The French retail structured products market has seen a slowdown in sales despite a significant increase in issuance with the future of some of the country’s top issuers in question as they review their structured products activities.
Some 1,150 structured products (including public offers and private placements) worth an estimated €7.6 billion were added to the SRP France database in the first half of 2020. Despite the 37% increase in the issuance and a 53% increase in the number of products with strike dates during the first half of the year, sales volumes fell by 17% compared to the first six months of 2019. At the start of 2020, the France market flourished with sales for products striking through the first q
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