FTSE Russell is the provider of some of the most popular market cap indices used in three key retail structured products markets - the UK (FTSE 100), Italy (FTSE MIB) and the US (Russell 2000).
The footprint of the trio however goes beyond their domestic market - The FTSE 100 features in more than 33,000 live products across markets including over 21,000 tranche based products and over 12,000 flow and leverage products with combined assets worth an estimated US$100 billion. The FTSE MIB appears in the underlying of over 11,000 live products worth an estimated US$5 billion; and the Russell 2000 is part of the underlying on 25,000 live products worth an estimated US$85 billion, which sh