Jérôme Niddam, head of global markets for Asia Pacific at Société Générale, will be given the Personality of the Year Award at SRP’s sixth Asia Pacific Conference on April 10 after receiving the most votes in the Singapore Awards Survey 2019. In this interview, he tells SRP Asia reporter Jihye Hwang about the bank’s plans to grow and maintain its market share.

Global growth concerns currently weigh heavily on investors’ minds so it’s difficult to find a reason for traditional assets to perform well going forward. According to Niddam ( pictured ), this is typically the kind of environment where structured products remain an asset class of choice. European countries and China saw growth slow down last year. The eurozone economy grew more slowly than before (1.8% in 2018 down from 2.4% posted in 2017) while China’s economic growth came