| AAS |
Australian Accounting Standards |
| ABF |
Asian Bond Fund |
| ABF1 |
Asian Bond Fund 1 |
| ABF2 |
Asian Bond Fund 2 |
| ACC |
Asian Consultative Council (of the BIS) |
| ADI |
Authorised deposit-taking institution |
| AML/CTF |
Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing |
| AOFM |
Australian Office of Financial Management |
| APCA |
Australian Payments Clearing Association Limited |
| APRA |
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
| ASIC |
Australian Securities and Investments Commission |
| ASX |
Australian Securities Exchange |
| BCBS |
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision |
| BI |
Bank Indonesia |
| BIS |
Bank for International Settlements |
| BPNG |
Bank of Papua New Guinea |
| BRS |
Business Resumption Site (of the RBA) |
| CAC Act |
Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 |
| CFR |
Council of Financial Regulators |
| CGFS |
Committee on the Global Financial System (of the BIS) |
| CGS |
Commonwealth Government Securities |
| CHESS |
Clearing House Electronic Sub-register System |
| CLF |
Committed liquidity facility |
| CLS |
Continuous linked settlement |
| CPR |
Commonwealth Procurement Rules |
| CPSS |
Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (of the BIS) |
| CRA |
Credit rating agency |
| CSA |
Credit Support Annex |
| DFAT |
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| DoFD |
Department of Finance and Deregulation |
| D-SIB |
Domestic systemically important bank |
| ECB |
European Central Bank |
| EFT |
Electronic Funds Transfer |
| EMC |
Environmental Management Committee |
| EMEAP |
Executives' Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks |
| ES |
Exchange settlement |
| ESA |
Exchange Settlement Account |
| ESD |
Ecologically sustainable development |
| FCL |
Flexible Credit Line |
| FMI |
Financial market infrastructure |
| FOI |
Freedom of Information |
| FSAP |
Financial Sector Assessment Program |
| FSB |
Financial Stability Board |
| GHOS |
Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision |
| GPF |
Government Partnership Fund (with Indonesia) |
| G-SIB |
Global systemically important bank |
| G-SIFI |
Global SIFI |
| G20 |
Group of Twenty |
| HQLA |
High-quality liquid assets |
| IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
| IOSCO |
International Organization of Securities Commissions |
| IPS |
Information Publication Scheme |
| ISDA |
International Swaps and Derivatives Association |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| LVCS |
Low Value Clearing Service |
| LVSS |
Low Value Settlement Service |
| MFSC |
Monetary and Financial Stability Committee |
| NAIDOC |
National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee |
| NGB |
Next Generation Banknote |
| NNPDC |
National Note Processing and Distribution Centre |
| NPA |
Note Printing Australia Limited |
| NQRS |
Note Quality Reward Scheme |
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OPA |
Official Public Account |
| OTC |
Over-the-counter (derivatives) |
| PAIF |
Pan Asian Index Bond Fund |
| PBC |
People's Bank of China |
| PFMI |
Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures |
| PFTAC |
Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre |
| PLL |
Precautionary and Liquidity Line |
| RBA |
Reserve Bank of Australia |
| RBF |
Reserve Bank of Fiji |
| RBRF |
Reserve Bank Reserve Fund |
| RCG |
Regional Consultative Group |
| RDP |
Research Discussion Paper |
| Repo |
Repurchase agreement |
| RITS |
Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System |
| RM |
Risk Management Unit |
| RMB |
Renminbi |
| RMBS |
Residential mortgage-backed securities |
| RTGS |
Real-time gross settlement |
| SAR |
Special Administrative Region |
| SDR |
Special Drawing Right |
| Semis |
Semi-government securities (Australian state and territory government securities) |
| SIFI |
Systemically important financial institution |
| SWIFT |
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication |
| WHS |
Work health and safety |
