Treasury

At Fortis Merchant Banking, we can provide you with the means to manage your organisation's treasury function quickly and effectively, offering optimal solutions for risk and liquidity management, as well as excellent investment opportunities.

Our clients

Customers come to our specialists when they want to reduce exposure to risk, manage liquidity and/or invest surplus cash. We use customised packages of treasury tools to assist clients in need of funding, or to enable their operations that require multiple currencies. Fortis excels in serving the treasury needs of all types of:

• corporates 
• small and medium-sized enterprises 
• banks, institutional clients and other financial institutions

How we can help you

Our experts can analyse your risk exposures – FX, interest rates, energy, commodities – and advise you on suitable solutions to manage them. These range from FX spots, forwards and swaps to interest rate swaps, swaptions, plain-vanilla and exotic options. Your evaluation will be carried out by Fortis' economic research and strategy teams, together with quantitative analysts and structurers. Our professionals can also advise you on the IFRS aspects of the products we offer, and they can customise packages – or individual products – to your precise requirements.

In addition, we have the capacity and the liquidity to satisfy your short-term financing needs. These include straight loans, repo and tri-party repo, issues of CP, as well as securities lending and borrowing. Fortis is one of the top European players in the repo market and has a major presence in the ABCP market.

Our dedicated treasury specialists can provide your company with attractive, flexible and diversified investment products, enabling your treasurer to manage liquidity by placing deposits for up to 24 months (all major and most emerging currencies), purchasing treasury bills, investing in CP, certificates of deposit and ABCP and lending your bond portfolio.

Fortis' Structured FX & IR Team is ready to design the optimum solution for the intelligent use of your cash.

Next to our long established strengths in the major currencies (EUR, USD, JPY, GBP, CHF and CAD), Fortis has a dedicated team specialised in emerging markets currencies (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas).

Fortis Merchant Banking: the right choice

From our global network of presences, our teams focus first on your needs and risks – transactional, translational or strategic – and choose products to suit them, rather than vice versa. In addition, Fortis' powerful client portal brings the trading room to your desktop. Among other benefits, our e-tools give you access to vital research, and allow you to consult your portfolios, offering certain products online through Click-N-Deal, as well as via Currenex, FX-All and 360T.