Glossary

Helping you navigate the alphabet soup of financial terms

At TreasurySpring, we believe in making smart cash investing easy and accessible for all, regardless of experience. For us this extends to how we speak to each other as a team and to those around us. With this in mind we want to address the multitude of financial terms we face as an industry and help make the terms more accessible to those we work with.

 
 
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a

ABA routing number

Accounting Date

ACH

Administrator

AIF

AIFMD

AML

Articles

Auditors

Auto-extend

Auto-roll

b

BIC

BOE

BOJ

Bond

Bp(s)

Business Day

c

CCP

CD

CDD

CDS

Cell

Central Bank

CIS

CNAV

Collateral

Convertible bond

COP

Counterparty

Counterparty risk

Covered bond

CP

Credit Benchmark

Credit Rating Agency

Credit risk

CREST

CRS

CSD

CTA

Custodian

Custodian Account

Cut-off time

d

Deposit

DTC

DTCC

Duration

e

EAY

ECB

EEA

Effective Federal Funds Rate

eFTF

EONIA

Escrow

ESG

ESTR

EU

f

FATCA

FCA

FDIC

Fed

Fedwire

Fitch

Forward contract

FRN

FSCS

FTF

FTF Class

Futures contract

g

GDPR

GMRA

GMSLA

Government secured FTF

h

Haircut

High yield/junk/sub-prime

HM Treasury

Hold

HQLA

i

IBAN

IC

ICC

ICMA

ICMA GBP

ICMA SBG

ICMA SBP

ICMA SLBP

Investment Grade

IORB

ISDA

ISLA

Issue

j

JFSC

k

KYC

l

LCR

LEI

Letter of Credit

LGD

LIBOR

Line of Credit

Liquidity risk

LVNAV

m

Manager

Maturity mismatch

Maturity transformation

MMF

Moody’s

MSA

MTN

n

NAV

Note

Notice account

NSFR

o

Obligor

OIS

Option Extension Date

Overcollateralisation

p

PBoC

PD

PEP

Portal

PRA

r

R&H

Recovery rate

Redeem

Repo/Repurchase transactions

Reverse repo/Reverse repurchase agreement

RONIA

s

S&P

SEC

Secured FTF

Senior debt

SEPA

SIF

SOFR

SONIA

SSA

Structured debt

Subordinated debt

Subscription account

Subscription bank

SWIFT

t

TARGET2

Term deposit

Treasury Bill

Tri-party agent

TS

TS Portal

u

UCITS

UN PRI

UN SDGs

Underlying Investment

v

Valuation Point

VIX

VRDN/VRCD

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