Glossary
This glossary is to clarify some of the terms that may be specifically used in the discussion of debt and the political, economic and financial concepts that are involved.
- ABS / Asset backed security
- Asset
- Balance of payments
- Balance
- Bank for International Settlements / BIS
- Banker’s guarantee
- Bond market
- Bond
- CDO / Collateralized Debt Obligations
- CDS / Credit Default Swaps
- Central Bank
- CFTC / Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Chicago Boys
- CLO / Collateralized Loan Obligation
- CMBS / Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
- Collateral
- Commodities
- Common goods
- Corporate bonds
- Credit derivative
- Debt refinancing
- Debt rescheduling
- Debt service
- Debt stock
- Deposit or commercial bank
- Derivatives
- Devaluation
- EBA / European Banking Authority
- ECB / European Central Bank
- Emergency Liquidity Assistance / ELA
- Equity
- ESM / European Stability Mechanism
- EURIBOR / Euro Interbank Offered Rate
- Export Credit Agency
- FED / Federal Reserve
- Financial contracts
- Financial instruments
- Financial market
- Financial proceeds
- Financial securities
- Food crops
- FSB / Financial Stability Board
- Futures market
- Futures
- G20
- G8
- GDP / Gross Domestic Product
- Genetically Modified Organisms / GMO
- Goodwill
- Government debt
- Gross debt
- Gross National Product / GNP
- Guarantees
- Hard capital
- Heavily Indebted Poor Countries / HIPC
- Hedge funds
- Human Development Rating / HDR
- Human Poverty Index / HPI
- ICSID
- IFRS / International Financial Reporting Standards
- IMF / International Monetary Fund
- Inflation
- Institutional investors
- Interbank market
- Interest rates
- Interest
- Internet bubble
- Investment fund / Investment funds
- Investment or merchant bank
- ISDA / International Swaps and Derivatives Association
- Junk Bonds
- Layering
- LBO / leveraged Buy-Out
- Least Developed Countries / LDC
- Leverage
- Liabilities
- LIBOR / London Interbank Offered Rate
- Liquidities
- Liquidity
- Lobby / Lobbies
- London Club
- LTRO / Long-Term Refinancing Operation
- Market activities / trading
- Marshall Plan
- MBS / Mortgage Backed Securities
- Merger-Takeover
- MMF / Money Market Funds
- Money market
- Monoculture
- Moral hazard
- Mortgage
- Mutual fund
- NATO / North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Net transfers on debt
- Non-financial corporations
- ODA / Official Development Assistance
- OECD / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Off-Balance-Sheet
- OPEC / Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries
- OTC / Over-the-Counter market
- Paris Club
- Payable
- Pension Fund / Pension Funds
- PIK / Payment In Kind
- Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper / PRSP
- Private equity
- Profit
- Property bubble
- Proprietary trading
- Quote stuffing
- Rating agency / Rating agencies
- Recapitalization
- Risk premium
- Secondary market
- Separate Funds
- Share
- Sovereign debt
- Sovereign Wealth Fund
- Speculative bubble
- Stock-exchange / Stock-market
- Stockbrokers
- Structural Adjustment
- Structured product
- Subprime mortgage crisis
- Systemic bank / Systemic banks
- Tax haven
- Tobin Tax
- Toxic assets
- Trade balance
- Troika
- UNCTAD / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- UNDP / United Nations Development Programme
- Universal bank
- Unsecured debt
- Vulture funds / Vulture fund
- Warsaw Pact
- World Bank / WB
- WTO / World Trade Organisation
- Yield
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