23 Dec 2024
Australian regulator sues Binance over customer protection failures
ASIC has taken Binance Australia Derivatives to the federal court following the alleged mis-classification of retail investors to wholesale investors while investors were trading crypto derivative products.
10 Oct 2024
Australian regulator calls for product issuers to review distribution practices
The watchdog finds that more improvements for distribution practices are needed following its surveillance of 19 product issuers.
12 Dec 2023
Latest: Leonteq issues profit warning, BMO adds higher leverage to ETN range
The Swiss structured products specialist struggles to leave behind allegations of shortcomings in the prevention of money laundering, tax evasion and terrorist financing.
06 Sep 2023
ASIC tightens OTC derivatives rules
The Australian financial watchdog urges product issuers to address over-reliance on client questionnaires, review mass marketing of OTC derivatives and make greater use of available data.
21 Aug 2023
SRP in brief: come rain or shine
Staff continues exiting Credit Suisse, while a number of the larger banks reported mixed quarterly results.
16 Aug 2023
Aussie regulator extends product design, distribution obligations
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic) has proposed to extend the interim measures of design and distribution obligations (DDO) to seven years from two years.
17 May 2023
Asic calls issuers to improve design, distribution obligations
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic) is urging investment product issuers to ‘lift their game’ after an initial review found significant room for improvement in how they meet their design and distribution obligations (DDO).
29 Nov 2022
Cryptos: FTSE Russell debuts multi asset digital asset series
The crypto market has lost two-thirds of its value in a year and has been roiled by the collapse of large market participants triggering a domino effect, but developments continue as the industry, seeks to overcome the tumult of the past few weeks.
25 Jan 2022
Regulators aim at high-risk products and naming conventions
Regulators across the world are keeping a close eye on risky products as well as exchange-traded products (ETPs), crypto assets and ESG disclosures.
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12 Jul 2021
SRP in brief: finally coming home
As the UK licks its Euro 2020 football (soccer) wounds, the structured product market goes from strength to strength on the back of investor interest shifting to these products.
30 Jun 2021
Australian watchdog sees 'risk of harm' in crypto ETPs
Asic has sounded the alarm on crypto-linked products following new regulatory crackdowns from the UK, Canada and Japan which have banned digital assets exchange Binance.
06 Apr 2021
Latest: Leonteq expands pool of issuers on LynQs
Leonteq and Basler Kantonalbank have agreed to work together on structured investment products from the end of April 2020.