From Hong Kong’s retail yield hunt to Taiwan’s FCN concentration and Korea’s shift into protection, Apac structured products are booming, but simplicity, leverage and complacency may be building new risks beneath the surface.
Asian structured products are in the middle of a powerful expansion phase, fuelled by volatile equity markets, persistent rates and an investor base increasingly comfortable with complexity, senior executives noted during the Asia Structured Products Market: Flows, Yields & Performance panel at the SRP Asia Pacific 2026 conference in Hong Kong. We started with linear interest-rate-linked products two years ago… now we are marketing callable range accruals on CMT - Connie Ho, Standar