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1.  ''Business ethics.''
1.  ''Countries - International Monetary Fund.''


Any written statement of best practice or of ethical conduct in business.
The Group of Ten (or G-10) refers to the group of countries that have agreed to participate in the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s General Arrangements to Borrow (GAB), a supplementary borrowing arrangement that can be invoked if deployment of the IMF's resources under its New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB) are not accepted by the wider membership of the NAB.




2.  ''Abbreviations.''
The G10's membership is currently:


Abbreviation for any one of a number of particular codes, for example the UK Corporate Governance Code.
Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States of America.




3. ''Information technology - software - noun.''
The name of the G10 was coined when it originally had exactly ten members in 1962.


Instructions for computers in machine-readable form.
Switzerland joined two years later, increasing the total membership to eleven, but the original name was retained.


For example, binary code.


2.  ''Foreign exchange.''


4. ''Information technology - verb.''
Collectively the currencies of the G10 countries.


To write instructions for computers in machine-readable form.


== See also ==
* [[Currency]]
* [[Foreign exchange]]
* [[International Monetary Fund]]
* [[G3]]
* [[G5]]
* [[G7]]
* [[G8]]
* [[G20]]
* [[G77]]
* [[Group]]


5.  ''Communication - abbreviations.''
[[Category:The_business_context]]
 
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
A standardised, abbreviated string of letters, numbers, other characters - or some combination of these - designed to enable efficient and error-free communication.
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
 
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
For example, Bank identifier codes (BIC), currency codes, or the codes used in Standard Industrial Classification (SIC).
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
 
 
6.  ''Cryptography.''
 
Information represented in encrypted form, an algorithm or process designed to create encrypted messages, or the activity of creating an encrypted message.
 
 
==See also==
* [[ACT Ethical Code]]
* [[Algorithm]]
* [[Bank identifier code]] (BIC)
* [[Binary code]]
* [[City Code]]
* [[Code of practice]]
* [[Cryptography]]
* [[Currency code]]
* [[FX Global Code]]
* [[Information technology]]
* [[Prompt Payment Code]]
* [[Software]]
* [[Standard Industrial Classification]]  (SIC)
* [[UK Corporate Governance Code]]
* [[UK Stewardship Code]]
* [[Uniform Commercial Code]]
 
[[Category:Ethics_and_corporate_governance]]

Latest revision as of 08:01, 4 July 2022

1. Countries - International Monetary Fund.

The Group of Ten (or G-10) refers to the group of countries that have agreed to participate in the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s General Arrangements to Borrow (GAB), a supplementary borrowing arrangement that can be invoked if deployment of the IMF's resources under its New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB) are not accepted by the wider membership of the NAB.


The G10's membership is currently:

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States of America.


The name of the G10 was coined when it originally had exactly ten members in 1962.

Switzerland joined two years later, increasing the total membership to eleven, but the original name was retained.


2. Foreign exchange.

Collectively the currencies of the G10 countries.


See also