North America News

SRP Americas Personality of the Year 2019: Larry Wilson

North America | Conferences

21 May 2019 by Pablo Conde

The Personality of the Year Award was presented to Larry Wilson at the SRP Americas Conference 2019 Awards Ceremony, which takes place on the evening of May 22 at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel. Wilson received the highest number of votes from respondents to the SRP Americas Conference Awards Survey 2019.

SRP Americas Awards - Axio Financial: the power of customisation

North America | Conferences

20 May 2019 by Pablo Conde

Axio Financial has emerged as the structured products distributor with the most consistent and highest returns in the US structured products retail market. Because of this achievement, the US firm was awarded SRP’s Best Performance, US award which was presented at SRP’s Americas Conference 2019, at The Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel in Chicago on May 22.

US platform adds Allianz as stakeholder in annuities push

North America | Technology

20 May 2019 by Pablo Conde

The US$12m raised by Halo are aimed at expanding its operations around the world and pursue two strategic initiatives on analytics and automation to “drastically changing the way structured products are manufactured, purchased and traded”.

EXCLUSIVE: Citi parts ways with industry stalwart

International | People

15 May 2019 by Pablo Conde

The US bank continues to phase out some of its more senior executives as its new global retail client and product strategy is implemented

SRP Americas 2019: Desjardins hails ‘best ever year’ for structured products

North America | Conferences

13 May 2019 by Marc Wolterink

Desjardins has won ‘best distributor’ in Canada at this year’s SRP Americas awards. SRP considered 473 structured products from the bank with strike dates between March 1 2018 and February 28 2019.

Exclusive: Axio snaps up Luma’s parent company wholesale operations

North America | Industry

10 May 2019 by Pablo Conde

The US structured products distributor moves to expand the reach of its distribution channel.

US distributors in the limelight as new mis-selling cases arise

North America | Regulations & Legal

08 May 2019 by Jihye Hwang & Pablo Conde

Investors are turning to investment fraud law firms to recover losses from structured notes.

Product snapshot: US fixed indexed annuities in focus

North America | Products

01 May 2019 by Tim Mortimer - Future Value Consultants (FVC)

The US fixed indexed annuity (FIA) market continues to attract interest and a variety of different offerings are available today. This sector combines structured product features to provide returns within an insurance wrapper.

GS’ Q1 figures drop in spite of market stabilisation

International | Industry

01 May 2019 by Amélie Labbe

Chief executive officer David Solomon (pictured) said he was pleased with the bank’s performance in the first quarter, ‘especially in the context of a muted start to the year’.