Expert view points

The future really is electric, with the humble battery at the centre of an evolving and expanding value chain that stretches all the way from mining scarce metals and mixing electrolytes and active materials; to assembling the individual cells into battery modules in giant gigafactories; to recycling them at the end of their useful lives.

Banking in the 80’s was a somewhat simpler business and climate change a topic for the future. Turn the clock forward three to four decades, and banking faces nothing short of a revolution as it works with multinationals, governments, and start-ups to decarbonise the global economy by 2050.

As payments continue down the digital journey, the industry is being forced to re-invent payment technologies to continue offering secure and efficient services. From increased collaboration to the industry’s need for combatting fraud, efficiency increasing and standardisation, today’s challenges offer a wide avenue for innovation.

After two years of uncertainty and turmoil in the transaction banking industry, we asked our experts about the challenges facing treasurers in the months and years ahead.

Landmark bond serves as model to finance the vast environmental and social ambitions of countries

An appropriate risk allocation across the CCS value chain can enable more projects to be project financed.

From virtually zero at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020, to 5% a year later (May 2021), and a 40-year high of 8.6% in May, US consumer price inflation has blown through estimates, expectations and economists’ narratives. And America’s experience is being repeated across much of the rest of the world, including Asia Pacific. How can...

The expansion of the sustainable bond market is opening up new funding opportunities for a wider range of companies and connecting investors with projects that support Asia’s transition to a low-carbon future.

Securitisation of cars, homes and credit card receivables has a role to play in transitioning to a zero-carbon economy and reducing social inequality. While issuance is set to grow, challenges remain to be tackled along the way.

In many respects, the European Union, underpinned by a common currency, is a grand political project with the aim of fostering peace and stability. In other ways it is an eminently practical one, designed to help the European industry compete in an increasingly tough global marketplace.

This year, at Universwiftnet 2022, Societe Generale Global Transaction Banking's experts talked about the irresistible rise in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)

In France alone, the bank has been involved in the financing of 25 fibre optic projects with all the major private operators, enabling the connection of 16 million homes and businesses.

Interconnectors deliver clean energy as well as flexibility and resilience to provide electricity to neighbor’s countries.

The transition to next-day settlement is a move that promises to make India’s equity markets among the fastest and most efficient in the world. T+1 is inevitable. The full benefits, however, will only be achieved when all participants are on board with processes crunched and optimised with the help of technology advancement.

Fresh from speaking at the 121 Group mining conference in South Africa, Lenaig Trenaux, Global Head of Mining, Metals and Industries Finance, shares her views on the evolution of the mining sector.

Find out more about how Societe Generale leads charge into challenging new renewables market: interview of our experts Federico Turegano and Olivier Musset published on Risk.net, May 5 2022.

Few financial innovations have caught the public imagination like cryptocurrencies. When Bitcoin was born out of the turmoil of the global financial crisis in 2009 it seemed rather mundane: an electronic peer-to-peer cash system, launched via an academic white paper by an anonymous author Satoshi Nakamoto. Its price was $0.