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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC) is a United States government corporation supplying deposit insurance to depositors in American commercial banks and savings banks. [7] : 15 The FDIC was created by the Banking Act of 1933, enacted during the Great Depression to restore trust in the American banking system.
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics (particularly the panic of 1907) led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises.
CAO – Chief administrative officer or chief accounting officer. CAPEX – Capital expenditure. CAPM – Capital asset pricing model [1] CBOE – Chicago Board Options Exchange. CBOT – Chicago Board of Trade. CDO – Collateralized debt obligation or chief data officer. CDM – Change and data management. CDS – Credit default swap.
Special drawing rights ( SDRs, code XDR) are supplementary foreign exchange reserve assets defined and maintained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). [1] SDRs are units of account for the IMF, and not a currency per se. [2] They represent a claim to currency held by IMF member countries for which they may be exchanged. [3]
Magnetic ink character recognition code, known in short as MICR code, is a character recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to streamline the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents. MICR encoding, called the MICR line, is at the bottom of cheques and other vouchers and typically includes the document-type ...
In government finance, a warrant is a written order to pay that instructs a federal, state, or county government treasurer to pay the warrant holder on demand or after a specific date. Such warrants look like checks and clear through the banking system like checks, but are not drawn against cleared funds in a checking account (demand deposit ...
In the United States, an ABA routing transit number ( ABA RTN) is a nine-digit code printed on the bottom of checks to identify the financial institution on which it was drawn. The American Bankers Association (ABA) developed the system in 1910 [1] to facilitate the sorting, bundling, and delivering of paper checks to the drawer's (check writer ...
Also known as "current accounts" in Commonwealth countries and "checking accounts" in the United States . A deposit account for the purpose of securely and quickly providing frequent access to funds on demand, through various different channels. Because money is available on demand, these accounts are also referred to as "demand accounts" or ...