离岸金融市场是指非居民之间以银行为中介在某种货币发行国国境之外从事该种货币借贷的市场。由于这种业务最早起源于欧洲，所以又称为欧洲货币市场。离岸金融市场50年代末在伦敦产生之后，逐步扩散到世界其它许多地方，形成众多的离岸金融中心。目前，亚太地区已建立了多个离 Offshore financial markets refer to markets where non-residents engage in such kinds of currency borrowing outside the border of a country in which a currency is issued through banks as intermediaries. Since this business originated in Europe, it is also known as the European money market. After the offshore financial market emerged in London in the late 1950s, it gradually spread to many other places in the world and formed a large number of offshore financial centers. At present, there have been many departures from the Asia-Pacific region