Eurocurrency

Eurocurrency is deposits in banks that are located outside the borders of the country that issue the currency the deposit is denominated in. For example, a deposit denominated in Japanese Yen held in a Brazilian bank is a Eurocurrency deposit. Likewise a deposit denominated in US dollars held in a Singapore bank is a Eurocurrency deposit, or more specifically or more clearly a Eurodollar deposit.

Eurocurrency does not have to involve either the euro currency or the eurozone.

Today the Eurocurrency and Eurobond markets are active because they avoid domestic interest rate regulations, reserve requirements and other barriers to the free flow of capital.

Currencies

The four main Eurocurrencies are the US dollar, the eurozone euro, the British pound and the Japanese yen; the currencies of the major economies of the world.

Eurobanks

A eurobank is a financial institution anywhere in the world which accepts deposits or makes loans in any foreign currency.

See also

Euro

The euro (sign: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of the eurozone, which consists of 19 of the 28 member states of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. The currency is also officially used by the institutions of the European Union and four other European countries, as well as unilaterally by two others, and is consequently used daily by some 337 million Europeans as of 2015. Outside of Europe, a number of overseas territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency.

Additionally, 210 million people worldwide as of 2013 use currencies pegged to the euro. The euro is the second largest reserve currency as well as the second most traded currency in the world after the United States dollar.As of August 2014, with more than €995,000,000,000 in circulation, the euro has the highest combined value of banknotes and coins in circulation in the world, having surpassed the U.S. dollar. Based on International Monetary Fund estimates of 2008 GDP and purchasing power parity among the various currencies, the eurozone is the second largest economy in the world.