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Experience
As a customer of Fortis Clearing Americas, you can focus on your trading strategies
– we'll handle the rest.
Fortis Clearing Americas' leading-edge technology,
dedicated clearing services and quality staff provide the environment our customers
need to confidently trade 24 hours a day. Our teams are constantly working to increase
your freedom of choice by providing unparalleled service at every point of the relationship.
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Operations
Operations staff is trained to provide
reliable, fast and accurate service. Both support staff and management ensure
customers have the data they need to implement strategies or to respond
appropriately to market moves.
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Information Technology
Fortis Clearing Americas IT staff focuses entirely on ensuring the network is
robust, reliable and state-of-the-art.
Fortis Clearing Americas’ trading environment is located in Chicago’s Equinix
Data Center for secure connectivity to local and international exchanges.
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Relationship
Management
All
commercial managers have direct and robust industry knowledge with exchanges, FCMs,
front-end providers, regulatory agencies and customer business modeling
concepts.
Managers have an average of 20 years
experience each in the industry.
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Financing
Fortis Clearing Americas has a variety
of financing capabilities available to enhance our customers' needs, which
are individually tailored on a customer by customer basis.
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Risk
Fortis Clearing utilizes a flexible in-house Global
Correlation Haircut ("COH") Model that factors correlation across contracts
and exchanges on a real time basis. Fortis Clearing's COH accommodates equity, fixed
income, money markets, energies, commodities and other new markets.
Portfolio Margining offers over 6:1 leverage.
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Market Access
Fortis Clearing Americas provides clearing
and settlement services for all major exchange-traded
derivatives, commodities, equities, equity options, energies and treasury
products.
Fortis Clearing Americas is ISV and front-end
agnostic, broker neutral and does not engage in proprietary trading.
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Compliance and Legal
Fortis Clearing Americas has a Compliance
and Legal team with over 25 years combined direct industry
experience in the equities and derivatives markets.
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24-Hour Execution Desk
Fortis Clearing Americas has a 24x6 trading
desk for access to global futures markets.
Staff averages over 17 years experience per person; senior managers have
over 55 years combined industry experience.
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Global Futures Investor Group (GFIG)
Fortis Clearing Americas GFIG focuses solely on the global clearing needs
of institutional invesotrs in the derivatives space. GFIG works closely with investors
to understand their objectives and to identiy potential trading managers and funds
that fit our customers' specific allocation profile.
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