Banking Abbreviations

• ADB Asian Development Bank
• ADR American Depository Receipt
• AFS Annual Financial Statement
• ASSOCHAM Associated Chambers of Commerce
• and Industry of India
• ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• ATM Automated Teller Machine
• BIS Bank for International Settlements
• BOI Bank of India
• BoP Balance of Payments
• CAD Capital Account Deficit
• CAG Controller and Auditor General of India
• CC Cash Credit
• CD Certificate of Deposit
• CD Ratio Credit Deposit Ratio
• CGRA Currency and Gold Revaluation Account
• CII Confederation of Indian Industries
• CO Capital Outlay
• CP Commercial Paper
• CPI Consumer Price Index
• CR Capital Receipts
• CRAR Capital to Risk Weighted Asset
• Ratio
• CRR Cash Reserve Ratio
• CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial
• Research
• CSO Central Statistical Organisation
• CVC Central Vigilance Commission
• DAP Development Action Plan
• DCB Demand Collection and Balance
• DCM Department of Currency
• Management, RBI
• DD Demand Draft
• DDS Data Dissemination Standards
• DEIO Department of External Investments and Operations
• DGBA Department of Government and Bank Accounts, RBI
• DGCI&S Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics
• DI Direct Investment
• DID Discharge of Internal Debt
• EFR Exchange Fluctuation Reserve
• EPF Employees Provident Fund
• FCCB Foreign Currency Convertible Bond
• FDI Foreign Direct Investment
• FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act
• FI Financial Institution
• FII Foreign Institutional Investor
• FIMMDA Fixed Income Money Market and
• Derivatives Association of India
• FOF Flow Of Funds
• FPI Foreign Portfolio Investment
• FRA Forward Rate Agreement
• FRN Floating Rate Note
• FSS Farmers’ Service Societies
• GDP Gross Domestic Product
• GDR Global Depository Receipt
• GFD Gross Fiscal Deficit
• GFS Government Finance Statistics
• GIC General Insurance Corporation
• GLS Generalized Least Squares
• GoI Government of India
• GPD Gross Primary Deficit
• HDFC Housing Development Finance Corporation
• HFT Held For Trading
• HO Head Office
• IBRD International Bank for
• Reconstruction and Development
• IBS International Banking Statistics
• ICICI Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
• ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research
• IDB India Development Bonds
• IDBI Industrial Development Bank of India
• IDD Industrial Development Department
• IFC International Finance Corporation
• IFS International Financial Statistics
• IGLS Iterative Generalized Least Squares
• IIBI Industrial Investment Bank of India
• IIP Index of Industrial Production
• IMD India Millennium Deposits
• IMF International Monetary Fund IN India
• INR Indian Rupee
• IOTT Input-Output Transaction Table
• IP Interest Payment
• IRBI Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India
• IWGEDS International Working Group on
• External Debt Statistics
• LAF Liquidity Adjustment Facility
• LAS Loan & Advances by States
• LBD Land Development Bank
• LBS Locational Banking Statistics
• LERMS Liberalised Exchange Rate
• Management System
• LIC Life Insurance Corporation of India
• LT Long Term
• MA Moving Average
• MCA Ministry of Company Affairs
• MIGA Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
• MoF Ministry of Finance
• MTM Mark-To-Market
• NABARD National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
• NAC(LTO) National Agricultural Credit (Long Term Operatiion)
• NAIO Non Administratively IndependentOffice
• NAS National Account Statistics
• NASSCOM National Association of Software and Services Companies
• NBC Non-Banking Companies
• NBFC Non Banking Financial Companies
• NEC Not Elsewhere Classified
• NEER Nominal Effective Exchange Rate
• NFA Non-Foreign Exchange Assets
• NFD Net Fiscal Deficit
• NGO Non-Governmental Organization
• NPV Net Present Value
• NRE Non-Resident External
• NRG Non-Resident Government
• NRI Non-Resident Indian
• NSC National Statistical Commission
• NSSF National Small Savings Fund
• OD Over Draft
• ODA Official Development Assistance
• OECD Organisation for Economic
• Cooperation and Development
• OFI Other Financial Institutions
• OLTAS OnLine Tax Accounting System
• OMO Open Market Operations
• PACF Partial Auto-Correlation Function
• PACS Primary Agriculture Credit Societies
• PCARDB Primary Cooperative Agriculture
• and Rural Development Bank
• PDs Primary Dealers
• PES Public Enterprises Survey
• PF Provident Fund
• PIO Persons of Indian Origin
• PNB Punjab National bank
• PO Principal Office
• PRB Primary Revenue Balance
• PSE Public Sector Enterprises
• PUC Paid Up Capital
• QRR Quick Review Report
• RBI Reserve Bank of India
• RD Revenue Deficit
• RE Revenue Expenditure
• REC Rural Electrification Corporation
• REER Real Effective Exchange Rate
• RFC Residents Foreign Currency
• RIB Resurgent India Bonds
• RLC Repayment of Loans to Centre
• RO Regional Office
• RoCs Registrars of Companies
• RPA Rupee Payment Area
• RR Revenue Receipts
• RRB Regional Rural Bank
• RTP Reserve Tranche Position
• RWA Risk Weighted Asset
• SAM Social Accounting Matrix
• SAS Statistical Analysis System
• SBI State Bank of India
• SC Schedule Caste
• SCARDB State Cooperative Agriculture and
• Rural Development Bank
• SCB State Cooperative Bank
• SCB Scheduled Commercial Bank
• SCS Size Class Strata
• SDR Special Drawing Right
• SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India
• SEBs State Electricity Boards
• SFC State Financial Corporation
• SGL Subsidiary General Ledger
• SGSY Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarrojgar Yojana
• SHGs Self-Help Groups
• SIDBI Small Industries Development Bank of India
• SI-SPA Systems Improvement Scheme
• under Special Project Agriculture
• SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio
• SLRS Scheme for Liberation &
• Rehabilitation of Scavangers
• SMG Standing Monitoring Group
• SNA System of National Accounts
• SRWTO Small road & Water Transport Operators
• SSSBEs Small Scale Service & Business Enterprises
• WPI Wholesale Price Index