Abbreviations
- ABC
Analyzing Bank Capital
- ABA
American Bankers Association
- BankG
Banking Act (Bundesgesetz über die Banken und Sparkassen)
- BankV
Banking Ordinance (Vollziehungsverordnung zum Bundesgesetz über die Banken und Sparkassen)
- BBA
British Bankers’ Association
- BCBS
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
- BIS
Bank of International Settlements
- bn
billion
- BNA
British National Archives
- BoE
Bank of England
- BoEA
Bank of England Archive
- BSD
Bank Supervision Division (of the Bank of England)
- C/A ratio
capital/assets ratio
- CCC
competition and credit control
- CEG
Comptoir d’Escompte de Genève
- CH
Switzerland
- CHF
Swiss franc
- CLCB
Committee of London Clearing Bankers
- DM
Deutsche Mark
- EEC
European Economic Community
- EUI
European University Institute
- FBC
Federal Banking Commission
- FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- FDICIA
Federal Deposit Insurance Improvement Act
- FED
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
- FFIEC
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
- FINMA
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority
- G10
Group of Ten
- GDP
gross domestic product
- HSSO
Historical Statistics of Switzerland Online
- ILSA
International Lending Supervision Act
- IMF
International Monetary Fund
- IRB
Internal ratings-based
- LDC
Less developed countries
- LMA
London Metropolitan Archives
- m
million
- OCC
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- p.a.
per annum
- pp
percentage points
- RBSA
Archive of the Royal Bank of Scotland
- RWA
risk-weighted assets
- SBA
Swiss Bankers Association
- SBC
Swiss Bank Corporation (Schweizerischer Bankverein SBV/Société de Banque Suisse)
- SEC
US Securities and Exchange Commission
- SERI
Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
- SFA
Swiss Federal Archives
- SNB
Swiss National Bank
- UBS
Union Bank of Switzerland (Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft SBG/Union de Banques Suisses)
- USNB
United States National Bank
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