Europe News

Top 5 issuers for Europe in 2018

Europe | Industry

19 Dec 2018 by Simona Katzartcheva

Despite an overall drop in the sales volume this year in the European region compared to a year ago, the top 20 issuers managed to keep the pace in 2018.

Year End Q&A with the DDV: Market uncertainty is good for structured products, Priips review needs to be comprehensive

Europe | Industry

14 Dec 2018 by Suzana Moni

Once again Germany’s structured retail products market remains the most active in Europe in terms of issuance and sales. SRP spoke to the German derivatives association (DDV) to summarise the main activities and events witnessed in 2018 as well as the impact of the implementation of the Priips Kid regime.

Product snapshot: growth and income suit best current market environment

Europe | Products

12 Dec 2018 by Nikolay Nikolov

French brokerage i-Kapital is marketing a new 10-year Eurostoxx 50-linked growth and income play

We want to bring efficiency to the issuance process, Delta Capita

Europe | Features

11 Dec 2018 by Pablo Conde

Following the launch of the new structured products issuance platform Inspire Direct by technology consultant and managed services provider Delta Capita, SRP spoke to Mark Aldous (pictured), managing director responsible for the Inspire product range, about the firm’s recent performance and what makes the new platform different to what is available in the market.

UK buyside calls for ‘immediate’ Priips suspension

Europe | Regulations & Legal

07 Dec 2018 by SRP News

Wealth managers and advisers in the UK join the Investment Association (IA) and the UK regulator’s criticism over ‘hastly-drafted’ Priips consultation

German investors' portfolios hit by Dax performance

Europe | Industry

07 Dec 2018 by Suzanna Moni

Structured products investors in Germany saw the performance of their investment portfolios ‘strongly influenced’ by this year’s headwinds in the domestic equities market, where the German blue-chip index Dax lost 13% of its value this year, according to the Deutscher Derivate Verband (DDV) November survey.

New platform launches in the UK, enables first non-credit-backed products

Europe | Industry

06 Dec 2018 by Pablo Conde

The new non-banking issuer and index provider aims at providing a full issuance, repack and infrastructure service to the structured products market

British government narrows scope of Priips post-Brexit

Europe | Regulations & Legal

06 Dec 2018 by SRP News

UK government implements Priips Brexit package, incorporates Ucits exemption to UK framework

Structured products have always been quietly doing exactly what they intended to do, Lowes

Europe | Products

05 Dec 2018 by SRP News

Societe Generale’s first ever 10-year kickout structured product launched in cooperation with Mariana Capital and marketed in the UK market by Lowes delivers up to 133% after one year