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At The Royal Bank of Scotland we have an award winning structured products team, committed to offering a wide range of products and services to our clients. Clients can benefit from our structuring capabilities as we constantly strive to design innovative and bespoke solutions to meet their changing needs. Through our structured products, we offer the opportunity to gain exposure to new markets, asset classes and investment strategies at a level of risk tailored to the client's risk appetite. We endeavour to offer the most appropriate ideas in a simple format designed to meet the requirements of our client base.
BBVA is a financial services group with more than €535 billion in total
assets, 48 million clients, 7,466 branches and 104,000 employees in more than 30
countries. The BBVA Group maintains a leadership position in Spain, Mexico,
Latin America and the Sunbelt Region of the United States. BBVA is also
developing strong operations in Asia, specifically in China.
BBVA Global Markets, a client-focused area, provides corporates and
institutional investors around the world with a wide array of investment and
risk management solutions. These solutions are built by combining an integrated
range of value added products manufactured in its trading rooms in Europe,
America and Asia
Commerzbank is a leading bank for private and corporate customers in Germany. With the segments Private Clients, Mittelstandsbank, Corporates & Markets, Central & Eastern Europe as well as Asset Based Finance, the Bank offers its customers an attractive product portfolio, and is a strong partner for the export-oriented SME sector in Germany and worldwide. With a future total of some 1,200 branches, Commerzbank has one of the densest networks of branches among German private banks. It has above 60 sites in more than 50 countries and serves more than 14 million private clients as well as one million business and corporate clients worldwide. In 2010 it posted gross revenues of EUR 12.7 billion with some 59,000 employees.
Commerzbank Corporates & Markets (C&M) is the corporate and investment banking segment of Commerzbank AG, providing a broad range of products and services to corporate and institutional clients in Europe and beyond. The business incorporates advisory and capital markets activities in debt, equities, commodities, fixed income and currencies with a strong focus on derivatives and structured products. C&M aspires to be clients' partner of choice when it comes to the development and execution of smart solutions for all their financing and capital market needs.
FVC is a research, product design and analytics consultancy specialising in structuring products.
Its flagship service is its structured product analysis services now covering the whole of the UK and US market as well as products from other markets globally. Its methodologies, analysis and web delivered tools have been used by many thousands of professionals in the industry. It pioneered the concept of quantitative analysis of structured products in 1999 and remains the market leader.
Additionally FVC has valuations and index calculation services that have many institutional clients. It provides valuations, consultancy and support to its clients on its derivatives and structured products portfolios. Its index calculation business specializes in both algorithmic and custom indices and leverages its expertise in complex instruments and analysis. It also provides NAV calculation and reconciliation services to the hedge fund industry.
FVC supports industry conferences, education initiatives and media events and has been selected to contribute analysis to "Structured Products magazine" since 2007.
LexiFi offers the market's most complete software solution for the sale and distribution of structured products.
LexiFi's solution enables:
• investment banks to gain agility and scalability in tailored derivatives and to establish a preferred link with distributors;
• private banks and other intermediaries to better advise clients, to improve after-sale service and to streamline operations; and
• treasury departments to control the issuance of structured notes and the ongoing valuation of related swaps.
Modelity provides financial institutions with state-of-the-art technologies for managing structured products and providing financial advice. The company's Modelity/Structures solution facilitates an advanced relationship between the structurer, the distributor and the client. Modelity/Structures manages all the various aspects of a product throughout its entire lifecycle, such as sales & advice, client support, and back-office operations. Modelity/Structures bridges the gap between the complexity of structured products and the private client's comprehension. The solution is based upon Modelity's core technology for financial modeling (FiMoML) which significantly shortens the time to market of new products through its ease of use.
Pricing Partners is an international software provider of derivatives pricing analytics and a service provider of independent valuation for all OTC derivatives ranging from vanilla to the most complex exotic and hybrid structures. Its proprietary financial library, Price-it®, in stand-alone or SaaS mode, covers all major asset classes: interest rates, equity, inflation, credit, foreign exchange, commodities, life insurance and hybrid products. Pricing Partners' intrinsic knowledge and innovative solutions empower financial institutions to achieve accurate and transparent valuations on their structured products.
Pricing Partners is the award winners of Structured Products Technology Rankings 2010 and 2011, Overall winner in Pricing and Analytics Category.
Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with over 300,000 employees spanning an international network of around 7,500 offices in 87 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.
Russell Investments is an independent, global financial services firm that provides strategic advice, investment solutions, implementation services and global performance benchmarks that are customized to meet the unique needs of institutional investors, financial advisors and individuals. Celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2011, Russell has pioneered innovations that have come to define many of the practices that are standard in the investment world today, and has four decades of experience researching and selecting money managers globally.
Russell has $163 billion in assets under management and works with over 2,300 clients, over 600 independent distribution partners and millions of individual investors globally. As a consultant to some of the largest pools of capital in the world, Russell has $2 trillion in assets under advice (as of 31 December 2010) and traded $1.5 trillion last year through its implementation services business.
The Russell Global Indexes currently have US$3.9 trillion in assets benchmarked to them and calculate over 50,000 benchmarks daily covering 63 countries and more than 10,000 securities.
Incapital Europe Ltd is a London-based affiliate of Incapital LLC, a US-based securities and investment banking firm. Incapital Europe specialises in underwriting and distributing structured investments and fixed income securities for institutional and professionally advised individual investors.
FEIFA (Federation of European IFAs)
FEIFA is a Trade Association that exists for the benefit of consumers and of its Members, who are English-speaking Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs) based or operating in mainland Europe. It provides a strong voice for the IFA community across the Continent and beyond; representing the sector both with financial institutions and, where relevant, with governments and regulatory bodies.
The Federation is not available to all IFA companies. By only admitting Members following a rigorous vetting and due diligence procedure, FEIFA provides consumers with an independent assessment of the regulatory and legal status of its Member companies.
FEIFA provides a service to IFAs by helping to establish a favourable operating environment, a forum for discussion and by distributing considerable industry and technical information to assist them in their businesses. It has also created a unique recruitment facility, training and professional development services and an exclusive PI insurance product. Please see www.feifa.eu for further details or email info@feifa.eu.
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StructuredProductReview.com is a free structured product comparison and research service created by IFAs for IFAs. The site gives you information on a wide range of currently available retail structured products and hosts a suite of tools that help users to navigate the market.
