12 Dec 2022
SRP in brief: not winding down
Citi, BNP and Julius Baer add staff, while the UK looks to remove the Priips regime.
30 Sep 2021
UK advisers: most of Priips disclosure material is ignored
The country’s association of advisers and investment managers is calling for a fundamental review of the Priips regime rather than a ‘sticking plaster’ approach.
18 Mar 2021
LSEG chief Schwimmer weighs Libor transition and Brexit
David Schwimmer (pictured) may have spent most of the past three years focused on the $27bn (£19.4bn) acquisition of data and tech firm Refinitiv but the LSE Group chief executive has also been forced to track secular trends reshaping the markets in which the UK group operates.
17 Feb 2021
Structured products in focus as fintech targets Dubai SMEs
SH Capital is seeking to reconnect businesses with international banking services, digital treasury management solutions, risk management and structured products.
03 Nov 2020
HSBC profits hit by low interest rates
The British Bank is suffering from the long-lasting effects of the Covid-19 pandemic while geo-political risks pertaining to US-China relations and Brexit remain a top concern.
02 Nov 2020
UK moves to ‘improve’ Priips regime
On 23 June, the UK government announced its intention to convert the existing body of EU legislation into British law and has now issued some more detailed proposals.
15 Oct 2019
Guest contributor: structured products can help in uncertain times
Ten years on since the financial crisis, the chairman of the UK Structured Products Association (UK SPA) Zak de Mariveles (pictured) looks at the lessons learned, how investor behaviour has changed, and how the structured products market in particular has evolved, and can offer compelling solutions in today's uncertain markets.
16 Jul 2019
Bloomberg: Risk management solutions are a high priority
The US technology company was awarded the Best Technology Provider and Best Pricing and Risk Analytics Providers nods at SRP’s Americas Awards. Karim Faraj (pictured), global head of front office derivatives at Bloomberg, tells SRP what makes Bloomberg different from its competition.
30 Apr 2019
UK Market Review - March 2019
A total of 37 retail products worth an estimated £103m were added to the UK database in March, an increase, both in issuance and sales, from the 28 products with a combined volume of £47m that were added the previous month.
26 Apr 2019
Swedbank Q1 2019: decline in structured products volumes
The Swedish bank reports a 22% year-on-year decrease in volumes of structured products for retail investors
16 Apr 2019
Germany Market Review - March 2019
The first quarter of 2019 ended with the usual domination of instruments pegged to single share underlyings over their single index counterpart with more than two times more capital absorbed and structures available.
01 Apr 2019
SRP Apac Personality of the Year 2019: Jérôme Niddam, Société Générale
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.