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People
See key hires and staffing changes.
21 January 2025
Exclusive: Citi taps Macquarie, bolsters strategic equity solutions in HK
The managing director joins Citi after a 17-year tenure with the Australian bank. Citi also names head of markets sales for China.
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21 Jan 2025
Arrivals and departures: top moves of 2024 – exchanges and tech providers
As 2025 begins, SRP looks back at last year’s most relevant people moves highlighting new hires and exits in the world of structured products. In the final instalment, we focus on exchanges and tech providers.
20 Jan 2025
Barclays taps ex-Goldman Apac EQD co-head to lead equities
The former Goldman banker is tasked with leading the UK bank’s equities franchise in the region.
17 Jan 2025
People: CIBC structuring head moves, senior sales depart SG
The senior sales specialists have left Société Générale (SG) for HSBC and Nomura. Meanwhile, UBP taps Bank of Singapore to lead investment services, North Asia.
17 Jan 2025
Arrivals and departures 2024: index providers
SRP’s Summer Wang looks back at some of the key hires at Merqube, MSCI, STOXX and FTSE Russell in 2024.
Products
An in-depth review of the latest product launches.
23 January 2025
Affin Hwang debuts Malaysia’s first commodity-linked warrant
The Malaysian bank’s CEO says 22 million units of the newly listed call warrant were traded on the first trading day. Equity-linked notes are among the new structures the bank looks to issue this year.
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VLK, BNPP offer fixed income alternative
The Dutch independent wealth manager has collaborated with BNP Paribas for a capital-protected product that is a mix between a fixed income investment and a traditional index-linked structure.
17 Jan 2025
Product wrap: Natixis commits to ESG, BNPP tracks pharma index
In this week’s wrap we look at a selection of structured products with strike dates between 12-18 January 2025.
16 Jan 2025
StanChart China debuts US bond-linked structured deposit as investors eye rate cuts
The first batch of bond-linked structured deposits issued by the British bank features a pre-agreed fixed coupon of 5.5% p.a.
16 Jan 2025
EQD trading spikes globally, FX options dominate structured products market
Derivatives exchanges have reported record volumes for 2024 with demand set to continue on the back of new crypto options and increasing activity around zero days to expiration options (0DTE).
Regulation
Updates and commentary on evolving market regulation.
21 January 2025
Year in review: 2024 new rules, enforcement actions
We look back at the main stories of last year covering regulatory developments across the world, as well as some of the high-profile lawsuit and arbitration cases in the US, related to structured products.
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03 Jan 2025
South Korea’s largest labour union calls for more ELS, DLS rules
Its latest working paper proposes to ban selling high-risk structured products with unilateral downside risk to the general public.
23 Dec 2024
Australian regulator sues Binance over customer protection failures
ASIC has taken Binance Australia Derivatives to the federal court following the alleged mis-classification of retail investors to wholesale investors while investors were trading crypto derivative products.
20 Dec 2024
UK regulator to phase out Priips in shift from EU
A new regime will replace the current retail investor disclosure framework as it continues to diverge from the European Union .
12 Dec 2024
Leonteq to pay US$10m for breaching risk management, suitability obligations
Finma has ordered the structured products provider to halt its existing relationships as well as new business with unregulated distributors.
Technology
Discover technological advances in the industry.
22 January 2025
Vestr: growing AuM underscores scalability of AMC market
The AMC market continues in a state of flux with an increasing number of players entering this segment across jurisdictions.
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23 Oct 2024
Australia’s Stropro gears up for capital raise for global expansion
The Sydney-based structured product investment platform makes key hires for its global push roadmap and develops AI-powered tools.
15 Oct 2024
Arta deploys AI copilot, goes global
The US digital wealth management platform has partnered with Abu Dhabi's Wio Invest to launch wealth-as-a-service for banks globally.
14 Aug 2024
Korea’s Qraft Technologies capitalises on AI-powered strategies for asset allocations
The Seoul-based AI fintech firm has co-designed an AI-powered index with Solactive to replicate a hedge fund’s long-short investment strategy, which has been deployed via structured products sold in Korea.
07 Aug 2024
Part 2 - 3AI: passive investing enters new phase as "intelligent" indices evolve
The UK AI company is "scientifically pioneering" the future of alpha intelligence for passive investing as well as developing new enhanced indices.
Market
Key industry events and change drivers.
20 January 2025
SRP in brief: hiring spree
The structured products market has started the year with a number of high level appointments in the sell and buy-sides.
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13 Jan 2025
SRP in brief: at a discount
Discount certificates, the latest people moves, market reviews, and more from SRP’s newsdesk.
08 Jan 2025
Latest: HK’s Goldhorse adds educational function, French fintech launches Luxembourg hub
Also: Samsung Securities rolls out three Dow Jones ETNs; BBVA’s Garanti launches warrants suite on Borsa Istanbul; Citi invests in OTC FX options trading platform.
07 Jan 2025
Digital assets: EBA gauges tokenised deposits, Matrixport issues double no touch play
Plus: Calamos debuts fully protected crypto tracker; GSR gets the greenlight from UK FCA to provide OTC trading service; and more.
07 Jan 2025
ISS STOXX: focus will be on long-term solutions rather than quick-fix approaches
The European index and data provider sees the structured products market as a competitive space where innovation is a differentiator to diversify market exposures and deliver new investment strategies to institutional and retail investors alike.
