International News

Strategy & custom indices – banking on diversification needs

International | Indices

13 Sep 2023 by Tim Mortimer - FVC

The use of strategy and custom indices has had a long and rich history within retail structured products markets for many years.

People: BofA bolsters European coverage, Nomura builds up insurance team

International | People

13 Sep 2023 by SRP News

Bank of America wants to capitalise on increased activity and momentum; Nomura is seeking to expand its coverage of insurance clients; BSW – formerly DDV – has made changes to its board; HSBC has a new head covering Americas and EMEA Equity-Linked business; and more.

FTSE Russell: the great US equity regime change

International | Indices

12 Sep 2023 by Pablo Conde

The index provider believes that timing the regime change between growth and value and allocating to style on a trend surfing basis can reap extra returns to investors.

Digital assets: global crypto ETP AuM up by 50% YTD, protected structures gain traction

International | Industry

12 Sep 2023 by SRP News

In this week’s roundup, we also look at a new fully protected structure issued by Bitget; the introduction of the staking in physical ether ETP by WisdomTree, StanChart’s application to launch a digital asset in Abu Dhabi, and more.

MerQube: QIS becomes mainstream

International | Indices

11 Sep 2023 by Pablo Conde

The US index provider is among the latest entrants to the structured products market driving efficiencies and cost reduction on strategy & custom underlyings.

SRP in brief: painting different pictures

International | Industry

11 Sep 2023 by Amélie Labbe

New hires join European issuers while Asia Pacific authorities call for a need to improve product design and distribution practices.

STOXX: white labelling for QIS is a growing business

International | Indices

08 Sep 2023 by Pablo Conde

Armelle Loeb, head of index sales for Emea at STOXX, discusses the evolution and appeal of custom and factor-based indices, and why custom income strategies have delivered good performance

Product wrap: Amundi, Euronext collaborate on ESG life insurance product

International | Products

08 Sep 2023 by Marc Wolterink

In this week’s wrap we look at a selection of structured products with strike dates between 3-9 September 2023.

BNP Paribas bolsters CEE coverage for global markets

International | People

07 Sep 2023 by SRP News

The appointment encompasses equity derivatives sales and trading, as well as corporate and institutional sales.