The European structured products market is struggling to understand where the RIS framework falls as it is not offering an adequate solution to the challenges the EU economy and financial markets are facing.

The Secretary General of the European Structured Investment Products Association (Eusipa) believes that Esma is preparing for potential regulatory changes due to the perceived failure of the Retail Investment Strategy (RIS). The market struggles to understand where exactly this piece of work is to be located in the EU institutions workflow “Many market stakeholders not only from the industry side are of the view that the current Retail Investment Strategy is not offering an adequate so