FX-linked products in the Uridashi market have been struggling to gain solid ground this year and have seen falling sales and issuance year on year, despite the bull run in Japanese equities and improved retail investor participation in the structured products market. Hideki Takahashi, head of cross-asset solutions for Japan at Société Générale CIB in Japan told SRP that the reason for FX structures’ fall in popularity was that equity products such as Nikkei-linked notes and Japanese stocks exc