24-Hour Futures 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.    (overview)

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. (overview)

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. Our COH accommodates equity, fixed income, money markets, energies, commodities and other new markets. Portfolio Margining offers over 6:1 leverage.    (overview)

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.   (overview)

Global Futures Investment Group (GFIG)
Fortis Clearing Americas GFIG focuses solely on the global clearing needs of institutional investors in the derivatives space. GFIG works closely with investors to understand their objectives and to identify potential trading managers and funds that fit our customers' specific allocation profile.

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.  (overview)

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.    (overview)

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.

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.