Projects
Information & Education
Covered by its statutory goals BELSIPA strives to facilitate and contribute to any investor and salesforce education initiative by banks and/or sector associations whenever these relate to structured products.
In 2024 BELSIPA will again offer with FEBELFIN Academy a redesigned one-day course on structured products as alternative asset class.
We invite you to preregister at FEBELFIN Academy‘s course pages so that you get an invitation to the course once a date is fixed.
Please use this link (French), this link (Dutch) or this link (English).
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2017
In 2016 and 2017 FEBELFIN Academy and BELSIPA jointly offered for the first time regular training courses on the manufacturing and distribution of structured products in Belgium.
The courses were aimed at professionals dealing with structured products in Belgian financial institutions. Attendees received professional credit points.
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2016
Within the frame of the annual Investor Day hosted by VFB (Vlaamse Federatie van Beleggers) in October 2016 BELSIPA sponsored the attendance of Capitant, a Belgian student organisation aiming to facilitate interest in
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2015
In 2015 already BELSIPA organised a workshop during the annual Investor Day hosted by VFB in Antwerp.
The presentation delivered back then by Bart Van der Veken of Belfius Bank can be downloaded here.
Presentation
Risk Classification
Financial products can bring higher yields under certain conditions.
Almost all of these bring an increased risk level with it. BELSIPA promotes initiatives that aim at classifying financial products according to their riskiness. The work on our own classification project is currently not put forward as BELSIPA members implemented the requirements of the EU-PRIIPs regulation which came into force on 01 January 2018. Please contact the head of our Risk Committee should you wish to raise/gain clarity on any specific topic with relevance to structured products in this context.
Low Risk – High Risk
Legal Positions
Through its Legal Committee, BELSIPA seeks to voice the opinion of its members towards legislative proposals and administrative practices relevant for the Belgian market.
We will invite regularly interested stakeholders to our sessions and publish any material sent to public institutions. Currently we follow the below initiatives and policy items:
- Royal Decree on information duties for the sale of financial products to retail customers (Belgium)
- Moratorium on the distribution of structured products to retail customers (Belgium)
- EU Regulation on Packaged Retail Investment Products (EU)
- Activities of the European Securities and Markets Authority (EU)
- Project of introducing an Financial Transaction Tax in a limited group of member states “FTT-10” (EU)