Fixed Income

Today's challenging environment requires intelligent, forward-looking strategies for your long term financing and risk management. Fortis Merchant Banking can bring to bear the requisite skills, experience and resources to advise and support your organisation in its bond issuances, trades and hedging activities.

Our Clients

 Clients come to our experts when they need a debt funding solution that is fully customised to fit the liabilities side of their balance sheet. We serve organisations from around the world, including:

• corporates of all sizes 
• financial institutions (banks, insurers, etc.)
• public authorities (national, regional, local, etc.)

How we can help you

Fortis Merchant Banking is a one-stop shop for your debt financing needs. Our dedicated professionals are ready to make an expert analysis of your organisation and propose the optimal product structure for your specific requirements. We can then set up the instruments best fitted to your needs, launch them in the markets and follow up with excellent after-market service. Fortis' post-issuance service includes continuous trading by our dealers, as well as dedicated research to keep investors informed about – and interested in – your product. Our offering comprises debt securities of all kinds, ranging from hybrid debt to senior short-term paper, including:

• benchmark public bonds 
• private placements (US and European markets) 
• retail bonds 
• MTNs 
• Commercial paper

Fortis Merchant Banking: the right choice

Our main strengths are the right mix of expertise and dedication, as well as privileged access to niche investor bases. Fortis Merchant Banking's fixed income teams are more like modern-day financial artisans than the assembly-line workers one might find elsewhere – they are extremely committed to the clients and the issues that we take on board, from pre-issuance analysis all the way to the maturity of the product. And in addition to our Tier 1 clients, Fortis maintains advantageous access to Tier 2 and 3 investors, allowing us to offer outstanding diversification of placement capabilities.

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