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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.


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.

 


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.



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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