Energy Price Risk

Fortis Merchant Banking provides flexible, innovative facilities and tools to enable you to hedge your organisation's energy price risk exposures to oil, refined oil, natural gas and power. We have the skills and capacity to offer you optimum hedges at competitive cost.

Our clients

If you need minimise your company's exposure to energy risk, our specialists can help you achieve that objective. Our customers' results are dependent on the cost of energy and/or energy products, and typically operate in the following fields:

• utilities and refining 
• shipping and aviation 
• transport and distribution 
• manufacturing 
• etc.

How we can help you

Hedging energy price risk exposures through Fortis Merchant Banking's financial contracts brings you a high degree of choice in terms of:

• portfolio management and diversification 
• timing and volume flexibility 
• unwinding

Our Energy Desk can help protect your company with financial contracts that provide for settlements to cover differences between a price agreed with us, and the fluctuating market price of the underlying commodity. The services we can provide you include:

• swaps (fixed-for-floating contracts) and options (caps and floors) 
• structured products (tailor-made solutions) 
• formula-based hedges

Fortis Merchant Banking: the right choice

We offer you flexibility via our capacity to handle all of your business; our ability to create customised hedge packages to precisely match your needs; and our readiness to look carefully at complex exposures and structure deals accordingly. Fortis Merchant Banking's dedicated specialists can help your company reduce its sensitivity to energy price volatility, allowing you to focus on your core activities.

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