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235<br />

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

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

Term<br />

Reputational risk<br />

RoE<br />

RoRWA<br />

RWA<br />

Sanctions<br />

SCM<br />

SEC<br />

Single premium<br />

PPI<br />

SME<br />

SME derivatives<br />

Stress test of the<br />

European<br />

Banking<br />

Authority<br />

Tax Code<br />

TCF<br />

Tier 1 ratio<br />

Total capital ratio<br />

TSR<br />

Definition<br />

Damage to the brand arising from any association, action or inaction<br />

which is perceived by stakeholders to be inappropriate or unethical 328<br />

Return on equity<br />

Return on risk weighted assets<br />

Risk weighted assets<br />

Domestic penalties applied by a country against other countries,<br />

including trade barriers and restrictions on financial transactions with or<br />

through sanctioned countries. They may be imposed for economic,<br />

political or social reasons<br />

Barclays’ structured capital markets business within the investment bank<br />

Securities and Exchange Commission (US)<br />

Type of PPI policy, in which the full cost of insurance is paid up-front<br />

and usually added to the total value of the loan, with interest charged on<br />

top 329<br />

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises<br />

Interest rate hedging products sold to SMEs<br />

An assessment of the resilience of financial institutions to adverse market<br />

developments 330<br />

HMRC Code of Practice on Taxation for Banks (UK)<br />

Treating Customers Fairly, a 2006 retail regulatory initiative by the FSA,<br />

to ensure an efficient and effective market, thereby helping consumers to<br />

achieve a fair deal 331<br />

Ratio of a bank’s tier 1 capital to its total RWAs, a measure of its<br />

financial strength<br />

Ratio of a bank’s total capital to its total RWAs, a measure of its financial<br />

strength<br />

Total shareholder return<br />

328 Barclays, Annual Return 2012, p. 188.<br />

329 www.fsa.gov.uk.<br />

330 EBA webpage, “EU-wide stress testing”, www.eba.europa.eu/EU-wide-stress-testing.aspx; the results of<br />

which for Barclays are available at: www.eba.europe.eu/pdf/bank/GB090.pdf.<br />

331 www.fsa.gov.uk/doing/regulated/tcf.

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