Abbreviations - RBI - Reserve Bank of India
Abbreviations
AD | – | Authorised Dealer |
ADF | – | Augmented Dickey-Fuller |
ADRs | – | American Depository Receipts |
AIFI | – | All India Financial Institution |
ALM | – | Asset Liability Management |
AMPI | – | Aggregated Micro-Prudential Indicator |
ASB | – | Accounting Standard Board |
APC | – | Accounting Practices Committee |
BCBS | – | Basle Committee on |
Banking Supervision | ||
BFS | – | Board for Financial Supervision |
BIS | – | Bank for International Settlements |
BoB | – | Bank of Baroda |
BoE | – | Bank of England |
BoP | – | Balance of Payments |
BSE | – | Bombay Stock Exchange |
CAC | – | Capital Account Convertibility |
CAG | – | Comptroller and Auditor General |
CACS | – | Capital Adequacy, Asset |
Quality, Compliance and Systems | ||
CAD | – | Current Account Deficit |
CAMELS | – | Capital Adequacy, Asset Quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity and Systems |
CAPM | – | Capital Asset Pricing Model |
CCB | – | Central Co-operative Bank |
CCI | – | Controller of Capital Issues |
CD | – | Certificate of Deposit |
CFMS | – | Centralised Funds Management System |
CIP | – | Covered Interest Parity / Central Issue Prices |
CLF | – | Collateralised Lending Facility |
CP | – | Commercial Paper |
CPI-IW | – | Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers |
CPSS | – | Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems |
CRAR | – | Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets Ratio |
CRR | – | Cash Reserve Ratio |
CSH | – | Contractual Saving for Housing |
CV | – | Co-efficient of Variation |
DCCB | – | District Central Co-operative Bank |
DEA | – | Data Envelopment Analysis |
DFHI | – | Discount and Finance House of India |
DFI | – | Development Financial Institution |
DGCI&S | – | Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics |
DICGC | – | Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation |
DNS | – | Deferred Net Settlement |
DRT | – | Debt Recovery Tribunal |
DvP | – | Delivery versus Payments |
ECB | – | External Commercial Borrowings |
ECGC | – | Export Credit Guarantee Corporation |
ECS | – | Electronic Clearing Service |
EEFC | – | Exchange Earners’ Foreign Currency |
EFT | – | Electronic Funds Transfer |
ELC | – | Equipment Leasing Company |
EMU | – | European Monetary Union |
ERP | – | Effective Relative Prices |
Exim Bank | – | Export-Import Bank of India |
FATF | – | Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering |
FCCB | – | Foreign Currency Convertible Bond |
FCNR(B) | – | Foreign Currency Non- Resident (Bank) Account |
FDI | – | Foreign Direct Investment |
FDIC | – | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
FEMA | – | Foreign Exchange Management Act |
FI | – | Financial Institution |
FII | – | Foreign Institutional Investor |
FIPB | – | Foreign Investment Promotion Board |
FP | – | Forward Premia |
FRA | – | Financial Restructuring Authority / Forward Rate Agreement |
FSA | – | Financial Services Authority |
FSAP | – | Financial Sector Assessment Programme |
FSF | – | Financial Stability Forum |
GCF | – | Gross Capital Formation |
GDP | – | Gross Domestic Product |
GDRs | – | Global Depository Receipts |
GDS | – | Gross Domestic Saving |
GFD | – | Gross Fiscal Deficit |
GIC | – | General Insurance Corporation |
HDFC | – | Housing Development Finance Corporation |
HFC | – | Housing Finance Company |
HPFC | – | Hire Purchase Finance Company |
HUDCO | – | Housing and Urban Development Corporation |
IAIS | – | International Association of Insurance Supervision |
IAPC | – | International Auditing Practices Committee |
IAS | – | International Accounting Standards |
IASC | – | International Accounting Standards Committee |
IC | – | Investment Company |
ICAI | – | Institute of Chartered Accountants of India |
ICOR | – | Incremental Capital Output Ratio |
ICSI | – | Inter-Connected Stock Exchange of India Ltd |
IDBI | – | Industrial Development Bank of India |
IDFC | – | Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation |
IDRBT | – | Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology |
IFA | – | International Financial Architecture |
IFAC | – | International Federation of Accountants |
IFCI | – | Industrial Finance Corporation of India |
IIBI | – | Industrial Investment Bank of India |
IIP | – | Index of Industrial Production |
ILAF | – | Interim Liquidity Adjustment Facility |
IMD | – | India Millennium Deposit |
IMF | – | International Monetary Fund |
IMFC | – | International Monetary and Financial Committee |
INFINET | – | Indian Financial Network |
IOC | – | Indian Oil Corporation |
IPO | – | Initial Public Offering |
IOSCO | – | International Organisation of Securities Commissions |
IRDA | – | Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority |
IRS | – | Interest Rate Swap |
IT | – | Information Technology |
IVCF | – | IFCI Venture Capital Funds Ltd. |
LAB | – | Local Area Bank |
LAF | – | Liquidity Adjustment Facility |
LC | – | Loan Company |
LIBOR | – | London Inter Bank Offer Rate |
LIC | – | Life Insurance Corporation of India |
MAT | – | Minimum Alternate Tax |
MBFC | – | Mutual Benefit Financial Company |
MEI | – | Macro-economic Indicators |
MICR | – | Magnetic Ink Character Recognition |
MMMFs | – | Money Market Mutual Funds |
MNBC | – | Miscellaneous Non-Banking Company |
MPBF | – | Maximum Permissible Bank Finance |
MPC | – | Monetary Policy Committee |
MPI | – | Macro-prudential Indicator |
NABARD | – | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
NASDAQ | – | National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quote |
NBFC | – | Non-Banking Financial Company |
NEAT | – | National Exchange for Automated Trading |
NFA | – | Net Foreign Exchange Assets |
NHB | – | National Housing Bank |
NHP | – | National Housing Policy |
NOF | – | Net Owned Fund |
NPA | – | Non-Performing Asset |
NPC | – | National Payments Council |
NR(E)A/NRER | – | Non-Resident (External) Rupee Account |
NRNR | – | Non-Resident Non-Repatriable Account |
NSC | – | National Statistical Commission |
NSCCL | – | National Securities Clearing Corporation Ltd. |
NSDL | – | National Securities Depository Ltd. |
NSE | – | National Stock Exchange |
NSS | – | National Sample Survey |
OCC | – | Office of the Comptroller of Currency |
OECD | – | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OFI | – | Other Financial Institution |
OMO | – | Open Market Operation |
OSMOS | – | Off-site Surveillance and Monitoring System |
OTC | – | Over the Counter |
OTCEI | – | Over the Counter Exchange of India |
PACS | – | Primary Agricultural Credit Societies |
PCA | – | Prompt Corrective Action |
PCARDB | – | Primary Co-operative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank |
PCB | – | Private Co-operative Bank |
PDO | – | Public Debt Office |
PD | – | Primary Dealer |
PDS | – | Public Distribution System |
PNB | – | Punjab National Bank |
PP | – | Philips-Perron |
PPP | – | Purchasing Power Parity |
PSB | – | Public Sector Bank |
PSG | – | Payment System Group |
PSU | – | Public Sector Undertaking |
RBI | – | Reserve Bank of India |
RE | – | Revised Estimate |
REER | – | Real Effective Exchange Rate |
RIB | – | Resurgent India Bond |
RIP | – | Real Interest Parity |
RNBC | – | Residuary Non-Banking Company |
ROSC | – | Reports on Observance of Standards and Codes |
ROW | – | Rest of the World |
RRB | – | Regional Rural Bank |
RS | – | Rolling Settlement |
RTGS | – | Real Time Gross Settlement |
RW | – | Random Walk |
SAC | – | Settlement Advisory Committee |
SAP | – | Standard Auditing Practice |
SBI | – | State Bank of India |
SCARDB | – | State Co-operative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank |
SCB | – | Scheduled Commercial Bank |
SD | – | Satellite Dealer/Standard Deviation |
SDDS | – | Special Data Dissemination Standards |
SEBI | – | Securities and Exchange Board of India |
SFC | – | State Financial Corporation |
SGL | – | Subsidiary General Ledger |
SHCIL | – | Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd. |
SIDBI | – | Small Industries Development Bank of India |
SIDC | – | State Industrial Development Corporation |
SLR | – | Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
S&P | – | Standard and Poor |
StCB | – | State Co-operative Bank |
STCI | – | Securities Trading Corporation of India |
STRIP | – | Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Security |
TDICI | – | Technology Development and Investment Corporation of India |
TDS | – | Tax Deduction at Source |
TFCI | – | Tourism Finance Corporation of India |
UCB | – | Urban Co-operative Bank |
UIP | – | Uncovered Interest Parity |
US | – | United States |
US GAAP | – | US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles |
UTI | – | Unit Trust of India |
VAR | – | Vector Auto-Regression |
VaR | – | Value at Risk |
VAT | – | Value Added Tax |
VSAT | – | Very Small Aperture Terminal |
WMA | – | Ways and Means Advances |
WPI | – | Wholesale Price Index |
WTO | – | World Trade Organisation |
YTM | – | Yield to Maturity |