List of Select Abbreviations

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List of Select Abbreviations

3-MMA	3-Month Moving Average
AA	Adjudicating Authority
AEs	Advanced Economies
AFA	Authorisation for Assignment
AFS	Available for Sale
AID	All Inclusive Directions
AIFs	Alternative Investment Funds
AIFIs	All-India Financial Institutions
AMCs	Asset Management Companies
AMFI	Association of Mutual Funds in India
APIs	Application Programming Interfaces
APY	Atal Pension Yojana
ARCL	AMC Repo Clearing Limited
ARCs	Asset Reconstruction Companies
ASPs	Annuity Service Providers
AUM	Assets Under Management
BCBS	Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
BIFR	Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction
Bima-ASBA	Bima Applications Supported by Blocked Amount
BIS	Bank for International Settlements
BLC	Balanced Life Cycle Fund
BPS	Basis Points
BRSR	Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting
BSI	Banking Stability Indicator
CAD	Current Account Deficit
CAGR	Compounded Annual Growth Rate
CART	Continuous Assessment-Based Red Teaming
CASA	Current Account and Savings Account
CCIL	Clearing Corporation of India Ltd.
CCPs	Central Counterparties
CCRI	Credit Concentration Risk Index
CCs	Clearing Corporations
CDs	Certificates of Deposit
CDSL	Central Depository Services Limited
CET1	Common Equity Tier 1
CGFMU	Credit Guarantee Fund for Micro Units
CICs	Core Investment Companies
CIRP	Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process
CLOs	Collateralised Loan Obligations
CMs	Clearing Members
CoC	Committee of Creditors
CP	Commercial Paper
CPGRAMS	Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System
CPI	Consumer Price Index
CRAR	Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets Ratio
CRAs	Credit Rating Agencies
CRR	Cash Reserve Ratio
D-SIIs	Domestic Systemically Important Insurers
DGA	Duration Gap Analysis
DICGC	Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation
DIIs	Domestic Institutional Investors
DFM	Dynamic Factor Model
DIF	Deposit Insurance Fund
DLAs	Digital Lending Apps
DPD	Days Past Due
DRS	Debt Relief Schemes
DSR	Debt Service Ratio
EAR	Earnings At Risk
EBIT	Earnings Before Interest and Taxes
EBLR	External Benchmark-Based Lending Rate
EBPT	Earnings Before Profit and Tax
ECB	External Commercial Borrowings
ECLGS	Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme
EMDEs	Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
EMEs	Emerging Market Economies
EMP	Exchange Market Pressure
EoDB	Ease of Doing Business
EOI	Expression of Interest
EPS	Earnings per Share
ERPs	ESG Rating Providers
ESG	Environmental, Social, and Governance
ETFs	Exchange Traded Funds
FBs	Foreign Banks
FCI	Financial Conditions Index
FDI	Foreign Direct Investment
FEMA	Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
FIRE	Format for Incident Reporting Exchange
FMEs	Fund Management Entities
FoFs	Fund of Funds
FPI	Foreign Portfolio Investment
FSB	Financial Stability Board
FSDC	Financial Stability and Development Council
FSR	Financial Stability Report
FSSI	Financial System Stress Indicator
FVTPL	Fair Value Through Profit and Loss
FY	Financial Year
GAOs	Global Administrative Offices
GaR	Growth-at-Risk
G20	Group of Twenty
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GEP	Global Economic Prospects
GNPA	Gross Non-Performing Asset
GPR	Global Geopolitical Risk
GSIBs	Globally Systemically Important Banks
G-Secs	Government Securities
GST	Goods and Services Tax
HFCs	Housing Finance Companies
HHI	Herfindahl-Hirschman index
HFT	Held for Trading
HQLAs	High Quality Liquid Assets
HTM	Held to Maturity
HVDLEs	High Value Debt Listed Entities
HySAC	Hybrid Securities Advisory Committee
IAIS	International Association of Insurance Supervisors
IBBI	Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
ICR	Interest Coverage Ratio
IESSA	International Ethics Standards for Sustainability Assurance
IFSC	International Financial Services Centre
IFSCA	International Financial Services Centres Authority
IIBX	India International Bullion Exchange
IIF	Institute of International Finance
IIP	International Investment Position
IM	Information Memorandum
IMF	International Monetary Fund
INR	Indian Rupee
InvITs	Infrastructure Investment Trusts
IOSCO	International Organization of Securities Commission
IPO	Initial Public Offerings
IPs	Insolvency Professionals
IR	Information Ratio
IRDAI	Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
ISPOT	Integrated SEBI Portal for Technical Glitches
ISSA	International Standard on Sustainability Assurance
IU	Information Utilities
KMPs	Key Managerial Personnel
KYC	Know Your Customer
LCR	Liquidity Coverage Ratio
LGD	Loss Given Default
LODR	Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements
LPCC	Limited Purpose Clearing Corporation
LSPs	Lending Service Providers
LT	Long-term
LTV	Loan-to-Value
MDG	Modified Duration Gap
MeitY	Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
MF	Mutual Fund
MF Lite	Mutual Funds Lite
MII	Market Infrastructure Institutions
MITRA	Mutual Fund Investment Tracing and Retrieval Assistant
MNRL	Mobile Number Revocation List
MoU	Memorandum of Understanding
MRC	Minimum Required Corpus
MSME	Micro, Small And Medium Enterprises
MTM	Mark-To-Market
MVE	Market Value of Equity
NABARD	National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
NAVs	Net Asset Values
NaBFID	National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development
NBFCs	Non-Banking Financial Companies
NBFC-ML	Middle layer NBFCs
NBFC-UL	Upper layer NBFCs
NBFI	Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries
NBSI	Non-Banking Stability Indicator
NDS-OM	Negotiated Dealing System – Order Matching
NDTL	Net Demand and Time Liabilities
NeGD	National e-Governance Division
NFCs	Non-Financial Corporates
NFO	New Fund Offer
NHB	National Housing Bank
NIC	National Industrial Classification
NII	Net Interest Income
NIM	Net Interest Margin
NNPA	Net Non-Performing Assets
NOC	No-Objection Certificate
NOI	Net Operating Income
NPL	Non-Performing Loans
NPS	National Pension System
NRC	Nomination and Remuneration Committee
NSDL	National Securities Depository Limited
NSE IX	NSE International Exchange
NSFR	Net Stable Funding Ratio
NSO	National Statistical Office
NSUCBs	Non-Scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks
ODIs	Offshore Derivative Instruments
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OFIs	Other Financial Intermediaries
OIS	Overnight Indexed Swap
OOI	Other Operating Income
ORBIO	Offices of the Reserve Bank of India Ombudsman
OTC	Over-the-Counter
OVD	Officially Valid Document
P/E	Price-to-Earnings
PaRRVA	Past Risk and Return Verification Agency
PAT	Profit After Tax
PCE	Personal Consumption Expenditures
PCR	Provisioning Coverage Ratio
PDs	Primary Dealers
PFRDA	Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority
PL	Performing Loans
PSBs	Public Sector Banks
PSL	Priority Sector Lending
PVBs	Private Sector Banks
RAR	Risk Adjusted Return
RAs	Retirement Advisers
RBI	Reserve Bank of India
REIT	Real Estate Investment Trust
REER	Real Effective Exchange Rate
REs	Regulated Entities
RMBS	Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
RMC	Risk Management Committee
RoA	Return on Asset
RoE	Return on Equity
RPs	Resolution Plans
RPTs	Related Party Transactions
RRBs	Regional Rural Banks
RSA	Rate-Sensitive Assets
RSL	Rate-Sensitive Liabilities
RWA	Risk-Weighted Assets
SBs	Stock Brokers
SBU	Separate Business Unit
SCBs	Scheduled Commercial Banks
SD	Standard Deviation
SDI	Securitised Debt Instrument
SDLs	State Development Loans
SEBI	Securities and Exchange Board of India
SFBs	Small Finance Banks
SGF	Settlement Guarantee Fund
SIF	Specialized Investment Funds
SIMM	Standard Initial Margin Model
SIPs	Systematic Investment Plans
SLR	Statutory Liquidity Ratio
SMAs	Special Mention Accounts
SM REIT	Small and Medium Real Estate Investment Trust
SOC	Security Operations Centre
SPDs	Stand-alone Primary Dealers
SRC	Stakeholder Relationship Committee
SRS	Systemic Risk Survey
SRVA	Special Rupee Vostro Account
ST	Short-term
SUCBs	Scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks
TGA	Traditional Gap Analysis
TMs	Trading Members
UCB	Urban Cooperative Bank
UPS	Unified Pension Scheme
USD	US Dollar
VARX	Vector Auto Regression with Exogenous Variables
VIX	Volatility Index