Banking Abbreviation for Upcoming Exams: Here we have collected a list of Important Banking Abbreviations that are important for Banking Exams like IBPS PO, CLerk, SBI PO, Clerk, RRB PO,Clerk. IBPS and SBI are framing questions on abbreviations based on latest words that are in news. So we have collected a list of banking abbreviations that were in news. We have also collected abbreviations that are general in nature and should be known to aspirants. You can download this is PDF form at the end of the page or you can read from this post. Keep the PDF handy for any exam.
List of Important Banking Abbreviations
S.No | Acronym | Full Form |
1 | ADR | American Depository Receipt |
2 | AEPS | Aadhaar Enabled Payment System |
3 | AFA | Additional Factor Authentication |
4 | ANBC | Adjusted Net Bank Credit |
5 | APBS | Aadhaar Payment Bridge System |
6 | ARC | Asset Reconstruction Company |
7 | ASSOCHAM | Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India |
8 | ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
9 | ATM | Automated Teller Machine |
10 | BBPS | Bharat Bill Payment System |
11 | BHIM | Bharat Interface for Money |
12 | BIS | Bank for International Settlements |
13 | BoP | Balance of Payments |
14 | BRBNMPL | Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited |
15 | BSCS | Basel Committee on Banking Supervision |
16 | CAD | Capital Account Deficit |
17 | CAMELS | Capital Adequacy, Asset Quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity, Systems and Control |
18 | CBLO | Collateralised Borrowing and Lending Obligation |
19 | CC | Cash Credit |
20 | CCF | Credit Conversion Factor |
21 | CD | Certificate of Deposit |
22 | CD Ratio | Credit Deposit Ratio |
23 | CDS | Credit Default Swap |
24 | CIBIL | Credit Information Bureau of (India) Limited |
25 | CIDR | Central Identities Data Repository |
26 | CII | Confederation of Indian Industries |
27 | CP | Commercial Paper |
28 | CPI | Consumer Price Index |
29 | CR | Capital Receipts |
30 | CRAR | Capital to Risk Weighted Asset Ratio |
31 | CRISIL | Credit Rating and Investment Services (India) Limited |
32 | CRR | Cash Reserve Ratio |
33 | CVV | Card Verification Value |
34 | DCCB | District Central Cooperative Bank |
35 | DD | Demand Draft |
36 | DICGC | Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation of India |
37 | DRI | Differntial Rate of Interest |
38 | ECB | External Commercial Borrowing |
39 | ECGC | Export Credit and Guarantee Corporation |
40 | ECR | Export Credit Refinance |
41 | ECS | Electronic Clearing Scheme |
42 | EEFC | Exchange Earners’ Foreign Currency Account |
43 | EMV | Europay, MasterCard, and Visa |
44 | ESOP | Employees’ stock optio |
45 | EXIM Bank | Export Import Bank of India |
46 | FCA | Foreign Currency Assets |
47 | FCCB | Foreign Currency Convertible Bond |
48 | FCNR(B) | Foreign Currency Non-resident (Banks) |
49 | FCNRA | Foreign Currency Non-resident Account |
50 | FCNRD | Foreign Currency Non-Repatriable Deposit |
51 | FDI | Foreign Direct Investment |
52 | FEMA | Foreign Exchange Management Act |
53 | FICCI | Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry |
54 | FII | Foreign Institutional Investor |
55 | FIMMDA | Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India |
56 | FITL | Funded Interest Term Loan |
57 | FPI | Foreign Portfolio Investment |
58 | FRA | Forward Rate Agreement |
59 | FRBM | Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 |
60 | FRN | Floating Rate Note |
61 | GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
62 | GDR | Global Depository Receipt |
63 | IAP | In-App Payments |
64 | IIBI | Industrial Investment Bank of India |
65 | IIN | Institution Identification Number |
66 | IIP | Index of Industrial Production |
67 | IMF | International Monetary Fund |
68 | IMPS | Immediate Payment Service |
69 | IRBI | Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India |
70 | LAF | Liquidity Adjustment Facility |
71 | LCR | Liquidity Coverage Ratio |
72 | LEI | Legal Identity Identifier |
73 | LIBOR | London Inter-Bank Offered Rate |
74 | LIC | Life Insurance Corporation of India |
75 | LRS | Liberalised Remittance Scheme |
76 | MAMP | minimum average maturity period |
77 | MDR | Merchant Discount Rate |
78 | MIBOR | Mumbai Inter-Bank Offer Rate |
79 | NABARD | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
80 | NACH | National Automated Clearing House |
81 | NASSCOM | National Association of Software and Services Companies |
82 | NBFC | Non-Banking Financial Companies |
83 | NEER | Nominal Effective Exchange Rate |
84 | NGO | Non-Governmental Organization |
85 | NHB | National Housing Bank |
86 | NPA | Non-Performing Assets |
87 | NSSF | National Small Savings Fund |
88 | OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
89 | OECO | Organisation for Economic Co-operation |
90 | OMO | Open Market Operations |
91 | PACS | Primary Agriculture Credit Societies |
92 | PCR | Public Credit Registry |
93 | PIO | Persons of Indian Origin |
94 | PPI | Prepaid Payment Instrument |
95 | QCCP | Qualifying Central Counterparties |
96 | QR Code | Quick Response Code |
97 | RIDF | Rural Infrastructure Development Fund |
98 | RLA | Recoveries of Loans & Advances |
99 | RWA | Risk Weighted Asset |
100 | SARFAESI | Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest |
101 | SDR | Special Drawing Right |
102 | SEBI | Securities and Exchange Board of India |
103 | SHGs | Self-Help Groups |
104 | SIDBI | Small Industries Development Bank of India |
105 | SIFI | Systemically Important Financial Institutions |
106 | SLR | Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
107 | SMA | Special Mention Account |
108 | SSI | Small-Scale Industries |
109 | STRIPS | Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities |
110 | SWIFT | Society for Worldwide Inter-bank Financial Telecommunications |
111 | UPI | Unified Payments Interface |
112 | VCF | Venture Capital Fund |
113 | VPA | Virtual Payment Address |
114 | WALR | Weighted average lending rate |
115 | WGWD | Working Group on Wilful Defaulters |
116 | WPI | Wholesale Price Index |