Glossary
This glossary offers definitions of technical terms commonly used in the BIS Quarterly review.Filter by Topics
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C
- CBS-reporting country
- CPMI systems (T8,T9,T11,T13,T14,T16,T17,T18,T19)
- Central bank policy rates
- Central bank policy rates
- Central bank total assets
- Classifications
- Collection period
- Compiling agency
- Confidentiality - status
- Consumer prices
- Currency
- Currency code used for compilation
- central bank
- central counterparty (CCP)
- claim
- commodity forward
- commodity option
- commodity swap
- consolidated banking statistics (CBS)
- consortium bank
- consumer price index (CPI)
- controlling parent
- core debt
- countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB)
- counterparty
- counterparty country
- country
- credit commitment
- credit default swap (CDS)
- credit derivative
- credit-to-GDP gap
- cross-border position
- currency option
- currency swap
D
E
F
H
I
- Imputed value (CCSA definition)
- International debt securities (BIS-compiled)
- immediate counterparty basis
- immediate issuer
- index product
- institutional investor
- inter-office
- interbank
- interest rate option
- interest rate swap
- international banking facility (IBF)
- international claim
- international debt security (IDS)
- international organisation
- intragroup
L
N
- No data/unknown
- Non-statistical factors
- Normal
- nationality
- negotiable instrument
- net issuance
- net market value
- net risk transfer
- netting agreement
- nominal effective exchange rate (NEER)
- nominal value
- non-bank
- non-bank financial corporation
- non-bank financial institution
- non-bank private sector
- non-financial corporation
- non-financial customer
- non-financial private sector
- non-financial sector
- non-local currency
- non-profit institution serving households (NPISH)
- non-reporting bank
- notional amount outstanding
- novation
O
P
R