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''The euro.''
(LMA).


The Euro zone is the collective name for the 19 countries adopting European Monetary Union (EMU) in full.
The Loan Market Association is a trade body for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) [[syndicated loan]] market, founded in 1996 by banks operating in that market.
Sometimes written 'Eurozone', 'eurozone' or 'Euro-zone'.


More formally known as the 'euro area' and more informally as 'euroland'.  
Promoting loan markets in various ways, the LMA particularly publishes model documentation and "market guidelines" for use in both primary and secondary markets with a view to achieving more standardisation of widely accepted market practice.


The [[Association of Corporate Treasurers]] (ACT) has supported the LMA's primary documentation initiative since its inception. The LMA discusses its primary investment grade borrower documentation with ACT prior to publication. With [http://www.slaughterandmay.com/ Slaughter and May], ACT publishes [http://www.treasurers.org/loandocumentation commentaries] on the LMA primary documents


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.
==See also==


 
* The Loan Market Association website http://www.lma.eu.com/default.aspx
The nine European Union (EU) countries which are not in the euro area are:
 
Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom (UK).
 
 
====Brexit====
A referendum in the UK in June 2016 resulted in a vote for the UK to begin the process of leaving the EU.  
 
 
== See also ==
* [[Bank supervision]]
* [[Brexit]]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[ESCB]]
* [[Eurobond]]
* [[European Central Bank]]
* [[European Financial Stability Facility]]
* [[European Monetary Union]]
* [[European Union]]
* [[Eurosystem]]
* [[Grexit]]
 
 
 
==== Currencies of EU countries not in the euro area ====
* [[BGN]]
* [[HRK]]
* [[CZK]]
* [[DKK]]
* [[HUF]]
* [[PLN]]
* [[RON]]
* [[SEK]]
* [[GBP]]


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

Revision as of 11:32, 15 November 2014

(LMA).

The Loan Market Association is a trade body for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) syndicated loan market, founded in 1996 by banks operating in that market.

Promoting loan markets in various ways, the LMA particularly publishes model documentation and "market guidelines" for use in both primary and secondary markets with a view to achieving more standardisation of widely accepted market practice.

The Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) has supported the LMA's primary documentation initiative since its inception. The LMA discusses its primary investment grade borrower documentation with ACT prior to publication. With Slaughter and May, ACT publishes commentaries on the LMA primary documents


See also

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