Articles by Louie Woodall
Hartmoor eyes UK structured deposits market
Start-up to challenge Investec and Societe Generale for share of growing retirement market
Risk South Africa Rankings 2015: The results
Falling rand and concerns over US rates contribute to difficult year for banks
Dealers trash Section 871(m) reforms
Controversial tax reforms would foist “unworkable” compliance burdens on firms
People: Old Mutual Wealth taps Investec’s Dale
Head of intermerdiary sales at specialist bank leaves after seven years
Index providers clash over evolution of multi-factor products
Battle of ideas on how best to offer new wave of smart beta exposures heats up
US tax rules attacked by equity derivatives dealers
Testing criteria for equity-linked products branded a “joke”
Italian swaps scrap grips Europe
Dexia Crediop wins right to appeal against Italian city of Prato over €6.5 million swap claim
EU regulators lean towards RIY cost disclosure for Priips
Reduction in yield “superior” to total cost ratio, says ESA joint committee chair
Macquarie wrestles with warrant valuation
Australian bank in negotiations on settlement of Hanergy TFP warrants
Deutsches Risk Rankings 2015
Commerzbank tops Deutsches Risk rankings for second year in a row
Deutsches Risk survey 2015: German firms adopt wait-and-see on clearing
No scramble for OTC derivatives alternatives among survey respondents despite fears mooted carve-outs from regulation may disappear
Multi-issuer platforms clash over MIPs’ purpose
Information hubs or one-stop-shop for structured products?
Asian insurers recoil from structured products
Institutional and regulatory barriers blamed for poor take-up of derivatives by life companies
People: Citi bolsters equity derivatives and prime services teams
Stephen Roti heads corporate equity derivatives
Structured Products Asia Awards 2015: The winners
HSBC takes crown with strong showing in a turbulent period for Asian issuers
Hong Kong structured products battered by index plunge
Dealers react to mass knocking out of popular retail equity derivatives
EU risk ratings for structured products divide issuers
Consultation responses expose fault lines between banks and insurers
EU insurers and structurers clash over Priips cost disclosure
Industries disagree over which of two proposed approaches should be used
Taiwanese banks reinvigorate Tarf market hit by loss and scandal
Industry well prepared for renminbi turbulence after learning lessons of 2014
Autocallable issuance upsets Euro Stoxx volatility market
Frenzied issuance on European indexes stacks up vega risk for dealers as natural hedge suffers
BoE sees no place for structured notes in TLAC for now
UK regulator unsympathetic to calls for derivatives-linked debt to count in big banks' capital buffer, say dealers
Structured products market blasts Mifid II complexity test
Strict classification of structured products into 'complex' and 'non-complex' criticised
Dealers seek equity derivatives carve-out from margin rules
Lobby effort targets proposed concentration limits on collateral for non-cleared derivatives
Risk.net users back quant risk ratings for structured products
Poll shows support for quantitative indicators in forthcoming EU regulation