Abbrevations
Sr.No. Acronym Full Form
1 INR Indian Rupee
2 BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
3 BSE Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.
4 CBDT Central Board of Direct Taxes
5 CP Custodial Participant
6 CPMI -IOSCO Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures – International Organisation of Securities Commissions
7 DDP Designated Depository Participant
8 DDT Dividend Distribution Tax
9 DMA Direct Market Access
10 DTAA Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements
11 ELM Extreme Loss Margin
12 ETF Exchange Traded Fund
13 FDI Foreign Direct Investment
14 FII Foreign Institutional Investors
15 FPI Foreign Portfolio Investment
16 FPO Follow on Public Offer
17 FTSE Financial Times Stock Exchange
18 ICCL Indian Clearing Corporation Ltd.
19 IPO Initial Public Offering
20 IPP Institutional Placement Programme
21 IT Act Income Tax Act
22 ITP Institutional Trading Platform
23 KYC Know Your Customer
24 MICEX Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange
25 MoF Ministry of Finance
26 MRC Minimum Required Corpus
27 MTM Mark to Market
28 OFS Offer for Sale
29 PAN Permanent Account Number
30 QCCP Qualifying Central Counter Party
31 QFI Qualified Foreign Investors
32 RBI Reserve Bank of India
33 RO Regulatory Organisations
34 SBI State Bank of India
35 SEBI Securities Exchange Board of India
36 SGF Settlement Guarantee Fund
37 SLB Securities Lending and Borrowing
38 SME Small and Medium Enterprises
39 SRO Self Regulatory Organisations
40 STP Straight Through Processing
41 STT Securities Transaction Tax
42 TRC Tax Residency Certicate
43 VAR Value At Risk
44 WFE World Federation of Exchanges