Tag: Interest rates
South Korea imposes new restrictions on structured products
Asia Pacific | Regulations & Legal
03 Aug 2020 by Summer Wang & Pablo Conde
The Financial Services Commission has released a series of measures to strengthen currency liquidity for securities firms and set up two platforms for investors in response to an increase in issuance of structured products in South Korea.
Austria Market Review, Q2 2020: capital-protected products return
Europe | Market Reviews
31 Jul 2020 by Suzanna Moni
Issuance of primary market products dropped by 60% in the second quarter of 2020 as issuers change focus to capital protection.
Libor: no liquidity in some of the overnight rates built up
International | Regulations & Legal
10 Jul 2020 by Pablo Conde & Marc Wolterink
The International Swaps & Derivatives Association (Isda), Bloomberg and law firm Linklaters have released new guidance on interbank offered rate (Ibor) fallbacks with an overview of the proposed methodology to calculate adjusted risk-free reference rates (RFR) as fallbacks for key inter-bank offer rates (Ibors).
China tightens structured deposit rate rules amid outbreak battle
Asia Pacific | Regulations & Legal
23 Mar 2020 by Pablo Conde
The Chinese central bank has issued a new directive on interest rates to curb the high guaranteed yields offered by certain domestic lenders on structured deposits.
End of Libor: US$50 billion worth of structured products waiting for the switch
International | Industry
22 Nov 2019 by Pablo Conde
The global financial industry is rallying in anticipation of the Libor transition which will send shockwaves to the market as the benchmark underpins more than US$350 trillion of mortgages, loans and derivatives around the world.
Exclusive: B3 - Foreign providers have taken the Brazilian market to a different level
Latin America | Industry
19 Nov 2019 by Pablo Conde
The Brazilian market is moving from a plain vanilla set up dominated by local banks to a ‘very different and competitive’ market.
UOB: traditional funding trades are currently being challenged
Asia Pacific | Industry
05 Nov 2019 by Jihye Hwang
United Overseas Bank (UOB) is the leading structured products manufacturers in Singapore. SRP spoke to John Lau (pictured), its head of treasury products and specialists, regional and Singapore, deposit and wealth management, about the bank’s philosophy around structured products and how these products can help navigate uncertain market environments.
Van Lanschot Kempen structured product results shrink
Europe | Industry
27 Aug 2019 by SRP News
The Dutch bank reports a lower result from structured products in merchant banking while interest income shrunk six percent in the wake of persistently low interest rates as conditions in the first half of 2019 were ‘turbulent’ according to its chairman Karl Guha (pictured).
Gold price rally brings back client interest in Apac
Asia Pacific | Products
23 Jul 2019 by Jihye Hwang
The recent uptick in gold prices has called the attention of investors seeking exposure to the precious metal either via bets on a further price rises or the volatility.
