Innovation is once again a top priority for issuers of structured products, but these days it has moved to underlyings, rather than the payout, according to panellists during the Mitigating risk and optimising financial valuations discussion at the virtual SRP Europe 2021 conference held last week.

2020 was a year like no other. Economies shut down, liquidity was drying up and there were a lot of issues with hedging, especially on the side of structured products. All this put innovation back at the forefront of the priorities for the issuers, according to Talal Dehbi ( pictured ), CEO, Mount Investing Group, who moderated the panel. “The importance of innovation is greater than ever after what we experienced in 2020,” said Dehbi. Tim Mortimer, managing director, Future Value