The organization's primary exempt purposes are:EMTA is the principal trade group for the global emerging markets trading and investment community and has worked since 1990 to promote the orderly development offair, efficient and transparent trading markets for EM instruments ( including bonds, loans, FX. Derivatives and local market instruments) and to help integrate EM into the global capital markets. In addition to its ongoing activities, EMTA provides a well-recognized forum that enables the EM trading and investment community to identify, discuss and address industry needs and to speak, when necessary, with a strong and credible voice on behalf of a broad spectrum of market participants.