| AA | Adjudicating Authority |
| AE | Advanced Economy |
| AFC | Asset Finance Company |
| AFS | Available For Sale |
| AIFI | All-India Financial Institution |
| ALM | Asset-Liability Mismatch |
| AMC | Asset Management Company |
| 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 |
| BSE | Bombay Stock Exchange |
| BSI | Banking Stability Indicator |
| CCP | Central Counterparty |
| CD | Corporate Debtor |
| CDs | Certificates of Deposit |
| CET-1 | Common Equity Tier-1 |
| CFD | Contracts for Differences |
| CIC | Core Investment Company |
| CIRP | Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process |
| CP | Commercial Paper |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CRA | Credit Rating Agency |
| CRAR | Capital to Risk-weighted Assets Ratio |
| CRILC | Central Repository of Information on Large Credits |
| EBA | European Banking Authority |
| EBPT | Earnings Before Profit and Tax |
| ECB | European Central Bank |
| ECBs | External Commercial Borrowings |
| ECL | Expected Credit Loss |
| EFD | Enforcement Department |
| EIA | Energy Information Admninistration |
| EMDE | Emerging Market and Developing Economy |
| EMs | Emerging Markets |
| EPS | Earnings per Share |
| FALLCR | Facility to Avail Liquidity for Liquidity Coverage Ratio |
| FATF | Financial Action Task Force |
| FB | Foreign Bank |
| FC | Financial Conglomerate |
| FC | Financial Creditor |
| FI | Financial Institution |
| FOMC | Federal Open Market Committee |
| FMP | Fixed Maturity Plan |
| FSDC | Financial Stability and Development Council |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GFC | Global Financial Crisis |
| GFCF | Gross Fixed Capital Formation |
| GFSR | Global Financial Stability Report |
| GGHOS | Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision |
| GNPA | Gross Non Performing Asset |
| GVA | Gross Value Added |
| HFC | Housing Finance Company |
| HFT | Held for Trading |
| HNI | High Net-worth Individual |
| HPI | Housing Price Index |
| HQLA | High Quality Liquid Asset |
| HTM | Held to Maturity |
| HY | High Yield |
| IAIS | International Association of Insurance Supervisors |
| IAS | International Accounting Standards |
| IBBI | Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India |
| IBC | Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code |
| ICA | Inter-Creditor Agreement |
| ICE | Independent Credit Evaluation |
| ICO | Initial Coin Offering |
| IFRS | International Financial Reporting Standards |
| IOSCO | International Organization of Securities Commissions |
| IPO | Initial Public Offering |
| IRAC | Income Recognition & Asset Classification |
| IRB | Internal Rating Based |
| IRDAI | Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India |
| KYC | Know Your Customer |
| LAF | Liquidity Adjustment Facility |
| LB | Large Borrower |
| LCR | Liquidity Coverage Ratio |
| LC | Loan Company |
| LT | Long Term |
| MCA | Ministry of Corporate Affairs |
| MF | Mutual Funds |
| MPOR | Margin Period of Risk |
| MSF | Marginal Standing Facility |
| MSME | Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
| MTM | Mark to Market |
| NAV | Net Asset Value |
| NBFC-IC | NBFC - Investment Company |
| NBFC-IFC | NBFC - Infrastructure Finance Company |
| NBFC | Non-banking Financial Company |
| NBFC-D | NBFC - Deposit taking |
| NBFC-ND-SI | NBFC - Non-Deposit taking - Systemically Important |
| NCLAT | National Company Law Appellate Tribunal |
| NDTL | Net Demand and Time Liabilities |
| NIM | Net Interest Margin |
| NNPA | Net Non Performing Asset |
| NPA | Non Performing Asset |
| NPS | National Pension System |
| NSFI | National Strategy for Financial Inclusion |
| OC | Operational Creditor |
| OED | Open Ended Debt scheme |
| OMO | Open Market Operations |
| OOI | Other Operating Income |
| PCA | Prompt Corrective Action |
| PCR | Provision Coverage Ratio |
| PFCE | Private Final Consumption Expenditure |
| PFMI | Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures |
| PFRDA | Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority |
| PF | Pension Fund |
| PMI | Purchasing Managers’ Index |
| POP | Points of Presence |
| PSB | Public Sector Bank |
| PSU | Public Sector Undertaking |
| PVB | Private Sector Bank |
| QE | Quantitative Easing |
| QIP | Qualified Institutional Placement |
| RBC | Risk-based Capital |
| RBSF | Risk Based Supervisory Framework |
| RFA | Red Flagged Account |
| RMRC | Risk Management Review Committee |
| RoA | Return on Assets |
| RoE | Return on Equity |
| RP | Resolution Professional |
| RSA | Restructured Standard Advances |
| RWA | Risk Weighted Assets |
| SA | Standardised Approach |
| SCB | Scheduled Commercial Bank |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SDL | State Development Loans |
| SEBI | Securities and Exchange Board of India |
| SEC | US Securities and Exchange Commission |
| SII | Systemically Important Insurers |
| SIP | Systematic Investment Plan |
| SLCC | State Level Coordination Committees |
| SLR | Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
| SMA | Special Mention Account |
| SOMC | Short Option Minimum Charge |
| SR | Security Receipt |
| ST | Short Term |
| SUCB | Scheduled Urban Cooperative Bank |
| VaR | Value at Risk |
| VAR | Vector Auto Regression |
| WEO | World Economic Outlook |
| WTI | West Texas Intermediate |