Panellists at SRP Europe 2020’s Ask the regulators session last month discussed hot topics including performance scenarios and product complexity.

Issues including complexity of structured products and quality of marketing documentation of structured retail products have been on the European regulators’ radars for a while, in part because of the increased focus on developing the Capital Markets Union (CMU) project. So-called simpler products have been made available to retail investors, which would go some way in facilitating their access to capital markets but there is a constant need to ensure certain thresholds of complexity are