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Title Association URL
AADB The Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board View site
aba German association for occupational pensions View site
ABI L’Associazione Bancaria Italiana View site
ACCA Association of Chartered Certified Accountants View site
Accountancy Europe Previously known as FEE View site
ACI The financial markets association View site
ACME Association of European Co-operative and Mutual Insurers View site
ACPR Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Resolution View site
AEIP European Association of Paritarian Institutions View site
AFEP L'Association Française des Entreprises Privées View site
AFG Association Française de la Gestion financière View site
AFME Association for Financial Markets in Europe View site
AGC Association of Global Custodians View site
AIA Authorised Intermediary Agreemen View site
AICPA American Institute of Certified Public Accountants View site
AIFM Alternative Investment Fund Managers View site
AILO Association of International Life Offices View site
AIMA Alternative Investment Management Association View site
AIRB Advanced Internal Ratings-Based Approach View site
AISAM Association Internationale des Sociétés d’Assurance Mutuelle View site
ALDE Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe View site
ALDE Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe View site
ALFI Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry View site
ALM Asset-Liability Management View site
AMA Advanced Measurement Approach View site
AMCC Affiliate Members Consultative Committee (IOSCO) View site
AmCham EU American Chamber of commerce to the EU View site
AMF Autorité des Marchés Financiers View site
AMICE Association of Mutual Insurers and Insurance Cooperatives in Europe View site
AMI-SeCo Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral View site
AML Anti-Money-Laundering Directive View site
ANC Autorité des Normes Comptables View site
ANNA Association of National Numbering Agencies View site
APB Auditing Practices Board View site
ARC Accounting Regulatory Committee View site
AREF The Association of Real Estate Funds View site
ASU Accounting Standards Update View site
ATL Above the Line (R&D-Research and Development) View site
Atlantic Initiative Atlantic Initiative View site
AUM Assets Under Management View site
Bacs Bankers' Automated Clearing Services View site
BCBS Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors View site
BCCS Buffer Contingent Capital Securities View site
BCUCC Business Combinations under Common Control View site
BdB Association of German Banks View site
BER Block Exemption Regulation View site
beta This means that an early realease of the software is in an initial stage of testing View site
BEUC Bureau of European Consumers View site
BIBA British Insurance Brokers Association View site
BIC Bank Identifier Code View site
BIPAR The European Federation of Insurance Intermediaries View site
BIS Bank for International Settlements View site
BNE Business for New Europe View site
BritCham British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium View site
British Influence British Influence View site
Brookings Brookings Institution View site
BRRD Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive View site
Bruegel Bruegel View site
BVI German Investment Funds Association View site
CAIM IIF's Council on Asset and Investment Management View site
CAP Capital Assistance Program View site
CASG ECB's T2S Corporate Actions Sub-Group View site
CBCR Country-by-Country Reporting View site
CBLF Covered Bond Label Foundation View site
CCCTB Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base View site
CCP Central Counterparty View site
CDS credit default swaps View site
CEA European Federation of National Insurance Associations View site
CeBM Central Bank Money View site
CEBS Committee of European Banking Supervisors View site
CEEC Central and Eastern European Countries View site
CeFARR The Centre for Financial Analysis and Reporting Research View site
CEIOPS Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors View site
CEPR Centre for Economic Policy Research View site
CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies View site
CER Centre for European Reform View site
CEREP Central Repository View site
CES Centre for European Studies View site
CESAME European Commission’s Clearing and Settlement Advisory and Monitoring Experts group View site
CESR Committee of European Securities Regulators View site
CFI Classification of Financial Instrument View site
CFIUS Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States View site
CFS Centre for Financial Studies View site
CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission View site
CGFS Committee on the Global Financial System View site
CHAPS CHAPS Clearing Company View site
CICF Collateral Initiatives Coordination Forum View site
CIF Co-Investment Funds View site
CINIF Consejo Mexicano para la Investigación y Desarrollo de Normas de Información Financiera View site
CIRC China Insurance Regulatory Commission View site
CIS Collective Investment Schemes View site
CISA Collective Investment Schemes Act View site
CIV Collective Investment Vehicle View site
CM Clearing Member View site
CML Council of Mortgage Lenders View site
CNS Continuous Net Settlement View site
CoBM Commercial Bank Money View site
CoCos Contingent convertible bonds View site
CODM Chief operating decision-maker View site
COFOG Classification of the functions of government View site
COGESI Contact Group for Euro Securities Infrastructure View site
CoL Corporation of London View site
ComFrame Common Framework for the Supervision of Internationally Active Insurance Groups View site
Consob Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa View site
COREP Common Reporting View site
COSME European Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs View site
COSO The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission View site
CPMI Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures View site
CPSS Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems View site
CRA Credit Rating Agency View site
CSC Collective Safe Custody regime View site
CSD Central Securities Depository View site
CSDB Centralised Securities Database View site
CUSIP Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures View site
DB Defined benefit View site
DBIS Department for Business Innovation and Skills (UK) View site
DC Defined contribution View site
DCI Designated Credit Institution View site
DCP Directly Connected Participant View site
DEA Direct Electronic Access View site
DMO Debt Management Office View site
DNB De Nederlandsche Bank, Holland View site
DSB Derivative Service Bureau View site
DSGE Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium View site
DTA Double Taxation Agreement View site
DTCC Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation View site
DTT Double Taxation Treaty View site
DvP Delivery-versus-Payment View site
DWF Discount Window Facility View site
DWP Department for Work and Pensions View site
EACH European Association of Central Counterparty Clearing Houses View site
EACT European Association of Corporate Treasurers View site
EAPB European Association of Public Banks View site
EBA European Banking Authority View site
EBBO European best bid/offer View site
EBC European Banking Committee View site
EBF European Banking Federation View site
EBIC European Banking Industry Committee View site
EBITDA earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation View site
EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development View site
ECAI External Credit Assessment Institutions View site
ECB European Central Bank View site
ECFR European Council on Foreign Relations View site
ECGI European Corporate Governance Institute View site
ECIIA The European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing View site
ECIPE European Centre for International Political Economy View site
ECIROA European Captive Insurance and Reinsurance Owners` Association View site
ECMI European Capital Markets Institute View site
ECMS Eurosystem Collateral Management System View site
ECODA The European Confederation of Directors Associations View site
ECON Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee View site
ECR European Conservatives and Reformists Group View site
ECRI European Credit Research Institute View site
ECTR Extended Collateral Term Repo Facility View site
ED Exposure Draft View site
EDHEC EDHEC - Risk Institute View site
EDIC Euro Area Deposit Insurance Corporation View site
EDIRA European Deposit Insurance and Resolution Authority View site
EDIRF European Deposit Insurance and Resolution Fund View site
EEBF Euribor-European Banking Federation View site
EEI European Electronic Invoicing View site
EESC European Economic and Social Committee View site
EFAMA European Fund and Asset Management Association View site
EFBS European Federation of Building Societies View site
EFC European Fund Classification View site
EFFAS European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies View site
EFR European Financial Services Roundtable View site
EFRAG European Financial Reporting Advisory Group View site
EFRP European Federation for Retirement Provision View site
EFSF European Financial Stability Facility View site
EFSIR European Financial Stability and Integration Report View site
EGAOB European Group of Auditors' Oversight Bodies View site
EGIAN The European Group of International Accounting Networks and Associations View site
EIOPA European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority View site
ELEC European League for Economic Co-operation View site
Electoral Calculus View site
ELTIFs European Long-Term Investment Funds View site
EMCF European Multilateral Clearing Facility View site
EMDCs Economically More Developed Countries View site
EMEA DC EMEA Determinations Committee View site
EMF European Mortgage Federation View site
E-MIG European Market Implementation Group View site
EMIR European Market Infrastructure Regulation View site
EMPEA Emerging Markets Private Equity Association View site
EPC European Payments Council View site
EPC Economic Policy Committee View site
EPDA European Primary Dealers Association View site
EPFSF European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum View site
EPM Efficient Portfolio Management View site
EPP European People's Party View site
EPPF European Parliament Pension Forum View site
EPSAS European Strategy and Policy Analysis System View site
EPSCO Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs View site
EPTF European Post Trade Forum View site
ERC ICMA European Repo Council View site
ERPB Euro Retail Payments Board View site
ESAs EU supervisory authorities View site
ESBG European Savings Banks Group View site
ESBPF European Sovereign Bond Protection Facility View site
ESCB European System of Central Banks View site
ESDM EU Sovereign Debt Markets View site
ESFRC European Shawdow Financial Regulatory Committee View site
ESG Environmental, Social and Governance View site
ESGAB European Statistical Governance Advisory Board View site
ESM European Stability Mechanism View site
ESMA European Securities and Markets Authority View site
ESME European Securities Markets Expert Group View site
ESRC European Systemic Risk Council View site
ESS ESM Stability Support View site
ETD Exchange Traded Derivative View site
ETF Exchange Traded Funds View site
Euribor European Interbank Offered Rate View site
Eurofi Eurofi View site
European Movement European Movement View site
EUROSAI European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions View site
eusipa European Structured Investment Products Association View site
Eusipa European Structured Investment Products Association View site
EVCFs European Venture Capital Funds View site
FAF Financial Accounting Foundation View site
FAIDER Fédération des Associations Indépendantes de Défense des Epargnants pour la Retraite View site
FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board View site
FATCA Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act View site
FBE European Banking Federation View site
FCA Financial Conduct Authority View site
FCAG Financial Crisis Advisory Group View site
FCD Financial Collateral Directive View site
FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation View site
FECIF The European Federation of Financial Advisers and Financial Intermediaries View site
Fed Trust Federal Trust View site
FEE Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens View site
FEERs Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rates View site
FESE Federation of European Securities Exchanges View site
FGEFC French-German economic and financial council View site
FINMA Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority View site
FINREP Financial Reporting View site
FIN-USE Forum of User Experts in the area of Financial Services View site
FISC Financial Innovation Standing Committee View site
FISCO Fiscal Compliance Group (European Commission) View site
FMIs Financial Market Infrastructures View site
FOA Futures & Options Association View site
FOPI Federal Office of Private Insurance View site
FPSG Fund Processing Standardization Group View site
FRC Financial Reporting Council View site
FRED Financial Reporting Exposure Drafts View site
FROB Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria, Spain View site
FSA Financial Services Authority View site
FSB Financial Stability Board View site
FSCS Financial Services Compensation Scheme View site
FSF Financial Stability Forum View site
FSMA Financial Services and Markets Authority, Belgium View site
FT Financial Times View site
G20 Summit of Leaders of G20 countries View site
G30 Group of 30 - a private, nonprofit, international body composed of very senior representatives of the private and public sectors and academia View site
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles View site
GASB Governmental Accounting Standards Board View site
GBER General Block Exemption Regulation View site
GBIC German Banking Industry Committee View site
GCM General Clearing Members View site
GDP Gross Domestic Product View site
GFIA Global Federation of Insurance Associations View site
GFMA The Global Financial Markets Association View site
GIAJ The General Insurance Association of Japan View site
GIMAR Global Insurance Market Report View site
GLASS Group of Latin American Accounting Standard-Setters View site
GLEIF Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation View site
Greens/EFA Greens/European Free Alliance View site
GSC Geneva Securities Convention View site
GSE Government-Sponsored Enterprises View site
GVAR Global Vector Autoregressive View site
HBS Holistic Balance Sheet View site
HDIGF Hellenic Deposit and Investment Guarantee Fund View site
HFSF Hellenic Financial Stability Fund View site
HFT High Frequency Trading View site
HKFI Hong Kong Federation of Insurers View site
HSG Harmonisation Steering Group View site
IAASB International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board View site
IADI International Association of Deposit Insurers View site
IAESB International Accounting Education Standards Board View site
IAIG Internationally Active Insurance Groups View site
IAIS International Association of Insurance Supervisors View site
IAPF Irish Association of Pension Funds View site
IAS International Accounting Standards View site
IASB International Accounting Standards Board View site
IBRC Irish Bank Resolution Corporation View site
ICAC Instituto de Contabilidad y Autitoría de Cuentas View site
ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers View site
ICAS insurer capital adequacy standards View site
ICFR International Centre for Financial Regulation View site
ICGN International Corporate Governance Network View site
ICMA International Capital Market Association View site
ICMB International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies View site
ICP Indirectly Connected Participant View site
ICPPI Individualised Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance View site
ICSA Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators View site
ICSD International Central Securities Depository View site
IEP Bocconi View site
IESBA The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants View site
IFAC International Federation of Accountants View site
IFIAR International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators View site
IFRIC International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee View site
IFRIMA International Federation of Risk and Insurance Management Associations View site
IFRS International Financial Reporting Standards View site
IFSL International Financial Services London View site
IIF Institute of International Finance View site
IIGCC Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change View site
IIMG Inter-Institutional Monitoring Group View site
IIRC International Integrated Reporting Council View site
IJCB The International Journal of Central Banking View site
IMA Investment Management Association View site
IMF International Monetary Fund View site
IMFC International Monetary Fund Committee View site
IMFS International Monetary and Financial System View site
IMMFA Institutional Money Market Fund Association View site
INCRA International Non-Profit Credit Rating Agency View site
INIA International Network of Insurance Associations View site
INREV European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles View site
INVERCO Spanish Association of Investment and Pension Funds, View site
Invest Europe Formerly known as EVCA View site
IOPS International Organisation of Pension Supervisors View site
IORP Institution for Occupational Retirement Provision View site
IOSCO International Organisation of Securities Commissions View site
IPE Investments & Pensions Europe View site
IPEV International Private Equity Valuation View site
IPISC Investor Protection and Intermediaries Standing Committee View site
IPSAS International Public Sector Accounting Standard View site
IPSASB International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board View site
IRB Internal Ratings Based View site
IRC Incremental Default and Migration Risk Charge View site
IRSG International Regulatory Strategy Group View site
ISA International Standard on Auditing View site
ISDA International Swaps and Derivatives Association View site
ISIN International Securities Identification Number View site
ISLA International Securities Lending Association View site
ISO International Organisation for Standardisation View site
ISSA International Securities Services Association View site
IVSC International Valuation Standards Council View site
JCBI JCB International View site
JEGR Joint Expert Group on Reconciliation View site
Joint Forum Joint forum of supervisors from banking, insurance and securities View site
Kiids key investor information documents View site
KNF Komisji Nadzoru Finansowego - the Polish FSA View site
LCR Liquidity Coverage Ratio View site
LEI Legal Entity Identifier View site
LIBA London Investment Banking Association View site
Libor London Interbank Offered Rate View site
LOB Limitation on Benefits View site
LPEA Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association View site
LPFMA Lithuanian Pension Fund Member Association View site
LSE London School of Economics and Political Science View site
MAD Market Abuse Directive View site
MaRs Macro-prudential Research Network View site
MBS Mortgage-backed Securities View site
MCR Minimum Capital Requirement View site
MiFID Markets in Financial Instruments Directive View site
MMSR Money Market Statistical Reporting View site
MONFISPOL Monetary and Fiscal Policies Network View site
MREL Minimum Requirement for own funds and Eligible Liabilities View site
MSRB Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board View site
MTF Multi-lateral Trading Facility View site
NAIC National Association of Insurance Commissioners View site
NASBA National Association of State Boards of Accountancy View site
NEST The National Employment Savings Trust View site
NFI Non-Financial Institution View site
NLGS National Loan Guarantee Scheme View site
NMPG National Market Practice Group View site
NMPIs Non-Mainstream Pooled Investments (UCIS & close substitutes) View site
Notre Europe Notre Europe-Jacques Delors Institute View site
NPRF National Pension Reserve Fund View site
NRSROs nationally-recognised statistical rating organisations View site
NSFR Net Stable Funding Ratio View site
NTMA National Treasury Management Agency View site
NTNI non-traditional and non-insurance View site
NVB Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken View site
NZAOA Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance View site
OAK Oberaufsichtskommission View site
OCC The Options Clearing Corporation View site
OCERP Officially Certified European Retirement Plan View site
OCI Other Comprehensive Income View site
ODRF OTC Derivatives Regulators' Forum View site
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development View site
OEIC Open Ended Investment Company View site
OFG Oxford Financial Group View site
OFT Office of Fair Trading View site
OIC Organismo Italiano di Contabilità View site
Open Europe Open Europe View site
OPSG Operation Plans Steering Group View site
ORSA Own Risk and Solvency Assessment View site
OSSG Official Sector Steering Group View site
OTC Over-the-counter View site
OTF Organised Trading Facility View site
OTS Office of Thrift Supervision View site
PAFA Pan-African Federation of Accountants View site
PAIB Professional Accountants in Business View site
pbb (Deutsche) Pfandbriefbank (bonds, debentures) View site
PCAOB Public Company Accounting Oversight Board View site
PCS Prime Collateralised Securities View site
PDMRs Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility View site
PEGCC Private Equity Growth Capital Council View site
Peterson Institute Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics View site
PFMI Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures View site
PIIGS Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain View site
PIOB Public Interest Oversight Board View site
Policy Exchange Policy Exchange View site
Policy Network Policy Network View site
PPP purchasing power parity View site
PRA Prudential Regulation Authority View site
PRI Principles for Responsible Investment View site
PSD Payments Service Directive View site
PSMEG Payment Systems Market Expert Group View site
PSTF Private Sector Taskforce (of Regulated Professions and Industries) View site
QIF Qualified Investment Fund (mutual fund) View site
QIS Quantitative Impact Study View site
REFIT Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme initiative View site
RIAD International Association of Legal Protection Insurers and service providers View site
RMBS Residential Mortgage-backed Securities View site
ROC Receiver Operating Characteristic View site
RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement View site
RWAs risk-weighted assets View site
S&D Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats View site
S&D group Socialists & Democrats group View site
SAREB Sociedad de Gestión de Activos Procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria View site
SCFI Standing Committee on Financial Innovation View site
SCR Solvency Capital Requirement View site
SCSA Standard Credit Support Annex View site
SCT SEPA Credit Transfer View site
SDD SEPA Direct Debit View site
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission View site
SEF Swap Execution Facilities View site
SEPA Single Euro Payment Area View site
SFD Settlement Finality Directive View site
SGEI Services of General Economic Interest View site
SHRD Shareholders Rights Directive View site
SIFI Systemically important financial institutions View site
SIFMA Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association View site
SIPS Systemically Important Payment Systems View site
SMEIG SME Implementation Group View site
SMPG Securities Market Practice Group View site
SMSC Secondary Markets Standing Committee View site
SMSG Securities and Markets Stakeholders Group View site
SoFFin Financial Market Stabilisation Fund View site
SPIV Special Purpose Investment Vehicle View site
SREP Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process View site
SSI Static Settlement Instruction View site
SSR Short Selling Regulation View site
SSS Securities Settlement System View site
STP Straight-Through-Processing View site
SUERF The European Money and Finance Forum View site
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication View site
TALF Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility View site
TARGET Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System View site
TARGET2 Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer (2nd gen) View site
TARP Troubled Asset Relief Programme View site
T-BAG Tax Barriers Business Advisory Group (European Commission) View site
TER Total Expense Ratio View site
TFEU Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union View site
TFUMP Task Force on Unregulated Markets and Products View site
TheCityUK TheCityUK View site
Thomas More Institute Thomas More Institute View site
TISA Tax Incentivised Savings Association View site
TLAC Total Loss-Absorbing Capacity View site
TLPIs traded life policy investments View site
TRACE Treaty Relief and Compliance Enhancement View site
TREM Tranaction Reporting Exchange Mechanism View site
TTIP Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the United States View site
UCITS Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferrable Securities View site
UMIR Universal Market Integrity Rule View site
UN EP FI United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative View site
UNCTAD The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development View site
VFI Vertical Fiscal Imbalance View site
VFPK Verband der Firmenpensionskassen (Association of German company pension schemes) View site
VZBV Federation of German Consumer Organisations View site
WMBA Wholesale Markets Brokers' Association View site
WPPP world purchasing power parity View site
WSBI World Savings Banks Institute View site
XBRL eXtensible Business Reporting Language View site
ZKA former Zentraler Kreditausschuss - now moved to Die Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft Institute View site
ZYen View site