A/S / Aktieselskabet - Danish stock company
AA / Against Actuals
AAPP / Average All-Pig Price
AB / Aktiebolag - Swedish company
ABI / Association of Italian Bankers
ABS / Automated Bond System
ABS / Asset-Backed Security
ACCESS / American-Canadian Connection for Efficient Securities Settlement
ACE / AIBD, Cedel, Euroclear
ACES / Advanced Computerised Execution Service
ACT / Automated Confirmation Transaction Service
ADP / Alternative Delivery Procedure
ADR / American Depository Receipt
ADS / American Depository Shares
AE / Account Executive
AFC / Agence Française de Codification
AFFM / Australian Financial Futures Market
AFM / Amman Financial Market
AFMA / Australian Financial Markets Association
AFV / Advantage Fiscal Voordelen
AG / Aktiengesellschaft - German, Swiss or Austrian stock company
AIBD / Association of International Bond Dealers
AIDA / Automatic Interprofessional Dealing System
AIM / Amsterdam Interprofessional Market
AIM / Alternative Investment Market
AIMS / Automated International Market System
ALPS / Adjustable Long-term Puttable Security
AMEX / American Stock Exchange
AMOS / AMEX Options Switching System
AMS / Automatic Order Matching and Execution System
ANA / Aviso de Negociação de Ações
ANNA / Association of National Numbering Agencies
AODB / American Stock Exchange Options
AOM / Australian Options Market
AON / All Or None
APCIMS / Association of Private Client Investment
API / American Petroleum Institute
APT / Automated Pit Trading System
Arb / Arbitrageur
ASAS / Amsterdam Security Account System
ASE / American Stock Exchange
ASE / Association of Swiss Exchanges
ASE / Amsterdam Stock Exchange
ASSET / ASE trading system
ASTM / American Society for Testing Materials
ASX / Australian Stock Exchange
ATA / Agrarische Termijnmarkt Amsterdam BV (Agricultural Futures Market Amsterdam)
ATB / Association Tripartite Bourses
ATES / Automated Trade Execution System
ATM / Amsterdam Treasury Bond Market
ATS / Automated Trading System
ATS / Alternative Trading Systems
ATU / Annual Tax Unit
ATX / Austrian Traded Index
BA / Banker's Acceptances
BACS / Bankers' Automated Clearing Services
BAN / Bond Anticipation Note
BAPEPAM / Baden Pelaksana Pasar Modal
BBA / Broker Accounting System of Settlement
BBAISR / British Bankers' Association Interest Settlement Rate
BBF / Bolsa Brasileira de Futuros
BBO / Best Bid/Best Offer
BBV / Bolivian Stock Exchange
BCE / Beijing Commodity Exchange
BEACON / Boston Stock Exchange Automated Communication and Order-routing Network
BELFOX / Belgian Futures and Options Exchange
BES / Business Expansion Scheme
BFE / Baltic Futures Exchange
Bhd / Berhad – Malaysian company
BIFFEX / Baltic International Freight Futures Market
BIS / Stock Exchange International System
BM&F / Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros
BMA / Bond Market Association
BMC / Basic Minimum Capital
BMV / Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (Mexican Stock Exchange)
BNV / Bolsa Nacional de Valores
BOB / Bratislava Options Exchange
BOBC / Bank of Botswana Certificate
BOBL / Bundesobligationen
BOLT / BSE On-Line Trading
BOM / Branch Office Manager
BOOM / Buying-in, Odd-lot, Off-market and Married
BOSS / Börsen Order Service System
BOT / Buono Ordinario del Tesoro
BOT / Bought
BOVESPA / Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (São Paulo Stock Exchange)
BSE / Bangkok Stock Exchange
BSE / Budapest Stock Exchange
BSE / Botswana Stock Exchange
BSE / Boston Stock Exchange
BSE / Bombay Stock Exchange
BSECC / Boston Stock Exchange Clearing Corporation
BSM / Botswana Share Market
BSSE / Bratislava Stock Exchange
BTAN / Bons du Trésor à Intérêt Annuel Normalisé
BTP / Buono del Tesoro Poliennale
BTU / British Thermal Unit
BUND / Bundesanleihen
BUX / Budapest Stock Exchange Index
BVA / Bourse de Valeurs d’Abidjan
BVL / Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa
BVM / Bourse de Valeurs Mobilières de Tunis
BVRJ / Bolsa de Valores do Rio de Janeiro
CAC / Compagnie des Agents de Change
CAD / Capital Adequacy Directive
CAES / Computer-Assisted Execution System
CATS / Certificates of Accrual on Treasury Securities
CATS / Computer-Assisted Trading System
CBB / Chicago Board Brokerage
CBOE / Chicago Board Options Exchange
CBOT / Chicago Board Of Trade
CBS / Central Bureau for Statistics
CBV / Conseil des Bourses de Valeurs
CCASS / Central Clearing And Settlement System
CCC / Commodity Credit Corporation
CCFE / China-Commodity Futures Exchange
CCHD / Central Clearing House and Depository
CCIFP / Chambre de Compensation des Instruments Financiers de Paris
CCM / Computerised Call Market
CCOS / Clearing Corporation for Options and Services
CCS / Central Certificate Service
CCT / Certificato di Credito del Tesoro
CD / Certificates of Deposit
CDS / Central Depository System
CDS / Canadian Depository for Securities Ltd
CDT / Certificats de Trésorerie
CEA / Commodity Exchange Authority
CEC / Commodities Exchange Center, Inc
CEDEL / Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs Mobilières, Luxembourg
CEG / Canadian Exchange Group
CEO / Chief Executive Officer
CET / Central European Time
CETIP / Centre for Custody and Financial Settlement of Certificates and Bonds
CFO / Cancel Former Order
CFTC / Commodity Futures Trading Commission
CGO / Central Gilts Office
CGT / Capital Gains Tax
CHAPS / Clearing House Automated Payments Service
CHESS / Clearing House Electronic Sub-register System
CHIPS / Clearing House Interbank Payment Service
CHX / Chicago Stock Exchange
CI / Certificate of Indebtedness
Cia / Compagnia – Spanish company
CIBOR / Copenhagen Interbank Offered Rate
Cie / Compagnie – French company
CIF / Cost, Insurance, Freight
CIK / Caisse Interprofessionnelle de Dépôts et de Virement de Titres
CINS / CUSIP International Numbering System
CIPF / Canada Investor Protection Fund
CIS / Commonwealth of Independent States
CIYB / Collateralised Increasable Yield Bond
CLASS / Canada–London Automated Settlement Service
CLC / Câmara de Liquidação e Custódia
CLOB / Central Limit Order Book
CLOU / Currency Linked Outperformance Unit
CMA / Capital Markets Authority
CMB / Capital Market Board
CMC / Commission for the Development of Capital in Honduras
CME / Chicago Mercantile Exchange
CMN / Conselo Monetário Nacional (National Monetary Council)
CMO / Central Money-markets Office
CMO / Collateralised Mortgage Obligation
CMT / Conseil du Marché à Terme
CMVM / Commissaõ dos Mercado de Valores
CNI / Certificate Not Issued
CNMV / Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (Securities Market National Council)
CNS / Continuous Net Settlement
CNV / Comisión Nacional de Valores (National Securities Commission)
COB / Commission des Opérations de Bourse
COD / Cash on Delivery
COHEP / Honduran Council for Private Enterprise
COMEX / Commodity Exchange, Inc
CONASEV / Comisión Nacional Supervisora de Empresas y Valores
CONSOB / Commissione Nazionale per la Societá e la Borsa
COP / Call Or Put Warrant
CORES / Computer-assisted Order Routing and Execution System
CORES–F / Computer-assisted Order Routing and Execution System for Futures
CORES–O / Computer-assisted Order Routing and Execution System for Options
COSI / Copenhagen Stock Exchange International
CP / Commercial Paper
CPI / Consumer Price Index
CPO / Commodity Pool Operator
CPO / Certificates of Ordinary Participation
CQS / Consolidated Quotation System
CR / Counter Receipt
CRCE / Chicago Rice and Cotton Exchange
CRD / Central Registration Depository
CRS / Computer Readable Service
CSCC / Slovenian Central Securities Clearing Corporation
CSCE / Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange
CSD / Central Securities Depository
CSE / Casablanca Stock Exchange
CSE / Cincinnati Stock Exchange
CSRC / China Securities Regulatory Commission
CSRF / Central Shares Register of Finland
CTA / Commodity Trading Adviser
CTIS / Consolidated Trading and Information System
CTP / Continuous Tender Panel
CTS / Combined Trading System
CUPID / Computer Updated International Database
CUSIP / Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures
CV / Convertible
CVM / Comissaõ de Valores Mobiliários
CVSA / Caja de Valores SA
CX / Cantor Exchange
CZCE / China Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange
DATS / Derivatives Automated Trading System
DAX / Deutscher Aktienindex
DBL / Debentures, Bonds and Loan stock
DCM / Direct Clearing Members
DGFT / Director General of Fair Trading
DIBOR / Dublin Interbank Offer Rate
DIE / Designated Investment Exchange
DJIA / Dow-Jones Industrial Average
DK / Don’t Know
DKV / Deutscher Kassenverein
DNR / Do Not Reduce
DOT / Designated Order Turn-around
DOTS / Delhi On-line Trading System
DSE / Dhaka Stock Exchange
DSS / Dividend Settlement Service
DTC / Depository Trust Company
DTI / Department of Trade and Industry
DTM / Decentralised Trade Management
DTS / Daily Transaction Statements
DVP / Delivery Versus Payment
DWZ / Deutsche Wertpapierdaten-Zentrale
E&OE / Errors and Omissions Excepted
EASD / European Assocation of Securities Dealers
EASDAQ / European Assocation of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
EBS / Electro Broker System
EBS / Elecktronischen Börse Schweiz
ECH / Equity Clearing House
ECM / Emerging Company Marketplace
ECN / Electronic Communications Network
ECP / Euro-Commercial Paper
ECU / European Currency Unit
EDGAR / Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System
EDP / Electronic Data Processing
EDR / European Depository Receipt
EDSP / Exchange Delivery Settlement Price
EEA / European Economic Area
EFCC / European Futures Clearing Corporation
EFMA / European Financial Management and Marketing Association
EFP / Exchange of Futures for Physicals
EFTA / European Free Trade Area
EFTPOS / Electronic Funds Transfer Point Of Sale
EFTS / Electronic Funds Transfer System
eGmbH / eingetragene Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftpflicht – German-registered limited-liability co-operative
eGmuH / eingetragene Genossenschaft mit unbeschränkter Haftpflicht – German-registered co-operative with unlimited liability
EHS / Elektronisches Handelssystem
ELECTRA / Copenhagen Stock Exchange's electronic trading system
EMDX / Emerging Market Debt Index
EMS / European Monetary System
EMU / Economic and Monetary Union
EOCC / European Options Clearing Corporation
EOE / European Options Exchange
EOS / Electronic Order Delivery System
EPS / Earnings Per Share
EQOS / Electronic Quote and Order-driven System
ERA / Exchange Rate Agreement
ERM / Exchange Rate Mechanism
ESETS / Electronic Stock Exchange Trading System
ESIS / Electronic Securities and Information System
ESOP / Employee Stock Ownership Plan
ESP / Exchange Stock Portfolio
EST / Eastern Standard Time
ETF / Exchange Traded Funds
ETH / Electronic Trading Hours
EU / European Union
EXTRA POINT / Exchange Traded Automatic Pricing Order Improvement
FACTS / Fully Automated Computer Trading System
FANS / Free Account Net Settlement
FAST / Flexible Accelerated Securities Transfer
FAST / Fast Automated Screen Trading
FASTER / Fast Allocation of Securities Through Electronic Registration
FBE / Fédération Bancaire De L'Union Européenne
FBES / Finnish Book-Entry System
FBSE / First Bulgarian Stock Exchange
FCM / Futures Commission Merchant
FCM / Futuros de Citrieos y Mercaderias de Valencia
FCP / Fonds Communs de Placement
FCSD / Finnish Central Securities Ltd
FDIC / Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FEAS / Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges
FEBC / Foreign Exchange Bearer Certificate
FESE / Federation of European Stock Exchanges
FEX / First European Exchange
FFA / Free Fatty Acids
FIA / Futures Industry Act
FIA / Futures Industry Association
FIABV / Federation of Ibero-American Stock Exchanges
FIBOR / Frankfurt Interbank Offered Rate
FIBV / Fédération Internationale des Bourses de Valeurs
FIC / Foreign Investment Committee
FIDE / Foundation for Investment and Development
FIFO / First In/First Out
FIMBRA / Financial Intermediaries, Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association
FIPS / Foreign Interest Payment Security
FISD / Financial Information Services Division
FIX / Financial Information eXchange
FIXML / Financial Information eXchange Extensible Markup Language
FLEX / FLexible EXchange Option
FMA / France Matif Automatique
FMCA / Financial Markets Control Area
FNMA / Federal National Mortgage Association
FOB / Free On Board
FOM / Finnish Options Market
FOSS / Funds Only Settlement Service
FOX / Finnish Options Index
FRA / Forward-Rate Agreement
FRB / Federal Reserve Board
FRN / Floating-Rate Note
FRNCD / Floating-Rate Negotiable Certificate of Deposit
FSA / Financial Services Act
FSA / Financial Services Authority
FSE / Frankfurt Stock Exchange
FTA / Financial Futures Market Amsterdam
FTSE 100 / Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
G30 / Group of 30
GAAP / Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GATOR / Government and Agency Term Obligatory Receipt
GCC / Gulf Co-operation Council
GCH / Gilt Clearing House
GCM / General Clearing Member
GCT / General Consumption Tax
GDR / Global Depository Receipt
GEM / Growth and Emerging Markets
GEMMs / Gilt-Edged Market-Makers
GLOBEX / Global Electronic Exchange
GmbH / Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung – German limited-liability company
GMRA / Global Master Repurchase Agreement
GNMA / Government National Mortgage Association
GROI / Guaranteed Return On Investment
GSC / Government Security Clearing Corporation
GSCI / Goldman Sachs Commodity Index
GSE / Guayaquil Stock Exchange
GST / Goods and Services Tax
GSTPA / Global Straight Through Processing Association
GTC / Good Till Cancelled
GTX / Good Till Executed
GUFE / Guangdong United Futures Exchange
GUN / Grantor Underwriting Notes
HELIBOR / Helsinki Interbank Offered Rate
HETI / Helsinki Stock Exchange Automated Trading and Information Systems
HIBOR / Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate
HKFE / Hong Kong Futures Exchange
HKO / Hong Kong Option
HKSCC / Hong Kong Securities Clearing Corporation
HKSE / Hong Kong Stock Exchange
HOS / Handel Ondersteunend Systeem
HSE
IASC / International Accounting Standards Committee
IBIS / Interbanken Informations System
ICC / International Chamber of Commerce
ICCH / International Commodities Clearing House
ICEP / Instituto de Comércio Externo de Portugal
ICMG / International Capital Markets Group
ICSA / International Council of Securities Associations
ICSD / International Central Security Depositories
ID / Interbank Deposit
IDA / Investment Dealers Association
IDB / Inter-American Development Bank
IDB / Interdealer Broker
IDEM / Italian Derivatives Market
IDR / International Depository Receipt
IEM / International Equity Market
IFC / International Finance Corporation
IFOX / Irish Futures and Options Exchange
IGLU / Index Growth Linked Unit
IID / International Institutional Delivery
IIEDS / Individual Investor Express Delivery Service
IMF / International Monetary Fund
IMM / International Monetary Market
IMRO / Investment Management Regulatory Organisation Ltd
INC / National Continuous Index
INS / International Net Settlement Service
INSTINET / Institutional Networks Corporation
IOC / Immediate Or Cancel
IOCC / International Options Clearing Corporation