Abbreviations
A glossary of relevant terms is available on the Reserve Bank website.1
24/7 |
24 hours per day, 7 days per week |
AAS |
Australian Accounting Standards |
AASB |
Australian Accounting Standards Board |
ABF2 |
Asian Bond Fund 2 |
ABN |
Australian Business Number |
AC |
Companion of the Order of Australia |
ADI |
authorised deposit-taking institution |
AFP |
Australian Federal Police |
AFXC |
Australian Foreign Exchange Committee |
AGS |
Australian Government Securities |
AM |
Member of the Order of Australia |
ANAO |
Australian National Audit Office |
ANU |
Australian National University |
ANZECG |
Australian and New Zealand Econometric Study Group |
AO |
Officer of the Order of Australia |
AOFM |
Australian Office of Financial Management |
APC |
Australian Payments Council |
APEC |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
API |
Application Programming Interface |
APRA |
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
ASIC |
Australian Securities and Investments Commission |
ASX |
Australian Securities Exchange |
ATM |
automated teller machine |
ATO |
Australian Taxation Office |
AusPayNet |
Australian Payments Network |
BCBS |
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (of the BIS) |
BIS |
Bank for International Settlements |
BPA |
bulk purchase annuity |
CAC Act |
Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 (repealed) |
CBD |
central business district |
CEDA |
Committee for Economic Development of Australia |
CEPAR |
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research |
CFR |
Council of Financial Regulators |
CHESS |
Clearing House Electronic Sub-register System |
CLF |
Committed Liquidity Facility |
CME |
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. |
CPMI |
Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (of the BIS) |
CPRs |
Commonwealth Procurement Rules |
CS |
clearing and settlement |
CSA |
credit support annex |
DHS |
Department of Human Services |
EDO |
Enterprise Data Office |
EMEAP |
Executives’ Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks |
eftpos |
electronic funds transfer at point of sale |
ERG |
Employee Resource Group |
ES |
Exchange Settlement |
ESA |
Exchange Settlement Account |
fintech |
financial technology |
FMI |
financial market infrastructure |
FOI |
Freedom of Information |
FOI Act |
Freedom of Information Act 1982 |
FSAP |
Financial Sector Assessment Program (of the IMF) |
FSB |
Financial Stability Board |
FSS |
Fast Settlement Service (of RITS) |
FTE |
full-time equivalent |
FX |
foreign exchange |
G20 |
Group of Twenty |
G-SIB |
global systemically important bank |
GDP |
gross domestic product |
GFXC |
Global Foreign Exchange Committee |
GHOS |
Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision |
GST |
Goods and Services Tax |
HQLA |
high-quality liquid assets |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
IOSCO |
International Organization of Securities Commissions |
IPS |
Information Publication Scheme |
ISDA |
International Swaps and Derivatives Association |
ISO |
International Organization for Standardisation |
IT |
information technology |
LCR |
Liquidity Coverage Ratio |
LIBOR |
London Inter-Bank Offered Rate |
LVSS |
RITS Low Value Settlement Service |
MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MP |
member of parliament |
NAB |
National Australia Bank |
NAIDOC |
National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee |
NBFI |
non-bank financial intermediation |
NBS |
National Banknote Site |
NGFS |
Network for Greening the Financial System |
NPA |
Note Printing Australia Limited |
NPP |
New Payments Platform |
OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OMO |
open market operations |
PEXA |
Property Exchange Australia Limited |
PGPA Act |
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 |
Prospera |
Australia Indonesia Partnership for Economic Development |
RBA |
Reserve Bank of Australia |
RBRF |
Reserve Bank Reserve Fund |
RDP |
Research Discussion Paper |
repo |
repurchase agreement |
RITS |
Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System |
RMBS |
residential mortgage-backed securities |
RTGS |
real-time gross settlement |
R&D |
research and development |
SAR |
Special Administrative Region (of China) |
SDR |
Special Drawing Right |
SEACEN |
South East Asian Central Banks |
Semis |
semi-government securities (Australian state and territory government securities) |
SWIFT |
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication |
UNSW |
University of New South Wales |
WHS |
work health and safety |
WHS Act |
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 |
WPIT |
Welfare Payment Infrastructure Transformation Program (of DHS) |
Footnotes
- See https://www.rba.gov.au/glossary ↩
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