The Singapore bank has seen growing interest from retail investors for sustainable structures after incorporating ESG elements to its structured product offering in Q4 2020
United Overseas Bank (UOB) has distributed close to 300 ESG-linked flow structured notes as of the end of 2020, with a notional value of approximately S$250m. The Singaporean bank began to consider ESG as part of its full investment solutions catalogue from late 20 19 . “We are seeing growing customer interest in equity-linked structured notes with underlying stocks in the information technology sector,” Jacquelyn Tan (pictured) , head of group personal financial service