Institutions founded by the US federal government, which de facto guarantees their debt. The institutions are responsible for providing different types of credit. The key institutions are: Export-Import Bank; Farmers Home Administration; Federal Home Loan Bank System; Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae); and Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae).

• assignment of life policies
• associate company
• Association for Payment Clearing Services
• Association of African Development Finance Institutions
• Association of British Insurers
• Association of Corporate Treasurers
• Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers Ltd
• Association of International Bond Dealers
• Association of Lloyd's Members
• Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries
• Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers
• Association of Tin Producing Countries
• assurance
• assured
• AST
• ASX
• asymmetric information
• asymmetric margining
• asymmetric payoff
• at
• at best
• at call
• Athens Stock Exchange
• at limit
• ATM