Important Abbreviations used in Economy and Banking Sectors

In today's world people are always in hurry. This hurry is not just limited in accomplishing their daily tasks, jobs and works. Nowadays they even don't have time to express their thoughts and things in proper expanded forms, which led to the prevailingness of use to abbreviations in daily routines . So to adapt the change, we should also need to be aware of such abbreviations.

 

Here are few of them given below : 

 

• ALM – Asset Liability Management
• ANBC – Adjusted Net Bank Credit
• ASBA – Applications supported Bank accounts
• BOE – Bill of Exchange
• CASA – Current and savings accounts
• CBLO – Collateralised Bank Lending Obligations
• CIBIL – Credit Information Bureau of India Limited
• DPG – Deferred Payment Guarantee
• DPN – Demand Promissory Note
• DRAT – Debt Recovery Appellate tribunal
• DRI – Differential Rate of Interest
• DSCR – Debt Service Coverage Ratio
• EDI – Electronic Data Interchange
• EMI – Equated Monthly Instalments
• EPS – Earnings Per Share
• ESOP – Employee Stock Options
• FEDAI – Foreign Exchange Dealers Association of India
• FFMC – Full Fledged Money Changers
• FOB – Free on Board
• LIBOR – London Inter Bank Operations Rate
• MIBOR – Mumbai Inter Bank Operations Rate
• MOU – Memorandum of Understanding
• MCA – Ministry of Company Affairs
• NPV – Net Present Value
• OCB – Overseas Corporate Bodies
• POA – Power of Attorney
• RKBY – Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojana
• SEBI – Securities and Exchange Board of India
• LAF – Liquidity Adjustment Facility
• IDBI – Industrial Development Bank of India
• BCSBI – Banking Codes and Standards Board of India
• IRDA – Insurance Regulatory Development Authority
• DICGC – Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation
• SPV – Special Purpose Vehicle
• CRISIL – Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited
• ICRA – Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency of India Limited
• CARE – Credit Analysis and Research Limited
• MCX – Multi Commodity Exchange
• CCIL – Clearing Corporation of India Limited
• OTCEI – Over the Counter Exchange of India
• EFT – Electronic Funds Transfer
• ARF – Asset Reconstruction Fund
• MSS – Market Stabilisation Scheme
• CRAR – Capital to Risk Assets Ratio
• FSDC – Financial Stability and Development Council
• SCARDB – State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Banks
• LERMS – Liberalised Exchange Rate Management System
• BOT – Balance of Trade
• CAC – Capital account convertibility
• NDS – Negotiated Dealing System
• NABARD - National Bank for Agricultural & Rural Development
• RTGS - Real Time Gross Settlement
• NEFT - National Electronic Fund Transfer
• NAV - Net Asset Value 5. NPA - Non Performing Asset
• ASBA - Account Supported by Blocked Amount
• BIFR - Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction
• CAMELS - Capital Adequacy, AssetQuality, Management Earnings, Liquidity, Systems & Controls
• BCSBI - Banking Codes & Standard Board of India
• BIS – Bank for International Settlement
• BCBS – Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
• BOP - Balance of Payment
• BOT - Balance of Trade
• BPLR – Benchmark Prime Lending Rate
• CCIL – Clearing Corporation of India Ltd.
• ISCI – International Standard Industrial Classification
• KCC – Kisan Credit Card
• KVIC – Khadi and Village Industries Corporation
• KYC – Know your customer
• LAMPS – Large Sized Adivasi Multipurpose societies
• LERMS – Liberalised Exchange Rate Management System
• LIC – Life Insurance Corporation of India
• MCA – Ministry of Company affairs
• MIS – Management Information System
• MICR – Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
• NABARD – National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
• NBFC – Non Banking Finance Companies
• NEFT – National Electronic Funds Transfer
• NPA – Non Performing assets
• NRE – Non Resident External account
• NRI – Non Resident Indian
• NSE – National Stock Exchange
• OLTAS – Online tax accounting system
• OMO – Open market operations
• PACS – Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
• PDO – Public Debt Office
• PIN – Personal Identification Number
• QIB – Qualified Institutional Buyers
• RBI – Reserve Bank of India
• RDBMS – Relational Database Management System
• REC – Rural Electrification Corporation
• RFC – Resident Foreign Currency
• RIDF – Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
• RRB – Regional Rural Bank
• RTGS – Real Time Gross Settlement
• RWA – Risk Weighted Assets
• SBI – State Bank of India
• SCB – Scheduled Commercial Bank
• SDR – Special Drawing Rights
• SEBI – Securities and Exchange Board of India
• SFMS - Structured Financial Messaging Services
• SHG – Self Help Group
• SIDBI – Small Industries Development Bank of India
• SIDC – State Industrial Development Corporation
• SJSRY –Swarna Jayanthi Shahari Rozgar Yojana
• SLR – Statutory Liquidity Ratio
• SLRS – Scheme for Liberation and Rehabilitation of Scavangers
• SMERA – SME rating agency of India Limited
• SSI – Small Scale Industries
• SME – Small and Medium Industries
• SSSBE – Small Scale Service and Business Enterprises
• UTI – Unit Trust of India
• WPI – Wholesale Price Index
• YTM – Yield to maturity
• LAB – Local Area Banks