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CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct

The CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct is the ethical code binding CFA Institute members, charterholders, and candidates, pairing six aspirational principles with seven sections of enforceable rules.

CFB Valcartier

CFB Valcartier (Base des Forces canadiennes Valcartier), the 2nd Canadian Division Support Base, is a 288 km² Canadian Army base northwest of Québec City, opened in 1914 and home to 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.

CFC

CFC means chlorofluorocarbon, an ozone-depleting compound; first measured in situ by Lovelock in 1970, regulated under the Montreal Protocol. Also abbreviates Cuadernos de Filología Clásica, Contemporary French Civilization, and Canada's C Force.

CFP franc

The CFP franc, or Franc Pacifique, is the currency of New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna, issued by the IEOM and pegged to the euro.

CG Oncology

CG Oncology, founded in 2010 as Cold Genesys, is an Irvine, California biopharmaceutical company developing the oncolytic adenovirus cretostimogene grenadenorepvec, formerly CG0070, for bladder cancer.

CG Power and Industrial Solutions

CG Power and Industrial Solutions is an Indian electrical equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mumbai, making transformers, switchgear, motors, and railway components, controlled by the Murugappa Group since 2020.

CGN Power

CGN Power Co., Ltd. (中国广核电力股份有限公司) is the nuclear power generation platform of state-owned China General Nuclear Power Group, operating 30 nuclear units with 34,248 MW of capacity as of mid-2026.

CGT de los Argentinos

CGT de los Argentinos, or CGTA, was an Argentine trade union central founded in 1968 under Raimundo Ongaro, opposed to the military government of Juan Carlos Onganía.

CGTN (TV channel)

CGTN (China Global Television Network), launched December 31, 2016, is China's state-controlled international English-language satellite news channel under China Media Group/CCTV, with five-language channels, Nairobi, Washington, and London production centers, and a UK licence revoked by Ofcom in 2021.

Chaayos

Chaayos is an Indian chai café chain founded in November 2012 by Nitin Saluja and Raghav Verma, selling customized tea through over 200 company-owned outlets in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.

Chabad (חב״ד)

Chabad, also called Chabad-Lubavitch, is a Hasidic movement within Orthodox Judaism founded in the late eighteenth century by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, known for its worldwide network of emissaries.

Chabad messianism

Chabad messianism, also called Lubavitch Messianism or Mishichism, is the belief within Chabad-Lubavitch that Menachem Mendel Schneerson, its rebbe who died in 1994, is the Messiah.

Chabeli Iglesias

Chabeli Iglesias (María Isabel Iglesias Preysler), born 1971 in Cascais, Portugal, is a Spanish TV personality and interior designer, eldest daughter of Julio Iglesias and Isabel Preysler, host of Antena 3's Al sol (1991), Univision's El Show de Chabeli, and TVE's Los Iglesias. Hermanos a la obra (2024).

Chabi

Chabi (察必), empress of Kublai Khan, was a Hongjila-clan woman whose 1259 warning prompted Kublai's return north and election as Great Khan; she died in 1281.

Chach

Chach, also Shash, was a historical oasis state of Central Asia, centered on the Tashkent oasis between Ferghana and Sogdiana and first recorded in 262 CE.

Chach of Alor

Chach of Alor (چچ) was a Brahmin chamberlain and secretary who rose to the throne of Alor in Sindh in 632, preceding the Arab conquest under his son Dahir.

Chachapoya culture

The Chachapoya culture was a pre-Inca society of the northeastern Peruvian Andes, flourishing from roughly the 6th century until its absorption into the Inca Empire in the 1470s.

Chachchon Ratanarak

Chachchon Ratanarak (ชัชชน รัตนรักษ์) is a Thai businessman, only child and heir of media magnate Krit Ratanarak, overseeing the family's Tonson Group and Tonson Property.

Chachnama

The Chachnama (چچ نامہ) is a Persian history of Sind written by Ali Kufi in 1226, narrating king Chach and Muhammad bin Qasim's 712 conquest.

Chaco War

Chaco War, also Guerra del Chaco: 1932-1935 interstate war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Chaco Boreal. Deadliest 20th-century Latin American war; Paraguay won, taking about three-quarters of the disputed territory in the 1938 Buenos Aires treaty.

Chad (slang)

Chad is English internet slang for an attractive, confident, sexually successful "alpha male," born in 1990s Chicago slang and reshaped by the 2013 Chad Thundercock and 2017 Virgin vs. Chad memes.

Chad A. Readler

Chad A. Readler, born 1972, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2019.

Chad Bianco

Chad Bianco, Riverside County, California sheriff-coroner since 2018 and Republican 2026 gubernatorial candidate, known for the unprecedented seizure of about 650,000 ballots from the November 2025 Proposition 50 election, ruled unlawful by the California Supreme Court.

Chad Byers

Chad Byers is an American venture capitalist who co-founded the San Francisco seed firm Susa Ventures in 2013, known for its $250,000 seed investment in Robinhood.

Chad Edwards

Chad Edwards is a British chemist and technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Cambridge AI materials company CuspAI in 2024 with Max Welling and serves as its chief executive.

Chad F. Kenney, Sr.

Chad F. Kenney, Sr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2018, appointed by President Trump.

Chad Koppie

Chad Koppie is an American politician and Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Illinois's 7th District in 2026, after decades of candidacies and service on the Kane County Regional Board of Schools.

Chad Syverson

Chad Syverson is an American empirical economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, known for research on why firms in the same industry differ in productivity.

Chad Varah

Chad Varah (Edward Chad Varah, 1911–2007), Anglican priest and founder of the Samaritans, the 1953 London crisis telephone helpline for people considering suicide, pioneer of confidential volunteer befriening spread worldwide via Befrienders International.

Chad Veach

Chad Veach is an American evangelical pastor, founder and lead pastor of ZOE Church in Los Angeles, planted in 2014 after he served as a youth pastor in Seattle.