Alignment terms in Knowledge Accelerators

A specific use of Term, which represents the various noun and noun phrases that occur within a particular standard or regulation.

Term from document with a description

This is a specific use of a business term which has its description provided in the source document or regulation.

Table 1. Term from document with a description examples

Industry	Alignment Term name	Description	Primary category	Is a type of	Has a part of	Tag
Energy and Utilities	Aggregate consumer information	information that relates to a group or category of consumers, from which individual consumer identities have been removed, that is not linked or reasonably linkable to any consumer or household, including via a device. ...	CCPA - SEC. 3. - 1798.140.	CCPA	consumers household individual	alignment term
Financial Services	Unique identifier	"Unique identifier" or "Unique personal identifier" a persistent identifier that can be used to recognize a consumer, a family, or a device that is linked to a consumer or family, over time and across different services, including, but not limited to, a device identifier; an Internet Protocol address; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; ...	CCPA - SEC. 3. - 1798.140.		customer number internet protocol address mobile ad identifiers unique personal identifier	alignment term
Healthcare	Biometric information	An individual's physiological, biological or behavioral characteristics, including an individual's deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), that can be used, singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data,...	CCPA - SEC. 3. - 1798.140.	CCPA	dna characteristics voiceprint	alignment term
Insurance	Deidentified	information that cannot reasonably identify, relate to, describe, be capable of being associated with, or be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular consumer, provided that a business that uses deidentified information:...	CCPA - SEC. 3. - 1798.140.		reidentify the information business processes inadvertent release of deidentified information technical safeguards deidentified information reidentification reidentify safeguards reidentification of the information	alignment term

Exact term from a document without a description

This is a specific use of a business term which has been derived or extracted from a source document or regulation without any associated description (except in the case of Industry Alignment Vocabularies where no definition is provided or is derivable).

Table 2. Exact term from a document without a description examples

Industry	Alignment Term name	Description	Primary Category	Is a type of	Alternative Names	Tag
Cross Industry	genetic data	No definition supplied	GDPR	sensitive data		alignment term
Energy and Utilities	consumers	No definition supplied	CCPA Document Terms	Aggregate consumer information Personal information Service provider		alignment term
Financial Services	rights of data subjects	No definition supplied	GDPR	GDPR	data subject right rights and freedoms of data subjects rights and freedoms of natural persons rights and legitimate interests of data subjects	alignment term
Healthcare	dna	No definition supplied	Personal Data	Biometric information		alignment term
Insurance	approved certification mechanism	No definition supplied	GDPR	credit risk rating grades	certification mechanism data protection certification mechanism	alignment term

Term that represents a grouping within a document

A specific use of a business term which represents a higher level or root term in an Industry Alignment Vocabulary.

Table 3. Term that represents a grouping within a document examples

Industry	Alignment Term name	Description	Primary Category	Has a part of	Tag
Energy and Utilities	BaseWork	Common representation for work and work tasks.	Work	priority rank priority justification statusKind kind (Work Kind) priority type	alignment term
Financial Services	Adjusted Collateral Amount	[pr130] ... Using haircuts, banks are required to adjust both the amount of the exposure to the counterparty and the value of any collateral received in support of that counterparty to take account of possible future fluctuations in the value of either, occasioned by market movements. ...	Basel Framework	Collateral Value Haircut For Collateral Haircut For Foreign Exchange	alignment term
Healthcare	Activity	Any action that can, in the context of a study, experiment or a post-marketing investigation, be defined, planned, scheduled or performed.	Activity Entity	DefinedActivity Experiment	alignment term
Insurance	Indicia	Documentation to be retained upon identifying an entity.	FATCA	Attorney Birth place Citizenship Residency address Telephone number	alignment term

Term that represents an element in regulatory report

This is a specific use of a business term which represents an element in a regulatory report.

Table 4. Term that represents an element in regulatory report examples

Industry	Alignment Term name	Description	Primary Category	Is a type of	Tag
Financial Services	Average maturity	Average maturity: the obligor maturity in years weighted by EAD; this parameter needs to be filled in only when it is used for the RWA calculation.	Basel Disclosures		alignment term
Insurance	Issuer Name	Name of the issuer, defined as the entity that issues assets to investors, representing part of its capital, part of its debt, derivatives, etc. ...	Asset Management	Information on the assets held	alignment term