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''The euro.''
A term used to describe a financial instrument which displays characteristics of both debt and equity.


The Eurozone is the collective name for the 19 countries adopting European Monetary Union (EMU) in full.
Such instruments might be designed to be an intermediate (or mezzanine) category of capital between equity and debt, or to have some of the risk absorbing characteristics of equity and, ideally, the tax efficiency of debt.
Sometimes written 'Euro zone', 'eurozone' or 'Euro-zone'.
 
More formally known as the 'euro area' and more informally as 'euroland'.
 
 
The 19 countries in the euro area are:
 
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.
 
 
The eight European Union (EU) countries which are not in the euro area are:
 
Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Bank supervision]]
* [[Convertible debt]]
* [[Brexit]]
* [[Mezzanine]]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[Warrant]]
* [[Core countries]]
* [[ESCB]]
* [[Euro Stoxx 50]]
* [[Eurobond]]
* [[European Central Bank]]
* [[European Monetary Union]]
* [[European Stability Mechanism]]
* [[European Union]]
* [[Eurosystem]]
* [[Grexit]]
* [[Periphery countries]]
 
 
 
==== Currencies of EU countries not in the euro area ====
* [[BGN]]
* [[HRK]]
* [[CZK]]
* [[DKK]]
* [[HUF]]
* [[PLN]]
* [[RON]]
* [[SEK]]


[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]

Revision as of 09:18, 9 October 2013

A term used to describe a financial instrument which displays characteristics of both debt and equity.

Such instruments might be designed to be an intermediate (or mezzanine) category of capital between equity and debt, or to have some of the risk absorbing characteristics of equity and, ideally, the tax efficiency of debt.


See also

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