Laurent Kssis at LaBranche Structured Products Europe (LSPE) discusses European ETF trades for the week ending 8 April.

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has warned recent innovation within the ETF industry is bringing "new elements of complexity and opacity" into the market.

Source has launched its EuroStoxx Optimised Banks ETF, seeking to provide exposure to the most liquid eurozone banks.

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has filed for exemptive relief to launch six actively managed ETFs in the US.

Exchange-traded products tracking diversified broad commodity indices saw global assets increase by $5.2bn in Q1 2011, marking the largest quarterly inflows for the sector on record, ETF Securities says.

HSBC has launched four single country emerging market ETFs providing exposure to Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian and Taiwanese equities.

The European exchange-traded product industry is 'very fortunate' regulators are taking a light-touch approach compared with the US, according to Christos Costandinides at Deutsche Bank.

Laurent Kssis at LaBranche Structured Products Europe (LSPE) discusses European ETF trades for the week ending 1 April.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is planning to launch an ETN and an ETF providing exposure to UK small cap companies.

Morningstar has launched a range of research reports on the 150 largest exchange-traded products listed in Europe.