| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics | |
| ACCC | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission | |
| ADI | Authorised Deposit-taking Institute | |
| ADR | American Depositary Receipt | |
| AFMA | Australian Financial Markets Association | |
| AFR | Australian Financial Review | |
| AGPS | Australian Government Printing Service | |
| ANZ | ANZ Banking Group | |
| AOFM | Australian Office of Financial Management | |
| APRA | Australian Prudential Regulation Authority | |
| ARBL | Assets Replaced Before Liabilities | |
| ASIC | Australian Securities and Investments Commission | |
| ASX | Australian Securities Exchange | |
| ATM | Automatic Tellar Machine | |
| AWOTE | Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings | |
| BAB | Bank Accepted Bill | |
| BBSW | Bank Bill Swap Rate | |
| BIS | Bank for International Settlements | |
| CAR | Capital Adequacy Requirement | |
| CBA | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | |
| CBOT | Chicago Board of Trade | |
| CD | Certificate of Deposit | |
| CDI | CHESS Depositary Interest | |
| CDS | Credit Default Swap | |
| CEDEL | Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs Mobilières | |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer | |
| CGS | Commonwealth Government Securities | |
| CHESS | Clearing House Electronic Sub-register System | |
| CLICK XT/ITS | ASX Securities Electronic Trading System | |
| CME | Chicago Mercantile Exchange | |
| CMT | Cash Management Trust | |
| CP | Commercial Paper | |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index | |
| CRA | Credit Rating Agency | |
| CUFS | CHESS Units of Foreign Securities | |
| EBIT | Earnings Before Interest and Tax | |
| ECP | Eurocommercial Paper | |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange | |
| EDR | Euro Depositary Receipt | |
| EFIC | Export Finance and Insurance Corporation | |
| EFTPOS | Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale | |
| EMU | Economic and Monetary Union | |
| EPS | Earnings Per Share | |
| ERM | Exchange Rate Mechanism (European Union) | |
| ESA | Exchange Settlement Account | |
| ETP | Eligible Termination Payment | |
| EU | European Union | |
| EUR | Euro | |
| FDA | Fully Drawn Advance | |
| FEC | Forward Exchange Contract | |
| Fed | Federal Reserve Bank (USA) | |
| FRA | Forward Rate Agreement | |
| FRN | Floating Rate Note | |
| FTSE | Financial Times Stock Exchange | |
| FX | Foreign Exchange | |
| G-10 | Group of 10 Central Banks | |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product | |
| GDR | Global Depositary Receipt | |
| GICS | Global Industry Classification Standard | |
| GNE | Gross National Expenditure | |
| HPY | Holding Period Yield | |
| IBSA | International Banking and Security Association | |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund | |
| IPO | Initial Public Offering | |
| IRR | Internal Rate of Return | |
| IWT | Interest Withholding Tax | |
| L/C | Letter of Credit | |
| LBO | Leveraged Buy Out | |
| LEPO | Low Exercise Price Option | |
| LIBID | London Inter-Bank Bid Rate | |
| LIBOR | London Inter-Bank Offered Rate | |
| LIFFE | London International Financial Futures Exchange | |
| LIMEAN | London Inter-Bank Mean Rate | |
| LME | London Metals Exchange | |
| LSE | London Stock Exchange | |
| M&A | Merger & Acquisition | |
| MA | Moving Average | |
| MBO | Management Buy Out | |
| MSCI | Morgan Stanley Capital International Index | |
| MTN | Medium Term Note | |
| NAB | National Australia Bank | |
| NASDAQ | National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System | |
| NBFI | Non-Bank Financial Institution | |
| NCD | Negotiable Certificate of Deposit | |
| NGF | National Guarantee Fund | |
| NIC | Newly Industrialising Country | |
| NIF | Euronote Issuance Facility | |
| NPV | Net Present Value | |
| NTA | Net Tangible Assets | |
| NYSE | New York Stock Exchange | |
| OBS | Off Balance Sheet | |
| OBU | Offshore Banking Unit | |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development | |
| OPEC | Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries | |
| OTC | Over-The-Counter | |
| P/E | Price to Earnings Ratio | |
| PLC | Publicly Listed Corporation | |
| P-Note | Promissory Note | |
| PPP | Purchasing Power Parity | |
| PSBR | Public Sector Borrowing Requirement | |
| PV | Present Value | |
| PVCF | Present Value of Cash Flows | |
| QIB | Qualified Institutional Buyers | |
| RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia | |
| RBL | Reasonable Benefit Limit | |
| RBNZ | Reserve Bank of New Zealand | |
| REPOS | Repurchase Agreements | |
| RITS | Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System | |
| ROE | Return On Equity | |
| ROI | Return On Investment | |
| RTGS | Real Time Gross Settlement | |
| S&P | Standard & Poor's Credit Rating Agency | |
| SEC | Securities and Exchange Commission (USA) | |
| SFE | Sydney Futures Exchange | |
| SGC | Superannuation Guarantee Charge | |
| SIBOR | Singapore Inter-Bank Offered Rate | |
| SIS | Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act | |
| SMART | Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely | |
| SME | Small and Medium Sized Enterprise | |
| SOMA | Survelliance of Market Activity System (ASX) | |
| SPAN | Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk | |
| SPI | Share Price Index | |
| SPV | Special Purpose Vehicle | |
| SSP | Special Service Providor | |
| SWIFT | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications | |
| T-Bill | Treasury Bill | |
| TLC | Transferable Loan Certificate | |
| T-Note | Treasury Note | |
| TWI | Trade Weighted Index | |
| UK | United Kingdom | |
| USA | United States of America | |
| USCP | United States Commercial Paper | |
| VaR | Value at Risk | |
| WBC | Westpac Banking Corporation | |
