£ ..................... Pounds Sterling
IR£ ..................... Irish Pounds
ATM ..................... Automatic Teller Machine (a hole in the wall machine at a bank for making cash withdrawals).
Billion ................. One Million to the power 2 i.e. One Million Million
DEA .................... The USA’s Drugs Enforcement Agency
DIA .................... The USA’s Defense Intelligence Agency, a secret organisation
ECU .................... European Currency Unit - a basket of currencies.
Euro .................... The European Common Currency.
FATF .................... Financial Action Task Force
FHSA .................... Family Health Service Authority (UK NHS bodies)
Forty Recommendations, The .... The forty recommendations of the FATF
FSU .................... Former Soviet Union
KM ..................... (when associated with a currency) Kilo-million (abbreviation for Milliard)
NCIS ................... National Criminal Intelligence Service (UK)
NHS .................... National Health Service
Milliard ............... One Thousand Million
PIN .................... Personal Identification Number. ATM cards, etc. use a PIN to tell the machines that the person using it is the person actually entitled to use it.
Trillion ............... One million to the power 3 i.e. one million, million, million (not as, often, corrupted to equate to a billion)
USD ................... US Dollar