ABS

Acceleration

Accrual bonds

Actionable claim

Actuarial method

Adjustable Rate Mortgages

Agency

Agency securities

Aging

Alternative risk transfer

 Amortization

 APR

 APY

 ARM

ART.

 Asset-backed Commercial Paper

Asset-backed financing

Asset Backed Securities

Assignment

Assignable mortgage/ Assumable Mortgage

Average maturity

Back-End Load

 Back-up servicer

 BAN or Bond Anticipation Note

 Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

 Bankruptcy

 Bankruptcy code

 Bankruptcy estate

 Bankruptcy remote

 Bare trust

 Bearer Bond

 Benchmark

 Beneficial interest

 Beneficial interest certificates

 BIS

 Black Box

 Bond Equivalent Yield

 Bowie bonds

 Brady bonds

 Bridge Bank

 Buckets

 Bullet

 Burnout

 Call Risk

 Cap

 Capital adequacy

 Cash collateral

 Cash flow bonds

 Cat bonds

 Catastrophe bonds

 Catastrophe risk

 CATS

 CBO

 CBOE

 CBOT

 Chapter 11

 Charge

 Charitable trust

 Cherry picking

 Choses in action

 Clean up buyback or call

 CLO

 CMBS

 CME

 CMO

 Collateral

 Collateral Trust Bond

 Collateralized Loan Obligation

 Collateralized Mortgage Obligation

 Collateralized Obligation

 Co-mingling

 Co-mingling risk

 Commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS)

 Commercial paper

 Condominium

 Conduit

 Consolidation

 Constant Prepayment Rate (CPR)

 Conversion Clause

 Coupon

 Covenants

 Coupon

 Couterparty

 Credit enhancement

 Credit derivative

 Credit equivalent

 Current Face Value

Debt

Debt to income ratio

Deep discount

Defeasance 

Deferred purchase price 

De-recognition 

D/I ratio 

Direct credit substitute 

Discount Rate 

Discrete trust 

Discretionary further advance 

Disintermediation 

Distribution Date 

DRIP or DRIPS 

Eligibility criteria

 Embedded Option

 Emerging Markets

 English mortgage

 Equipment Trust Certificate

 Equitable assignment

 Equitable mortgage

 Escrow

 Excess spread

 Explicit Option

 Extending

 Extension Risk

 FANNIE MAE

 FASB 77

 FASB 125

 FASIT

 FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION

 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION

 FHLMC

 Final Distribution Date or Maturity Date

 Financing treatment

 First loss risk

 Fiscal transparency

 Fixed allocation percentage

 Fixed-Rate Mortgage

 Floater

 Floating allocation percentage

 Floating Rate

 Floating rate note

 Floor

 FNMA

 Foreclosure

 FRCMO

 Freddie Mac

 FRM

 FRN

 FRS 5

 Front-End Load

 Funded risk participation

 Further advances

 Future receivables securitisation

 General Obligation Bonds

 GIC

 Ginnie Mae

 GNMA

 Gnome

 Gold (MBS) Program

 Government National Mortgage Association

 GPM

 Graduated Payment Mortgage

 Grantor trust

 Green

 Guaranteed investment contract

Hair cut

 Home equity loans

 Hurricane Bonds

 Implicit rate of returnb

 Interest Only

 Interest Rate

 Interest Rate Risk

 Interest rate swap

 Investment company

 IO

 IO-ette or Ioette

 Issuer

 Junior bonds

 Junk Bonds

 Lifting or piercing the corporate veil

 Limited recourse

 Linked presentation

 Liquidity facility

 Limited liability company (LLC)

 Loan to value ratio

 LTV

 Mark-to-Market

 Master trust

 Matched funding

 MBS

 Medium term note

 Mega or Megas

 Mezzanine bonds

 Midget

 MIG policy

 Monoline insurer

 Mortgage

 Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS)

 Mortgagee

 Mortgagor

 MTN

 Multiple class securities

Novation

  Off balance sheet

  Originator

  Originator credit enhancement

  Orphan company

  Over-collaterilisation

  PAC

  PAC POs

  Participation

  Participation certificates

  Pass Through

  Pay through

  Payer

  Pfandbriefe

  Piercing the corporate veil

  Pipeline

  Planned Amortization Class

  PO

  Pool policy

  Pooling

  Prepayment

  Prepayment Penalty

  Prepayment Risk

  Principal allocation percentage

  Principal only

  Private label securities

  Private Pass Throughs

  Profit extraction

  Profit retention

  PSA

  PSA Prepayment

  Put option

RAN

  RAP

  Re-characterisation

  Re-configuration of cash flows

  Re-purchase option

  Real Estate Investment Trust

  Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit

  Receivables sale agreement

  Recourse

  Regulatory Capital

  REIT

  REMIC

  Replenishment

  Residuary income

  Revenue Anticipation Note

  Revenue Bonds

  Reverse TAC

  Revolving assets securitisation

  Rule 3a-7

Sale treatment

Scheduled Bonds

Seasoned

Securities Act of 1933

Securitization

Security

Senior

Servicer

Servicing fees

Set-off

SMBS

SPC

SPE

Special purpose entity

Special Purpose Vehicle

SPV

Spread account

Strips

Stripped Mortgage Backed Securities

Structural credit enhancement

Structured finance or Products

Sub-participation

Subordinated

Substantive consolidation

Substitute servicer

Super PAC

Super PO

Support

Support Bonds

TAN

Targeted Amortization Class

Tax Anticipation Note