Abbreviations Flashcards

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Offer (Ask) - Price offering terminology when trading

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ACC

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Accepted - Term used in reference give-up transactions, accepted by the claiming firm

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ACS

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Allocation Claim System - A CME system used by firms involved in the allocation and claiming of five-up transactions. Many firms also use one of the middleware systems available to automate this process (GL Clearvision, Emos, ATEO)

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ACSSS

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American Council of State Savings Supervisors - Part of State Liaison Committee (SLC), along with CSBS and NASCUS

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AD

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Australian Dollar - FX currency

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ADN

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Alternate Delivery Notice

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ADV

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Average Daily Volume - the average amount of contracts traded in any given product

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AEM

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All employee meeting

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AML

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Anti-money Laundering - related to the ‘Know Your Customer” policies

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ANC

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Adjusted Net Capital

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AON

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All or None - a style of order designed to fill the complete quantity, not partially fill it

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APN

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Accept Pending - A designation/message on a give-up transaction indicating the current status as pending. It will remain this way until the claiming firm rejects or accepts the transaction

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APS

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Average Price System - A System used by firms/traders to group a series of trades made up of the same criteria (buy or sell of the same contract) to obtain a single average price across the whole group. Frequently used by fund managers to ensure all accounts receive the same price

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ARR

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Allocation Reversal Request - A designation/message on a give-up transaction indicating the current status as reversal requested. It will remain in this status until the executing firm accepts or rejects the reversal transaction. This may occur because of bad price allocated, allocated to the wrong firm, incorrect buy/sell code, etc

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AS A/C

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Asset Account

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ASEF

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Alternate Swaps Execution Facility

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ATIS

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A Thorn in my Side - A back office proprietary bookkeeping system, orginally developed by O’Connor & Sons

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ATM

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At the Money - term used to describe a position instructions to exercise

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ATS

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Alternative strike price which is the same as the underlying settlement price. In this situation the position would not be automatically exercised, client/firm must submit specific Trading Systems

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AUD

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Australian Dollar - FX currency

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Bid - price offering terminology when trading

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BAU

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Business as usual

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BBH

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Brown Brothers Harriman - A settlement bank used by CME Group clients

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BCP

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Business Continuity Planning - Group responsible for all Disastor Recovery (DR) planning within CME Group

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BDS
Business Development services
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BEI
Business Entity Identifiers - (SWIFT related)
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BFCC
Business Function Combined Commodity
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BIA
Business Impact Analysis
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BIC
Business Instructional Code - Specific code designated to banks used in transaction messaging by various Clearing House Departments
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BIS
Bank for International Settlements - an FX related institution
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BK trades
Broker Reassignment - allow an IOM member, trading outside his/her division to be recorded as the filling broker on the futures leg of the options/futures combination trades
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BKE
Bilateral Key Exchange
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BKR
Broker - person who acts as an intermediary between a buyer and a seller, usually charging a commission
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BOMA
Building Owners and Managers Association - Works closely with CME group to ensure that our evacuationa dn facility security plans are current and accurate
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BONY
Bank of New York - A settlement bank used by CME group clients
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BP
British Pound (also GBP) - an FX currency
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BPM
Business Performance Management
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BR
Brazilian Real - an FX currency
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BRPA
Business Resumption Planners Association - an independant professional association of people employed in all aspects of disastor recovery, contingency, and business continuity planning
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C21
Clearing 21 - The C21 system suppors a variety of functions that enable member firms to view settlement information by origin and settlement account. Firms can also obtain Margin call and cash release information online using the settlement system
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CAB
Cabinet Trades - A cabinet trade is an obtion trade executed in a deep out-of-the-money obtion at a permium value less than the standard minimum tick. Each option product chapter defines the standard minimum tick increment and the allowable cabinet increments applicable to that product
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CAD
Canadian Dollar - an FX currency (also CD)
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CAM
CME Auction Markets - A market utilizing the Auction system through which CME AM makes Auction Instruments available to auction participants
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CBOE
Chicago Board Options Exchange - Exchange which ises the OCC as their clearing corporation
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CBOT
Chicago Board of Trade - Merged with CME to form CME Group in 2007
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CCS
CME Clearing Support group - department within the Clearing House
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CCP
Central Counterparty
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CD
Canadian Dollars - an FX currency (also CAD)
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CDD
Cooling Degree Day - weather contract related - an average of temperature for that particular city over the course of the month
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CDM
Clean Development Mechanism - where CER's contracts are held in temporary accounts
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CDS
Credit Default Swaps
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CEA
Commodity Exchange Act
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CER
Certified Emission Reduction - Emissions Futures Contract (Euro Denominated)
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CEM
Current Exchange Method - Relates to the calculations in regards to the CME guarantee funds
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CF
Clearing Fee - Fees charged to exchange members and non-members alike for various clearing transactions
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CFI
Center for Innovation - CFI creates and sponsors thought provoking original programming that identifies, showcases, and fosters examples of significant innovation and creative thinging across multiple industries
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CFPB
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Part of the FFIEC council. The council is a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions
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CFTC
Commodity Futures Trading Commision - The US government agency responsible for regulating domestic futures and options exchanges and their members
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CH
Clearing House - the administrative center of a market through which all transactions are cleared. In addition to administering trades, the clearing house guarantees the performance of contracts. It becomes the counter party to both the buyer and seller when a trade is matches, greatly reducing counterparty risk. Other functions include ensuring the underlying financial instruments or commodities are actually delivered to fulfill futures contracts, and maintaining the margin accounts
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CHF
Swiss Franc - an FX currency
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ChicagoFIRST
ChicagoFIRST - a non-profit dedicated to Homeland Security and Emergency Management issues affecting financial institutions requiring a coordinated response. It is a coalition of private sector financial institutions and several local, state, and federal agencies
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CIG
Corporate Initiative Group
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CIKR
Critical Infastructure Key Resources - Cyber securty risk management collaboration
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CIL
Client Internet Link
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CISCP
Cyber Information Sharing and Collaboration Program - Align and mature government and CIKR cyber security risk management colloaboration
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CIT
Clearing Information Technology - IT support for the Clearing House
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CITL
European Community Transaction log - a link to the ITL
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CLAR
Customer Line Alternative Routing - Enables firms to faciliate give-up trade processing via MQM/TREX as an alternative to entering data via our on-line Give-up System, GUS
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CLR
Normal Clearing - A day in which clearing follows it's regular schedule of trade processing, with no special considerations for holiday processing
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CLS
Continuous Link Settlement - Banking system used to match deliveries in foreign currency futures for real-time settlement of both sides of the transaction
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CM
Clearing Member - a member of the clearing house organization
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CMA
Credit Market Analysis, Ltd.
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CMB
Common message board - application used by the CH to maintain and moniter firm's queues for both incoming and out going messages
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CMAC
Competitive Markets Advisory Council
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CME
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
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CME AM
CME Alternative Marketplace Inc. - a subsidiary of CME which is not regulated by the CFTC.
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CMECE
CME Clearing Europe - represents the London CME Clearing House
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CMF
Clearing Member Firm - member firm, or FCM of a clearing house organization
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CMT
Crisis Management Team - related to business continuity group
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CMU
Client Member Update - reference to approval process for new clearing firms
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CORE
Clearing Online Risk Engine - clearing member and client risk application
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CSBS
Conference of State Bank Supervisors - Part of the SLC, along with ACSS and NASCUS
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Cseg/Cust
Customer Segregated - certification support for Electronic Trading Group that supports the Certification and New Release Environments
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CST
Central Standard Time - Time zone of chicago, also known as CDT during daylight savings
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CTI
Customer Type Indicator - Bookkeeping clearing code which indicates one of the following: CTI 1 = Broker/trader trading own account; CTI 2 = Broker/trader trading for house account; CTI 3 = Broker/trader trading for the account of another broker/trader present on the trading floor or for an account controlled by such a broker/trader; CTI 4 = Broker/trader trading for any other customer's account
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CTM
Clearing Trade Management
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CTR
Computerized Trade Reconstruction - The market regulation department will conduct audits of clearing members to verify that required audit trail information has been accurately recorded and submitted.
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CUSIP
Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures - a CUSIP number identifies most securities. The CUSIP system facilitates the clearing and settlement process of securities. The number consists of nine characters unique to each company or issuer
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Cust
Customer Origin
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DAT
Damage Assesment Team - related to Business Continuity Group
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DCE
Data Center Engineering - Computer room security for equipment, location, and access
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DCO
Derivatives Clearing Organization
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DCM
Designated/Derivates Clearing Member - a CME Clearing Member approved for the purpose of entering orders to an Auction on behalf of auction participants together with the duties, rights, and privileges attendant to membership in the CH
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DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service - Infosec related to cyber/Internet attack of customer and/or public facing url's
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DHS
Department of Homeland Security
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DIP
Delivery Instructions Process - the process and protocol firms follow when involved with deliveries. These protocols vary depending on the product being delivered
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DISCR
Discretionary - Order indicator giving the executing broker a level of discretion on what price a particular order is filled
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DMA
Direct Market Access - refers to traders with direct access to Globex
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DMAIC
A QPE Guideline to improve processes across the CH - Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control
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DME
Dubai Mercantile Exchange
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DMS
Deal Management System - OTC product/deal related
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DNS
Deliver Notice Server
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DSRO
Designated Self Regulatory Organization - CME Group Audit department performs risk based regulatory examinations of clearing members for which is has DSRO
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DTC
Depository Trust Company - the worlds largest central securities depository, it accepts deposits of over 2 million equity and debt securities issues from over 65 countries for custody
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DTCC
Depository Trust Clearing Corporation - through its subsidiaries, provides post-trade clearing, settlement, custody and information services for equities, corporate and municipal debt, money market instruments, American depository receipts, ETFs, and other securities
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DVA
Daily Value Adjustment
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E/A
Exercise/Assignment - the process whereby the option buyer asserts his/her right and goes long the underlying futures. Assignment refers to the obligations of sellers to take the opposite futures position of the buyers
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EBOT
Exempt Board of Trade - Clearing Members eligible to clear CME products and Special CME Clearing Members eligible to clear CBOT products may clear Eligible Products traded on CME AM, at the discretion of the CH
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EC
Euro Currency - an FX currency
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ECC
Emergency Change Control - a system modification in any environment that must happen outside of the normal weekend maintenance window
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ECN
Electronic Communications Networks - electronic systems used to trade securities
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ECP
Eligible Contract Participants - Trading on the EBOT is restricted to eligible contract participants
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ED
Euro Dollar - the most widely traded interest rate futures product in the world. It enables traders to hedge fluctuations on Eurodollars - U.S. dollars deposited in commercial banks outside the US
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EEP
Excess Emissions Penalty - A delivery penalty related to Emissions Futures Contract (Euro Denominated)
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EFP
Exchange for Physical - a privately negotiated, non-competitive futures trade transacted apart from the public auction market of a futures exchange but submitted for clearing through a futures clearing house
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EFR
Exchange for Risk - a futures market transaction that provides market participants a way to unwind existing OTC positions into new OTC positions. Similar to an EFP transaction, except that it involves an exchange of a futures position for an OTC position rather than an exchange for a physical commodity. EFR transactions facilitate an easy, efficient entry or exit from the OTC position
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EFS
Exchange Fee System - Exchange system used by firms to manage exchange and clearing fees
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EFS
Exchange for Swap - a practice similar to EFP, used by exchange market participants as an additional instrument to add flexibility to trading and risk management portfolios. Allows market participants to exchange a futures contract position for a cash-settled position instead of a physical commodity. Also gives market participants the ability to liquidate a swap position in a market that may have limited liquidity
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EMA's
Federal and State Emergency Management Associations
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EOD
End of Day - Signifies the end of the trading day and is often associated with firms' processing schedule
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EOM
Unit of Measure
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ePRS
Electronic Price Reporting System
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EREP
Enterprise Reports - Client facing report repository which replaced Document Direct
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ES
Enterprise Solutions - working group within the CME
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ERT
Emergency Response Team - related to Business Continuity Group
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ETF
Exchange Traded Funds
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ETH
Electronic Trading Hours - trading hours on electronic markets opposed to open outcry markets
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ETP
Electronic Trade Poster
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ETPA
Electronic Trade Posting Application - Electronic Trading Production Assurance Group who supports all production components and systems
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EUA
European Union Allowance - Emmissions Futures Contract (Euro Denominated)
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EU ETS
European Union Emissions Trading Scheme - Emmisions Futures Contract (Euro denominated)
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EUR
Euro
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EY
Euro-Yen
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FBIIC
Financial Banking and Infrastructure Information Committee - Sister council of the FSSCC, made up of public sector and regulatory organizations and chaired by the US treasury department
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FCC
Federal Communications Commission
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FCM
Futures Commission Merchant
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FDIC
Federak Depository Insurance Corporation - Part of the FFIEC council, a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions
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FEC
Front End Clearing - provides a web-interface for management of the clearing process
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FERF
FIXML Entity Reference File
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FEST
Fixtures for Easy Software Testing
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FFCB
Federal Farm Credit Bank
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FFIEC
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council - a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions by the FRB, FDIC, NCUA, OCC, CFPB.
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FHLB
Federal Home Loan Bank
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FHLMC
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation aka: Freddie Mac
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FIA
Futures Industry Association - the CME has participated in the execution and planning of all Futures Industry Recovery exercises sponsered by the FIA
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FICC
Fixed Income Clearing Corporation
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FIMS
Facilities Information Management System - a tool that first responders are going to use as a reference when an event is occuring
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FIX
Financial Information Exchange - Financial exchange protocol for transmitting order entry messages
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FIX/FAST
Financial Exchange Protocol - Financial Exchange Protocol for transmitting market data messaging compressed using the FAST algorithm
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FIXML
Financial Information Exchange Markup Language
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FLEX
Flex Options Contracts
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FNMA
Federal National Mortgage Association aka: Fannie Mae
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FOB
An Adornment that hangs from a watch chain
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FRB
Federal Reserve Board - FFIEC Council segment. a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions
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FS-ISAC
Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center - established in response to a mandate that the public and private sectors share information about physical and cyber security threats and vulnerabilities to help protect critical US Infrastructure
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FSSCC
Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council - One of the DHS coordinating councils set up to provide homeland security and infrastructure protection. CME Group is a member of this financial sector council.
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FUT
Future
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FX
Foreign Exchange
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FXMS
Foreign Exchange MarketSpace
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GBP
British Pounds
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GBX
Globex
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GCC
Globex Control Center
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GCF
General Collateral Finance
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GCM
General Clearing Member - Clearing house member who is entitled to clear its own transactions, those of its customers and those of floor brokers whom it sponsers
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GEM
Growth and Emerging Markets Division
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GETS
Government Emergency Telecommunications Service - Part of DHS, utilized to help CME respond to NS/EP when we are unable to complete emergency calls through normal means during a DR situation or event
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GFX
Globex Foreign Exchange
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GIS
Global Information Security
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GNMA
Ginnie Mae
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GSA
Goldman Sachs of America
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GSCI
Goldman Sachs Commodity Index
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GSE
Government Sponsered Enterprise
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GSEMB
Government Sponsered Enterprise Mortgage Backed
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GSEOTH
Goverment Sponsered Enterprise Other
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GU
Give up
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GUI
Graphical User Interface
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GUS
Give-up System
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HFS
High Frequency Trading - usually associated with traders that use an algorithm for trading
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HOUSE
House Origin - also known as NSEG or proprietary
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HSM
High Security Manager - related to SWIFT security
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HTB
Harris Trust Bank
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HW
Hardware
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IBAN
International Bank Account Number
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ICM
Individual Clearing Member - Clearing house member who is entitled to clear its own transactions, those of its direct customers and those of the locals, but not the transactions of floor brokers
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ICPS
iClear Position Services
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IDB
Inter-Dealer Broker - interact with a multitude of clients, often across many asset classes. They provide important services to the OTC market, and increased regulatory and industry focus on electronic confirmation presents opportunities to work with your clients to deliver a solution for broker confirmations within minutes of execution
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IEF
Interest Earning Facility
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iLink
CME Group FIX front-end system for automated connectivity to the FIX Gateway. It connects over an IP address and port using TCP/IP
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IM
Initial Margin - The amount a futures market participant must deposit at the time he places an order to buy or sell a contract
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IMM
International Monetary Market - The Financial Futures Market that is part of the CME
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ITL
International Transaction Log - Operated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
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IOM
Index and Options Market Division
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IR Study
Infrared Electrical Inspection - a study of our electrical gear, done annually
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IRS
Interest Rate Swaps
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IRT
Incidence Response Team - relates to the team on the forefront in the event of a DR situation, comprised of various CME staff
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ISG
Information Services Group
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ISV
Independant Software Vendor
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ITC
Inter-Exchange Technical Committee
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ITD
Intra-day (settlement cycle)
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ITM
In the money - an option that would yield a positive value is exercised now
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ITSM
IT Service Management
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JPY
Japanse Yen, an FX currency
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JY
Japanese Yen, an FX currency
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KYC
Know your customer - shorthand used in emails and other correspondence
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LCH
London Clearing House
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LDRPS
Living Disaster Recovery Planning System - BCP group application to maintain all DR plans per department across the CME
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LIBOR
London Interbank Offered Rate
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LID
Last Intent Day - Final day that firms are allowed to enter their delivery intent to the Clearing House
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LIFFE
London International Financial Futures Exchange
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LOC
Letter of Credit - letter from a bank authorizing payment of a certain sum to a person or company, usually in another country
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LOV
Long Option Value - the monetary value of long option positions marked to the settlement price of the underlying contract
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LOX
Large Order Execution
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LP
Long Position - any long/buy position held by a firm during any given delivery cycle which is reportable and becomes eligible for delivery assignment
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LSOC
Legally Separated, Operationally Commingled - the basis for the complete legal segragation model, which determines how margin for cleared swaps will be held for the benefit of customers of a futures commission merchant
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LTD
Life to Date - Indicates statistical Information totaled for the life of an account to the current date
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MA
Margin Analyst - Member of financial unit team
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MBR
Member
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MBS
Service-Mortgage-Backed Securities
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MDP
Market Data Platform - produces market data messages
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MMMF
Money Market Mutual Fund
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MOBS
Market Observations - reference to snapshots taken of prices and positions for the Risk team to monitor clients and market conditions
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MOS
Mutual Offset - agreement between the CME and SGX. Trades executed on one exchange can be transferred to the books of a firm on the exchange.
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MOSSX
Simex Mutual Offset - Same as MOS
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MP
Mexican Peso, an FX currency
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MQM
Message Queuing Middleware - used by the CME to transmit trade data from and to clearing member firms on a real-time basis
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MRS
Member Reporting System - method used by floor brokers to receive their out trade sheets
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MSFT
Microsoft
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MTD
Month to Date - Indicates statistical information totaled for the month to the current date
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MTM
Marked to Market - refers to open opsitions marked to the latest settlement price to determine valuation
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MXN
Mexican Peso - an FX currency
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NAR
No Action Required
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NASCUS
National Association of State Credit Union Supervisors - Part of the SLC, along with CSBS and ACSSS
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NCM
Non-clearing member
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NCUA
National Credit Union Administration - Part of FFIEC, a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions
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NDF
Non-deliverable forwards - OTC US FX products via CME Clearport application
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NE
New Zealand Dollar - an FX currency
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NFA
National Futures Association
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NOIA
Notice of Intention to Accept - reference to emission reduction deliveries
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NOID
Notice of Intention to Delivery - Reference to emission reduction deliveries
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NOV
Net Option Value - The value of open option positions on a net basis
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NOK
Norwegian Krone - an FX currency
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NRML
Normal
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NSEG/House
House non-segregated - describes proprietary in house firm accounts
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NS/EP
National Security/Emergency Preparedness
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NYCC
New York Clearing Corporation
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NYMEX
New York Mercantile Exchange
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NYPC
Ney York Portfolio Clearing
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NZD
New Zealand Dollar - an FX currency
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OB
Or better - order execution type
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OC
Office Communicator
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OCC
Options Clearing Corporation
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OCC
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency - part of the FFIEC council, a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions
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OEMC
Local Office of Emergency Management and Communications - Fire and Police Departments
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OI
Open Interest - represents contracts left open on both long and short positions
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OIA
Office of Investigations & Audits
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ONA
Organization and Account
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OOB
Out of Balance - used to describe reconciliation discrepencies for either contracts or monetary balances
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OOF
Option on Future
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OOO
Out of office
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OOP
Option on Physical
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OP
Option premium - amount paid to the seller from the buyer for an option transaction
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OPPT
Option Premium Pass Thru
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ORC
Opportunity Resource Committee - High level executive corporate team tasked with measuring and evaluating large scale projects across the CME
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OTC
Over the counter - a non exchange transaction between two parties
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OTI
Order type Indicators
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OTM
Out of the Money
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OTP
Order to Pay
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P&S
Purchase and Sale
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P&L
Profit and Loss
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PB
Performance Bond
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PB A/C
Performance Bond Account
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PCS
Gross Position Change Submission
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PCTL
Production Control
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PMP
Performance Management Process
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PIN
Personal Identification Number
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PLA
Project Leadership Associates
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PNT
Privately Negotiated Trades
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POC
Proof of Concept or Point of Contact
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POP
Point of Presence Report
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POS A/C
Position Account
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PRS
Price Reporting System
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PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network
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QIS
Quantitative Impact Study
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QPE
Quality and Process Excellence
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RA
Risk Analysis
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RACF
Resource Access Control Facility
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RAP
Rapid Access Point
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RDC
Remote Data Center
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REBS
Regulatory Exchange Business Systems
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RFQ
Request for Quote
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RM
Relationship Manager
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RMA
Relationship manager Applicatication
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RQMTS
Requirements
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RTH
Regular Trading Hours
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RTO
Recovery Time Objective
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RU
Russian Ruble
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SAG
Settlements are Good / SWIFT Alliance Gateway
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SAN
Storage Area Network
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SDR
Swap Data Repository
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SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission
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SECR
Security Deposit
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SEF
Swap Execution Facilities
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SEG
Segregated Account
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SEK
Swedish Krona
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SET A/C
Settlement Account
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SFU
Senior Financial Unit Staff
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SGX/SIMEX
Signapore Exchange
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SI
Solutions Implementation
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SIPN
SWIFT Secure IP Network
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SLA
Service Level Agreement
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SLC
State Liaison Committee
312
SLEDS
Single line entry of Differential Spreads
313
SMDPs
Securities market data providers
314
SME
subject matter expert
315
SOD (2)
start of day or Securities on Deposit
316
SOM
Short Option Minimum
317
SOP
Standard Operating Procedures
318
SOV
Short Option Value
319
SP
S&P 500
320
SPAN
Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk
321
SPOF
Single points of failure
322
SSCP
SWIFT's Security Control Policy
323
SSF
Single Stock Futures
324
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
325
STP
Straight through Processing
326
SVDA
Settlement Variation Daily Adjustment
327
SVIEF
Settlement Variation Interest Earning Facility
328
SVOP
Settlement Variation Option Premium