Jargon is a wall. This is a door.
Live demo → https://jargon-decoder.bodhiprotocol.com/
Every industry protects itself with vocabulary. Capital markets more than most: novation, DvP, corporate actions, golden source, T+1.
This is 229 of those terms decoded into plain language — one italic sentence anyone can understand, plus one more sentence of depth for those who want it. Every single term also gets a full concept page: an analogy, a real worked example, common mistakes, related concepts, and a quiz — 229/229, across all eleven categories.
Business analysts live at the translation layer between business and technology. This tool is that skill, made visible.
Eleven categories, spanning the trading lifecycle, the deal-making side of markets, and the psychology behind bad decisions:
Lifecycle · Clearing & Settlement · Instruments · Risk & Compliance · Market Structure · Technology · Investment Banking · Investment Analysis · Behavioral Finance · Economics · Business Strategy
Features: live search across terms and definitions, category filters, a Surprise me button for wandering, a mini-diagram for every single term (look for the ◆ visual badge), a Test me flashcard mode, and bookmarking — save terms and filter down to your own list. 119 terms also carry a plain-spoken analogy and related-concept links right on the card.
Two self-contained pages, index.html (the library) and concept.html (the deep-dive template). No frameworks, no build step, no dependencies, no API. Vanilla JS. Open either file, it works — even offline.
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"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms." — Socrates