All Banking Abbreviations and Terms For Upcoming Bank Exam 2020

All Banking Abbreviations and Terms For Upcoming Bank Exam 2020

Banking Abbreviations: Abbreviations are commonly asked in IBPS, SBI, RBI, RRB, UPSC, and other banking exams. We provided some important abbreviations related to Banking. We hope it may help you with Competitive exams !! Along With Banking Abbreviations Asked in Various Banking Exams

Credit Rating

‘Credit rating’ is the procedure of assessment of the creditworthiness of a borrower or a loan taker; creditworthiness defines as the  ability of a borrower to ‘service the loan’, i.e., pay back the loan along with the interest.

Priority Sector Lending

Priority sector lending refers to the areas where as per the RBI guidelines, commericial banks are directed to distribute loans inorder to promote them and help them in growing.

List of Priority Sector are:

• Agriculture
• Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
• Export Credit
• Education
• Housing
• Social Infrastructure
• Renewable Energy
• Others

Bitcoin

Bitcoin is one of the popular virtual currency/ cryptocurrency and a payment system that we use currently. Bitcoin  can be defined as decentralized means of tracking and assigning wealth or economy, it is a software protocol. It doesn’t work under any government protocol.

Call money

Call money  is the money borrowed by an institution on demand for a very short period.

Notice money

When an instution/person/organization borrowed or lent for more than a day up to 14 days it is called Notice Money.

Scheduled bank

All those commercial banks which are included in the 2nd Schedule of RBI Act 1934 are known as a scheduled commercial bank. These commercial banks are require to fulfil two conditions:

• First one is ,paid up capital and collected funds should not be less than Rs.5 Lacs.
• Second one is, any activity of the Bank should not adversely affect the interests of the customers.

Negative interest rate

When the demand is less for loans, the bank usually park their excess funds with the central bank through which they got intrest. Negative interest rate policy (NIRP) is a method through which  central banks will deduct money from commercial banks for depositing their money with the central bank. and in turn, Commercial banks also do the same to common people and the end effect is that people will have to pay money to banks to hold their cash and this is refer as Negative Interest rate.

Blockchain system

Blockchain system is a system to simplify the transactions without the help of any third party in a secure manner and this is done through an anonymous online ledger (collection of financial accounts) which uses the data structure to simplify it is called blockchain technology.

Retail credit operations

Retail Credit Operations refers to the sequential process which generally involves screening, evaluation of risk(s), and ensuring that the bank lends to a creditworthy client from the asset products applications sourced.

Skimming

Skimming is basically a method which is used by fraudsters to capture customer’s personal or account information of credit card.

Money laundering

Money laundering refers to a process of conversion of illegal money from various sources to appear to have originated from legitimated (Legal) source. Some of the major sources of illegal money are tax evasion, bribe, Smuggling etc.

Direct Debit

Direct Debit refers to a financial activity in which one person withdraws funds from another person’s bank account. This is a facility in which the payee withdraws the amount from the payer’s account and the payer has instructed the bank to allow the payee directly withdraw the amount from the account.

Cash Credit

Cash Credit is basically a proper limit sanctioned by the bank to the borrowing manufacturing/trading unit against the value of the raw materials, semi-finished goods and finished goods including stores.

Bill of Exchange

A bill of exchange refers to a non- interest bearing written order which is used primarily in foreign trade which binds one party to pay a fixed amount of money to another party at a decided future date.

Core Banking Solutions

Core Banking Solution (CBS) refers to  the networking of branches, which enables the customers to operate their accounts, and avail banking services from any branch of the Bank on CBS network, regardless of where he maintains his account.

Unified Payment Interface

UPI uses a single application programme interface with a series of Application Programme interface (API’S). The mobile devices are the primary object for all the payments that a customer make through UPI.

Micro ATMs

Micro ATMs refers to the advanced version of Point of Sale (PoS) having an additional feature of Biometric scanning.

Letter of Credit

The letter of credit is widely used as one of the negotiable instrument. It is used by the bank, that guarantee’s buyers’ payment to the seller shall be received on time along with the proposed amount to be paid. In any case, if the buyer is unable to make the agreed payment to the seller on the given time, then the bank will cover the full or remaining amount of purchase.

Banking Ombudsmen

Banking Ombudsman is a senior official who is appointed by RBI. He handles and redresses customer complaints against deficiency in any type of banking services.

A Balance of Payments

A Balance of payments refers to the list that states a country’s transactions with other countries for a certain time period (generally 1 year). Payments which are made into the country (receipts) are entered as positive numbers, called credits. Payments which are made out of the country (payments) are entered as negative numbers called debts.

LIBOR

The  LIBOR is an acronym which is used for the London Interbank Offered Rate. It refers to a interest rate at which funds are borrowed by banks in marketable size, from other banks in the London interbank market.

MIBOR

MIBOR is an acronym used for Mumbai Interbank Offered Rate. It refers to the interest rate at which funds are borrowed by banks in marketable size, from other banks in the Mumbai interbank market.

Capital market 

A capital market refers to an organised market which provides long-term finance for business.

Money market

Money market refers to an organised market which provides short-term finance for business

Balloon mortgage

A mortgage refers to the  transfer of a right to stable property for the security purpose of a loan amount. They  are just for short term and it has a fixed rate mortgage.

Retail credit operations

Retail Credit Operations refers to the sequential process which involves screening, evaluation of risk(s), and ensuring that the bank lends to a creditworthy client from the asset products applications sourced.

Minimum Reserve system of RBI

“Minimum Reserve System” is the current system of the Indian government to issue notes. As per this policy, the minimum reserves to be maintained in the form of gold and foreign exchange should consist of rupees 200 crores.

Clean note policy of RBI

Clean note policy is the policy under which to increase the life of currency notes and to provide the good quality currency notes and coins to the citizens of our country

The Balance of Trade

The value of difference between the country’s exports and the value of its imports are known as the Balance of Trade.

Legal Tender

The currency which can be circulated in the public for exchange is known as legal tender based on provisions of coinage Act 1996, bank notes, currency notes and coins (Re. 1 and above) are legal tender for the unlimited amount.

Currency Chest

Currency chests is the place where money is kept for the distribution in public and they are operated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) so that they can provide good quality currency notes to the public. On behalf of RBI Commercial banks open currency chests and monitor.

Amortization

Amortization refers to the periodic payment of debt like a loan or a mortgage. Amortization is basically the arrangement of a lump sum cash flow into many periodic instalments over a span of time, which is also called amortization agenda.

Credit Crunch

A credit crunch refers to  a condition in which there is an immediate decline in the availability of a loan or the credit. A situation, when suddenly the credit becomes difficult to get.

External Commercial Borrowings

External commercial borrowing refers to the money which is used for the financing of commercial activities in our country through foreign sources. They can be any form such as  loans, credits or even security instruments.

Kisan Vikas Patra

Kisan vikas patra refers to  a small savings scheme  launched by the Government of India and run by The Directorate of Small Savings  and the Post Offices sell these saving bonds. It is similar to FD.

Interest Rate Swap

An Interest Rate Swap is basically a contractual agreement between two parties who agree to exchange the future interest rate payments that they make on loans or bonds.

Public Credit Registry (PCR)

Public credit registry refers to  a database of credit information for India that is accessible to all stakeholders. It is maintained by a public authority like the central bank or the banking supervisor.

The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India which provides the insurance coverage to the depositors in case the bank has no money. Earlier the limit of insurance cover was 1lakh which is changed to 5 lakh recently.

NEFT – “National Electronic Fund Transfer”

NEFT is a type of payment system through which One can transfer funds to others though self-account. It is Applicable to both Account holders and Non-Account holders.

RTGS- “Real Time Gross Settlement”

RTGS is a again a payment settlement system through electronic media in which Settlement of fund transfer occurs according to individuals basis or it can be transferred instantly.

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