Marie-Laure Gastellu

Attended by more than 10,000 people, both in person and online, SIBOS 2024 descended on Beijing between October 21-24 - the first time Swift’s flagship conference has ever been held in Mainland China. During SIBOS, our experts from Societe Generale tackled some of the biggest issues facing payments and trade finance.

Societe Generale named Best International Trade Finance Provider by Global Finance, for the Western Europe region as well as in Algeria, France, Romania and Senegal.

In 2014, the time between harvesting a rose in Kenya and selling it to European florists was 34 days. Out of these 34 days, 10 were required for handling all the various documents, with the process involving no fewer than 30 people or organisations and 200 interactions.