Former Barclays Bank Africa now rebranded as Absa Bank has teamed up with Halo Investing to develop its click and trade capabilities with a ‘white-labelling’ twist
The Personality of the Year Award will be presented to Nerina Visser at the second SRP Africa Conference Awards ceremony, which will take place on the evening of Thursday March 7 at The Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town. Visser was chosen after receiving the highest number of votes from respondents to the Africa Awards Survey 2019.
US investment bank reshuffles systematic trading strategies team as Bollinger shifts to private wealth franchise
The Israeli Security Authority (ISA) is seeking feedback on draft regulations regarding the public offering of structured notes linked to currencies, securities indices or commodities. The move follows a 10-year period with no structured note public offerings in Israel.
Six-hundred and twenty-seven structured products worth an estimated ZAR2.5 billion (US$190m) were added to the SRP South Africa database in the fourth quarter of 2018, down in issuance but up in sales from the 724 products with sales of ZAR2.2 billion the previous quarter.
When I first started to become familiar with the South African market, one of my first questions was: why so much investment in foreign currencies? As a Portuguese national who grew up in the eurozone and lives in the UK, how could you understand the risks of investors living in an emerging market? I certainly couldn’t.
The Israeli Securities Authority has published draft regulations regarding the public offering of structured notes.
Ten structured deposits worth an estimated ILS50m (US$14m) were offered to Israeli retail investors in the third quarter of 2018, a decrease, both in issuance and sales, from the 19 deposits with sales of ILS90m seen in during the same period last year.
Boutique for independent asset managers targets investors in Mauritius with help of local introducers but investment banks should do more before the market can really start to flourish