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The world economy is at the kind of turning point that occurs only once or twice in a generation. Fourteen years of quantitative easing, that fuelled an unprecedented boom in asset prices, has come to a juddering halt.

Created in 2001 by Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking’s (SG CIB) Equity and Index Derivatives Department, Adequity is now the leader in France thanks to a range of structured products aimed exclusively at wealth management advisors (WMAs).

Since April 2018, Societe Generale has donated 1.8 million euros to charities thanks to innovative investment solutions implemented for its private banking’s clients.

Energy Risk Magazine is one of the most highly respected publications dedicated to risk management, trading and regulation analysis for global commodity markets.

Societe Generale has entered into one of the first interest rate swaps using the euro short-term rate (€STR) as a floating-rate underlying, making use of the new interest rate benchmark that will eventually replace the 20-year old Eonia (European overnight index average) rate.

Emerging markets governments and, to a lesser degree, corporates have borrowed heavily in US dollars, exposing them to a currency risk in a world in which US rates appear only to be rising. There is a clear need for these issuers to hedge against this risk, and that derived from raising funds in foreign currency.