Asia Pacific News

Tencent-linked products aim for top spot in HK’s underlying ranking

Asia Pacific | Products

28 Mar 2019 by Jihye Hwang

The sales volume of structured products linked to the Tencent share have almost tripled in the first quarter of this year compared to the last three months of 2018 in Hong Kong.

South Korea’s ELS spike as China rallies

Asia Pacific | Products

26 Mar 2019 by Jihye Hwang

Apac’s largest retail structured products market is showing signs of recovery on the back of improving market conditions and high early redemption volumes.

Forget market direction, providers bet on volatility

Asia Pacific | Features

20 Mar 2019 by Jihye Hwang

Despite the global stock markets rebound following a significant plunge at the end of last year, the recovery is showing signs of fragility with a US recession on the cards. SRP takes a look at how the sentiment-driven structured products market in Asia is finding its way out of this uncertainty and whether the market is dangling on the global economy running on late-cycle fumes.

SFC fines Bank of China over internal system and control failures

Asia Pacific | Regulations & Legal

18 Mar 2019 by Pablo Conde

Hong Kong regulator reprimands and orders BOCI Securities Limited to pay HK$10 million (US$1.3 million) for regulatory breaches in selling investment products

Dual-index note racks up US$180m in Japan

Asia Pacific | Indices

18 Mar 2019 by Jihye Hwang

A basket of indices comprising the Nikkei 225 and S&P 500 raised the highest sales volume globally in the second week of March (March 11 to 17 2019).

New single stock DLCs in Singapore widen chance to bet on long/short divergence

Asia Pacific | Products

15 Mar 2019 by Jihye Hwang

The price spread of the two stocks tracked by the most-widely traded DLCs has widened signalling investment opportunities on relative market performances

Nomura appoints head of QIS & fund derivatives structuring Apac ex-Japan

Asia Pacific | People

15 Mar 2019 by Pablo Conde

Nomura bolstered its Asia Pacific equity products business ex-Japan with the appointment of several senior executives based in Hong Kong.

Fixed income factor makes its way to structured products

Asia Pacific | Products

08 Mar 2019 by Jihye Hwang

As factor investing arrives in the fixed income space, FTSE Russell’s Apac head of benchmarks, Arom Pathammavong (pictured), tells SRP why structured products could be the next new frontier for this approach.

Société Générale boosts DLC line-up in Singapore

Asia Pacific | Products

05 Mar 2019 by Jihye Hwang

The French bank has rolled out 23 Daily Leveraged Certificates (DLCs), including several with new underlying stocks