Europe
Macquarie may close structured products business in Europe
Macquarie is considering shutting its structured products and exotics business in Europe as a result of unfavourable market conditions. The alarm bells were sounded were last December, when Todd Steinberg, global head of structured products left the bank
European power market coupling marches on
Market coupling marches forward
Eurozone scenario analysis goes microscopic
Familiarity breeds content
Dealers tackle euro redenomination risks
Back to the drachma?
Esma: questions grow as Emir deadline looms
Esma under pressure
Sovereign risk adjustments adds to demand for bond ETFs
Sovereign risk in Europe has taken on a whole new meaning since the onset of the eurozone crisis, so ETF providers are having to adapt
Icap's Spencer: 'not a prayer' of UK agreeing to FTT
Proposed EU trading tax would be vetoed by UK, says Icap's Spencer - if not, the broker will move its London HQ to New York
Japan still backs EFSF despite threat to AAA rating
The expectation that Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade France and Austria will have a knock-on impact on the EFSF will not deter further Japanese investment in its bonds, says Japanese official
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Equity derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk awards 2012
Sovereign risk manager of the year: Dutch State Treasury Agency
Risk awards 2012
Supervision not regulation, says SEB's Hansen
Rather than rushing to increase regulation and potentially creating compliance costs and regulatory risks, authorities should be getting involved at the ground level to improve supervision, says Lars Hansen, Swedish insurer SEB Life’s chief risk officer
The renewed appeal of structured funds
Flexible performers
Fatca costs will fall on European firms, says JP Morgan exec
Head of European sales says new legislation produces an "untenable situation" where if clients choose to be non-compliant, firms will have to disengage from them
Structured Products Europe: volatility-based products come out of the shadows
Volatility was at the heart of the conversation at the Structured Products Europe conference in Frankfurt on November 21. Though whether volatility-based structured products will ever be sold in large volumes to retail investors in Europe continues to be…
Video: European power market participants bullish on market coupling
Participants within Europe's electricity markets expect market coupling to continue apace in the next few years, making a European-wide integrated power market possible by 2014
The Structured Products Europe Awards 2011 - The winners
Structured Products Europe Awards 2011
Europe's democracy deficit contributing to crisis
The democracy deficit
Fink: Billions could flow into preferreds as banks recapitalise
BlackRock chief calls for perpetual preferred shares to be counted towards Tier I capital at Europe's banks
Turner warns of capital requirements dilemma
FSA chair Adair Turner insists on the consideration of counter-cyclical macro-prudential policies in the run-up to regulatory structure overhaul
New Dow Jones blue-chip indexes to be used in structured products
Dow Jones Indexes launches Asia Dow and Europe Dow, which track 30 blue-chip companies in each region for use in ETFs and structured products
Profile: Daniel Gros on political risk and Europe's debt crisis
Time for a European Monetary Fund
Eurozone debt crisis: facing up to the risks of political uncertainty
The risks of political uncertainty