| AFS | Available For Sale |
| AIF | Alternative Investment Funds |
| AIFIs | All India Financial Institutions |
| AMC | Asset Management Company |
| AMC-MFs | Asset Management Companies – Mutual Funds |
| AML | Anti-Money Laundering |
| APY | Atal Pension Yojana |
| ASCL | Aggregate Sanctioned Credit Limit |
| ATMs | Automated Teller Machines |
| AUC | Asset Under Custody |
| AUM | Assets Under Management |
| BCBS | Basel Committee on Banking Supervision |
| BIS | Bank for International Settlements |
| BSE | Bombay Stock Exchange |
| BSI | Banking Stability Indicator |
| CCIL | Clearing Corporation of India Limited |
| CERT-In | Indian Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CIUs | Collective Investment Undertakings |
| CPC | Central Pay Commission |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CRAR | Capital To Risk-Weighted Assets Ratio |
| CRAs | Credit Rating Agencies |
| CRR | Cash Reserve Ratio |
| CSITE | Cyber Security and IT Examination |
| CSO | Central Statistics Office |
| CSPs | Covered Service Providers |
| DB | Dissemination Board |
| DER | Debt to Equity Ratio |
| DICGC | Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation |
| DPI | Deemed Public Issue |
| D-SIBs | Domestic Systemically Important Banks |
| EBIT | Earnings Before Interest & Tax |
| EBITDA | Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization |
| ECB | European Central Bank |
| ECBs | External Commercial Borrowings |
| ELCs | Exclusively Listed Companies |
| EME | Emerging Market Economies |
| EU | European Union |
| FALLCR | Facility to Avail Liquidity for Liquidity Coverage Ratio |
| FBs | Foreign Banks |
| FCA | Financial Conduct Authority |
| FCNR (B) | Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank) |
| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment |
| FDMC | Financial Data Management Centre |
| FEMA | Foreign Exchange Management Act |
| FPI | Foreign Portfolio Investments |
| FRDI | Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance |
| FSB | Financial Stability Board |
| FSDC | Financial Stability and Development Council |
| FSLRC | Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission |
| FSR | Financial Stability Report |
| GCC | Gulf Cooperation Council |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GEMC | Growth and Emerging Markets Committee |
| GFCE | Government Final Consumption Expenditure |
| GFSI | Global Financial Stress Index |
| GFSR | Global Financial Stability Report |
| GIC | General Insurance Corporation |
| GNPA | Gross Non-Performing Advance |
| G-SIBs | Global Systemically Important Banks |
| G-SIIs | Global Systemically Important Insurers |
| GST | Goods and Services Tax |
| HFT | Held For Trading |
| HQLAs | High Quality Liquid Assets |
| HTM | Held To Maturity |
| IAIS | International Association of Insurance Supervisors |
| ICR | Interest Coverage Ratio |
| IFRS | International Financial Reporting Standards |
| IIF | Institute of International Finance |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| Ind AS | Indian Accounting Standards |
| IOSCO | International Organisation of Securities Commissions |
| IRAC | Income Recognition, Asset Classification and provisioning |
| IRDAI | Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India |
| IRRBB | Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book |
| KYC | Know Your Customer |
| LC | Life Cycle |
| LCR | Liquidity Coverage Ratio |
| LE | Large Exposure |
| LTA | Look Through Approach |
| MCA | Ministry of Corporate Affairs |
| MF | Mutual Fund |
| MoF | Ministry of Finance |
| MSCI | Morgan Stanley Capital International |
| MSME | Micro Small and Medium Enterprise |
| NBFCs | Non-Banking Financial Companies |
| NBFCs-D | Non-Banking Financial Companies-Deposit Accepting |
| NBFCs-ND | Non-Banking Financial Companies-Non- Deposit Accepting |
| NBFCs-ND-SI | Non-Banking Financial Companies- Non-Deposit Accepting-Systemically Important |
| NDTL | Net Demand and Time Liabilities |
| NGNF | Non-Government Non-Financial |
| NHAI | National Highways Authority of India |
| NHB | National Housing Bank |
| NPAs | Non-Performing Assets |
| NPLL | Normally Permitted Lending Limit |
| NPS | National Pension System |
| NSE | National Stock Exchange |
| NTNI | Non-Traditional Non-Insurance |
| ODIs | Offshore Derivative Instruments |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OPEC | Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| PAT | Profit After Tax |
| PBT | Profit Before Tax |
| PCE | Partial Credit Enhancement |
| PFCE | Private Final Consumption Expenditure |
| PFRDA | Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority |
| PMJDY | Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana |
| PMJSBY | Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Suraksha Bima Yojana |
| PMLA | Prevention of Money Laundering Act |
| PNs | Participatory Notes |
| POS | Point of Sales |
| PPI | Prepaid Payment Instrument |
| PSBs | Public Sector Banks |
| PSS | Payment and Settlement Systems |
| PVBs | Private Sector Banks |
| QE | Quantitative Easing |
| RBI | Reserve Bank of India |
| RCAP | Regulatory Consistency Assessment Program |
| RCs | Reconstruction Companies |
| RoA | Return on Assets |
| RoE | Return on Equity |
| RRBs | Regional Rural Banks |
| RTGS | Real Time Gross Settlement |
| S&P | Standard and Poor |
| SBI | State Bank of India |
| SBN | Specified Bank Notes |
| SCBs | Scheduled Commercial Banks |
| SCs | Securitisation Companies |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SEBI | Securities and Exchange Board of India |
| SIFIs | Systemically Important Financial Institutions |
| SIT | Special Investigation Team |
| SLCCs | State Level Co-ordination Committees |
| SLR | Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
| SMA | Special Mention Account |
| SPARC | Supervisory Program for Assessment of Risk and Capital |
| SUCBs | Scheduled Urban Co-Operative Banks |
| SWIFT | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication |
| TBTF | Too Big to Fail |
| TLAC | Total Loss-Absorbing Capacity |
| TLTRO | Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations |
| Y-o-Y | Year-on-Year |