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Long-term financing is helping the continent create more sustainable services and build cities to combat climate change

An agreement spearheaded by a coalition of major banks is helping to put the world’s commercial maritime fleets on a more sustainable footing

Who would be an energy minister? Fuel and gas prices are soaring, smaller suppliers are going bankrupt and the political opposition claims people will freeze to death during a winter of power cuts.

Last year, at Sibos 2020, Societe Generale Global Transaction Banking's experts talked about the irresistible rise in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). One year later, the interest shown by central banks in this area has not waned, but many questions remain unanswered.

Last year at Sibos 2020, Cécile Bartenieff – COO of Global Banking & Investor Solutions – presented Societe Generale's goals regarding Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) with particular emphasis on the DANIE project initiated by Societe Generale and involving numerous banks and data providers. One year later, it is clear that the subject has matured...

For several years now, APIs have been at the heart of the transformation of financial services, in Europe and around the world. In BtoB and BtoC, the move towards Open Banking, promoted in Europe by the PSD2 directive, is already well underway: new services are gradually being developed and the customer experience is being simplified. APIs also transform...

Véronique de Bellefon, Marie-Gabrielle de Drouas and Sébastien Halley des Fontaines, respectively Head of CSR for Global Transaction & Payment Services, Positive Impact Structurer and Head of Structured Trade Finance at Societe Generale, describe how the banking sector is promoting the energy transition through its activities and internal policies.

For both individual and corporate customers, KYC (“Know Your Customer”) procedures are among the main friction points in the client journey. These steps, which are required by regulators, are necessary to combat fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing. However, there is still much room for improvement: that is the job of the “KYC Transformation” teams...

Inflation and its long-term impact on society is one of the most important questions facing investors, governments and central banks this year.

‘’Paper-based transactions, which still dominate international trade, are a source of cost, delay, inefficiency, fraud, error and environmental impact’’(1), G7, gathered in London in April 2021, said.

Despite the prevailing economic uncertainty being caused by COVID-19, CEE (Central and Eastern European) markets are in recovery mode. Societe Generale Securities Services [SGSS] looks at the main developments now underway in the CEE region, together with some of the challenges facing investors.

Nicolas Cailly and Frantz Teissèdre, Managing Director Payments & Cash Management and Head of Interbank Relationships at Societe Generale, respectively, agree that certain obstacles still have to be removed so that ubiquity can become the norm. They also discussed the changes this brings about.

Despite the prevailing economic uncertainty being caused by COVID-19, Western European markets are in recovery mode. Societe Generale Securities Services [SGSS] looks at the main developments now underway across the key European markets along with some of the challenges they pose to investors.

A few years ago, Societe Generale made a series of strategic investments in its Agency Execution Services business in the U.S. The bank further enhanced its algorithmic trading platform – called Nova - in ways that proved prophetic while serving clients through the pandemic. In the following Q&A, we asked Kevin Sweeney, Head of Cross-Asset Trading and...

Press headlines relating shortages of goods and production inputs have become daily staple and even with some improvement on the health front, there seems to be little let up in the articles reporting various frictions and related price spikes.

Banking institutions and their partners have long been aware of cybersecurity risks to their information systems, applications and data. However, new threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, requiring everyone to be more vigilant, but also to cooperate.

A clear focus on sustainability can help Asia access the trillions of dollars needed for the transition to a cleaner, greener future

Despite the prevailing economic uncertainty being caused by COVID-19, African markets are in recovery mode. Societe Generale Securities Services [SGSS] looks at the main developments now underway across the key African markets together with some of the challenges they pose to investors.