Italy’s new structured products landscape

The collapse of Lehman Brothers, a bank that had produced massive amounts of index-linked products for the Italian insurance sector, left retail investors weary of structured investments and led to a big regulatory shake-up. What role can structured product issuers play in Italy today? By John Ferry

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Never mind recovery, the talk among Italy’s structured product issuers after Lehman Brothers collapsed was whether the sector would survive at all. Regulators, already harbouring a reputation for toughness, looked to clamp down hard on derivatives-based investments, while Italy’s conservative retail investors faced a massive counterparty risk wake-up call. And of course the reputation of bank-provided structured investments in general took a big credibility hit. If retail investors had not been

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