LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS - RBI - Reserve Bank of India
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Published on 30 June 1998
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
| ACU | - | Asian Clearing Union |
| ADs | - | Authorised Dealers |
| ADR | - | Asset Development Reserve |
| AGL | - | Aggregate Gap Limit |
| AIFIs | - | All India Financial Institutions |
| ARC | - | Asset Reconstruction Company |
| ARM | - | Additional Resource Mobilisation |
| ASEAN | - | Association of South-East Asian Nations |
| ATM | - | Automated Teller Machine |
| BE | - | Budget Estimates |
| BFRS | - | Board for Financial Regulation and Supervision |
| BFS | - | Board for Financial Supervision |
| BoP | - | Balance of Payments |
| BOT | - | Build-Operate-Transfer |
| BRBNMPL | - | Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited |
| BSE | - | Bombay Stock Exchange |
| CAs | - | Chartered Accountants |
| CAC | - | Capital Account Convertibility |
| CAD | - | Current Account Deficit |
| CAMELS | - | Capital Adequacy, Asset Quality, Management, Earning, Liquidity and |
| System | ||
| CARE | - | Credit Analysis and Research Limited |
| CAS | - | Central Accounts Section |
| CCFF | - | Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility |
| CDs | - | Certificates of Deposit |
| C.I.F. | - | Carriage, insurance and freight |
| CP | - | Commercial Paper |
| CPI-AL | - | Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers |
| CPI-IW | - | Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers |
| CPI-UNME | - | Consumer Price Index for Urban Non-Manual Employees |
| CR | - | Contingency Reserve/Current Receipts |
| CRAR | - | Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets Ratio |
| CRDC | - | Central Record Documentation Centre |
| CRISIL | - | Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited |
| CRR | - | Cash Reserve Ratio |
| CSF | - | Consolidated Sinking Fund |
| CSO | - | Central Statistical Organisation |
| DAPM | - | Department of Administration and Personnel Management |
| DBS | - | Department of Banking Supervision |
| DCCB | - | District Central Co-operative Bank |
| DCM | - | Department of Currency Management |
| DBOD | - | Department of Banking Operations and Development |
| DEAP | - | Department of Economic Analysis and Policy |
| DEFTY | - | Dollar Denominated Nifty |
| DFC | - | Department of Financial Companies |
| DFHI | - | Discount and Finance House of India Limited |
| DFIs | - | Development Financial Institutions |
| DGCI&S | - | Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics |
| DIT | - | Department of Information Technology |
| DPs | - | Depository Participants |
| DSR | - | Debt Service Ratio |
| DTL | - | Demand and Time Liabilities |
| DvP | - | Delivery versus Payment |
| ECB | - | External Commercial Borrowings/European Central Bank |
| ECGC | - | Export Credit Guarantee Corporation |
| ECS | - | Electronic Clearing Service |
| EEA | - | Exchange Equalisation Account |
| EEFC | - | Exchange Earners Foreign Currency |
| EFR | - | Exchange Fluctuation Reserve |
| EFT | - | Electronic Funds Transfer |
| EHTP | - | Electronic Hardware Technology Park |
| EL/HP | - | Equipment Leasing and Hire Purchase Finance Companies |
| EMU | - | European Economic and Monetary Union |
| EPCG | - | Export Promotion Capital Goods |
| EPS | - | Earning Per Share |
| EPZ | - | Export Processing Zone |
| ESCB | - | European System of Central Banks |
| EU | - | European Union |
| EWS | - | Early Warning System |
| EXIM | - | Export Import |
| FCCB | - | Foreign Currency Convertible Bond |
| FCCCI | - | First Commodity Clearing Corporation of India Ltd. |
| FCI | - | Food Corporation of India |
| FCNRA | ||
| /FCNR | - | Foreign Currency Non-Resident Accounts |
| FCNR (B) | - | Foreign Currency Non-Resident Accounts (Banks) |
| FDI | - | Foreign Direct Investment |
| FEDAI | - | Foreign Exchange Dealers Association of India |
| FEMA | - | Foreign Exchange Management Act |
| FERA | - | Foreign Exchange Regulation Act |
| FGP | - | Farmgate Prices |
| FIs | - | Financial Institutions |
| FIIs | - | Foreign Institutional Investors |
| FIPB | - | Foreign Investment Promotion Board |
| f.o.b | - | free on board |
| FRN | - | Floating Rate Note |
| FSS | - | Financial Sector Survey |
| FTR | - | Fast Track Route |
| GAAP | - | Generally Accepted Accounting Principles |
| GDP | - | Gross Domestic Product |
| GDR | - | Global Depository Receipt |
| GDS | - | Gross Domestic Saving |
| GFD | - | Gross Fiscal Deficit |
| GIC | - | General Insurance Corporation of India |
| GLC | - | General Line of Credit |
| GNP | - | Gross National Product |
| GRF | - | General Refinance Facility |
| HDFC | - | Housing Development Finance Company |
| HFCs | - | Housing Finance Companies |
| HRDD | - | Human Resources Development Department |
| HRIS | - | Human Resource Information System |
| HUDCO | - | Housing and Urban Development Corporation |
| IBA | - | Indian Banks Association |
| ICAI | - | Institute of Chartered Accountants of India |
| ICDs | - | Inter-Corporate Deposits |
| ICICI | - | Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India |
| IDBI | - | Industrial Development Bank of India |
| IDBs | - | India Development Bonds |
| IDFC | - | Infrastructure Development Finance Company |
| IDRBT | - | Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology |
| IEBR | - | Internal and Extra Budgetary Resources |
| IFCI | - | Industrial Finance Corporation of India |
| IIBI | - | Industrial Investment Bank of India Limited |
| IIP | - | Index of Industrial Production |
| IMF | - | International Monetary Fund |
| IRDP | - | Integrated Rural Development Programme |
| JVs | - | Joint Ventures |
| KVIC | - | Khadi and Village Industries Commission |
| LABs | - | Local Area Banks |
| LIBOR | - | London Inter-Bank Offered Rate |
| LIC | - | Life Insurance Corporation of India |
| LIG | - | Lower Income Group |
| LNG | - | Liquefied Natural Gas |
| LPG | - | Liquefied Petroleum Gas |
| LRMC | - | Long-run Marginal Cost |
| M0 | - | Monetary Base |
| M1 | - | Narrow Money |
| M3 | - | Broad Money |
| M&As | - | Mergers and Acquisitions |
| MCI | - | Monetary Conditions Index |
| MFs | - | Mutual Funds |
| MICR | - | Magnetic Ink Character Recognition |
| MISU | - | Market Intelligence and Surveillance Unit |
| MMMFs | - | Money Market Mutual Funds |
| MODVAT | - | Modified Value Added Tax |
| MoU | - | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MPBF | - | Maximum Permissible Bank Finance |
| MTNL | - | Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited |
| NABARD | - | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
| NAV | - | Net Asset Value |
| NBCs | - | Non-Banking Companies |
| NBFCs | - | Non-Banking Financial Companies |
| NDTL | - | Net Demand and Time Liabilities |
| NFA | - | Net Foreign Exchange Assets |
| NGO | - | Non-Government Organisation |
| NHB | - | National Housing Bank |
| NHC(LTO) Fund | - | National Housing Credit (Long Term Operations) Fund |
| NIC(LTO) Fund | - | National Industrial Credit (Long Term Operations) Fund |
| NOF | - | Net Owned Funds |
| NPA | - | Non-Performing Asset |
| NPK | - | Nitrogen, Phosphate & Potassium |
| NRC(LTO) Fund | - | National Rural Credit (Long Term Operations) Fund |
| NIBM | - | National Institute of Bank Management |
| NR(E)RA/ | - | Non-Resident (External) Rupee |
| NR(E) | Accounts | |
| NRF | - | National Renewal Fund |
| NRI | - | Non-Resident Indian |
| NRNR/NR | - | Non-Resident (Non-Repatriable) |
| (NR) RD | Rupee Deposit | |
| NSDL | - | National Securities Depository Limited |
| NSE | - | National Stock Exchange |
| OBC | - | Other Backward Classes |
| OCBs | - | Overseas Corporate Bodies |
| OECD | - | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OGL | - | Open General Licence |
| OMO | - | Open Market Operations |
| OPEC | - | Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| OPMS | - | On-line Position Monitoring System |
| OTC | - | Over the Counter |
| OTCEI | - | Over-the-Counter Exchange of India |
| PAD | - | Public Accounts Department |
| PAN | - | Permanent Account Number |
| PB | - | Primary Balance |
| PCB | - | Primary Co-operative Bank |
| PDO | - | Public Debt Office |
| PDS | - | Public Distribution System |
| PDs | - | Primary Dealers |
| PLR | - | Prime Lending Rate |
| PMT | - | Per Metric Tonne |
| POL | - | Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants |
| PSBR | - | Public Sector Borrowing Requirements |
| PSG | - | Payment Systems Group |
| PSU | - | Public Sector Undertaking |
| PTLRs | - | Prime Term Lending Rates |
| QRs | - | Quantitative Restrictions |
| RBI | - | Reserve Bank of India |
| RCS | - | Registrar of Co-operative Societies |
| RCTC | - | Risk Capital and Technology Finance Corporation Limited |
| R&D | - | Research and Development |
| RE | - | Revised Estimates |
| REC | - | Rural Electrification Corporation |
| RFCA | - | Resident Foreign Currency Accounts |
| RFIs | - | Rural Financial Institutions |
| RIDF | - | Rural Infrastructural Development Fund |
| RPS | - | Retention Price Scheme |
| RRB | - | Regional Rural Bank |
| RTGS | - | Real Time Gross Settlement |
| SAA | - | Service Area Approach |
| SBI | - | State Bank of India |
| SDDS | - | Special Data Dissemination Standards |
| SDRs | - | Special Drawing Rights |
| SDs | - | Satellite Dealers |
| SEBI | - | Securities and Exchange Board of India |
| SEBs | - | State Electricity Boards |
| SENSEX | - | Sensitive Index |
| SFCs | - | State Financial Corporations |
| SGL | - | Subsidiary General Ledger |
| SIA | - | Secretariat for Industrial Approval |
| SIDBI | - | Small Industries Development Bank of India |
| SIDC | - | State Industrial Development Corporation |
| SIL | - | Special Import Licence / Special Import List |
| SLDBs | - | State Land Development Banks |
| SLR | - | Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
| SPNS | - | Shared Payment Network System |
| SRS | - | Systems Requirement Specifications |
| SSCBs | - | Scheduled State Co-operative Banks |
| SSE | - | Small Scale Enterprise |
| SSI | - | Small Scale Industry |
| SSP | - | Single Super Phosphate |
| STCI | - | Securities Trading Corporation of India Limited |
| STPLRs | - | Short-term Prime Lending Rates |
| SWIFT | - | Society for Worldwide Inter-bank Financial Telecommunication |
| TDICI | - | Technology Development and Information Company of India Limited |
| TDS | - | Tax Deduction at Source |
| TFCI | - | Tourism Finance Corporation of India |
| TPDS | - | Targeted Public Distribution System |
| UBD | - | Urban Banks Department |
| UCBs | - | Urban Co-operative Banks |
| UTI | - | Unit Trust of India |
| VAT | - | Value Added Tax |
| VDIS | - | Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme |
| VSAT | - | Very Small Aperture Terminal |
| WAN | - | Wide Area Network |
| WDM | - | Wholesale Debt Market |
| WDT | - | World Debt Tables |
| WGC | - | World Gold Council |
| WMA | - | Ways and Means Advances |
| WPI | - | Wholesale Price Index |
| WTO | - | World Trade Organisation |
| Y2K | - | Year 2000 |
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