The financial industry uses "yard" as slang for a billion, derived from the UK's "milliard," meaning the same as the American billion.

A yard is equal to 10y—10 to the ninth power—or the number one followed by nine zeros, which is written out as 1,000,000,000. If someone were to purchase one billion U.S. dollars, they could refer to the purchase as a yard of U.S. dollars. It’s primarily used in currency trading to avoid confusion with similar-sounding terms.