Glossaries

With more than 8,000 entries, Bloomberg’s financial glossary may be the largest.

To access it on Bloomberg.com, click here.

Reuters’ “Financial Glossary” is quite extensive.

To access it on the Reuters website, click here
 

This compilation includes key terms associated with mortgage finance—including covered bonds—presented in a brief, easy-to-understand format.

To access this glossary on the European Mortgage Federation website, click here.

This is a good compilation of basic mortgage finance terms. 

To read the glossary on the Inside Mortage Finance Publications website, click here.

Unfortunately, this particular “Glossary” is not alphabetized—it’s organized by “field number” as part of a project to improve residential MBS disclosure packages.  However, it is a great source of definitions of 135 specialized terms in the mortgage and securitization arena—some of them highly specialized.

Glossary from the Thacher Proffitt law firm offers more than 30 pages’ worth of common structured finance terms.

Download the PDF from Thacher Proffitt’s website here.