Payments System Board Annual Report – 2014 Abbreviations

ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACCC Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
ADI Authorised Deposit-taking Institution
APCA Australian Payments Clearing Association
APRA Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
ASIC Australian Securities and Investments Commission
ASX Australian Securities Exchange
ATM Automated Teller Machine
AUD Australian Dollar
BI Basic Infrastructure
BIS Bank for International Settlements
BoE Bank of England
CAC Act Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997
CCP Central Counterparty
CFR Council of Financial Regulators
CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission
CHESS Clearing House Electronic Subregister System
CLS Continuous Linked Settlement
CPMI Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (formerly CPSS)
CPSS Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (recently renamed CPMI)
CS Clearing and Settlement
DCO Derivatives Clearing Organisations
DE Direct Entry
DTR Derivatives Transaction Rules
EC European Commission
eftpos electronic funds transfer at point of sale
EMEAP Executives' Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks
EMIR European Market Infrastructure Regulation
EMV Europay, MasterCard & Visa chip card standard
ePAL eftpos Payments Australia Ltd
ERPB Euro Retail Payments Board
ESA Exchange Settlement Account
ESMA European Securities and Markets Authority
EU European Union
FEX Financial and Energy Exchange
FMI Financial Market Infrastructures
FSB Financial Stability Board
FSI Financial System Inquiry
FSS Financial Stability Standards
ICS Initial Convenience Service
IOSCO International Organization of Securities Commissions
IRD Interest Rate Derivatives
LCH.C Ltd LCH.Clearnet Limited
NBB National Bank of Belgium
NFC Near Field Communication
NPP New Payments Platform
OG SWIFT Oversight Group
OTC Over-the-counter
PEXA Property Exchange Australia Ltd
PFMI Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures
PIN Personal Identification Number
PSR Payments System Regulator
RBA Reserve Bank of Australia
RBNZ Reserve Bank of New Zealand
RITS Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System
SCCI Specialist Credit Card Institution
SEPA Single Euro Payments Area
SSF Securities Settlement Facility
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
TR Trade Repository