This week’s spike in US equity market volatility led to the temporary suspension of trading in three US-listed inverse VIX exchange-traded products and the decision from Credit Suisse to close its VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term ETN (XIV).

WisdomTree has introduced a yuan share trading class for its recently launched LSE-listed ICBCCS WisdomTree S&P China 500 UCITS ETF. The share class will broaden investors’ options for exposure to the world’s second largest economy, and is reflective of the ongoing internationalisation of the Renminbi. The ETF tracks the performance of the S&P China 500 Index, a float-adjusted market cap-weighted index that measures the performance of the 500 biggest and most liquid Chinese firms across all Chinese share classes, including A-shares and offshore listings such as H-Shares.

Five new exchange-traded funds/exchange-traded products were listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) during July, bringing the total number of new ETF/ETP listings for 2016 to 97. Total on-exchange value traded for ETFs and other ETPs in July 2016 was £37.1bn, up by 77% compared to July 2015, while total on-exchange value traded for ETFs and ETPs, year to date, is £216.7bn, up by 42% compared to the same period last year.

Exchange-traded funds tracking Chinese equities may offer a value proposition, according to ETF provider WisdomTree Europe. In a report to investors, the firm makes a case for a ‘Total China’ approach to investing in the country (namely seeking an investment with access to all of China’s equity share classes), noting robust macroeconomic indicators and equities which are trading at favourable price multiples compared to their historic averages, as supportive of investment in the country. WisdomTree believes the index to best capture this ‘Total China’ exposure is the S&P China 500 Index which underlies the WisdomTree S&P China 500 UCITS ETF (LSE: CHIN), a new ETF launched by the firm on the London Stock Exchange

Exchange-traded fund provider WisdomTree and Hong Kong-based asset manager ICBC Credit Suisse (ICBCCS) have collaborated to launch a new China-focused ETF on the London Stock Exchange. The ICBCCS WisdomTree S&P China 500 UCITS ETF (LSE: CHIN) tracks the S&P China 500 Index, a reference for the float-adjusted market cap-weighted performance of the 500 biggest and most liquid Chinese firms across all Chinese share classes, including A-shares and offshore listings. It is the tenth ETF as part of the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) program to list on the LSE and the third to launch in 2016.

S&P Dow Jones Indices, a leading index provider, has introduced the S&P China 500 Index, covering all Chinese share classes including A-shares and offshore listings. “Despite the short-term challenges impacting the market, Chinese equities remain a key part of long-term investment strategies for many global investors given the size and importance of the Chinese economy and stock market,” said Michael Orzano, Director of Global Equity Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices. “By introducing the S&P China 500 Index, we are proud to reaffirm our commitment to the Chinese market and to further expand the toolkit of China indices available to global investors.” The index has been licensed to ICBC Credit Suisse Asset Management for ETF development.

BlackRock’s acquisition of Credit Suisse’s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) business has formally completed, the asset manager confirmed in a statement. The acquisition cements BlackRock’s iShares platform as Europe’s leading provider of ETFs and comes just days after the UK’s Office of Fair Trading revealed that it would not be referring the acquisition to the Competition Commission. With the deal now complete, all 58 of Credit Suisse’s ETFs have been re-branded and begun trading as iShares ETFs.

Stoxx, a leading index provider, has introduced the Euro Stoxx 50 BuyWrite 100% Index. The index measures the performance of a buy-write or covered-call strategy based on the Euro Stoxx 50 Index, the eurozone’s leading blue-chip equity index. The new index, which has been designed to underlie index-linked financial products such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), represents a hypothetical portfolio of a long position in the Euro Stoxx 50 and a sold – or written – call option based on the same index.

Standard Life recently revealed plans to enhance its wrap platform aimed at UK financial advisers. One of the key upgrades scheduled over the next 12 months is to deliver improved access to exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The move to enhance access to ETFs is reflective of the growing interest in the product since the introduction of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

Credit Suisse has added to its range of innovative exchange-traded notes (ETNs) with the launch of the Credit Suisse Silver Shares Covered Call ETN (SLVO), an ETN providing exposure to a covered call strategy on iShares Silver ETF (SLV). The new product, which is designed to pay out variable monthly coupons, is the second precious metals covered call strategy launched by Credit Suisse and follows the January launch of GLDI, an ETN tracking a similar strategy on gold.