Structured products
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Tim Mortimer analyses Future Value Consultants issuance data for the US and UK structured products markets and finds that non-US indexes are increasingly popular as underlyings in the US
Did you know that capital protection could be cheaper? If not, you've been talking to the wrong boffin at the wrong bank. Financial markets that have whipsawed for the past four years should have provided...
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Prinz leads UBS credit structuring cuts as equity derivatives departures...
Jonathan Boos has been made redundant from UBS in the US, while Pascal Prinz leads the casualties who have been cut from credit structuring in London
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