What is the difference between the Euronote market, the Euro-medium-term-note market, and the Eurocommercial paper market?
Answer: Euronotes are short-term notes guarantees by a group of international investment or commercial banks known as a "facility." A client-borrower creates an agreement with a capability to issue Euronotes in its own name for a period of time, usually three to 10 years. Euronotes are sold at a discount from face value, and pay back the full face value at maturity.
Euronotes usually have maturities of from three to six months. Euro-medium-term notes (Euro MTNs) are commonly fixed-rate notes issued by a corporation along with maturities ranging from less than a year to about 10 years. Similarly fixed-rate bonds, Euro-MTNs have a fixed maturity and pay coupon interest at periodic dates. Not like a bond issue, in which the entire issue is brought to market at once, permission is received for a Euro-MTN issue that is after that partially sold on a continuous basis by an issuance facility that allows the borrower to obtain funds just only as needed on a flexible basis. Eurocommercial paper is a not secured short-term promissory note issued by a corporation or a bank and placed straightforwardly with the investment public through a dealer. Such as Euronotes, Eurocommercial paper is sold at a discount from face value. Maturities commonly range from one to six months.