EUSIPA today publishes the Q4 2018 update of its market report.
European structured product exchanges generated in the fourth quarter EUR 27.8 billion turnover with issuance activity of new products having also been significantly higher.
At the end of December last year, exchanges located in EUSIPA member countries were offering 557,105 investment products and 1,274,323 leverage products. The total listed products offering grew by a slight 5.0 percent quarter on quarter, and 7.0 percent year on year.
Banks issued a total 1,453.226 new investment and leverage products in between October and December. This was a 29.0 percent increase in new issuance on the July to September period and a full 48.0 percent increase year on year.
More details both per reporting national market and product category (investment and leverage products) as well as the full press release can be found under below link.