23 Jan 2025
Affin Hwang debuts Malaysia’s first commodity futures-linked warrant
The Malaysian bank’s CEO says 22 million units of the newly listed call warrant were traded on the first trading day. Equity-linked notes are among the new structures the bank looks to issue this year.
21 Jan 2025
Exclusive: Citi taps Macquarie, bolsters strategic equity solutions in HK
The managing director joins Citi after a 17-year tenure with the Australian bank. Citi also names head of markets sales for China.
20 Jan 2025
Barclays taps ex-Goldman Apac EQD co-head to lead equities
The former Goldman banker is tasked with leading the UK bank’s equities franchise in the region.
20 Jan 2025
China Market Review, December 2024: investors target gold as portfolio diversifier
FX rates remained the underlying asset most favoured by Chinese retail investors.
17 Jan 2025
Spotlight on… Apac products investment terms in 2024
Structured products with a tenor of less than one year continued to dominate in the Asia Pacific (ex-China) region last year, accounting for over 72% of the market share in estimated sales.
16 Jan 2025
StanChart China debuts US bond-linked structured deposit as investors eye rate cuts
The first batch of bond-linked structured deposits issued by the British bank features a pre-agreed fixed coupon of 5.5% p.a.
14 Jan 2025
Hong Kong Market Review, December 2024: listed market wraps up lukewarm, Nvidia tops ELI issuance
Chinese mainstream companies’ stocks continued to be the top picks for CBBCs and structured warrant issuance.
13 Jan 2025
Taiwan Market Review, Q4 2024: stocks dominate equity-linked activity
Autocallable notes tracking a basket of stocks continued to rule the Taiwanese market in the fourth quarter, led by underlying assets like Pfizer, TSMC, and Tesla.
09 Jan 2025
South Korea Market Review, December 2024: principal-protected ELB sales spike as investors flock into retirement pensions
Sales of principal-protected equity-linked bonds continue to skyrocket at year-end while capital-at-risk equity-linked securities drop.
03 Jan 2025
South Korea’s largest labour union calls for more ELS, DLS rules
Its latest working paper proposes to ban selling high-risk structured products with unilateral downside risk to the general public.
23 Dec 2024
Australian regulator sues Binance over customer protection failures
ASIC has taken Binance Australia Derivatives to the federal court following the alleged mis-classification of retail investors to wholesale investors while investors were trading crypto derivative products.
20 Dec 2024
Spotlight on… capital protection in Asia Pacific
Capital protection products have seen an increasing in sales volume in 2024 across Asia Pacific markets ex-China driven by the shift away from capital-at-risk products by Korean investors.