Derivatives Acronyms

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CAC-40 - Compagnie des Agents de Change-40 (French stock index)

CAD - Capital Adequacy Directive CBOE - Chicago Board Options Exchange (US)

CBOT - Chicago Board of Trade (US)

CCC - Commodity Credit Corporation (US)

CCIFP - Chambre de Compensation des Instruments Financiers de Paris (France, clearing house for MATIF)

CD - certificate of deposit

CDI - Certificado de Depsito Interbancrio (Brazil) CDR - collateralized depository receipt

CEA - Commodity Exchange Authority (US, replaced by CFTC in 1975)

Cedel - Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs mobiles(euromarket clearing system in Luxembourg)

C&F - cost and freight

CFTC - Commodities Futures Trading Commission (US)

CFO - cancel former order

CHAPS - Clearing House Automated Payment System (UK bankers clearing house)

CHIPS - Clearing House Interbank Payments Systems (US system of electronic bank transfers)

CIBOR - Copenhagen interbank offered rate (Denmark)

CIF - cost, insurance and freight

CME - Chicago Mercantile Exchange (US)

CMO - collateralized mortgage obligation (US)

COMEX - Commodity Exchange (US)

CORES - computer assisted order routing and execution system (Japan, TSE)

CPI - consumer price index

CPO - commodity pool operator (US)

CPS - clearing processing system (UK, LIFFE)

CRB - Commodity Research Bureau (US)

CSCE - Coffe, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange (US)

CTA - commodity trading adviser (US)

CTD - cheapest to deliver

CTR - computerized trading reconstruction system (US, CBOT)

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