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People
See key hires and staffing changes.
14 January 2025
Arrivals and departures: top moves of 2024 – Morgan Stanley, Natixis, Nomura
As 2025 begins, SRP looks back at last year’s most relevant people moves highlighting new hires and exits at the main issuers of structured products.
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People: UBS boosts Japan structured products business, HSBC completes WPB reorganisation
10 January 2025
13 Jan 2025
Merrill names head of capital markets, launches UHNW advisory team
The wealth veteran returning from Citi will lead the capital markets including market-linked investments (MLIs) and work closely with Merrill’s new UHNW advisory group.
13 Jan 2025
Arrivals and departures: top moves of 2024 – Leonteq, Marex
As 2025 begins, SRP looks back at last year’s most relevant people moves highlighting new hires and exits at the main issuers of structured products.
10 Jan 2025
Arrivals and departures: top moves of 2024 – J.P. Morgan
As 2025 begins, SRP looks back at last year’s most relevant people moves highlighting new hires and exits at the main issuers of structured products.
10 Jan 2025
People: UBS boosts Japan structured products business, HSBC completes WPB reorganisation
Also: HSBC completes wealth & private banking reorganisation; Bollinger confirmed as Juliues Baer new chief executive; HK Exchange appoints head of markets.
Products
An in-depth review of the latest product launches.
14 January 2025
SIX structured product listings achieve record high, Vontobel remains top issuer
More than a third of total turnover from investment products was linked to tracker certificates.
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Annuities roundup: Ibexis introduces prop indices designed by UBS, Barclays
Plus: Global Atlantic brings another Rila; Limra forecasts FIAs slowdown; Salt Financial unveils best index performers; Milliman finds sharp increases in surrender rates.
10 Jan 2025
Product wrap: Natixis, SG offer capital protection in France
In this week’s wrap we look at a selection of structured products with strike dates between 5-11 January 2025.
09 Jan 2025
Nearly 90% of German discount certificates deliver positive returns
More than 87% of discount certificates generated a positive return in 2023, according to a report commissioned by the German Bundesverband für strukturierte Wertpapiere (BSW).
06 Jan 2025
Garantum autocall analysis challenges regulator’s findings
The Swedish structured products industry has reacted rather timidly to the paper about autocalls released by the Swedish financial regulator in late November.
Regulation
Updates and commentary on evolving market regulation.
3 January 2025
South Korea’s largest labour union calls for more ELS, DLS rules
Its latest working paper proposes to ban selling high-risk structured products with unilateral downside risk to the general public.
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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.
20 Dec 2024
UK regulator to phase out Priips in shift from EU
A new regime will replace the current retail investor disclosure framework as it continues to diverge from the European Union .
12 Dec 2024
Leonteq to pay US$10m for breaching risk management, suitability obligations
Finma has ordered the structured products provider to halt its existing relationships as well as new business with unregulated distributors.
10 Dec 2024
Ex-Allianz senior manager spared prison in Structured Alpha saga
The co-lead manager of the structured fund has avoided prison time due to health issues regarding a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme.
Technology
Discover technological advances in the industry.
23 October 2024
Australia’s Stropro gears up for capital raise for global expansion
The Sydney-based structured product investment platform makes key hires for its global push roadmap and develops AI-powered tools.
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15 Oct 2024
Arta deploys AI copilot, goes global
The US digital wealth management platform has partnered with Abu Dhabi's Wio Invest to launch wealth-as-a-service for banks globally.
14 Aug 2024
Korea’s Qraft Technologies capitalises on AI-powered strategies for asset allocations
The Seoul-based AI fintech firm has co-designed an AI-powered index with Solactive to replicate a hedge fund’s long-short investment strategy, which has been deployed via structured products sold in Korea.
07 Aug 2024
Part 2 - 3AI: passive investing enters new phase as "intelligent" indices evolve
The UK AI company is "scientifically pioneering" the future of alpha intelligence for passive investing as well as developing new enhanced indices.
06 Aug 2024
3AI enters partnership to launch AMC, goes global with Barclays on alpha tilted indices
The UK artificial intelligence company has entered into a partnership to launch an actively managed certificate (AMC) and expanded the deal with Barclays on alpha tilted indices globally.
Market
Key industry events and change drivers.
13 January 2025
SRP in brief: at a discount
Discount certificates, the latest people moves, market reviews, and more from SRP’s newsdesk.
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Latest: HK’s Goldhorse adds educational function, French fintech launches Luxembourg hub
8 January 2025
Digital assets: EBA gauges tokenised deposits, Matrixport issues double no touch play
7 January 2025
ISS STOXX: focus will be on long-term solutions rather than quick-fix approaches
7 January 2025
08 Jan 2025
Latest: HK’s Goldhorse adds educational function, French fintech launches Luxembourg hub
Also: Samsung Securities rolls out three Dow Jones ETNs; BBVA’s Garanti launches warrants suite on Borsa Istanbul; Citi invests in OTC FX options trading platform.
07 Jan 2025
Digital assets: EBA gauges tokenised deposits, Matrixport issues double no touch play
Plus: Calamos debuts fully protected crypto tracker; GSR gets the greenlight from UK FCA to provide OTC trading service; and more.
07 Jan 2025
ISS STOXX: focus will be on long-term solutions rather than quick-fix approaches
The European index and data provider sees the structured products market as a competitive space where innovation is a differentiator to diversify market exposures and deliver new investment strategies to institutional and retail investors alike.
06 Jan 2025
SRP in brief: new players, products to kick off new year
Yield enhancement products continue to dominate in the European market, while South Korea’s largest labour union calls for more ELS and DLS rules. Plus, American Insurance firm Pacific Life launches its first registered index-linked annuity.
