The three largest geographical regions in the structured products market are North America, Asia Pacific and Europe. In total, these account for over 98% of all product issuance and approximately a third of all sales.

 Private banking and institutional trades account for a very high proportion of structured product sales. In the North American region, the top underlying by both number of product issuance and sales volume was the S&P 500. This index dominates the structured product market in the US and has done so in the past three years either as a single underlying or in combination with the Russell 2000 index. In Europe, the most popular underlying by product issuance is the DAX. There were 423,

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