To celebrate International Women’s Day this Sunday 8 March, we take a closer look at live products linked to a Stoxx index that was among the first of its kind to champion gender diversity at the top.

One of the first indices to incorporate the ‘Women in Leadership’ theme was the iStoxx Global Women Leadership Select 30 Index, which is seen as the underlying for seven capital protection products that are live on the SRP Belgium database. The structures, which collected a combined €122m (US$142m) during subscription, had strike dates between July 2017 and August 2018 and were distributed via BNP Paribas Fortis (four products), Crelan (two) and BPost Bank (one). BNPP Fortis&r