Credit Risk

No matter what your credit-product requirements are, Fortis Merchant Banking has the know-how, experience and dedicated teams in place to fulfill them. We can help you cover your credit exposure – whether for a specific or wider economic risk, or for regulatory reasons. And of course, we also serve the credit spread and derivative needs of the global investment community.

Our clients

Fortis' specialists support customers from around the world on both the risk management and the investment sides of the credit equation. Asset liability managers at banks and large corporates come to us for help in mitigating their credit exposure. We also assist market players looking for diversified investment products with a high spread and a good rating. These include:

• banks 
• insurance companies
• pension funds 
• asset managers 
• hedge funds 
• alternative fund managers

How we can help you

After analysing your organisation's specific situation, our teams can create solutions that offer you name-by-name credit protection for individual exposures in your portfolio, using products such as credit default or total return swaps. They can also structure products that optimise your company's global portfolio exposure, employing tools like portfolio simulation and tranching, or first-loss protection – all of which can be configured as zero-cost solutions.

On the investment side, Fortis has dedicated traders for every kind of credit derivative product, who can structure both public and tailor-made issuances, including:

• CDOs (Square, Single Tranche, Deferred Start, Long/Short, etc.) and CLOs
• CPPIs and CPDOs

Fortis Merchant Banking: the right choice

Fortis Merchant Banking ensures a high level of transparency in both our pricing techniques and our risk evaluation. We offer competitive pricing as well as rapid, accurate execution, but our credit specialists also take the time to properly analyse your situation and structure stable, high-quality products that are truly customised to your company's requirements. Most importantly, we're on your side – by investing in the same products that you do, Fortis makes certain that there is a strong alignment between the interests of the bank and that of the end-investor.