21 Mar 2024
Socius: leveraging structuring to build retirement portfolios
UK fintech provider Socius Technologies offers three products: a structured product administration platform that digitises paper-based processes, an account management system that allows product providers to provide personalised strategies, and a quantitative framework called SPERO to evaluate savings and retirement income strategies.
07 Mar 2024
Buy-side view: portfolios are better off with at least 25% of structured products
Activity in the UK structured products market continues to pick up after years of subdued inertia.
25 Apr 2023
UK Market Review, March 2023: focus on the consumer
One hundred and eighteen products were added to the UK database in March.
23 Mar 2023
SRP Europe 2023: Priips, the political hot potato
A panel of market participants discussed upcoming revisions and updates to major investment directives, whilst looking at the differences between the EU and UK rules, during the SRP Europe 2023 Conference in London.
27 Feb 2023
UK Market Review, January 2023: FCA checks Consumer Duty progress
One hundred and three products were added to the UK database in January, a 75% increase compared to the same month last year.
15 Feb 2023
Getting to grips with Consumer Duty
The UK regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is in the advanced stages of implementing its new “Consumer Duty” directive.
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30 Jan 2023
SRP in brief: taking shape
In the final week of January, we saw smaller firms poach executives from their larger counterparts, and a Singaporean bank report a huge increase in trading volume of structured products.
26 Jan 2023
FCA consumer duty puts manufacturers under the microscope
As the new guidelines loom, structured products issuers seem to be under the impression the work done to comply with the European regulation will tick all the boxes of the new UK rules.