List of Banking Terms and Phrases
Investment Bank Glossary
A
- Account
- Account Agreement
- Account Balance
- Account History
- Account Holder
- Accrued Interest
- Acquiring Bank
- Active Account
- Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM)
- Adverse Action
- Adverse Action Notice
- Affidavit
- Alteration
- Amortization
- Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
- Annual Percentage Yield (APY)
- Application (Credit
- Appraisal (Home)
- Authorization
- Automated Bill Payment
- Automated Clearing House (ACH)
- Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
- Automatic Funds Transfer
- Automatic Payment
- Automatically Protected
- Available Balance
- Available Credit
- Availability Date
- Availability Policy
- Average Daily Balance
B
- Balance
- Balance Transfer
- Bank
- Bank Custodian
- Bank Examination
Bank of America - Bank of North America
- Bank Reserves
- Banking Day
- Bankrupt
- Bankruptcy
- Bank Statement
- Basis Point (BPS)
- Beneficiary
- Billing Cycle
- Billing Date
- Billing Error
- Bond (US Savings)
- Bounced Check
- Branch
- Bulge Bracket Bank
- Business Day
C
D
- Debit
- Debit Card
- Debt Collector
- Debt Elimination Scheme
- Debt-to-Income Ratio (DTI)
- Debtor
- Default
- Deferred Payment
- Delinquency
- Demand Deposit
- Deposit
- Deposit Slip
- Depository Institution
- Derogatory Information
- Direct Deposit
- Direct Dispute
- Disclosure
- Draft
- Drawee
- Drawee Bank
- Drawer
E
- Electronic Banking
- Electronic Check Conversion
- Electronic Funds Transfer
- Embezzlement
- Encoding
- Enforcement Action
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)
- Error Resolution
- Escheat
- Escrow
- Escrow Analysis
- Escrow Funds
- Estate Account
- Exception Hold
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
- Late Charge
- Legal Tender
- Lender
- Letter of Credit
- Leverage Ratio
- Lien
- Line of Credit
- Linked Account
- Loan
- Loan-to-Value Ratio (LTV)
- Loan Contract
- Loan Fee
- Loan Modification Provision
- Loan Proceeds
- Local Check
- Longer-Term Interest Rates
M
- Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR)
- Maturity
- Maturity Date
- Merchant Bank
- Minimum Balance
- Minimum Daily Balance
- Minimum Payment
- Missing Payment
- Money Demand
- Money Market
- Money Market Account
- Money Market Deposit Account
- Money Market Fund
- Money Multiplier
- Money Order
- Money Transmitter
- Mortgage
- Mortgagee
- Mortgagor
N
- National Bank
- National Bank Examiner
- National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
- National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
- Negative Interest Rates
- Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP)
- Negotiable Order of Withdrawal Account (NOW)
- Non-Bank ATM
- Nonrecourse Loan
- Not Automatically Protected
O
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
- Official Check
- Online Banking
- Open End Credit
- Operating Subsidiaries
- Outstanding Check
- Overdraft
- Overlimit
- Overnight Deposits
P
- Passbook
- Past Due Item
- Payday Loans
- Payee
- Paying (Payor) Bank
- Payment
- Payment Due Date
- Payoff
- Payoff Statement
- Payor
- Periodic Rate
- Periodic Statement
- Personal identification number (PIN)
- Phishing
- PITI
- Point of Sale (PoS)
- Power of Attorney
- Preauthorized Payment
- Preferred Risk Policy (PRP)
- Prepayment
- Prepayment Clause
- Prepayment Penalty
- Previous Balance
- Principal
- Principal (debt service context)
- Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)
R
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
- Reconciliation
- Redlining
- Refinancing
- Refund
- Regular Program Community
- Regulation D
- Regulation E
- Regulation Q
- Release of Lien
- Renewal
- Reserve Requirement
- Residual Interest
- Return Item
- Reverse Mortgage
- Revolving Credit
- Right of Offset
- Right of Rescission
- Routing Transit Numbers (RTN)
S
- Safe Deposit Box
- Satisfaction of Mortgage
- Savings Account
- Service Charge
- Settlement
- Signature Card
- Simple Interest
- Soft Credit Check
- Stale Dated Check
- State Banking Department
- Statement
- Stop Payment
- Student Loan
- Substitute Check
T
- Tenor (Financial)
- Terms
- Time Deposit
- Traveler's Check
- Trust Account
- Trust Administrator
- Truth In Lending Act (TILA)
U
- Unbanked
- Uncollected Funds
- Underbanked
- Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
- Uniform Gift to Minors Account
- USD
- US Treasuries
- Unsecured Loan
- Usury
- Usury Rate