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The SEC ramps up conduct expectations for Broker-Dealers

In April 2023 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a Staff Bulletin entitled “Standards of Conduct for...
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Analysing index linked products with StructrPro

The StructrPro structured product and lifecycle service provides deep analysis on the US structured products market. It is jointly run...
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Deep Barriers

Structured products traditionally divide into capital protected and capital at risk offerings. The key difference between these two...
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Leveraged and inverse indices

The universe of underlyings available to institutional and retail investors is ever growing. This has been driven by greater market...
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The return of issuer credit risk

The years that followed the Lehmann bankruptcy in 2008 became known as the global financial crisis such was the profound effect that...
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Fixed Income is back!

In the last twelve months there have been significant increases in interest rates across all major markets. This has been caused...
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Getting to grips with Consumer Duty

The UK regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is at an advanced stage of implementing its new “Consumer Duty” directive. This...
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FANG is dead. Long live MAANG

Financial commentators love themes, they love labels and they love acronyms. One of most prevalent examples in the investment world in...
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Altiplano, Himalaya and Podium payoffs

Structured products have played an important role in providing income and protected solutions for investors for many decades. Three...
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PRIIPs - here we go again

The European PRIIPs regulation is one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging initiatives in investor protection ever seen. It was...
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