Europe News

Levendi rolls out Mifid 2 compliant service for structured products

Europe | Industry

14 Feb 2019 by Pablo Conde

UK firm targets issuers ans distributors with analysis to match regulatory requirements around expected return, attitude to risk, worst case scenario, etc

SRP Awards: Hedios capitalises on high-performance Gammes H range

Europe | Conferences

14 Feb 2019 by Nikolay Nikolov

Building on the 10-year successful track record of its Gammes H structured products range, Hedios Patrimoine has risen among the French distributors taking the 'Best Performance, France' award, which was presented on the SRP's 16th Structured Products & Derivatives Conference on February 6 in London.

Product snapshot: Kempen offers first positive impact note in the Netherlands

Europe | Products

13 Feb 2019 by Marc Wolterink

Dutch merchant bank is marketing the first structured product in the Netherlands that uses both positive impact finance programme and offers exposure to a sustainable equity index

SRP Awards: BlackBee: demand for fixed or variable levels of income is huge

Europe | Industry

13 Feb 2019 by Velina Bulanova & Pablo Conde

The Irish structured investments specialist firm has increased its offering and market share after a year of success and challenges

Fortem (part 2): we are not here to sell an autocall every day

Europe | Industry

12 Feb 2019 by Pablo Conde

In the second part of this interview, Fortem Capital founding partner Ryan Rogowski discusses the use of funds as a defensive vehicle to manage risk but also to take advantage of opportunistic trades. He also touches upon what products will deliver value in the current environment and how the firm plans to leverage on its business model to grow its business

Vontobel dominates EU structured retail products public offering space

Europe | Industry

12 Feb 2019 by Pablo Conde

The Swiss bank continues to dominate the European structured retail products public offering space, and grew its market share in Switzerland and other international target markets

SRP Awards: Garantum gains ground in Sweden and Norway

Europe | Industry

12 Feb 2019 by Charlotte Fyle

The bank is one of the few players in the structured products market that has managed to grow its market share, in spite of continued drops in Sweden and Norway.

Fortem: ambition is to double the securities business in next two years

Europe | Industry

11 Feb 2019 by Pablo Conde

Fortem Capital has increased its profile in the UK retail structured products market after the launch of the Lowes Financial Management’s UK Defined Strategy Fund which was launched in collaboration with the Newcastle-based financial firm in late 2018.

Priips/Ucits harmonisation unresolved as EU regulators shelve ‘past performance’ scenarios

Europe | Regulations & Legal

11 Feb 2019 by SRP News

Despite calls to address the scope of the new Priips rules on third country products, cost of risk disclosure and Kid distribution, EU regulators will not amend the new regime at this stage