Skip to content
Category

Financial regulation

page 1
ISO 4217
standard which delineates currency designators and its countries
money laundering
process of transforming profits of crime and corruption into ostensibly legitimate assets
International Bank Account Number
alphanumeric identifier for a bank account in any participating country, structure defined in ISO 13616
International Financial Reporting Standards
Accounting standard issued by the IFRS Foundation
short
practice of selling securities or other financial instruments that are not currently owned
International Securities Identification Number
identifier for a security
ISO 9362
ISO standard defining Business Identifier Codes assigned by SWIFT
reserve requirement
type of regulation on commercial banks
Financial Stability Board
organization
International Accounting Standards Board
the body in IFRS Foundation which develops IFRS
Basel Accords
banking supervision accords issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
bank regulation
government regulation which subjects banks to certain requirements, restrictions and guidelines
pump and dump
form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned microcap stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price
Basel I
round of deliberations by central bankers from around the world
Group of Thirty
international body of leading financiers and academics
Legal Entity Identifier
20-digit, alpha-numeric reference string to uniquely identify a legally distinct entity
financial regulation
rules or restrictions for financial institutions
Macroprudential regulation
regulation designed to mitigate systemic financial risk
International Organization of Securities Commissions
organization
ISO 20022
standard for electronic data interchange between financial institutions
regulatory technology
business compliance technology
financial repression
global systemically important bank
bank deemed very important for the financial system by responsible financial supervising authorities
loss given default
share of an asset
Financial Stability Forum
organization
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
climate risk disclosure framework
International Association of Insurance Supervisors
blank cheque
cheque that has no numerical value entered, but is already signed
Finance Watch
European non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on financial regulation
accredited investor
investor with a special status under financial regulation laws
Financial Action Task Force blacklist
blacklist of non-cooperating countries created by the Financial Action Task Force
anti–money laundering
activities and regulations to prevent and detect money laundering
Lamfalussy process
legislative process
European Market Infrastructure Regulation
EU regulation
self-regulatory organization
organization that exercises some degree of regulatory authority over an industry or profession
Santiago Principles
guidelines for sovereign wealth funds
World Pensions & Investments Forum
global summit on pensions and investment
Enten controversy
company
Caribbean Financial Action Task Force
financial disclosure report
form which contains information about civil servants' and their family's wealth and assets
naked short selling
practice of short-selling a tradable asset of any kind without first borrowing the security or ensuring that the security can be borrowed