For sell-side firms that can turn market data into usable insight quickly enough, it is becoming a distinct competitive ...

Roberts and his former brokerage firm, Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Inc., for years have been facing scrutiny due to sales of ...

Structured products are useful in that they help invest money for a specific purpose for a specific time frame. Typically, structured products are available only to sophisticated investors holding a ...

In another costly legal loss this month, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., the financial advice industry’s leading custodian, last ...

Structured notes are hybrid instruments that combine a bond component with an embedded derivative component, offering unique risk management and portfolio construction options. Structured notes are ...

Stocks and bonds might not be enough to meet client expectations of their portfolios right now. That’s the worry that’s on the minds of advisors—and it’s leaving room for designers and distributors of ...

Securitization has gotten a bad reputation lately. But the securitization process—taking debt and pooling it into a derivative whose value is based on the underlying assets—was meant to reduce risk.

The Structured Products market makes up nearly $11 trillion of U.S. public and private bond market debt. Banks employ financial engineering to transform a variety of assets, such as residential and ...

The early-redemption features of TARNs, RACs and accumulators bring serious digital exposure to the trading book. The unwinding cost of the bond component, the coupon payment and the loss of ...

Google revamped their product structured data documentation by splitting up one comprehensive page into three pages that are more closely focused on their topics, providing an example of how to ...

Many of you may have heard about so-called structured products, which are usually sold by banks to clients with a decent amount of capital (sometimes, to ...