| AEs | Advanced Economies |
| AFS | Available for Sale |
| AIF | Alternative Investment Fund |
| AMC | Asset Management Companies |
| ANBC | Adjusted Net Bank Credit |
| AUM | Assets Under Management |
| BC | Business Correspondent |
| BCBS | Basel Committee on Banking Supervision |
| BIS | Bank for International Settlements |
| BoJ | Bank of Japan |
| BSI | Banking Stability Indicator |
| CAB | Current Account Balance |
| CBO | US Congressional Budget Office |
| CCIL | The Clearing Corporation of India Ltd. |
| CCPs | Central Counterparties |
| CCY | Cross currency |
| CEOBE | Credit equivalent amount of off-balance sheet exposure |
| CERT-Fin | Computer Emergency Response Team in Financial Sector |
| CERT-In | Indian Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CET1 | Common Equity Tier 1 |
| CIRP | Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process |
| CoC | Committee of Creditors |
| CD | Certificate of Deposit |
| CP | Commercial Paper |
| CPI-IW | Consumer Price Index-Industrial workers |
| CPMI | Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures |
| CRAR | Capital to Risk-weighted Assets Ratio |
| CRILC | Central Repository of Information on Large Credits |
| CRR | Cash Reserve Ratio |
| D-SIBS | Domestic Systemically Important Banks |
| EBPT | Earnings before Profit and Tax |
| ECB | External Commercial Borrowing |
| ECL | Expected credit loss |
| EMDEs | Emerging Markets and Developing Economies |
| ETCD | Exchange Traded Currency Derivatives |
| EU | European Union |
| EXIM Bank | Export Import Bank of India |
| FATCA | Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act |
| FBIL | Financial Benchmark India Private Ltd |
| FBs | Foreign Banks |
| FDICIA | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act |
| FED | Federal Reserve |
| FPI | Foreign portfolio investor |
| FSAP | Financial Sector Assessment Program |
| FSB | Financial Stability Board |
| FSDC | Financial Stability and Development Council |
| FSI | Financial Stability Institute |
| GAAP | Generally Accepted Accounting Principles |
| GBI | Global Bond Index |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| GFC | Global Financial Crisis |
| GFD | Gross Fiscal Deficit |
| GFSR | Global Financial Stability Report |
| GNPA | Gross Non Performing Advances |
| G-SIBs | Global Systemically Important Banks |
| GVA | Gross Value Added |
| HFC | Housing Finance Companies |
| HFT | Held for Trading |
| HPI | House Price Index |
| HQLAs | High Quality Liquid Assets |
| HTM | Held to Maturity |
| IAS39 | International Accounting Standard 39 |
| IBBI | Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India |
| IBC | Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code |
| ICR | Interest Coverage Ratio |
| IFR | Investment Fluctuation Reserve |
| IFRS9 | International Financial Reporting Standard 9 |
| IFSC | International Financial Services Centre |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IndAS | Indian Accounting Standards |
| IOSCO | International Organisation of Securities Commissions |
| IPO | Initial Public Offering |
| IRDAI | Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India |
| IU | Information Utility |
| LAC | Latin America and Caribbean |
| LCR | Liquidity Coverage Ratio |
| LES | Liquidity Enhancement Schemes |
| LR | Leverage Ratio |
| M/C | Multiple banking/consortium |
| MCA | Ministry of Corporate Affairs |
| MDR | Merchant Discount Rate |
| MIBOR | Mumbai Inter-Bank Offer Rate |
| MiFID | Markets in Financial Instruments Directive |
| MSMED | Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development |
| MTM | Mark-to-Market |
| NABARD | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
| NBFC-D | Non-Banking Finance Companies-Deposit Taking |
| NBFC-ND-SI | Non-Banking Finance Companies Non Deposit Taking-Systemically Important |
| NCLT | National Company Law Tribunal |
| NDTL | Net Demand and Time Liabilities |
| NHB | National Housing Bank |
| NII | Net Interest Income |
| NNPA | Net Non-Performing Advances |
| NPL | Non-performing Loans |
| NPS | National Pension System |
| NPV | Net Present Value |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OFIs | Other Financial Intermediaries |
| OIS | Overnight Indexed Swap |
| OOI | Other Operating Income |
| ORSA | Own risk and solvency assessment |
| OTC | Over-the-Counter |
| PBDIT | Profit before depreciation, interest and taxes |
| PCA | Prompt Corrective Action |
| PF | Provident Funds |
| PFRDA | Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority |
| PMI | Purchasing Managers’ Index |
| POL | Petroleum, oil and lubricants |
| PSBs | Public Sector Banks |
| PvBs | Private Sector Banks |
| QE | Quantitative Easing |
| RII | Retail individual investor |
| RoA | Return on Assets |
| SCBs | Scheduled Commercial Banks |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SEBI | Securities and Exchange Board of India |
| SGF | Settlement Guarantee Fund |
| SIDBI | Small Industries Development Bank of India |
| SLB | Securities lending and borrowing |
| SLCC | State Level Co-ordination Committee |
| SLR | Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
| SMA | Special Mention Account |
| SOMA | System Open Market Account |
| SSM | Single Supervisory Mechanism |
| SST | Supervisory Stress Test |
| SUCB | Scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks |
| VC | Virtual Currencies |