CDO

(1) (Chief Digital Officer) The executive responsible for the customer-facing aspects of IT in an organization. Responsibilities include user interfaces, mobile applications and social media integration. If both chief digital officers (CDOs) and chief technical officers (CTOs) exist within a company, the CDO deals with the front end of the business (what the user sees) and the CTO handles back-end processing and infrastructure. See CTO and CIO.

(2) (Collaborative Data Objects) A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing MAPI-based email, calendaring and scheduling servers. Originally called "OLE Messaging" and "Active Messaging," CDO wraps the Extended MAPI library into a COM object. Starting with Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007, CDO was no longer part of the install package and had to be downloaded separately. See COM.

CDONTS
CDONTS (CDO for NT Server) is the SMTP version of CDO. It is used to send text email and HTML-based email from ASP pages.

CDO

See: Collateralized Debt Obligation.

Collateralized Debt Obligation

An asset-backed security backed by the receivables on loans, bonds, or other debt. Banks package and sell their receivables on debt to investors in order to reduce the risk of loss due to default. Returns on CDOs are paid in tranches; that is, the individual loans backing each CDO have different levels of risk, and investors are paid out according to the level of risk they have acquired. Banks offer higher interest rates to investors willing to buy CDOs backed by higher-risk loans. From a bank's perspective, in addition to reducing risk, CDOs also reduce their capital requirements because they can raise funds through the issue of CDOs. While, theoretically, CDOs can be backed by mortgages, one usually refers to these as collateralized mortgage obligations.

CDO

See collateralized debt obligation.

CDO

Acronym	Definition
CDO➣Cagayan de Oro (Philippines)
CDO➣Collaboration Data Objects (Microsoft)
CDO➣Collateralized Debt Obligation
CDO➣Chief Digital Officer (various organizations)
CDO➣Chief Data Officer (various companies)
CDO➣Compagnia Delle Opere
CDO➣Chief Development Officer (corporate title)
CDO➣Commando
CDO➣Career Development Opportunities (various organizations)
CDO➣Common Data Object
CDO➣Collaborative Data Object
CDO➣Clear Data Overrun
CDO➣Chief District Officer (Nepal)
CDO➣Continuous Descent Operation (various locations)
CDO➣Central Dense Overcast (meteorology)
CDO➣Command Duty Officer
CDO➣Child Development Organization (Pakistan)
CDO➣Conseil des Ombres (French: Shadow Council; gaming)
CDO➣Community Development Organization
CDO➣Community Dial Office
CDO➣Community Development Office
CDO➣Centrale des Opticiens (French: Central Opticians)
CDO➣Chromosome Deletion Outreach, Inc
CDO➣Care Delivery Organization (healthcare)
CDO➣Controlled Decomposition/Oxidation
CDO➣Compulsive Disorder of Obsessiveness
CDO➣Capital Defender Office
CDO➣Compressed Day Off (various organizations)
CDO➣Centre de Danses Orientales (French: Oriental Dance Center)
CDO➣Come da Oggetto (Italian: As Per Subject)
CDO➣Clergy Deployment Office(r)
CDO➣Controlling DoD (Department of Defense) Office (US DoD)
CDO➣Central Dispatching Organization
CDO➣Communications Duty Officer
CDO➣Central Documentation Office
CDO➣Civil Defense Office
CDO➣Carbon Doped silicon Oxide
CDO➣Central Disbursing Officer
CDO➣Child Development Officer
CDO➣Chicago District Office
CDO➣Chief Disciplinary Officer (prisons)
CDO➣Corneodermatoosseous Syndrome
CDO➣Customer Direct Order
CDO➣Commercial Development Office
CDO➣Construction Development/Design Office
CDO➣Change Design Order
CDO➣Community Development Organizer
CDO➣Control Document Officer
CDO➣Consent Dismissal Order (Canadian courts)
CDO➣Contested & Degraded Operations (US Air Force)
CDO➣Constrained Distortion Optimal
CDO➣Change Data Order
CDO➣Classified Documents Officer
CDO➣Coaxial Digital Output
CDO➣Community Development Outline
CDO➣Callable Debt Obligation