Interest Rate Risk

Our teams of talented professionals can provide your organisation with fully optimised investment proposals, hedging and trading opportunities, as well as asset/liability management oriented solutions. Our solutions are thoroughly documented, both from the risk and accounting perspectives.

Our clients

Fortis Merchant Banking can help corporates of all sizes and sectors to manage exposure to interest rate risk. We also serve the needs of institutional investors and banks that buy and sell interest rate instruments for investment and/or ALM management purposes.

How we can help you

We give your company access to a wide range of money-market instruments and standard interest rate derivatives at competitive prices. Our specialised structured product desks develops tailor-made packages to suit your precise hedging requirements. Using these products and our considerable trading capacities, Fortis Merchant Banking can help you limit the impact of interest rate volatility on your financial statements. A few examples of the derivatives we offer include:

• caps & floors
• currency rate swaps (CRS) 
• forward rate agreements (FRA) 
• interest rate swaps (IRS) 
• swaptions 
• exotic options

In addition, we offer intitutional investors and banks, among others, the following instruments:

• bond options
• structured notes
• asset swaps

Customers can use our web-based ForPro Client Portal to make trades and access specialised research, as well as excellent pre- and post-trade services. Structured notes' valuations are refreshed on Bloomberg on a daily basis.

Fortis Merchant Banking: the right choice

We pride ourselves on the ability to provide you with a completely customised global solution, including research, accounting, e-commerce platforms and lending, if needed. In addition, our dealing rooms and specialist traders on three continents offer you the ability to trade around the clock. And we also have a number of areas of niche leadership: for example, our teams are expert in making markets in structured notes; we hold a Top 3 position globally in bond options; and we have excellent insight into the special needs of institutional investors.