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South Korea is about to tighten deviation-rate administration for all exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded notes (ETNs), whereas introducing obligatory simulated buying and selling for brand new buyers in single-stock leveraged and inverse merchandise from 19 August.

Under the revised guidelines, securities corporations’ obligations to handle deviation charges, measured at closing costs, can be tightened for all ETFs and ETNs. The permitted deviation will fall from three % to 2 % for home merchandise, whereas the brink for abroad merchandise will decline from six % to 5 %. The new pointers may even make clear how deviation charges are calculated, together with the therapy of destructive deviation charges.

Meanwhile, within the US, US-listed ETFs attracted a report US$1.23 trillion in internet inflows in the course of the first seven months of 2026, with July alone bringing in additional than US$193 billion, in accordance with ETFGI.

The US ETF trade recorded year-to-date internet inflows of US$1.23 trillion on the finish of July, the best degree on report, in accordance with ETFGI’s newest trade panorama report.

July contributed US$193.42 billion in internet inflows, extending the trade’s run of consecutive month-to-month inflows to 51 months. Assets invested in US ETFs stood at US$15.74 trillion on the finish of July, barely beneath the report US$15.78 trillion reached in June. Total belongings have elevated 17.3% for the reason that finish of 2025, once they stood at US$13.43 trillion.

Chicago-based Amplify ETFs has additional expanded its ETF product suite with the submitting of the Amplify S&P 500 Buffered Autocallable Yield Opportunity ETF (YO). The fund seeks to generate excessive month-to-month revenue whereas limiting draw back market danger via publicity to the S&P 500 Buffered Autocallable Yield Opportunity Index.

The S&P 500 Buffered Autocallable Yield Opportunity Index displays the whole return efficiency of a theoretical portfolio of artificial autocallable notes linked to the US Volatility Target Index.

The ETF will achieve publicity to the underlying index via swap agreements.

Furthermore, the autocallables will present month-to-month coupon funds based mostly on an annualised coupon charge of the secured in a single day financing charge (SOFR) plus eight %, with a buffer embedded inside every autocallable notice towards the primary 25% of losses within the US Volatility Target Index at maturity.

SRP additionally checked out a number of the most traded actively managed certificates (AMCs) on the SIX Swiss Exchange throughout July in addition to a choice of non-public placements linked to non-tradable underlyings.

The Whisky, Fine Wine & Spirits AMC is issued via Swiss AMC. The certificates deploys capital into bodily whisky casks, bottled uncommon spirits, and high quality wine throughout a five-year time period – March 2026 to March 2031 – concentrating on a contractual 7.0% annual coupon plus a 20% efficiency participation above that hurdle.

Swissquote’s tracker was probably the most traded funding product on SIX in July, attaining CHF13.9m (US$17.1m) in turnover from 61 transactions – up from CHF11.4m (from 50 trades) in June. The underlying Swissquote Ambitious Portfolio Index is a dynamic index which is discretionarily managed by Swissquote Bank (index sponsor) and calculated by Leonteq Securities. As of 12 August 2026, the index universe included, amongst others, the State Street SPDR S&P 500 Ucits ETF (31.1%), UBS Core SPI ETF (25.9% weight), iShares MSCI World ex-USA Ucits ETF (14.8%) and Invesco Bloomberg Commodity Ucits ETF (5.0%).

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