Credit Suisse is expanding its range of exchange traded funds, adding 13 new products, the majority of which focus on emerging markets.

The Zurich-headquartered banking giant will launch three ETFs on the broader regions of Asia, Latin America and Europe, and the Middle East and Africa, as well as several localised country-based ETFs, including Brazil, Russia, India and China.

"We want to use our complete portfolio of emerging market ETFs to give investors the opportunity to structure their emerging market allocation individually and to invest in selected emerging countries," said Thomas Merz, head of ETFs Switzerland at Credit Suisse.

The firm believes that investors will find the Chinese ETF of particular interest: “With this product, Credit Suisse will be the first ETF provider to offer European investors access to A-shares from the Chinese stock exchange, which are not directly available to non-Chinese private investors," Dan Draper, global head of ETFs at Credit Suisse said.

“The existing CS ETFs (41 products) will continue to use the physical replication methods, as this is the most advantageous method for the underlying markets of these ETFs and our clients' needs.”

The new products, which will be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange on 26 August, will bring the firm's total amount of ETFs to 54.

Credit Suisse has been involved in this sector since 2001 and is currently the fourth largest ETF provider in Europe with €7.25 billion (around $9.22 million) of assets.