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144A
401(k) Plan
529 College Savings Plan
1031 Exchange
ABA Routing Number
ABS (Asset-backed Securitization)
ACATS (Automated Customer Account Transfer)
ACH (Automated Clearing House)
ACT (Automated Confirmation Transaction)
ADR (American Depository Receipt)
Alpha (a)
Alt-A Mortgage
AMBAC
American Option
Animal Unit Month (AUM)
Annuities
Arabica (Coffea arabica)
Archipelago (ArcaEx)
Asian Option
At the Money (Options)
ATS (Alternative Trading System)
Auction Rate Securities (ARS)
Average Rate Option
Bakken Oil Shale
Baltic Dry Index (BDI)
Bankers Acceptance
Barrier (Options)
Basel I & Basel II & Basel III
Basis Point
Basis Risk (Futures)
Bear Call Spread (Options)
Bear Put Spread (Options)
Bearer Bond
Beta (ß)
Big Bang Protocol (CDS)
Bill of Exchange
BIS (Bank for International Settlements)
BLDRS (ETF)
Board Feet Calculation
Bobl (Bundesobligationen)
Bond
Book Entry Ownership (Bond)
Brady Bond
Breakpoint
Build America Bonds (BABs)
CAFO
Call Option
Callable Bond
Capitalization Rate (Cap Rate)
Carry Trade (FX / currencies)
Cash Price (Commodities)
Catastrophe Bond
Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility (CRIF)
CBO (Collateralized Bond Obligation)
CD (Certificate of Deposit)
CDARS
CDCC (Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corp.)
CDD (Cooling Degree Days)
CDO (Collatralized Debt Obligation)
CDS (Credit Default Swap)
Check 21
CHIPS
CLO (Collateralized Loan Obligation)
Closed-end Lease
CLS (Continuous Linked Settlement)
CMBS (Commercial Mortgage-backed Security)
CMO (Collatralized Mortgage Obligation)
CO (Consolidated Obligation / FHLB)
CoCos / Contingent Core Capital
Commercial Paper
Commercial Real Estate
Commodity Credit Corporation
Commodity Futures
Commodity Pool Operator (CPO)
Commodity Swap
Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA)
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
Competitive Auction (Bonds)
Construction Lending
Consumer Banking
Contango (Gold)
Convertible Bond
Convertible Equity
Coop Unit / Cooperative Building
Cost Approach Valuation
Cotlook A-Index
Cotton Bale dimensions
Cotton Classification
Cotton Futures Contract
Cotton Industry
CPO (Commodity Pool Operator)
CRA (Community Reinvestment Act)
Credit Card (Asset Securitization)
Credit Card (Consumer Banking)
Credit Card (Operations)
Credit Default Swaps
Credit Derivatives
Credit Index Event Contract / Credit Event Futures
Credit-Linked Notes
Credit Metrics
Credit Rating Agencies
Credit Risk
Crop Insurance
Cross-Currency Swap
Crossing Network
CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor)
Currency Abbreviations
Currency Futures
Currency Options
Currency Basket Options
Currency Trading
Current Yield (Bond)
Cushing Delivery Point
CUSIP (Bond)
Dark Liquidity Pool
DE Certified Underwriter
De Novo Bank
Debenture
DECS
Default Notes
Default Options
Deferred Annuity
Defined Benefit Plan
Defined Contribution Plan
Degree Days Swap
Delta
DESERTEC / Dii Solar Project
Dim-sum Bond
Discount (Bond Pricing)
Discount Window (Federal Reserve)
Discounted Cash Flow
Dodd-Frank Act
Dore (Gold production)
DOT (Designated Order Turnaround)
DPC (Derivative Products Company)
DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment Plan)
DSC (Debt Service Coverage)
DTC (Depository Trust Corporation)
DTCC (Depository Trust Clearing Corporation)
Duration (Bond)
E85 (Ethanol)
ECB Rates
ECNs (Electronic Communications Networks))
EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer)
Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA)
Energy Efficient Mortgage
EONIA
Equipment Lease Securitization
Equity Exchanges
Equity Indices / Indexes
Equity-Linked Term Notes
Equity REIT
ETF (Exchange Traded Fund)
Euribor Interbank Rates
Eurobond
Euro-Yen Bond
European Option
FAR (Foot Area Ratio)
Farm & Ranch Insurance
Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Farmer Mac (FAMC)
FASB
FASIT
FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act)
FCOJ (Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice)
FDIC / Fedral Deposit Insurance Company
Fed Funds
Federal Farm Credit Banks
Federal Reserve System
Fedwire
Finance Lease
Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)
Fixed Annuity
Flash Trading
Floating Rate Note (FRN)
Flood Insurance
FNMA
FOMC (Federal Reserve)
Forex Trading
Forward Contract
Forward Gold Contract
Forward Rate Agreement (FRA)
FRA (Forward Rate Agreement)
Fracking (Natural Gas)
Fraud Risk
FRN (Floating Rate Note)
Futures Commission Merchant (FCM)
Futures Contract
Futures Exchanges
FX Spot Trading
Gearing Ratio
General Obligation Bond
Glass-Steagall Act
GNMA
Gold Standard
Gross Income Multiplier Valuation
GSE (Government Sponsored Enterprise)
HDD (Heating Degree Days)
HECM
Hedge Fund
Henry Hub (Natural Gas)
Herstatt Risk (Setlement Risk)
Hibor Interbank Rates
High Frequency Trading
HIRE Act 2010
HOLDRS
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage / HECM
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)
Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC)
Hotel Property Analysis
Hybrid REIT
Hydraulic Fracturing
IAS (International Accounting Standards)
ICE Cotton Contract
Ijara (Islamic Finance)
Immediate Annuity
In the Money (Options)
Income Approach Valuation
Indenture Agreement
Index Linked Note
Industrial Development Bond
Industry-Loss Warranty
Interbank Dealers
Interest Rate Futures
Interest Rate Risk
Intermediation (Banking)
Intrinsic Value (Options)
Investment Trust (U.K.)
IRA (Individual Retirement Account)
iShare MSCI (ETF)
Islamic Banking & Finance
Kilo Bar (Gold production)
Lessee
Lessor
Leveraged Carry Trade (Bonds)
Leveraged Lease
Levered Notes
LIBOR
LIFFE
Lis Pendens
Livestock
LNG (Liquified Natural Gas)
Long Futures Position
Lumber Industry
Lumber Futures Contract
Lumber Grading
Manufactured Housing / Mobile Homes
Margin Account (Equities)
Margin Call (Futures Contract)
MATIF
MBIA
MBL (Member Business Loan)
MBS (Mortgage Backed Security)
MEDS (Mandatory Exchangeable Debt Securities)
Merchant Cash Advance (MCA)
MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems)
MIDS (Monthly Income Debt Securities)
MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive)
Milk Income Loss Contract Program (MILC)
MIPS (Monthly Income Preferred Securities)
MITTS (Market Index Target-Term Securities)
MLP (Master Limited Partnership)
Money Market
Money Market Funds
Monoline Insurer (Bond Insurance)
Monte Carlo Simulation
Mortgage Commitment
Mortgage REIT
MSCI EAFE (Index)
MSRs (Mortgage Service Rights)
Multilateral Netting
Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI)
Municipal Bond
Murabaha (Islamic Finance)
Naked Short Selling
Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organ.
Natural Gas
NAV (Net Asset Value)
Negotiated Sale (Bonds)
Notional Principal
NPV (Real Estate)
NRSRO
NSCC (National Securities Clearing Corporation)
NSMIA
OASYS
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Oil Sands
Open-ended Lease
Operating Lease
OTS Cost of funds Report
Out of the Money (Options)
PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy)
Pari Passu
Patriot Act (Banking)
Peak Oil
PERCS
Permanent Insurance
Pfandbriefe
Pip (Percentage in point)
Power Exchanges
Premium (Bond Pricing)
Premium (Option Contract)
Put Option
QQQ (NASDAQ-100 ETF)
QUIDS (Quarterly Income Debt Securities)
QUIPS (Quarterly Income Preferred Securities)
RAROC (Risk Adjusted Return on Capital)
Regulation NMS (SEC)
Regulation Z Disclosure
Regulatory Risk
REIT
REMIC (Real Estate Investment Conduit)
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)
REPO (Repurchase Agreement)
Reputation Risk
RESI (Real Estate Synthetic Investment)
Residential Mortgage Lending
Revenue Bond
Reverse Mortgage / HECM
Reverse REPO (Reverse Repurchase Agreement)
RONIA
Round Lot (Equities)
Rule 10a-1 (Uptick Rule)
Sales Comparison Approach Valuation
Samurai Bond
Sarbanes Oxley
Savings Bond (Series EE and HH)
Savings Bond (Series I)
Securities Regulation (United States)
Securitization
Security Futures
SEDOL
Senior Debt
Senior Life Settlement
Settlement Risk
Shared National Credit (SNC)
Sharpe Ratio
Short Futures Position
Short Selling
Sinking Fund
SIV (Structured Investment Vehicle)
Smart Grid
SNAP (Structured Note Asset Packaging)
Softwood Lumber Agreement 2006 (SLA)
Solar Power Energy
SONIA
Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF)
SPARQS
SPDR (S&P Depository Receipt)
Spread-Linked Notes
Spread-Linked Swaps
Spring Wheat
SRO (Self-Regulating Organization)
Stock Options
Straddle (Options)
Strangle (Options)
Strike Price (Futures)
Stripper Oil
STRIPS
Structured Convertible Securities
Stumpage Fee
Subordinated Debt
Sukuk (Islamic Finance)
Swaps Market
SWIFT
Syndicated loan
Tael (Gold)
TANs
Tar Sands
TARGET
Taxable Equivilent Yield (Bonds)
Taxation
Term Insurance
Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA)
Texas Ratio
The Seam (Cotton Exchange)
Theta
TIC (Tenant in common program)
TIGRs
Timber Cruise Report
Tola (Gold)
TOPrS (Trust Originated Preferred Securities)
Total Return Swaps
Trading Platform
Troy Ounce (Gold)
TruPS (Trust Preferred Securities)
Truth In Lending Act (TILA)
UCITS (EU)
Ug 99 (Wheat Rust)
Unit Investment Trust (UIT)
UPREIT
Uptick Rule (Rule 10a-1)
VAR (Value At Risk)
Variable Annuity
Vega
Viatical Settlement
Volcker Rule (Dodd-Frank)
Weather Contingent Options
Weather Futures Market
Wheat Rust
Whole Life Insurance
Winter Wheat
Yankee Bond
Yen Carry Trade
Yield (Bond)
Yield Curve
Yield to Maturity (Bond)
Zero Coupon Bond
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