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As a consequence of enormous technological, regulatory and competitive pressures, the structured products landscape is changing dramatically. Plotting an accurate route across it demands a high level ...

Simply sign up to the Financials myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Over the decades banks have gotten in trouble for all sorts of reasons, from rogue traders to old-fashioned bad loans ...

The structured product market is at a crossroads and it is imperative that the industry re-defines how structured products are presented, and more importantly used, within portfolio management.

Societe Generale was at the forefront of creating a cross-asset structured products team, which continued to cement the French bank as one of the leading innovators in the industry. Hubert Le Liepvre ...

Structured products – known variously as guaranteed equity bonds, secure equity bonds or precipice bonds and structured capital-at-risk products – might yet prove the single biggest product story of ...

Simply sign up to the Investments myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published its final guidance on how structured products should be designed ...

So, starting with the basics – what is a structured product? In short, they are a fixed-term investment vehicle that is linked to an index such as the FTSE 100, or a specific investment, usually with ...

With structured products returns defined at outset an investor is able to calculate exactly what their return will be for any given movement in the reference asset. This relative certainty as to what ...