| ACB | Audit Committee of the Board |
| ACC | Additional Credit Claims |
| AEs | Advanced Economies |
| AFS | Available For Sale |
| AIFI | All-India Financial Institutions |
| AMC | Asset Management Companies |
| AMFI | Association of Mutual Funds in India |
| APP | Asset Purchase Programme |
| APY | Atal Pension Yojana |
| ARC | Asset Reconstruction Company |
| AUM | Assets Under Management |
| BCBS | Basel Committee on Banking Supervision |
| BIFR | Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction |
| BOE | Bank of England |
| BOJ | Bank of Japan |
| BSI | Banking Stability Indicator |
| CAGR | Compounded Annual Growth rate |
| CBLO | Collateralised Borrowing and Lending Obligations |
| CCyB | Countercyclical Capital buffer |
| CD | Corporate Debtor / Certificate of Deposit |
| CDS | Credit Default Swap |
| CERT-In | Indian Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CET | Common Equity Tier |
| CIRP | Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process |
| COVID-19 | Corona Virus Disease 2019 |
| CP | Commercial Paper |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CRA | Credit Rating Agencies |
| CRAR | Capital to Risk-weighted Assets Ratio |
| CRILC | Central Repository of Information on Large Credits |
| CRR | Cash Reserve Ratio |
| CSF | Consolidated Sinking Fund |
| CSITE | Cyber Security and IT Risk |
| CTRF | Contingent Term Repo Facility |
| EBPT | Earnings Before Profit and Tax |
| ECB | European Central Bank |
| ECL | Expected Credit Loss |
| EIF | European Investment Fund |
| EMs | Emerging Markets |
| EPF | Employee Provident Fund |
| ETF | Exchange Traded Fund |
| EU | European Union |
| FB | Foreign Bank |
| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment |
| FII | Foreign Institutional Investor |
| FIs | Financial Institutions |
| FPI | Foreign Portfolio Investment |
| FSB | Financial Stability Board |
| FSDC | Financial Stability and Development Council |
| FSP | Financial Service Providers |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GFC | Global Financial Crisis |
| GFSR | Global Financial Stability Report |
| GNPA | Gross Non Performing Assets |
| G-SIB | Global Systemically Important Bank |
| HFC | Housing Finance Companies |
| HFT | Held For Trading |
| HQLA | High Quality Liquid Assets |
| IAIS | International Association of Insurance Supervisors |
| IBC | Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| IFCI | Industrial Finance Corporation of India |
| IIF | International Institute of Finance |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IOSCO | International Organization of Securities Commissions |
| IRAC | Income Recognition & Asset Classification |
| IRACP | Income Recognition, Asset Classification and Provisioning |
| IRDAI | Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India |
| JGB | Japanese Government Bond |
| KCC | Kisan Credit Card |
| KYC | Know Your Customer |
| LB | Large Borrowers |
| LCR | Liquidity Coverage Ratio |
| LT | Long Term |
| MFs | Mutual Funds |
| MFIs | Micro Finance Institutions |
| MSME | Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
| MTM | Mark To Market |
| MUDRA | Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency |
| NABARD | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
| NAV | Nat Asset Value |
| NBFC | Non Banking Financial Company |
| NBFC-D | Non Banking Financial Company - Deposit Taking |
| NBFC-ND-SI | Non Banking Financial Company - Non-Deposit Taking - Systemically Important |
| NCD | Non-convertible Debentures |
| NCLT | National Company Law Tribunal |
| NDTL | Net Demand and Time Liabilities |
| NEFT | National Electronic Funds Transfer |
| NII | Net Interest Income |
| NIM | Net Interest Margin |
| NNPA | Net Non Performing Assets |
| NPA | Non-performing Asset |
| NPS | National Pension System |
| NSFE | National Strategy on Financial Education |
| OC | Operational creditors |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OMO | Open Market Operations |
| OOI | Other Operating Income |
| OPEC | Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| PELTRO | Pandemic Emergency Longer-term Refinancing Operation |
| PEPP | Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme |
| PFRDA | Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority |
| PMFBY | Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana |
| PMI | Purchasing Managers’ Index |
| PSB | Public Sector Bank |
| PSU | Public Sector Undertaking |
| PVB | Private Sector Bank |
| QE | Quantitative Easing |
| QIP | Qualified Institutional Placement |
| REIT | Real Estate Investment Trusts |
| ROA | Return on Assets |
| ROE | Return on Equity |
| RTGS | Real-Time Gross Settlement |
| SCB | Scheduled Commercial Bank |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SIDBI | Small Industries Development Bank of India |
| SE | Supervised Entity |
| SFB | Small Finance Banks |
| SIP | Systematic Investment Plan |
| SLR | Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
| SMA | Special Mention Account |
| SRS | Systemic Risk Survey |
| ST | Short Term |
| SUCB | Scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks |
| TCS | Tax Collected at Source |
| TDS | Tax Deducted at Source |
| TFSME | Term Funding Scheme with Additional Incentives for Small to Mid-size Enterprises |
| TLTRO | Targeted Long Term Repo Operations |
| UCB | Urban Co-operative Banks |
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| VAR | Value at Risk |
| WEO | World Economic Outlook |
| WTI | West Texas Intermediate |