The increasing number of crypto-linked strategies suggests that structured products are best placed to provide access to digital assets.
Increased activity around cryptocurrencies has put the spotlight on structured products as they are proving to be an effective vehicle to provide access to this new asset class to early movers. Gerald Banks - also known as Guerman Aliev, a former equity derivatives structurer at Merryll Lynch with ties to a Russian oligarch, and chief investment officer of Altpoint Cipher - a new hedge fund focused on digital assets primarily trading options and futures contracts, is the latest investor taking