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<strong>Salz</strong> <strong>Review</strong><br />

An Independent <strong>Review</strong> of Barclays’ Business Practices<br />

232<br />

Term<br />

CAGR<br />

Capital ratio<br />

CFO<br />

CFTC<br />

Client money<br />

Conduct Business<br />

Unit<br />

Conduct risk<br />

Definition<br />

Compound Annual Growth Rate<br />

Percentage of a bank’s capital to its risk weighted assets (RWAs).<br />

Common capital ratios include the Core Tier 1 Ratio, Tier 1 Ratio and<br />

Total Capital Ratio<br />

Chief Financial Officer<br />

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (US)<br />

“Client money” as defined in the FSA’s Client Asset Sourcebook<br />

(CASS), the FSA’s requirements relating to holding client assets and<br />

client money 320<br />

A division of the FSA, responsible for: developing and operationalising<br />

the FCA<br />

Detriment to the bank, customers, clients or counterparties because of<br />

inappropriate execution of business activities 321<br />

Core Tier 1 ratio A measure of a bank’s financial strength, being the ratio of its core tier 1<br />

capital (a bank’s most liquid form of capital consisting primarily of<br />

common stock and retained earnings) to its total RWAs<br />

Credit risk<br />

CRO<br />

EBA<br />

ETR<br />

EURIBOR<br />

Europe RBB<br />

ExCo<br />

FCA<br />

The suffering of financial loss should any customers, clients or market<br />

counterparties fail to fulfil their contractual obligations 322<br />

Chief Risk Officer<br />

European Banking Authority<br />

Effective tax rate<br />

Euro Interbank Offered Rate<br />

Europe Retail and Business Banking<br />

Executive Committee<br />

Financial Conduct Authority (UK), the conduct authority in the UK<br />

from April 2013. One of two bodies being set up to replace the FSA, the<br />

other being the PRA<br />

Financial risk Barclays’ credit risk, market risk and funding risk collectively 323<br />

FINMA<br />

Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Switzerland)<br />

320 FSA Client Assets Sourcebook: http://fsahandbook.info/FSA/html/handbook/CASS.<br />

321 Barclays, Annual Report 2012, March 2013, p. 189.<br />

322 Barclays, Annual Report 2012, p 116.<br />

323 Barclays, Annual Report 2012, p. 29.

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