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APPENDIX Appendix 6: Glossary

Appendix 6: Glossary

Acronym/Term

Definition

Asset-backed commercial paper, i.e. a marketable debt instrument backed by cash flows from a pool of underlying assets. Asset-backed security, i.e. an instrument representing a pool of financial assets (excluding mortgage loans), its performance linked to that of the underlying asset or pool of assets. Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (French Prudential Supervisory Authority for the Banking and Insurance Sector), France’s banking and insurance supervisor. Association de Défense des Actionnaires Minoritaires (Association for the Defense of Minority Shareholders). Association pour le droit à l’initiative économique /Association for the right to economic initiative Association Française des Entreprises Privées- Mouvement des Entreprises de France (French Association of Private Sector Companies- French Business Confederation).

ABCP

ABS

ACPR

ADAM

ADIE

AFEP-Medef

Available-for-sale

AFS

Association Générale des Institutions de Retraite des Cadres (General Association for Managers' Pension Institutions).

AGIRC

Advanced Internal Ratings-Based Approach

A-IRB

Asset and liability management - Management of the financial risks borne by an institution’s balance sheet (interest rate, currency, liquidity) and its refinancing policy in order to protect the bank’s asset value and/or its future Profitability.

ALM

Asset and Liability Management Committee

ALM (Committee)

Asset Management

AM

Autorité des Marchés Financiers (French Financial Markets Authority)

AMF AML

Anti-money laundering

Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing

AML-CTF

Asset quality review, which involves the supervisory assessment of risks, the actual review of the quality of assets and stress tests. Association pour le Régime de Retraite Complémentaire des Salariés (Association for the Employee Complementary Pension Scheme).

AQR

ARRCO

Additional Tier 1 capital Assets under management

AT1

AUM

An Administrative Department at a financial intermediary that performs support and post-trading functions.

Back office

A method of comparing observed actual losses with expected losses of a model.

Backtesting

A mechanism designed to limit the use of public funds by a failing institution still in operation or in the process of liquidation. The bail-in mechanism grants power to the supervisory authorities to require certain creditors of a credit institution on the brink of failure to convert their debt into shares in the institution and/or to take a loss on their holdings. Under the European accord of June 26, 2015, in the event of capital inadequacy (due to losses), creditors holding subordinated debt, then senior creditors, then unsecured deposits by large corporates, then those of SMEs and finally those of individuals exceeding €100,000 will be bailed-in. However, secured deposits, covered bonds, employee compensation, liabilities related to the institution's vital activities and interbank liabilities with a maturity of less than 7 days should not be affected. Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires (French Bulletin for Mandatory Legal Announcements). A supervisory framework established in 1988 by the Basel Committee aiming to maintain the solvency and stability of the international banking system by establishing uniform minimum capital requirements for banks on the international level. It established a minimum capital adequacy ratio of 8% in relation to all of the risks borne by a bank. A supervisory framework aimed at better anticipating and limiting the risks borne by credit institutions. It focuses on banks’ credit risk, market risk and operational risk. The terms drafted by the Basel Committee were adopted in Europe through a European Directive and have been applicable in France since January 1, 2008.

Bail-in

BALO

Basel 1 (the Basel Accords)

Basel 2 (the Basel Accords)

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