Following the regulatory notice in July 2023, only three structured note distributors remain active in the mass retail market.
Structured Uridashi is Japan's main vehicle to deliver public-distributed, non-fully principal-protected structured notes in Japan. It is often constructed with equity shares or indices in the underlying. In 2023, the sales volume for structured Uridashi was less than one-tenth compared with 2021’s - Tomoyuki Sasai Over the course of the years, the structured Uridashi market has grown on the mass retail side, while non-retail investors usually go through private place