The recent crash in the crypto market has brought attention to risk management and the need for broader market exposure to avoid the risk of overweighing on single names.
Many retail structured products are linked to a single equity index for direct exposure to a country, region or sector.
SRP looks at latest people moves from Natixis, Standard Chartered Bank, Julius Baer, Qontigo, Eurex and Insignia.
In the structured products realm, the initial focus on bitcoin and ethereum trackers is giving way to a full ecosystem of products with many variations and a growing options market.
The advent of the cryptocurrencies and DeFi as an asset class has created a virtuous circle where the demand from investors to access digital assets fuels new product activity. At the same time, product providers are accelerating crypto adoption.
The French asset manager posted solid results in H1 2022, against the backdrop of a less favourable environment due to rising inflation, weaker markets, and higher risk aversion from customers.
Traditional financial institutions are increasingly looking at leveraging blockchain technology to improve efficiency, increase transparency and reduce costs.
It’s been a busy week in the structured product world, and we hear from markets which have recently been fairly quiet, including Austria, Australia and Japan.
Distributed ledgers, blockchains and smart contracts are posed to have a transformational effect in business, government and society, but also in the structured products market.