Expert view points

The future’s bright, it’s green! Aware of the environmental consequences of transporting 90% of the world’s cargo by sea, the banks that finance many of those ships are staging a common intervention.

Anne-Claire Gorge, Global Head of Product Management & Innovation for Trade services at Societe Generale and member of the we.trade board of directors, explains how distributed register technology is driving change in the international trade sector.

Our conclusions are not the result of backtesting or wishful thinking, according to Yannick Ouaknine, Paris-based head of Sustainability Research at Societe Generale.

Transaction Banking at Societe Generale has been transformed from a steady and reliable backwater to a dynamic and innovative instrument of growth and development.

Societe Generale is attending Universwiftnet, the annual forum dedicated to the bank-corporate relationship that takes place in Paris on March 19th 2019. We have asked Nicolas Cailly, Head of Marketing - Payments & Cash Management at Societe Generale, to explain how this directive can be an opportunity.

Following Chinese President Xi’s first foreign visit in 2019 and the signing of €40 billion business deals in France, Pierre-Yves Bonnet shared his views on what’s next for Sino-French business development.

Demography will dominate the conversation in Africa, rising above talk of governance, external debt and a need to realise the potential of agribusiness.

Societe Generale processes international payments via SWIFT gpi, which is becoming the new standard in this area. The Head of Cash Clearing Services explains the major strides allowed by gpi, which meets the banks' expectations for these payments. Societe Generale is one of the leading banks on this standard and participates in the improvement works.

As Chairman of Financial Sponsor Coverage, Scott Phillips has helped steer the Societe Generale Americas business supporting Private Equity for over two decades and has worked with PE firms across the globe. As the industry continues to evolve into something that looks and acts far different than it did at its beginning, we took the opportunity to ask Scott...

The argument that returns from ESG-linked investments are worth more than a second look is playing out to the extent that buying into the sustainable finance model is nudging its way towards the mainstream.

A prominent role in hedging the latest billion dollar-plus Eurobond for Ivory Coast and assisting in the development of domestic bond markets in Africa mark Societe Generale's continued commitment to advancing financial markets in the region.

Lyxor has listed its first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Sweden, a Green Bond ETF that started life on 21 February 2017 as the world’s first of its kind. The new listing on the Nasdaq-OMX Exchange of an ETF that has €54.2m of assets under management marks an expansion in the region that has included moving office into a local Societe Generale branch that was...

When ALD Automotive, a leading worldwide vehicle leasing company, raised EUR 500m through a Positive Impact Bond in October 2018 to buy ‘clean energy’ cars, it took a pioneering approach by selecting the cars with the lowest CO2 emissions over their entire lifecycles from their manufacturing to recycling.

Two large loan facilities completed in December 2018 marked the first-time use of environmental, social governance (ESG) ratings in loan agreements by Austrian and German borrowers, in the form of a five-year, €500m revolving credit facility for Verbund and a same-term, €1.5 billion revolver for Henkel, respectively. Societe Generale was the ESG coordinator...