Europe News

Portugal Market Review, April 2020: Goldman collaborates with BPI

Europe | Market Reviews

11 Jun 2020 by Bilyana Yanakieva

Some 729 structured products worth an estimated €100m were added to the SRP database in April. Of these, 724 were turbo certificates listed at Euronext Lisbon.

UK provider rolls out first ever US single stock leveraged/inverse physical trackers

Europe | Products

08 Jun 2020 by Pablo Conde

BNP Paribas will act as the market maker for the new products launched by Leverage Shares - a UK-based sponsor of physically backed exchange-traded products (ETPs).

The Netherlands - Covid-19 versus GFC: lockdown turbo charges investor demand

Europe | Products

05 Jun 2020 by Marc Wolterink & Monika Ilcheva

The extreme Covid-19 related volatility on the financial markets at the beginning of this year saw record numbers of turbos issued in the Netherlands during the weeks leading to the mid-march market crash and immediately after.

Bridging the gap: Covid-19 pandemic triggers frontier sector opportunities

International | Industry

04 Jun 2020 by Pablo Conde

In the latest article on our series covering new underlyings in the institutional space, GenTwo provides another example of how its securitization platform is helping to bring non-bankable assets and new thematic underlyings to investors via structured products.

Spain Market Review, April 2020: Ibex plummets

Europe | Market Reviews

04 Jun 2020 by Bilyana Yanakieva & Marc Wolterink

Some 29 structured products with combined estimated sales of €233m had strike dates during April.

Product snapshot: Crelan seizes the moment with Goldman steepener

Europe | Products

03 Jun 2020 by Marc Wolterink

The Belgian bank capitalised on market volatility triggered by the Covd-19 pandemic and the temporarily higher funding of issuer Goldman Sachs.

Investec, Protean to launch structured product fund

Europe | Products

03 Jun 2020 by Pablo Conde

The new structured fund will focus on managing risk as opposed to the usual autocall strategies seen in other fund-based structures.

France: Covid-19 v GFC - plus ca change

Europe | Products

02 Jun 2020 by Nikolay Nikolov

The French structured products market was not impacted negatively by the sanitary crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic as suggested by a 73% increase in issuance during the February-April 2020 period compared to the same period last year. ESG demand remained strong with new payoffs deployed to capitalise on the market environment.

Belgium: Covid-19 v GFC, an analysis

Europe | Industry

01 Jun 2020 by Monika Ilcheva & Marc Wolterink

Sales of structured products during the period surrounding the market crash of mid-March were down 26% compared to the same period of 2019. We look at issuance and sales volumes across markets in the immediate aftermath to assess the impact of the recent market turbulence.