Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Credit Suisse
The long and largely uneventful life of the XIV – the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term exchange-traded note (ETN) – and its sudden and fiery end at the start of February amid surging US stock market volatility provides a reminder of how big a business structured notes have quietly become in the years since the financial crisis.
Many banks now issue billions of dollars each year in such notes, tying in dependable intermediate maturity liabilities at low cost and often earning fat fees in the process.
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