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On this page, you will find the most recent Fortis Merchant Banking press releases and clippings. Journalists are encouraged to contact the Fortis Merchant Banking Press Officer, Valérie Guilmin (+ 32 2 565 94 17) with any inquiries.
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August 2008
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Fortis appoints Paul Schuilwerve as Senior Managing Director, Head of Merchant Banking Asia Pacific (14/08)
Fortis has appointed Paul Schuilwerve as Senior Managing Director, Head of Merchant Banking Asia Pacific with effect from 15 August 2008. Mr Schuilwerve will report to Luc Henrard, CEO Asia Pacific, and Frans van Lanschot, CEO Asset Based Finance. -
Fortis Clearing first Clearing Member to sign an agreement for SGX Derivatives Proximity Hosting (13/08)
Fortis Clearing Singapore Pte Ltd is the first SGX Clearing Member to sign an agreement with the SGX Singtel Proximity Service for a go-live date in September. The agreement will allow our customers, amongst the broker, professional traders and institutional community, to benefit of the quickest access possible to SGX's derivatives trading engines. -
Fortis Clearing now offers LIFFE Connect services and has implemented the Multi-Market Broadband Access solution (12/08)
Fortis Bank Global Clearing N.V. (FBGC) now offers the new 100 MB high bandwidth, low latency, LIFFE CONNECT services to all its Direct Market Access clients. Simultaneously, FBGC has implemented the new Multi-Market Broadband Access (MMBA) solution for the Euronext cash markets and, independent of ISV's used, for all of our Market Access clients -
EMCF extends its central counterparty services to Austrian stocks (08/08)
The European Multilateral Clearing Facility N.V. (EMCF) is pleased to announce that it will provide central counterparty services for Austrian stocks covered by Chi-X as of 8 August 2008 -
Fortis Clearing has become trading member of SWX Europe (06/08)
Fortis Bank Global Clearing N.V. (FBGC) is pleased to announce that it has become a trading member on SWX Europe. By using FBGC Global Market Access infrastructure clients can now trade SWX Europe without the need of becoming a member.
July 2008
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European Multilateral Clearing Facility N.V. (EMCF) cuts fees (30/07)
The European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF) announces a further reduction in its clearing fees effective 1 August 2008. -
Fortis appoints new Loan Syndications Team in the Netherlands (22/07)
The team, which will be located in Amsterdam, will commence at Fortis on 1 August 2008 and will be headed by Raymond Beimers. -
Fortis appoints Claude Noesen as Director Sales & Relationship Management for Prime Fund Solutions in Luxembourg (01/07)
Prime Fund Solutions, the part of Fortis Merchant Banking dedicated to servicing the traditional and alternative investment community, has hired Claude Noesen as a director for its Luxembourg Sales and Client Relationship team
June 2008
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Fortis Private Equity divests stake in Vanerum (05/06)
Fortis Private Equity has divested its stake in Vanerum Group to a new holding controlled by Gert van Erum. Fortis Private Equity had acquired an 18% stake in Vanerum Group (“Vanerum”) in September 2002 at the time of the buy-out by Gert Van Erum, combined with growth capital for the further expansion of Vanerum. During the period of Fortis's involvement, Vanerum's revenues grew from some EUR 20 million to more than EUR 40 million and profitability (EBITDA) increased from EUR 1.4 million to EUR 5 million. -
BATS connects to EMCF for European clearing (02/06)
BATS Trading Inc., which expects to offer trading in Europe in 2008 through its European Markets division, has today announced an agreement with the European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF), a Fortis division, to provide clearing services for BATS in the region.
May 2008
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NASDAQ OMX appoints EMCF to handle its clearing for the Pan-European Market (19/05)
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. today announced that it has selected the European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF), a wholly-owned Fortis subsidiary, to deliver clearing services for the NASDAQ OMX Pan-European Market. -
Fortis Merchant Banking wins Marine Money's Restructuring Deal of the Year award (16/05)
Fortis Merchant Banking's unit Energy, Commodities and Transportation (ECT) has won Marine Money's Restructuring Deal of the Year award, for the outsourcing of the shipping activities of Chiquita Brands International.
April 2008
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Fortis Energy Marketing & Trading enhances contractual Asset Portfolio Management Team (24/04)
Bruce Sukaly to join as Managing Director, Asset Management - Lloyd P. Jackson promoted to Managing Director, Power Trading -
European Multilateral Clearing Facility N.V. (EMCF) cuts fees again (22/04)
The European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF) announces a further reduction in its clearing fees effective 1st May 2008. Such fee reductions further confirm EMCF's market position as initiator of cheaper clearing and settlement in Europe. -
Fortis named Clearing Service of the Year (15/04)
Fortis Clearing was recently named Clearing Service of the Year by the Futures & Options World (FOW) Magazine, a subsidiary of the prestigious Euromoney Group. Fortis was selected by a panel of peers and an online poll. -
Fortis Merchant Banking announces appointments for Energy, Commodities & Transportation (ECT) (04/04)
Fortis Merchant Banking has appointed Anne Marie Verstraeten as Managing Director for Energy and Gust Biesbroeck as Managing Director for Transportation. -
Fortis and ABN AMRO announce the first step in the sale of parts of ABN AMRO Business Unit Netherlands (03/04)
Fortis and ABN AMRO announce the first step in the sale of parts of the commercial banking activities of ABN AMRO Business Unit Netherlands (BU NL). This consists of Hollandsche Bank Unie N.V., two corporate clients units and 13 commercial advisory branches. In addition, the Dutch factoring company IFN Finance B.V. will be sold. All these businesses are currently part of ABN AMRO in the Netherlands. -
European Multilateral Clearing facility celebrates its first anniversary (03/04)
The European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF) has grown significantly since it started offering services on 30 March 2007. In its first year of operation, EMCF has welcomed a total of 21 clearing participants, of which 10 direct clearing participants and 11 general clearing participants.
March 2008
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Fortis Prime Fund Solutions ("Fortis PFS") is delighted to announce the appointment of Edith Ngan as Regional Managing Director of its Asia operations (31/03)
Edith Ngan will take overall charge of the existing Fortis PFS offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, and is charged with enhancing and expanding the service levels and product range for existing clients, and introducing the Fortis PFS suite of services to new markets. -
Prime Fund Solutions successfully launches Reconciliations Platform (14/03)
PFS, the Fortis Merchant Banking business unit dedicated to servicing the alternative and traditional investment industry, has successfully launched an improved central platform for automated reconciliations. -
Fortis awarded ‘Best Carbon Trader 2008' (12/03)
Fortis has received the ‘Best Carbon Trader 2008' award from Point Carbon. The award was presented at the prestigious Carbon Market Awards at the Carbon Market Insight conference. Each year, Point Carbon announces the winners for Best Trader, Best Broker and Best Project Developer. -
Fortis appoints Managing Director, Commodities USA and Managing Director, Commodities Hong Kong (06/03)
Fortis is pleased to announce that it has appointed Michiel van der Voort as Managing Director, Commodities USA and Danny Ip as Managing Director, Commodities Hong Kong.
February 2008
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Green Light: UNDP and Fortis Announce First Project Agreements for MDG Carbon Facility (21/02)
Efforts toward greenhouse-gas reduction on track in Uzbekistan, Macedonia, Yemen and Rwanda.
About Merchant Banking Carbon Banking services -
ENECO Energie Revolving Credit Facility – over-subscribed & increased (20/02)
ENECO Holding N.V. has signed its Revolving Credit Facility in the increased amount of EUR 1.5bn (up from EUR 1.25bn) following an over-subscription in syndication. ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Barclays Capital (the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC), Fortis Bank (Nederland) N.V. and Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking were joint Bookrunners on the deal. Fortis is Co-ordinator and Facility Agent. -
European Multilateral Clearing Facility N.V. (EMCF) cuts fees (15/02)
EMCF, a company fully owned by Fortis, today announced a further reduction in its clearing fees effective 1st March 2008. Such fee reductions further confirm EMCF's market position as initiator of cheaper clearing and settlement in Europe. -
Fortis appoints Harris Antoniou as CEO of Energy, Commodities and Transportation and member of the Board of Merchant
Banking (08/02)
Harris Antoniou succeeds Frans van Lanschot, who has been appointed CEO of Specialised Finance within Fortis. -
Fortis opens new Tokyo branch (06/02)
Fortis opened a new Branch office in Tokyo, Japan in February 2008. The Tokyo branch will focus on providing a range of banking services to clients, specifically in the Energy, Commodities & Transportation (ECT) and Global Export and Project Finance (GEPF) fields.
January 2008
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Commodity Market: Interview of Head of Fortis Global Commodities Group (31/01)
Paul Schuilwerve, Global Head of Commodities within Fortis, comments on last year and the outlook for 2008 in an article for T&FR Magazine.
Read the full article published in Trade & Forfaiting Review, December 07/January 08 -
Fortis Energy Marketing & Trading appoints Flint Mitchell as new Desk Head for West Power Trading (24/01)
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Prime Fund Solutions, the global fund services provider of Merchant Banking, successfully upgrades its core banking platform (22/01)
Prime Fund Solutions, the Fortis Merchant Banking business line dedicated to servicing the alternative and traditional investment industry, has successfully
upgraded its core banking platform to T24.
This new banking system provides Prime Fund Solutions with state-of-the-art technology, ensuring the continuity, performance and scalability needed to support the substantial business growth. -
Fortis teams up with Green Award Foundation (18/01)
Fortis and the Green Award Foundation have jointly announced a cooperation agreement whereby Fortis has become a Green Award Incentive Provider. Fortis is the first bank to be a Green Award Incentive Provider. Fortis supports the Green Award Foundation as a recent study shows that "on average, ships that are certified by Green Award show a lower amount of deficiencies than ships that are not certified.*)" -
Fortis opens new branch office in Sydney (16/01)
Fortis received a license from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on 20 December 2007 to open a new Branch office in Sydney, Australia. This is a milestone for Fortis in Australia as it solidifies its business operations and customer reach in Asia Pacific.