Euphoria over Taiwan’s onshore wealth management relaxation unqualified for notes business, says FICC salesman

Despite the euphoria of the onshore wealth management industry in Taiwan over the relaxation of regulations on product sales, an FICC (fixed income, currencies and commodities) salesman from a European investment bank reveals that the reality on the ground is somewhat different. “The onshore private banks [in Taiwan] have succeeded, thus far, by selling plain vanilla products,” notes the salesman,…

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