Europe News

Europe’s markets continue upward trend

Europe | Industry

26 Sep 2024 by SRP News

Activity across European exchanges has increased year on year with €440 billion open interest and further turnover increase reported by Eusipa member markets.

Belgian sales hit low, strong recovery expected

Europe | Products

25 Sep 2024 by SRP News

Despite slow sales in Q2, the market is on track to bounce back strongly as banks have increased their offering to absorb the €22 billion government bond redemption.

UK Market Review, August 2024: steady and stable

Europe | Market Reviews

24 Sep 2024 by SRP News

The UK market continued to prosper with sales volumes and issuance levels in August among the highest in 2024 YTD.

Hilbert acquires UK intermediary with over US$400m in structured products AuM

Europe | Products

23 Sep 2024 by SRP News

The combination of both businesses will establish UK/French structured products boutique as a top five distributor in the UK market.

VDK returns with Natixis after seven-year absence

Europe | Products

19 Sep 2024 by Marc Wolterink

The bank is distributing its first structured products in Belgium since 2017.

Esma sounds alarm on zero-day options ETPs

Europe | Regulations & Legal

19 Sep 2024 by SRP News

The warning coincides with the launch of Europe’s first zero-day-to-expire options (0DTE) listed products by Leverage Shares.

Spotlight on Europe: future early redemption barriers by date and level

Europe | Products

13 Sep 2024 by Nikolay Nikolov

In the second of a two-part article, SRP analyses barrier autocalls and their ability to absorb stock market declines.

Germany H1 2024: retail certificate sales remain front and centre

Europe | Products

12 Sep 2024 by SRP News

SRP sampled the interim results of the six main German structured products issuers.

Update: Belgian providers profit from maturing government bond

Europe | Products

10 Sep 2024 by Marc Wolterink

Structured products providers are on the offensive to reclaim money they lost to a government bond one year ago.