18 Jun 2025
Germany: half of investors don’t understand structured investment products
The regulator has flagged inconsistent cost disclosures, potentially making it harder for clients to compare investment products.
23 May 2025
Update: Germany - Bafin targets turbo certificates as retail losses pile up
The German financial supervisory authority Bafin has announced plans to restrict the marketing, distribution and sale of turbo certificates to retail investors based in Germany.
20 Nov 2023
SRP in brief: junk fees and barriers
Regulatory developments in Germany and the US, turnover in Switzerland, and in-house SRP research on products linked to HSCEI and Roche.
13 Nov 2023
German regulator warns Leonteq of serious AML shortcomings
The Swiss structured products specialist must remedy deficiencies in the prevention of money laundering.
21 May 2021
People: AMF head of policy joins Esma
The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has appointed Natasha Cazenave as its new executive director. She will take up her new position on 1 June.
21 Oct 2020
Market players slam UK watchdog’s bitcoin ETN ban
Several market players in the digital space have criticised the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) decision to ban the sale of derivatives and exchange-traded notes (ETNs) that reference certain types of cryptoassets to retail consumers.
28 Feb 2019
Germany Market Review - January 2019
In January, the German market for structured products witnessed the usual domination of the equity asset class over other subdivisions. Instruments pegged to single share underlyings took a 400 products lead over their single index counterparts, whereas the credit asset class remained the third most popular investment option among German investors.
17 Oct 2018
German regulator aims at structured products ‘concentration’ and ‘discretionary scope’ in valuation
Investment banks and product manufacturers operating in Germany will be required to take 'suitable steps’ to ensure the segregation of accounting duties at institutions with significant trading ‘given the extensive discretionary scope in valuing certain trades such as structured products’