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Our page 1 this week: Investors on the hunt for yield are buying notes tied to the debt of governments including Malawi, Croatia and the Bahamas. Inside: Australian issuers may be facing more regulatory scrutiny, and Hans-Georg Vetter talks about Zuercher Kantonalbank’s “total expense ratio” for structured products and why the company decided to disclose [...]
Here’s page 1 of the Structured Notes newsletter this week: Electronic platforms for selling notes that have been popular in Europe are having more trouble catching on in the U.S., because of different regulations. Inside: We take a look at a new species of note, South Korea’s “king crab” securities, and a Swiss bank starts disclosing [...]
Page 1 of this week’s Structured Notes newsletter: There’s been a league table shakeup, as banks such as JPMorgan and Societe Generale have seen growing note sales (excluding the U.S. market), while volume for other issuers has sharply declined. Inside: How structured note holders contributed to the price drop in gold, and what one lawyer [...]
Page 1 of Structured Notes this week: Gold’s decline of about 14 percent in two days put more than a billion dollars of U.S. structured notes at risk. Inside the full edition: Rabobank makes deep cuts in its equity derivatives team amid tighter regulations, sales of notes in the Brazilian real tied to government debt [...]
Our front page this week: Low volatility of the S&P 500 is depressing issuance of notes linked to the benchmark. Inside: Sales of notes that mirror the bets made by the “London Whale” are increasing; uridashi note issuance in Japan is climbing because of early redemptions caused by rising stocks; Thomas Layton of Raymond James [...]
What we’ve got on our front page this week: Fees on U.S. structured notes tied to equities are at a three-year high. Inside we’ve got more on fees (a table and a few charts), after doing an analysis of all the fee-paying U.S. notes since January 2010. Also in this issue: China moves closer to [...]
Our page 1 this week: Global sales of credit-linked notes this year are basically flat, but what’s being sold is more often tied to corporates than sovereigns. And inside: The leading structured product sellers according to the latest Greenwich Associates survey, Bill Pang on Toyota’s issuance plans for the future, and sales of U.S. notes [...]
Take a look at our page 1 this week: U.S. notes that allow investors to profit from a steepening of the yield curve surged in January and February. Also inside this issue: Our exclusive, don’t-miss-it table on electronic platforms — who’s doing what, with lots of details. Plus, a look at the Japanese structured notes [...]
Check out the first two pages of the newsletter this week: Euro Stoxx 50 notes were snapped up last month by U.S. investors. Inside the full version: BX Berne scraps a plan to go head to head with Scoach in trading of structured products and Edward Rogers talks about demand for notes in Japan.
Here’s our page 1 for the newsletter this week: Banks trying to meet stricter Basel rules on capital holdings are moving structured note sales off their balance sheets. Also inside the full version: why South Korea is displacing Hong Kong and Singapore as an Asian leader in note sales, and details from an SEC letter [...]
