Europe News

Belgium Market Review, October 2019: capital protection rules

Europe | Market Reviews

21 Nov 2019 by Nikolay Nikolov

Twenty-one structured products were added to the SRP Belgium database in October.

Investec appoints head of financial products Europe, rollsout end-to-end platform for advisers

International | People

20 Nov 2019 by Pablo Conde

Harris Gorre (pictured) will head up Investec’s financial products business across Europe after four years leading institutional structured products sales as head of Europe, Middle East & Africa (Emea).

Product snapshot: Erste offers capital protection on new volatility control index

Europe | Products

20 Nov 2019 by Suzanna Moni

The Austrian bank has collected €20m with three capital-protected notes that are linked to a new volatility control index from Solactive.

Binck Turbo five years on: not a ‘me too’ product

Europe | Products

20 Nov 2019 by Marc Wolterink

In July 2014, Binckbank started to launch its own turbos in The Netherlands after it found that turbos were used in more than 15% of its investment transactions.

Stoxx: Belgian ESG label ‘gigantic’ step forward

Europe | Indices

19 Nov 2019 by Marc Wolterink

Four of the index provider’s indices that were designed as underlying for structured products have been certified with a Belgian sustainability label.

Bufferfund’s Van Oudheusden: distribution channels are underserved

Europe | Products

18 Nov 2019 by Marc Wolterink

In the past 10 to 15 years, the Dutch structured products market has gone from a market driven by traditional structured products, from large local banks such as ABN Amro, ING, Rabobank and Van Lanschot, to one that is dominated by turbos from a host of foreign (and some Dutch) issuers, of which Vontobel was the latest to enter the leverage products space.

UK Market Review, September 2019: strong demand for capital protection

Europe | Market Reviews

15 Nov 2019 by Velina Bulanova

Forty-two products with estimated sales of £98m were added to the UK database in September, up from 23 products worth £47m that were added the previous month.

Looking back to SRP Europe 2019: ESG is the new kid on the block (video Q&A)

Europe | Conferences

14 Nov 2019 by Amélie Labbe

FTSE Russell expects to see a lot more of combinations of factors and ESG, with the latter attracting increasing amounts of interest.

11 years on, Lehman’s fall still casts a shadow in the market

Europe | Regulations & Legal

14 Nov 2019 by Pablo Conde

Spain’s Bankinter ordered to compensate investors for disclosure shortcoming in products backed by Lehman Brothers.