We look at the most read stories in the past week from our news desk.
Singapore-headquartered digital asset broker and dealer QCP reveals that younger generations are generally more receptive to structured products and more comfortable with exotic payoffs, while Apac demand for crypto yield products is rising.
Amid the growing demand, Hong Kong's digital asset manager HashKey Capital has rolled out a new business line offering both standardised and bespoke structured solutions for professional and institutional investors. Structured products create an opportunity for digital asset holders to enhance yield, hedge risk, manage positions and liquidity.
Market
Asset manager WisdomTree looks to expand its actively managed autocallable ETF range to around 20 ISINs within the next year following its acquisition of Atlantic House and the introduction of two euro-denominated strategies.
The Spanish bank BBVA has reinforced its leadership in Mexico’s structured products market with structured note and warrant issuance climbed 54% from a year earlier to approximately MXN410.8bn (US$22.03bn).
According to Goldman Sachs Asset Management's 2026 Annuity Industry Survey, around half of US insurers plan to add new index strategies within one to two years. The findings highlight continued momentum in registered index-linked annuities, with insurers also exploring buffered strategies, private markets exposures and new fund structures.
Market reviews
Belgium’s publicly offered structured products market raised an estimated €645m in Q3 2026, down about 60% both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year. Despite the sharp decline in issuance and sales volumes, Barclays returned to the market with its first issuance since Q1 2023, marking a notable re-entry by a major provider.
Moving to Hong Kong, the Q3 market review shows that both derivative warrant and callable bull/bear contracts issuance declined compared with the previous quarter and a year earlier. Despite the softer issuance environment, Chinese artificial intelligence-linked stocks gained prominence and entered the top 10 underlyings ranking.
People
Citi has appointed Rob Smolen as head of UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa equities trading. The appointment came amid an overhaul of the bank’s equities business and the reported departure of senior equity derivatives veteran.
Royal Bank of Canada has hired Mariano Gaut as global head of strategic equity solutions within its equity capital markets (ECM) team, with the banker set to join from Mizuho Financial Group in January 2027.
MUFG has named Sandeep Kohli as regional head of markets sales & trading at MUFG Securities Emea, reflecting the bank’s ambition to expand its structured products and global markets business.
Products
The second and final part of SRP's funds of structured products roundup reviews the performance of major structured product funds across Switzerland, Ireland, the UK and Canada in September 2026.
Kiatnakin Phatra Securities has launched Thailand’s first structured note linked to depositary receipts, allowing investors to combine derivative strategies with exposure to overseas stocks and ETFs.
SRP reviewed a range of structured products across the world with strike dates between 1 and 7 November this year, including Société Générale launched a 100% capital protected note linked to a worst-of basket of European thematic stocks.
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