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3-6-3 Rule
ABA Bank Index
ABA Transit Number
Accelerated Payments
Accommodation Endorsement
Accommodation Endorser
Accommodation Paper
Accord And Satisfaction
Account Activity
Account Aggregation
Account Analysis
Account Freeze
Account History
Account Hold
Account Inquiry
Account Number
Account Statement
Accounts Receivable Conversion - ARC
Accounts Receivable Financing
Accounts Uncollectible
Acquirer
Acquisition Financing
Acquisition Loan
Active Asset
Add-On Interest
Additional Collateral
Adjusted Balance Method
Adjustment Credit
Advance Funding
Advance Rate
Adverse Action
Adversely Classified Asset
Affinity Card
Affirmative Covenant
African Development Bank - ADB
Agent Bank
Agreement Corporation
Agricultural Credit
Algorithm
All Savers Certificate
Allowance For Bad Debt
Altered Check
Alternative Mortgage Instrument
American Bankers Association - ABA
American Institute Of Banking - AIB
American National Standards Institute - ANSI
American Rule
Amount Financed
Announcement Effect
Annual Clean-Up
Anticipated Balance
Anticipated Interest
Anticipation Note
Article 9
Article XII Company
Asian Currency Unit - ACU
Asian Development Bank
Asset Backed Credit Default Swap - ABCDS
Asset Quality Rating
Asset-Backed Commercial Paper - ABCP
Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Fund Liquidity Facility - AMLF
Asset-Conversion Loan
Asset-Liability Committee - ALCO
Assignment Of Proceeds
Associate Bank
At Sight
Australian Bankers Association (ABA)
Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) Bank-Bill Reference Rate (BBSW)
Authorization Code
Authorized Investment
Authorized Settlement Agent
Auto Supplier Support Program (Auto SSP)
Automated Teller Machine - ATM
Automated Underwriting
Automatic Bill Payment
Automatic Savings Plan
Automatic Transfer Of Funds
Automatic Transfer Service - ATS
Availability
Availability Schedule
Available Balance
Available Credit
Available Funds
Aval
Average Balance
Average Collected Balance
Average Daily Balance Method
Average Daily Float
Average Outstanding Balance
Back-to-Back Commitment
Back-To-Back Letters Of Credit
Bad Check
Bad Debt Recovery
Bad Debt Reserve
Bailment
Balance Reporting
Balloon Payment
Bancassurance
Bank
Bank Administration Institute - BAI
Bank Bill Swap Bid Rate - BBSY
Bank Capital
Bank Card
Bank Card Association
Bank Confirmation Letter - BCL
Bank Draft
Bank Endorsement
Bank Fees
Bank For International Settlements - BIS
Bank Giro Transfer
Bank Guarantee
Bank Holiday
Bank Identification Number - BIN
Bank Insurance
Bank Investment Contract - BIC
Bank Lending Survey
Bank Marketing Association - BMA
Bank Of Canada - BOC
Bank of England - BoE
Bank Panic of 1907
Bank Rate
Bank Rate Monitor Index
Bank Reconciliation Statement
Bank Run
Bank Secrecy Act - BSA
Bank Statement
Bank Wire
Bankable Funds
Banking And Securities Industry Committee - BASIC
Banking Department
Bankmail
Banknote
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy Financing
Banque D'Affaires
BanxQuote Money Markets Index
Barings Bank
Base I
Base II
Basel Accord
Basel Committee On Bank Supervision
Basel I
Batch Header Record
BAX Contract
Beacon Score
Belly Up
Big Five Banks
Big Six Banks
Bilateral Credit Limit
Bill Of Exchange
Bills Payable
Bimetallic Standard
Biweekly Mortgage
Blank Endorsement
Blanket Lien
Blanket Mortgage
Blended Rate
Board of Directors
Bond Buyer 11
Bond Buyer 20
Bond for Bond Lending
Bond Trustee
Book Balance
Book Transfer
Borrowing Base
Bounced Check
Bow Tie Loan
Branch Automation
Branch Banking
Branch Manager
Breakeven Yield
Bridge Bank
Bridge Loan
British Bankers Association - BBA
Broken Date
Brought Over The Wall
Building And Loan Associaiton
Bulk Filing
Bull Bond
Bullet Loan
Business Development Bank of Canada - BDC
Caisse Populaire
Callable Certificate Of Deposit
CAMELS Rating System
Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation - CDIC
Canceled Check
Cancellation Of Debt - COD
Capital Adequacy Ratio - CAR
Capital Purchase Program - CPP
Capital Requirement
Card Recovery Bulletin
Cardholder Agreement
Cash Advance
Cash Basis Loan
Cash Card
Cash Collateral
Cash Concentration And Disbursement (CCD)
Cash for Bond Lending
Cash Position
Cashier's Check
Central Bank
Certified Check
Ceteris Paribus
Chain Banking
Chapter 15
Charge Card
Chargeback
Chartered Bank
Check
Check Clearing For The 21st Century Act - Check 21
Check Conversion
Check Hold
Check Representment
Check Routing Symbol
Check Safekeeping
Checkable Deposits
Checking Account
Checkless Society
China Investment Corporation (CIC)
Chinese Depositary Receipt - CDR
Chip Card
Christmas Club
Classified Loan
Clean Float
Clean Your Skirts
Clean-Up Requirement
Clear Title
Clearing House Automated Payments System - CHAPS
Clearing House Funds
Clearing House Interbank Payments System - CHIPS
Closed Account
Closed-End Credit
Closed-End Lease
Closing Points
CMG Plan
Co-branded Card
Co-mortgagor
Collateral Value
Collateral Value Insurance
Combined Statement
Commercial Account
Commercial Bank
Commercial Credit
Commercial Loan
Commercial Paper Funding Facility - CPFF
Commingling (Commingled)
Commissioner Of Banking
Commitment Fee
Commodity Credit Corporation - CCC
Community Currency
Community Development Financial Institution - CDFI
Community Investing
Competitive Bid Option
Compliance Examination
Composite Index of Leading Indicators
Concentration Account
Concentration Bank
Conference Of State Bank Supervisors - CSBS
Confession Of Judgment
Confirmed Letter Of Credit
Constant Percent Prepayment
Consular Invoice
Consumer Bankers Association - CBA
Consumer Credit Delinquencies Bulletin
Contemporaneous Reserves
Continuation Statement
Contraction Risk
Controlled Disbursement
Cooke Ratio
Core Deposits
Core Liquidity
Corporate Agent
Corporate Trade Exchange - CTX
Corporate Trade Payment (CTP)
Correspondent
Cosign
Coterminous
Countersignature
Country Club Billing
Country Exposure Lending Survey
Country Limit
Covenant-Lite Loans
Covered Warrant
Credit Agreement
Credit Application
Credit Control
Credit Counseling
Credit Crisis
Credit Criteria
Credit Cycle
Credit Event
Credit Facility
Credit History
Credit Limit
Credit Loss Ratio
Credit Money
Credit Netting
Credit Reference
Credit Repair
Credit Reporting Agency
Credit Review
Credit Score
Credit Sleeve
Credit Sweep
Credit Tranche
Credit Union
Credit Union National Association - CUNA
Credit Watch
Credit Worthiness
Creditors' Committee
Crest
Cross Border Financing
Cross-Border Outstanding
Cross-Currency Swap
Cross-Currency Transaction
Cross-Sell
Crossed Check
Currency Transaction Report - CTR
Currency Translation
Currency Warrants
Current Account, Savings Account (CASA)
Current Index Value
Custodian
Custody-Only Trading
Customer Information File (CIF)
Cut-Off Score
Cy Pres Doctrine
Daily Factor
Day Cycle
Day Rate
Daylight Overdraft
Dealer Financing
Dear Money
Debit Card
Debit Ticket
Debt Deflation
Debt Load
Debt-To-Income Ratio - DTI
Debtor In Possession - DIP
Debtor-In-Possession Financing - DIP Financing
Deceased Account
Default Premium
Default Rate
Deferred Availability
Delayed Disbursement
Delayed Draw Term Loan
Delinquent
Demand Deposit
Demand Draft
Demand Note
Demutualization
Deposit
Deposit Insurance Fund - DIF
Deposit Interest Rate
Deposit Multiplier
Deposit Slip
Depository Institutions Act of 1982
Depository Transfer Check - DTC
Descriptive Billing
Descriptive Statement
Discount Window
Disinflation
Disintermediation
Distressed Borrower
Dormant Account
Double Gearing
Double Leverage
Doubtful Loan
Douglas Amendment
Drawee
Dry Loan
Due From Account
Due To Account
Dun & Bradstreet - D&B
Dynamic Gap
Earning The Points
Earnings Allowance
Earnings Credit Rate - ECR
Easy Money
Economic Recovery Tax Act Of 1981 - ERTA
Economic Value Of Equity - EVE
Edge Act Corporation
Education Loan
Effects Test
Electronic Benefit Transfer - EBT
Electronic Bill Payment & Presentment - EBPP
Electronic Check
Electronic Check Presentment - ECP
Electronic Transfer Account - ETA
Email Money Transfer - EMT
Emergency Banking Act Of 1933
Emergency Credit
Emergency Fund
Emirates Interbank Offered Rate - EIBOR
Endorser
Endowment Loan
Equated Monthly Installment - EMI
Equity Swap
Error Resolution
Escrow Agreement
Euro Deposit
Euro Feds
Euro Interbank Offer Rate - EURIBOR
Euro LIBOR
Euro Overnight Index Average - EONIA
Eurobank
Eurocheck
Eurocommercial Paper
Eurocredit
Eurocurrency
Eurodollar
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD
European Central Bank - ECB
European Depository Receipt - EDR
European Union - EU
Evergreen Funding
Evergreen Loan
Exception Item
Excess Cash Flow
Excess Loans
Executives' Meeting of East Asia and Pacific Central Banks - EMEAP
Export Credit Agency - ECA
Exposure At Default - EAD
Facility
Fallout Risk
Fannie Mae - Federal National Mortgage Association - FNMA
FDIC Problem Bank List
Fed Model
Federal Advisory Council
Federal Credit Union - FCU
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act - FDICIA
Federal Farm Credit System - FFCS
Federal Funds
Federal Funds Rate
Federal Open Market Committee - FOMC
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Board - FRB
Federal Reserve Credit
Federal Reserve Float
Federal Reserve Note
Federal Reserve Regulations
Federal Reserve System - FRS
Federal Savings and Loan
Fedwire
Fiat Money
FICO Score
Finality Of Payment
Finance Charge
Financial Cooperative
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network - FinCEN
Financial Holding Company (FHC)
Financial Institution - FI
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery And Enforcement Act - FIRREA
Financial Institutions Regulatory Act
Financial Intermediary
Financial Portal
Financial Privacy
Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999
Financial Services Roundtable
Financial Supermarket
Financing
Fiscal Agent
Five Cs Of Credit
Fixed Interest Rate
Fixed Term
Fixed-Period ARM
Fixed-Rate Payment
Float Time
Floor Limit
Floor Planning
Foreign Branch Bank
Foreign Currency Fixed Deposit - FCFD
Foreign Deposits
Foreign Draft
Foreign Items
Forfeiture
Forward Forward
Found Money
Fractional Reserve Banking
Free and Clear
Free Reserves
Frozen Account
Full Recourse Debt
Functional Cost Analysis (FCA)
Funds Management
Funds Transfer Pricing - FTP
Future Dating
Gen-Saki
General Provisions
Generic Securities
Glass-Steagall Act
Gnomes of Zurich
Go-Around
Gold Reserve Act Of 1934
Gold Standard
Government Bond
Government Depository
Grace Period
Grandfathered Activities
Green Book
Greenback
Gross Coupon
Gross Negative Fair Value - GNFV
Group Banking
Group Of 24 - G-24
Group Of 30 - G30
Group of Ten - G10
Guaranteed Loan
Guarantor
Hard Money Loan
High Ratio Loan
Highly Leveraged Transaction - HLT
Holdovers
Hong Kong Interbank Offer Rate - HIBOR
Humped Yield Curve
Hybrid ARM
Hypothecation
Idle Funds
Immediate Credit
Immediate Payment Annuity
In-House
Inactivity Fee
Independent Community Bankers Of America - ICBA
Indirect Loan
Individual Development Account - IDA
Industrial Bank
Industrialization
Initial Interest Rate
Initial Interest Rate Cap
Insider Lending
Instructing Bank
Insufficient Funds
Insured Financial Institution
Inter-American Development Bank - IDB
Interbank Deposits
Interbank National Authorization System (INAS)
Interbank Network for Electronic Transfer - INET
Interbank Rate
Interchange Rate
Interdistrict Settlement Account
Interest Rate Ceiling
Interest Rate Sensitivity
Interest Rate Swap
Interest Sensitive Assets
Interest Sensitive Liabilities
Intermediate Targets
Internal Capital Generation Rate - ICGR
International Bank Account Number - IBAN
International Bank Of Reconstruction And Development - IBRD
International Banking Act of 1978
International Banking Facility - IBF
International Competitive Bidding - ICB
International Monetary Fund - IMF
International Organization Of Securities Commissions - IOSCO
International Reserves
International Securities Association For Institutional Trade Communication - ISITC
Interpretive Letter
Interstate Banking
Investment Banking
Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada - IIROC
Investment Securities
Inward Arbitrage
Islamic Banking
Islamic Financial Services Board - IFSB
Itemized Statement
Johannesburg Interbank Agreed Rate - JIBAR
John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan
Joint Endorsement
Journal
Judgment Lien
Judgmental Credit Analysis
Jumbo CD
KBW Bank Index
Keefe Bank Index
Key Rate
Kiting
Krugerrand Gold Coin
Lagged Reserves
Large Value Transfer System - LVTS
Lead Bank
Lead Underwriter
Leased Bank Guarantee
Leg Out
Legal Lending Limit
Lehman Brothers Asset-Backed Securities Index
Lender Of Last Resort
Lending Facility
Letter Of Comfort
Letter Of Credit
Letter Of Guarantee
Leveraged Lease
Lien
Lifeline Account
Limited Purpose Trust Company
Limited Service Bank
Line Of Credit - LOC
Linked Savings Account
Liquidator
Liquidity Adjustment Facility
Liquidity Crisis
Loan
Loan Application Fee
Loan Commitment
Loan Committee
Loan Grading
Loan Loss Provision
Loan Note
Loan Officer
Loan Production Office - LPO
Loan Register
Loan Shark
Loan Strip
Loan Syndication
Loan To Value Ratio - LTV Ratio
Lockbox Banking
Locked-In Interest Rate
Lombard Rate
London Interbank Mean Rate - LIMEAN
London Interbank Offered Rate - LIBOR
Losing The Points
Loss Given Default - LGD
M1
M2
M3
Market Discipline
Market Segmentation Theory
Master Notes
Matched Book
Matched Sale-Purchase Agreement - MSPA
McDonough Ratio
Means Test
Merchant Bank
Merchant Discount Rate
Message Authentication Code - MAC
Microcredit
Microfinance
Mini-Branch
Minimum Balance
Minsky Moment
Mismatch
Missent Item
Mississippi Company
Modified Dietz Method
Modified Pass-Through Certificate
Modified Payoff
Monetary Base
Monetary Conditions Index - MCI
Money
Money Factor
Money Laundering
Money Market Account
Money Market Investor Funding Facility - MMIFF
Money Order
Morris Plan Bank
Mortgage
Mortgage Banker
Mortgage Bond
Mortgage Broker
Muhammad Yunus
Multilateral Development Bank - MDB
Mumbai Interbank Bid Rate - MIBID
Mumbai Interbank Offered Rate - MIBOR
Musawamah
Mutual Fund Custodian
Mutual Savings Bank - MSB
Narrow Money
National Automated Clearinghouse Association - NACHA
National Bank
National Bank Surveillance System
National Credit Union Administration - NCUA
NCUA-Insured Institution
Negotiable Certificate Of Deposit (NCD)
Negotiable Order of Withdrawal (NOW) Account
Net Borrowed Reserves
Net Free Reserves
Net Interest Income
Next-Day Funds
Niche Banks
Night Cycle
Night Depository
NINJA Loan
No-Ratio Mortgage
Non-Banking Financial Company - NBFC
Non-Borrowed Reserves
Non-Competitive Tender
Non-Performing Asset (NPA)
Non-Performing Loan (NPL)
Non-Recourse Debt
Non-Recourse Finance
Nonbank Banks
Nostro Account
Note Issuance Facility - NIF
Notional Principal Amount
Numismatics
Off-Premise Banking
Office Of Thrift Supervision - OTS
Offline Debit Card
Offset Mortgage
Offshore Banking Unit - OBU
On Account
On-Us Item
One-Bank Holding Company
One-Day Certificate
Online Banking
Open-End Credit
Open-End Lease
Operational Risk
Origination
Other Real Estate Owned - OREO
Outward Arbitrage
Overcollateralization - OC
Overdraft
Overnight Rate
Owner Financing
Panel Bank
Past Due
Payee
Payer
PayPal
Payroll Card
Peer-To-Peer Lending (P2P)
Periodic Interest Rate Cap
Permissible Non-Bank Activities
Personal Identification Number - PIN
Pipeline
PLUS Loan
Points
Poop And Scoop
Portfolio Lender
Pre-Encashable Deposit
Pre-Provision Operating Profit - PPOP
Precision Score
Primary Dealer Credit Facility - PDCF
Prime Rate
Private Banking
Pro-Rata Tranche
Pujo Committee
Punt
Purchase and Resale Agreements - PRAs
Qualified Institutional Buyer - QIB
Real Time Gross Settlement - RTGS
Receiver
Receivership
Reconstruction Finance Corporation - RFC
Redenomination
Redeposit
Reduced Spread
Reference Rate
Refinance
Regulation E
Regulation Q
Regulation U
Rehypothecation
Reinvoicing Center
Remittance
Repudiation
Repurchase Agreement - Repo
Required Cash
Reserve Bank of Australia
Reserve Bank Of India - RBI
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Reserve Maintenance Period
Reserve Ratio
Reserve Requirements
Retail Banking
Return On Average Assets - ROAA
Reverse Mortgage
Revolving Credit
Revolving Underwriting Facility - RUF
Reykjavik Interbank Offered Rate - REIBOR
Risk-Adjusted Capital Ratio
Risk-Based Capital Requirement
Risk-Weighted Assets
Rogue Trader
Rubber Check
Run
Safekeeping
Sale and Repurchase Agreement - SRA
Savings Account
Savings And Loan Crisis - S&L
Schedule I Bank
Schedule II Bank
Secured Card
Secured Creditor
Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SOSLP)
Series E Bond
Shadow Banking System
Shadow Inventory
Share Draft
Sharia
Shirkah
Signature Loan
Significant Order
Silent Second Mortgage
Single Euro Payment Area - SEPA
Sir Allen Stanford
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications - SWIFT
South African Reserve Bank
Special Purchase and Resale Agreement - SPRA
Standby Letter of Credit - SLOC
Sterling Overnight Interbank Average Rate - SONIA
Stockholm Interbank Offered Rate - STIBOR
Stop Payment
Stretch Loan
Structured Investment Vehicle - SIV
Subprime Auto Loan
Subprime Credit
Subprime Credit Card
Subprime Loan
Subprime Market
Subprime Rates
Subsidiary Bank
Substitute Check
Super NOW Account
Supervisory Capital Assessment Program - SCAP
Suspense Account
Suspicious Activity Report - SAR
Swap Bank
Swap Dealer
Sweep Account
Swingline Loan
Swiss National Bank
Syndicated Loan
System Open Market Account - SOMA
Tax Service Fee
Tax-Free Savings Account - TFSA
Teaser Loan
Temporary Lender
Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (TLGP)
Tenor
Term Auction Facility - TAF
Term Loan
Texas Ratio
The World Bank
Thrift Bank
Tied Selling
Tier 1 Capital
Tier 2 Capital
Tight Money
Time Deposit
Transaction Deposit
Traveler's Check
Treasury Automated Auction Processing System - TAAPS
Triggering Term
Trust Receipt
Truth In Lending Act - TILA
Uncommitted Facility
Undisclosed Reserves
Unencumbered
United States Agency For International Development - USAID
Universal Banking
Vested Interest
Vostro Account
Waterfall Payment
Wet Loan
Wholesale Money
Wire House
Wire House Broker
Wire Transfer
With Approved Credit - WAC
Withdrawal
World Bank Group
Wrap-Around Loan
Z-Score
Zero Balance Account - ZBA
Zombie Debt
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