Institutionals

To compete effectively in today's rapidly changing markets, you must constantly adjust to new challenges – particularly in the regulatory and legal framework – and take advantage of new opportunities, investment and financing options. As your financial partner, Fortis Merchant Banking can provide specialised expertise and solutions to help your organisation prosper.

A wide range of services

Fortis Merchant Banking offers its customers – from professional traders to large supranational institutions – the full spectrum of innovative solutions for their financial services needs. Our customers choose to partner with us for our:

• financial strength, liquidity and placing power
• structured product teams, fund services and securitisation
• offering of syndicated loans, bonds and derivatives
• strength in clearing, global and local custody, and securities lending

We can also provide you with the full spectrum of state-of-the-art banking services, such as securities trading, financial advice, and institutional research.

Global coverage

We offer you local and international expertise from our international network of offices. Fortis Merchant Banking's rapidly growing list of service locations includes:

• 24-hour trading facilities from centralised dealing rooms in Europe, Asia and the US
• client support from regional service hubs and sales rooms on every continent
• high-level expertise from and close relationships with our local specialists in every major market

In addition, we have developed many specialised solutions for a number of our main client profiles, including:

• Alternative Fund Managers
• Banks
• Financial Sponsors
• Institutional Investors
• Insurance Companies
• Professional Traders
• Public & Semi-Public Sector

Personalised solutions

As your partner, we bring you simplicity, accuracy and responsiveness – all essential in these complex markets. Fortis Merchant Banking provides your organisation with a dedicated Relationship Manager who understands your business – and ours – acting as your central point of entry to our services. Your Relationship Manager uses in-depth knowledge of your organisation, the markets in which you operate and our network of specialists and solutions, to developing flexible, customised solutions to meet your specific needs.

And to assist with the management of your own clients and employees, we collaborate with other divisions of Fortis to offer you even more services.

To learn more, contact our experts via the Where to find us.