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EAR – Effective annual rate. EAY – Effective Annual Yield. EBITA – Earnings before interest and taxes and amortization. EBITDA – Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. ECB – European Central Bank. ECS – Electronic Clearing Service or Electronic Clearing System. EDI – Electronic Data Interchange.
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.
Federal Reserve Notes, also United States banknotes, are the currently issued banknotes of the United States dollar. The United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces the notes under the authority of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and issues them to the Federal Reserve Banks at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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.
National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) is an electronic funds transfer system maintained by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Started in November 2005, the setup was established and maintained by Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology. [1] NEFT enables bank customers in India to transfer funds between any two NEFT ...
Financial instruments are monetary contracts between parties. They can be created, traded, modified and settled. They can be cash (currency), evidence of an ownership interest in an entity or a contractual right to receive or deliver in the form of currency (forex); debt ( bonds, loans ); equity ( shares ); or derivatives ( options, futures ...
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.