| AAT |
Administrative Appeals Tribunal |
| ABA |
Australian Bankers' Association |
| ACCC |
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission |
| ADIs |
Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions |
| ANZ |
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited |
| API |
Australian Property Institute |
| APRA |
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
| ARITA |
Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association |
| ASBFE |
Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise |
| ASIC |
Australian Securities and Investments Commission |
| ASIC Act |
ASIC Act 2001 |
| AVI |
Australian Valuers Institute |
| AWB |
Australian Wheat Board |
| CAFBA |
Commercial Asset Finance Brokers Association of Australia |
| CBA |
Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
| CBD |
Central Business District |
| CCLSWA |
Consumer Credit Legal Service Western Australia |
| CCMC |
Code Compliance Monitoring Committee |
| CIO |
Credit and Investments Ombudsman |
| COBA |
Customer Owned Banking Association |
| COBCOP |
Customer Owned Banking Code of Practice |
| COSBOA |
Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia |
| CPV |
Certified Practising Valuer |
| The Code |
Code of Banking Practice |
| DCBS |
Draft Completion Balance Sheet |
| EDR |
External Dispute Resolution |
| FDM |
Farm debt mediation |
| FOS |
Financial Ombudsman Service |
| FOSCode |
FOS Code Compliance and Monitoring Team |
| FSI |
Financial System Inquiry |
| FSSA |
Financial Sector (Shareholdings) Act 1998 |
| GFC |
Global Financial Crisis |
| HBOS |
Halifax Bank of Scotland |
| IDR |
Internal Dispute Resolution |
| IVSC |
International Valuation Standards Council |
| LAQ |
Legal Aid Queensland |
| LFS |
Landmark Financial Services |
| LVR |
Loan Value Ratio |
| Model Bill |
Model Commercial Arbitration Bill |
| NAB |
National Australia Bank |
| NCCP Act |
National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 |
| PCBS |
Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards |
| PCL |
Permanent Custodians Limited |
| PwC |
Price Waterhouse Coopers |
| RBS |
Royal Bank of Scotland |
| RICS |
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors |
| s420A |
Section 420A of the Corporations Act |
| s761G |
Section 761G of the Corporations Act |
| TSBC |
Tasmanian Small Business Council |
| UK |
United Kingdom |