SPi data shows the structured note market reached $194 billion in 2024, a milestone that underscores how quickly these products are moving into broader advisor use. But as adoption accelerates, the ...

FINRA will examine how firms supervised worst-of structured notes from 2022 through last year, focusing on best interest compliance ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

Structured Notes and Buffer funds are sleep-well-at-night products designed to protect investors from market drops. Brokers and nervous investors love them, despite their complexity and fees. Talk to ...

“More people are paying attention to credit risk than before, so it is true that the subset of investors that are being particularly prudent has increased,” says Alberto Cherubini, head of exotic ...

The brokerage industry’s self-regulator is launching a so-called sweep exam looking at how firms are handling their ...

“People are struggling with the categorizations of complex and non-complex instruments,” says Anders Malm, a partner with Stockholm-based law firm Oreum, which provides legal advice and services to ...

Singapore’s largest bank is extending its blockchain strategy by offering tokenized structured notes on the Ethereum public blockchain, in a move that broadens access to complex financial products ...

As institutional demand for exposure to private markets continues to accelerate, rated feeder funds have emerged as a compelling solution to bridge the gap between alternative asset strategies and ...

The new platform – which marks an industry first – is expected to support market participants in addressing challenges of liquidity fragmentation when trading these products. TP ICAP has launched an ...