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By Allan Baker, Head of the energy+ group, EMEA, and Michael De Witte, Director energy+ group, EMEA, at Societe Generale. The Bank acted as exclusive Financial Adviser, Mandated Lead Arranger, and Hedging Bank to both the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) and the Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) projects.

With the emergence of fintechs, debt financing and Supply Chain Finance have experienced a new dynamic in recent years. And this is just the beginning: more and more partnerships are being developed between banks and new technology companies to digitalise this type of financing and provide clients with the best of both worlds.

Ilya Polyakov, Deputy Head of Global Banking and Advisory at Societe Generale is discussing Societe Generale's decarbonisation ambitions and its involvement in the energy transition sector.

Christophe Roux, Head of metals, mining and industries EMEA at Societe Generale, explores the challenges facing Europe's steel industry as it moves toward decarbonisation, in an article published in “Mining Technology” on October 25, 2024.

Treasurers know what they want for their cross-border payments: seamless interoperability and liquidity management. This, however, is becoming harder to achieve amid geopolitical uncertainty and proliferating sanctions and compliance obligations. Add to that real-time operations, ISO 20022 standardisation and instant cross-border payments, it is easy to see...

Macro-economic environment and higher interest rates have stressed the importance of liquidity and how to precisely forecast cash requirements for corporates with the ambition to maximise return. As a consequence, artificial intelligence will certainly play a pivotal role in the monitoring of liquidity, working capital needs and investment by taking advantage...

3 Questions to Paul Taylor, Global Head of Maritime Industries, GLBA

The Telecom Media Technology (TMT) sector finds itself at a pivotal juncture, grappling with substantial sustainability challenges.

To improve the operational efficiency of cross-border payments, payment service providers can count on several initiatives, notably Market initiatives, while remaining vigilant regarding symmetries or asymmetries of situations and of access within geographical areas.

In 2020, the G20 countries defined goals to improve cross-border payments by 2027. Four years after that first step, the priorities have now been clearly established… as have the hurdles that need to be overcome.

On September 26, Société Générale hosted its 10th Global Markets Conference in London, attended by around 350 finance professionals from 22 countries. The conference provided a platform for discussions on the latest innovations and updates in the fields of Macro, Quant, and Derivatives through a combination of keynote speeches, panel discussions, and...

Banking institutions have huge quantities of data in their hands, and it is in their interest to use this data to improve their efficiency and quality of service – provided they preserve another of their assets: trust. The cross-border payments sector, for which the implementation of the ISO 20022 standard will facilitate the structuring and exchanging of...

Since the boom in 2020, global Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) investments that embed ESG criteria have gone through some bumpy years – particularly in 2023. Macroeconomic events such as the energy price shock in Europe, interest rate hikes, and even political elections, have had a profound impact on ESG investing.

Global markets are moving into a new phase, one that will require investors to manage their portfolios more actively as the easy returns of the past couple of years fade while volatility increases. However, this is also a market where intelligent asset allocation and a thoughtfully structured portfolio will be able to generate alpha – a chance for active...

Service immediacy has become a priority for many today, and this includes payments. However, not all markets have moved at the same pace to deliver on this aspect. Does it matter? Our experts Stephanie Ekindjian Delliste, Global Head of Payments and Cash Management Solutions, and Philippe Penichou, Global Head of Sales, Wholesale Payments and Cash Management,...

Robust and well-supported liquidity ecosystems keep the commercial world turning, whatever else is going on in society at large. But it’s the symbiotic relationship between bank and corporate that keeps those systems strong. Edwin Hartog, Head of GTB, Societe Generale, Netherlands, and Joost Bergen, Founder of liquidity management advisory and training firm...