In a fireside chat, two equity derivatives executives from South Korea shared their concern and optimism when it comes to the domestic structured products market.

The South Korean equity-linked securities (ELS) market has seen “a bit of recovery” in terms of traded volume this year after nose diving to approximately US$10 billion from US$25 billion between 2024 and 2023, according to Ryan Sungho Kim (pictured) , director, global markets Apac at BNP Paribas. Many Korean investors purchase these structure products in a way to put their idle cash into deposit -  Francis Geeseok Oh, REX Financial The significant cutdown is largely du