Issue 21 of our e-mag is out of the press and ready to download.
In the first issue of 2023, SRPInsight comes again packed with all the latest developments, product launches, crypto news and people moves from the Americas, Apac and Europe.
In this edition, we look at the new challenges posed by Europe’s regulatory agenda in the structured products market with a focus autocalls, inducements and ESG.
Erik Rotander, head of EMEA index sales, Bloomberg Index Services talks about the company’s plans to increase its footprint in the structured products market and capitalise on the trend towards customisation; and Julien Thibaud, director, head of derivatives products, Morningstar Indexes, explains how ESG and thematics have opened new opportunities to gain market share in the structured products market in Europe.
On the manufacturers side, Daniel Hernandez, head of e-connectivity sales at BBVA, provides an overview and assessment of activities in 2022 as the Spanish bank’s enters a new phase serving bigger clients in a more competitive environment; while Jung-Jin Yoon, head of global markets cross asset sales, Asia Pacific (Apac) at Société Générale, talks about increased demand for income payoffs with downside protection in the Apac region and the renewed push for hybrid asset capital protected notes in 2023.
In this month’s market analysis, FVC’s Tim Mortimer and Suzi Hampson put StructrPro to work with an analysis of the best performing underlying assets in the US equity structured products market, showing the average annualised performance of both live and matured structured products linked to each underlying; and the performance of products linked to the US big tech stocks which have faced heavy headwinds in 2022 after helping drive the US stock markets and the economy in 2021.
We also spoke to Nikky Maan, CEO at Spectrum Markets, the pan-European multilateral trading facility for securitised derivatives which reached several milestones in 2022 including the launch of a range of crypto turbo certificates, and the addition of new brokers and market markers such as Intermonte in Italy, and Société Générale in Spain and the Nordics.
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