Structured products
Wells Fargo offers seven-year note linked to funds basket
More term, more credit risk
Structured Products Nordics: Sweden working to eradicate ‘rotten apples’
Though most distributors play by the rules, some firms may still be selling the wrong products to the wrong investors, says panellist at Structured Products magazine's Nordic conference
Hybrid structured products: investors undeterred by potential for complexity
Joined-up thinking
Collateral damage: Capital proposals threaten Europe's ABS market
Insecuritisation
US investors turning to capital-at-risk products, say banks
Banks are boosting issuance of leveraged notes linked to US equity indexes and notes that pay out when yield curves steepen
Senior FCA official sees cause for concern in RDR implementation
A senior official at the UK Financial Conduct Authority said the regulator sees shortcomings in the way some market participants have responded to the Retail Distribution Review
PrinceRidge sings the praises of structured products
PrinceRidge Group distributes structured products to a client base that includes leading broker-dealers across the US. Yakob Peterseil talks to managing director Joe Castelluccio about what he has learned in 35 years on Wall Street
Structured Products Nordics: Swedish state secretary calls for greater transparency in retail sales
Conference hears that investors should not have been sold some structured products because they are too expensive and opaque, while Finansinspektionen announces paper detailing what it expects of distributors
Iosco offers general and specific principles to deal with equity and benchmark indexes
Iosco has confronted the 'one size fits all' debate in its draft Principles on Financial Benchmarks, the responses for which are due today (May 16)
People: Credit Suisse names Brian Chan head of equity derivatives sales in Asia
Credit Suisse adds Chan in Asia
Legal & General links up with Barclays and adds Cofunds to the mix
A partnership with Barclays and a move to buy the Cofunds electronic platform is helping to put Legal & General on the UK map for structured products. L&G's James Harrington talks to Vita Millers about the challenges of distributing products in the…
Regulatory web tightening for structured products, Iosco report shows
A consultation report by the international consortium of securities regulators shows more, not less, regulation is the likely endgame for the world's markets. Yakob Peterseil analyses the trend towards interventionism
Photo gallery: Structured Products Americas Awards 2013
Photographs from this year's Structured Products Americas Awards ceremony
Photo gallery: Structured Products Americas 2013
Photographs from this month's Structured Products Americas conference in Miami
New FCA platform rules could mean more product sales via platforms
Electronic platforms that charge fees instead of taking provider commission could, from April 2014, sell more products, as investors try to make the most of the charges they have to pay
SEC’s Amy Starr: US banks must comply with estimated value guidance “in very short order”
Banks that do not promptly disclose the estimated value of their structured notes risk additional scrutiny, says regulator
Structured Products Americas Awards 2013: JP Morgan takes top spot
Structured Products Americas Awards 2013: the winners!
US structurer of the year: Credit Suisse
US structurer of the year
Index innovation of the year: Barclays
Index innovation of the year: Barclays
Structured products house of the year, Americas: JP Morgan
Structured products house of the year, Americas
House of the year, Latin America: BBVA Bancomer
House of the year, Latin America: BBVA Bancomer
US distributor of the year: Incapital
US distributor of the year: Incapital
House of the year, Canada: Desjardins
House of the year, Canada: Desjardins