<p>Answer by @Wecon in the comments:</p>

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  <p>With respect to your first question: they certainly do. The BIS quarterly review of sept. 2015 (p.9) even shows that "firms in the United States increasingly issued euro-denominated debt to benefit from the low borrowing costs." This may already be a set-up for answering your second question: its (relative) importance may be highly dependent on economic circumstances</p>
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<p>Do corporate issuers outside of the Eurozone (as in the wider EU area, or non-EU countries) issue bonds in Euros (EUR)? How relatively common is this, compared to issuing bonds in USD, if you are a non-US and non-Eurozone debtor?</p>

<p>Would that qualify for what's referred to as "Euro denominated" bonds, or does that simply mean that the price of the bond is listed/represented in EUR?</p>

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<p>Note that I'm <em>not</em> referring to so called "Eurobonds" which is something different:</p>

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  <p>A Eurobond is an international bond that is denominated in a currency
  not native to the country where it is issued. Also called external
  bond; "external bonds which, strictly, are neither Eurobonds nor
  foreign bonds […]</p>
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# Do corporations outside of the Eurozone issue bonds in Euro?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-13)

Do corporate issuers outside of the Eurozone (as in the wider EU area, or non-EU countries) issue bonds in Euros (EUR)? How relatively common is this, compared to issuing bonds in USD, if you are a non-US and non-Eurozone debtor?

Would that qualify for what's referred to as "Euro denominated" bonds, or does that simply mean that the price of the bond is listed/represented in EUR?

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Note that I'm *not* referring to so called "Eurobonds" which is something different:

> A Eurobond is an international bond that is denominated in a currency
> not native to the country where it is issued. Also called external
> bond; "external bonds which, strictly, are neither Eurobonds nor
> foreign bonds […]

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-06-09. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Answer by @Wecon in the comments:

> With respect to your first question: they certainly do. The BIS quarterly review of sept. 2015 (p.9) even shows that "firms in the United States increasingly issued euro-denominated debt to benefit from the low borrowing costs." This may already be a set-up for answering your second question: its (relative) importance may be highly dependent on economic circumstances


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