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http://payments.intuit.com/support/glossary.jsp
Rachael Gerson at Intuit passed along this detailed glossary in their Payment Solutions section that should be helpful for anyone dealing with US banking/credit card etc. terms. (English)

http://www.hsh.com
http://library.hsh.com/read_article-hsh.asp?row_id=30
Homebuyer's glossary.
http://library.hsh.com/read_article-hsh.asp?row_id=96
Mortgage glossary.
Robert Joyner, who works for HSH Associates (a publisher of consumer loan information), suggests we might be interested in some information at their site. Click on the Articles & Information link, which currently includes the above glossaries.

http://www.goyax.de
Fritz Walkenau says "Goyax is one of the largest German websites about finance, economics and stocks with the very intelligent "Power Suche" (power search) for stocks."

http://www.ctcf-inc.com/htmlCTC/glossary.html
Carol Shaw found this Logistics and Fulfillment Chain glossary.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
OpenCourseware: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) course materials are available for free to anybody, "spanning MIT's entire curriculum": Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Health Sciences and Technology, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Management, Science, etc. (English)

http://www.aon.ca/francais/ars/insterms
http://www.aon.ca/english/ars/insterms
Bettina Karpel found these French and English versions of an insurance glossary.

http://www.prophet.net/learn/taglossary.jsp
Paul Gallagher found this stock analysis site.

http://www.bea.gov/bea/glossary/GlossaryIndex.htm
Alan Johnson "stumbled across this glossary of terms and acronyms at the US Bureau of Economic Analysis."

http://www.tpsgc.gc.ca/acquisitions/text/sm/chapter12-f.html
http://www.pwgsc.gc.ca/acquisitions/text/sm/chapter12-e.html
Michelle Asselin found this internet sales glossary. The first link is the French version, the second link is the English version. The glossary is part of a much larger site on the subject.

http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
Paul B. Gallagher says about this "Current value of old money" site: "Lots of good links, including calculators, CPI data, etc. for many countries."

http://translate.worldbank.org/ambassador/tb
Martin Douch suggests this financial glossary from the World Bank.

http://www.investorwords.com
Peter Tuffley found this searchable glossary of investment terms.

http://glossary.axone.ch/axone_index_test.cfm
Michelle Asselin found this "glossary with over 5000 financial terms in English, German, French and Italian.."

http://www.svv.ch/index.cfm?rub=103#
Michael Roehrig suggests this insurance glossary (German, English, French, Italian) with terms and explanations that "can be cross-combined among the four languages."

http://money.guardian.co.uk/glossary/0,14317,1164784,00.html
Joss Heywood found this little British financial glossary "with some terms which may be helpful, e.g 'gazundering' and 'tracker fund'. "

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/michel.rochard/Economie/AnnexeB/Sld001.htm#IPR
Iris Heres recommends this site for financial glossaries.

http://www.ctv.es/USERS/amiles/directsearch.htm
Business Spanish-English glossary.

http://www.gaap.ru/biblio/glossary/
Paul Gallagher points out this "Russian and English financial and accounting glossary."

http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbl0062.pdf
Paul Gallagher suggests this Glossary of Compensation Terms from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. 78 pp., 1998 18,037 words, 456 terms (including cross-references).

http://www.expatica.com/france.asp?pad=282,294,&item_id=9684
Nice explanation of the French social security system in all its glory, in English for foreigners living in France.

http://medialine.focus.de/PM1D/PM1DB/PM1DBK/PM1DBKA/pm1dbka.htm?stichwort=V
MediaLine's marketing glossary with explanations in German and English.

http://www.rmsmedia.co.za/glossary.html
Claire Parker found this English glossary of media terms.

http://www.indiainfoline.com/bisc/jmpg.html
Michael Molin suggests this site for business jargon of all sorts. Searchable.

http://www.raynet.mcmail.com/
Oana Popescu says: "A good and comprehensive site on marketing. It has its own business & marketing glossary, but also a selection of others on related topics(finance, internet, sociology, political, philosophical, law, environmental, etc.)."

http://www.ubs.ch/e/index/about/bterms/content_a.html
From Michael Grant: "A nice English/German/French/Italian banking glossary." Has explanations in the different languages.

http://www.e-analytics.com/glosdir3.htm
Anya Malhotra points out this "directory of financial glossaries."

http://www.suliscommunication.com/tips/ebusiness/index.htm
E-business glossary.