Glossary
Financial Examiner Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential financial examiner terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key financial examiner vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in financial examiner training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Allowance for credit losses
- Reserve for bad loans.
- AML
- Anti-money laundering.
- Asset quality
- Health of loans.
- BSA
- Bank Secrecy Act.
- Call report
- Quarterly bank financial report.
- CAMELS
- Bank rating system.
- Capital adequacy
- Enough capital to absorb losses.
- Classified loan
- Loan with weaknesses.
- CRA
- Community Reinvestment Act.
- Enforcement action
- Formal regulatory order.
- Examiner in charge
- Lead examiner.
- Fair lending
- Equal access to credit.
- FDIC
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- MRA
- Matter requiring attention.
- OCC
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Financial Examiner practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Financial Examiner training.
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