| ACF | Auto Correlation Function |
| AD | Authorized Dealer |
| ADB | Asian Development Bank |
| ADR | American Depository Receipt |
| ADTV | Average Daily Trading Volume |
| AFS | Annual Financial Statement |
| AFS | Available For Sal |
| AGM | Annual General Meeting |
| AIRCSC | All India Rural Credit Survey Committee |
| AO | Additive Outliers |
| AMEX | American Express |
| AML | Anti-Money Laundering |
| AR | Auto Regression |
| ARIMA | Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average |
| ASSOCHAM | Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATM | Automated Teller Machine |
| BBR | Bank Base Rate |
| BIS | Bank for International Settlements |
| BOI | Bank of India |
| BOP | Balance of Payments |
| BPM5 | Balance of Payments Manual, 5th edition |
| BPSD | Balance of Payments Division |
| BSCS | Basel Committee of Banking Supervision |
| BSR | Basic Statistical Returns |
| CAD | Capital Account Deficit |
| CAG | Controller and Auditor General of India |
| CBI | Common Bank of India |
| CBI | Central Banking Institution |
| CBI | Central Bank of India |
| CBS | Consolidated Banking Statistics |
| CBS | Core Banking Solution |
| CC | Cash Credit |
| CCB | Central Co-operative Bank |
| CD | Certificate of Deposit |
| CDBS | Committee of Direction on Banking Statistics |
| CF | Company Finance |
| CMP | Current Market Price |
| CFRA | Combined Finance and Revenue Accounts |
| CGRA | Currency and Gold Revaluation Account |
| CII | Confederation of Indian Industry |
| CO | Capital Outlay |
| CP | Commercial Paper |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CPI-IW | Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers |
| CR | Capital Receipts |
| CR Ratio | Credit Deposit Ratio |
| CRAR | Capital to Risk-Weighted Asset Ratio |
| CRR | Cash Reserve Ratio |
| CSIR | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
| CSO | Central Statistical Organization |
| CVC | Central Vigilance Commission |
| DBOD | Department of Banking Operations and Development |
| DBS | Department of Banking Supervision |
| DCA | Department of Company |
| DCB | Demand Collection and Balance |
| DCCB | District Central Co-operative Bank |
| DCM, RBI | Department of Currency Management, RBI |
| DD | Demand Draft |
| DDS | Data Dissemination Standards |
| DEIO | Department of External Investments and Operations |
| DESACS | Department of Statistical Analysis & Computer Services, RBI |
| DGBA | Department of Government and Bank Accounts, RBI |
| DGCI&S | Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics |
| DI | Direct Investments |
| DICGC | Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation of India |
| DID | Discharge of Internal Debt |
| DMA | Departmentalized Ministries Account |
| DRI | Differential Rate of Interest Scheme |
| DRT | Debt Recovery Tribunals |
| DSBB | Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board |
| DVP | Delivery Versus Payment |
| ECB | External Commercial Borrowing |
| ECB | European Central Bank |
| ECD | European Central Bank |
| ECGC | Export Credit and Guarantee Corporation |
| ECS | Electronic Clearing Scheme |
| EDMU | External Debt Management Unit |
| EEA | Exchange Equalization Account |
| EEC | European Economic Community |
| EEFC | Exchange Earners Foreign Currency |
| EFR | Exchange Fluctuation Reserve |
| EMI | Equated Monthly Installment |
| EPF | Employees Provident Fund |
| EUR | Euro |
| EXIM Bank | Export Import Bank of India |
| FCA | Foreign Currency Assets |
| FCCB | Foreign Currency Convertible Bond |
| FCNRA | Foreign Currency Non Resident Account |
| FCNRB(B) | Foreign Currency Non- resident (Banks) |
| FCNRD | Foreign Currency Non Repatriable Deposit |
| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment |
| FEMA | Foreign Exchange Management Act |
| FFA | Federal Financial Assistance |
| FFB | Federal Financing Bank |
| FRB | Federal Reserve Bank |
| FI | Financial Institution |
| FICCI | Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry |
| FII | Foreign Institutional Investor |
| FIMMDA | Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India |
| FISIM | Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured |
| FLAS | Foreign Liabilities and Assets Survey |
| FOF | Flow of Funds |
| FPI | Foreign Portfolio Investment |
| FRA | Forward Rate Agreement |
| FRBM | Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 |
| FRN | Floating Rate Note |
| FSS | Farmers’ Service Societies |
| FWG | First Working Group on Money supply |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GDR | Global Repository Receipt |
| GFS | Government Finance Statistics |
| GIC | General Insurance Corporation |
| GLS | Generalized Least Squares |
| GNIE | Government Not Included Elsewhere |
| GOI | Government of India |
| GPD | Gross Primary Deficit |
| G-Sec | Government Securities |
| HDFC | Housing Development Finance Corporation |
| HFT | Held For Trading |
| HICP | Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices |
| HO | Head Office |
| HSBC | Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited |
| HUDCO | Housing & Urban Development Corporation |
| IBA | Indian Bank Association |
| IBRD | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| IBS | International Banking Statistics |
| ICICI | Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India |
| ICFAI | Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India |
| IDB | India Development Bonds |
| IDBI | Industrial Development Bank of India |
| IDRBT | Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology |
| IEPF | Investors Education and Protection Fund |
| IFC | Indian Financial Corporation |
| IFC | International Finance Corporation |
| IFC(W) | International Finance Corporation (Washington) |
| IFCI | Industrial Finance Corporation of India |
| IFR | Investment Fluctuation Reserve |
| IFS | International Financial Statistics |
| IFSC | Indian Financial System Code |
| IIFT | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade |
| IIBF | International Institute of Banking and Finance |
| IIBI | Industrial Investment Bank of India |
| IIBM | Indian Institute of Bank Management |
| IIP | Index of Industrial Production |
| IMD | India Millennium Deposits |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| INR | Indian Rupee |
| IOTT | Input-Output Transaction Table |
| IP | Interest Payment |
| IP | Interest Payment |
| IRBI | Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India |
| ISDA | International Swaps and Derivative Association |
| ISIC | International Standard Industrial Classification |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| ITRS | International Transaction Reporting System |
| IWGEDS | International Working Group on External Debt Statistics |
| KVIC | Khadi and Village Industries Corporation |
| KVP | Kissan Vikas Patra |
| KYC | Know Your Customer |
| LAF | Liquidity Adjustment Facility |
| LAMPS | Large-sized Adivasi Multipurpose Societies |
| LAS | Loans and Advances by States |
| LBS | Locational Banking Statistics |
| LDB | Land Development Bank |
| LERMS | Liberalized Exchange Rate Management System |
| LIC | Life Insurance Corporation of India |
| LS | Level Shift |
| LT | Long Term |
| LTO | Long Term Operation |
| M1 | Narrow Money |
| M3 | Broad Money |
| MA | Moving Average |
| MCA | Ministry of Corporate Affairs |
| MEDP | Multinational Design Evaluation Progrrame |
| MIGA | Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency |
| MIS | Management Information System |
| MMSE | Minimum Mean Squared Errors |
| MOF | Ministry of Finance |
| MOF | Master Office File |
| MRM | Monitoring and Review Mechanism |
| MSS | Market Stabilization Scheme |
| MT | Mail Transfer |
| MTM | Mark-To-Market |
| NABARD | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
| NAC(LTO) | National Agricultural Credit (Long Term Operation) |
| NAIO | Non Administratively Independent Office |
| NAS | National Account Statistics |
| NBFC | Non-Banking Financial Companies |
| NCMC | National Common Mobility Card |
| NDSAP | National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy |
| NEC | Not Elsewhere Classified |
| NEER | Nominal Effective Exchange Rate |
| NEFT | National Electronic Fund Transfer |
| NFA | Non Foreign Exchange Assets |
| NFD | Net Fiscal Deficit |
| NHB | National Housing Bank |
| NIF | Note Issuance Facility |
| NPA | Non-Performing Assets |
| NPV | Net Present Value |
| NSSF | National Small Savings Fund |
| OD | Over Draft |
| OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OLTAS | Online Tax Accounting System |
| OMO | Open Market Operations |
| OSCB | Other Indian Scheduled Commercial Bank |
| PACF | Partial Auto-Correlation Function |
| PACS | Primary Agriculture Credit Societies |
| PCARDB | Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank |
| PD | Primary Deficit |
| PDAI | Primary Dealers Association of India |
| PDO | Public Debt Office |
| PDO-NDS | Public Debt Office-cum-Negotiated Dealing System |
| PES | Public Enterprises Survey |
| PEP | Personal Equity Plans |
| PF | Provident Fund |
| PIO | Persons of Indian Origin |
| PNB | Punjab National bank |
| PO | Principal Office |
| PRB | Primary Revenue Balance |
| PSE | Public Sector Enterprises |
| PUC | Paid Up Capital |
| QRR | Quick Review Report |
| RBI | Reserve Bank of India |
| RD | Revenue Deficit |
| RE | Revenue Expenditure |
| REER | Real Effective Exchange Rate |
| RFC | Residents Foreign Currency |
| RIB | Resurgent India Bonds |
| RIDF | Rural Infrastructure Development Fund |
| RLA | Recoveries of Loans and Advancements |
| RLC | Repayment of Loans to Centre |
| RMB | Renminbi (Chinese) |
| RNBC | Residuary Non-Banking Companies |
| RO | Regional Office |
| ROC’s | Registrars of Companies |
| RPA | Rupee Payment Area |
| RPCD | Rural Planning and Credit Department, RBI |
| RR | Revenue Receipts |
| RRB | Regional Rural Bank |
| RTC | Repayment of Loans to Centre |
| RTP | Reserve Tranche Position |
| RUF | Revolving Underwriting Facility |
| RWA | Risk Weighted Asset |
| SAM | Social Accounting Matrix |
| SAS | Statistical Analysis System |
| SBI | State Bank of India |
| SCARDB | State Co-operative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank |
| SCB | State Co-operative Bank |
| SCB | Scheduled Commercial Bank |
| SCS | Size Class Strata |
| SDS | Special Deposit Scheme |
| SDDS | Special Data Dissemination Standards |
| SDR | Special Drawing Right |
| SEBI | Securities Exchange Board of India |
| SFC | State Financial Corporation |
| SGL | Subsidiary General Ledger |
| SGSY | Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarrojgar Yojana |
| SHGs | Self-Help Groups |
| SIDBI | Small Industries Development Bank of India |
| SIDC | State Industrial Development Corporation |
| SLR | Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
| SMG | Standing Monitoring Group |
| SNA | System of National Accounts |
| SSI | Small-Scale Industries |
| SSSBEs | Small Scale Service & Business Enterprises |
| STD | Short Term Deposit |
| SWG | Second Working Group on Money Supply |
| TB’s | Treasury Bills |
| TC | Temporary Change |
| TIEA | Tax Information and Exchange Agreement |
| TT | Telegraphic Transfer |
| UBB | Uniform Balance Book |
| UBD | Urban Banks Department |
| UCB | Urban Cooperative Bank |
| UCN | Uniform Code Number |
| UIC | Unique Identification Code |
| USD | US Dollars |
| UTI | Unit Trust of India |
| VC | Venture Capital |
| WGMS | Working Group on Money Supply: Analytics and Methodology of Compilation |
| WPI | Wholesale Price Index |
| WSS | Weekly Statistical Supplement |
| YTM | Yield to Maturity |
| ZO | Zonal Office |
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