02 Dec 2024
SRP in brief: index in focus
It was a busy week for the US index-linked annuity market, and elsewhere.
24 Jan 2024
Singapore market overview: China-linked structures attract new investors
While the launch of structured certificates continues to shine in the Singaporean market, the turnover of DLCs and structured warrants headed south in 2023.
21 Sep 2023
Latest: CAT Swiss boutique targets self-directed investors
In this week’s roundup, we also look at structured warrants listed on the SGX recording a rise in total turnover last month, while Bloomberg is expanding its thematic equities indices suite.
31 Mar 2022
Thailand Market Review, 2021: road to recovery
Some 16,418 structured products worth an estimated THB92 billion ($2.7 billion) had strike dates in Thailand during 2021.
22 Dec 2021
Latest: Malaysia lists warrants on DJIA, Nasdaq 100
The past week has seen new products launched in Malaysia and Europe while Vontobel advances in the US market and Isda announces more fallbacks during the Ibor-transition.
17 Dec 2021
Bursa Malaysia completes dematerialised structured warrant PoC
The exchange has concluded its dematerialisation proof of concept (PoC) around structured warrants (SWs), a first step in transitioning the Malaysian securities industry to a paperless environment.
16 Dec 2021
Thailand lists first foreign stock DW after rules relaxed
In a first for Thailand, Macquarie Securities launched derivative warrants (DWs) over six Hong Kong-listed stocks today. This comes shortly after regulators gave the green light to foreign underlying stocks.
10 Nov 2021
Macquarie shifts to short-dated notes, balance continues to drop
The Australian bank’s issuance and sales posted a 20% decline year-on-year as the downward trend started five years ago continues.
29 Oct 2021
Latest: BNP Paribas to fund Latam non-profit via structured note sale proceeds
BNP Paribas USA has launched a philanthropic campaign to fund an independent non-profit organisation with donations from structured notes purchases.
17 Feb 2021
Singapore Market Review, Q4 2020: HSI remains top underlying
Some 167 structured products were added to SRP Singapore database between 1 October and 31 December 2020.
31 Jan 2021
Malaysia Market Review, Q4 2020: structured warrant market grows despite pandemic
There were 463 structured products (including flow) worth an estimated MYR4.93 billion (US$1.2 billion) added to the SRP Malaysia database in the fourth quarter of 2020.
01 Jun 2020
People: Former UBS EQD and WM chief resurfaces at MSCI
Axel Kilian has joined MSCI as managing director - head client coverage EMEA in London. Kilian, a senior salesman executive has been out of the structured products market since 2017 following his departure from UBS.