31 Jan 2024
StructrPro: at-risk growth widens gap in the US, protected growth remains marginal
In this article, we look at the market dynamics in the US around growth and income products over the last three years.
30 Jan 2024
StructrPro: at-risk growth widens gap in the US, protected growth remains marginal
In this article, we look at the market dynamics in the US around growth and income products over the last three years.
24 Feb 2021
Eusipa calls for exemption from new Priips RTS
The European structured products trade body claims the new RTS will result in delivering conflicting KIDs on Category 1 and 3 structured products.
24 Aug 2020
Efama: Priips regime in limbo
The European trade body is calling for an immediate extension of the Ucits exemption, as well as an urgent Level 1 review of the regulation.
22 Jul 2020
Priips simplified SRI can hide the true picture of risk
As the Priips review stalls following the European regulators’ failure to agree on the Kid RTS review fuelling uncertainty as of how the final rules will look like, the Priips regime stays as it is until further notice.
21 Jul 2020
EU regulators fail to agree on Priips RTS review
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have informed the European Commission of the outcome of the review conducted by the regulators of the key information document (Kid) for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (Priips).
20 Feb 2020
Eusipa: Priips RTS review reveals lack of certainty
The modifications on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) proposed by the ESAs under the Priips review ‘fail to address the fundamental problem posed by the fact that the Priips Kid is in practice (…) not sufficiently or at all used for the originally intended purpose,' according to the European Structured Investments Association (Eusipa).
17 Feb 2020
European trade bodies call out Priips ‘piecemeal’ approach
A group of European associations representing the banking, funds and insurance industries have written to the European Commission to express ‘serious concerns‘ in relation to the Priips review launched in October 2019.
03 Sep 2019
EU regulators clash with EC over Priips performance scenario approach
ESAs say exclusion of performance scenarios options from Priips consumer testing exercise limits scope of regulation; Structured products industry questions whether EU regulators can absorb any results of the consumer testing exercise as they draft RTS paper.
14 Feb 2019
Levendi rolls out Mifid 2 compliant service for structured products
UK firm targets issuers ans distributors with analysis to match regulatory requirements around expected return, attitude to risk, worst case scenario, etc
29 Nov 2018
Houston, we have a problem: the Kids are ‘useless’
A random risk analysis of three products shows how creating two parallel but different 1-7 risk scales has added to the confusion in the market, while the vagueness of the definitions around the risk calculations for expected returns has resulted in every bank doing this differently
29 Oct 2018
Past performance back on the agenda as consumer group aims at Ucits Exemption review
Better Finance says Priips rules ‘contradict and violate’ Mifid 2 provisions as the information on performance provided will not be clear and understandable to the majority of EU investors.