Luzerner Kantonalbank new issuer on deritrade, Vontobel’s platform for structured products

Luzerner Kantonalbank joins deritrade as an issuer with an excellent rating, which will contribute from the beginning to further boost investing in structured products in Switzerland via Vontobel’s platform. “Luzerner Kantonalbank will foster competition on deritrade. Clients will benefit from this development thanks to a larger selection of issuers and thus a greater range of investment solutions on deritrade. They will also profit from faster and more competitive price setting,” says Peter Camenzind, Head of Platforms at Vontobel.

“We are delighted to now be an issuer on deritrade, one of the leading platforms for structured products in Switzerland. deritrade provides many Swiss banks and external asset managers with fast, simple access to our structured products. Everything is digital because deritrade offers a completely automated service for platform partners. This online offer is an optimal addition to our strategy,” explains Claudio Topatigh, Head of the Competence Center for Structured Products at LUKB.

deritrade is a Swiss platform that now has nine issuers for customized structured products. Over the years, deritrade has evolved into an intuitive self-service platform for relationship managers and external asset managers in Switzerland who want to offer their private clients a range of tailor-made structured products at transparent and competitive prices with a MiFID-II-compliant front-to-end-service over the whole product lifecycle. In 2019, over 36,000 individually tailored products with an issue volume of 10 billion Swiss francs were issued on deritrade.

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Luzerner Kantonalbank
Luzerner Kantonalbank AG (LUKB) was founded in 1850 and is the leading bank in the Canton of Lucerne with around 1,000 employees. It operates a total of 26 branches and is one of Switzerland’s largest cantonal banks. Its core business areas include real estate and corporate financing, pension planning, investment advisory services, and investment management. LUKB has also been active since the fall of 2018 as an issuer of structured products. LUKB is known for client proximity and strong performance, and these attributes make it the bank of choice for clients, employees, shareholders, and the region.

The LUKB Group includes LUKB Expert Fondsleitung AG, LUKB Wachstumskapital AG, and Gewerbe Finanz Luzern AG. LUKB has been established as a stock corporation since 2001, and its equities are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Although 38.5 percent of the share capital is distributed among the general public, 61.5 percent is owned by the Canton of Lucerne. LUKB has a state guarantee and a long-term AA rating from Standard & Poor’s (short-term rating A-1+).

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