99 Special Unit Scheme 99
332 T-Bills Treasury Bills
333 TAN Transaction Authentication Number
334 TBT Technical barriers to trade
335 TCH Thailand Clearing House
336 TDS Tax Deducted at Source
337 TFP Total Factor Productivity
338 TM Trading Member
339 TRI Total Return Index
340 UATP Universal Air Travel Plan
341 UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Developments
342 UNDP United Nations Development Programme
343 USA United States of America
344 UTI Unit Trust of India
345 VAR Vector Auto Regression / Value at Risk
346 VCC Virtual Credit Card
347 VCFs Venture Capital Funds
348 VCUs Venture Capital Undertakings
349 VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
350 VSD Vietnam Securities Depository
351 WAN Wide Area Network
352 WAP Wireless Application Protocol
353 WDM Wholesale Debt Market Segment of NSE
354 WTO World Trade Organization
355 YSX YANGON Stock Exchange
356 YTM Yield to Maturity
357 ZCYC Zero Coupon Yield Curve