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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...

This article explores why there is still a need to foster the quality and accessibility of ESG data to be embedded in investment solutions and risk management.

Société Générale–FORGE (SG–Forge), a subsidiary of the Group with expertise in the field of crypto-assets and blockchain, issued its stablecoin named “EUR CoinVertible (EURCV)” in April 2023.

Matching Africa’s natural and human capital with financial capital is vital for its sustainable development. Societe Generale is deploying the know-how and experience of its teams to design innovative financings for the continent’s emerging entrepreneurs and impactful projects.

Limiting the emissions on university campuses across the US will be key to reaching net zero goals by 2050.

Sugarcane is the largest crop in the world by production quantity, totaling nearly 2 billion tons every year and accounting for most of the sugar produced globally.

With tech banker Jonathan Weinberger

By Tapan Vaishnav, Head of Advisory and Financing Group for Asia Pacific and Eugene Tan, Director, Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Finance for Asia Pacific at Societe Generale

China’s leadership in digital payments has reshaped the way companies think about cash management. It now promises to transform cross-border commerce with the world’s second-biggest economy.

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are gaining interest even though they are in their infancy, and it is not clear how fast they will develop. Central banks' interest in the subject has not waned - no less than 100 central banks are working on the subject, but many questions remain unanswered.

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.

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.

Within the Innovators 2022, Societe Generale stood out thanks to Sustainability-linked Trade Finance and Global Treasury powered by Kyriba.

Asia’s ongoing infrastructure deficit means the region’s transition towards a sustainable future will be very different from that of Europe or the US. Yet it needs not be slow. Innovations in technology and finance – together with a rapidly changing mindset – present big opportunities to accelerate Asia’s journey towards a cleaner, low-carbon future.

As Financial Technology (FinTech) becomes more innovative and sophisticated, non-bank FinTech companies have introduced competition to the cash management business of banks. Gavin Wang, Head of Payments and Cash Management, Societe Generale China, shares his views on how banks can enhance their core strengths and provide liquidity management for enterprises...

Find out more about the huge potential of Floating Solar and the major opportunities it offers for the project finance community: an article written by our Energy experts Allan Baker and Cedric Chatel in Project Finance International, March 10 2021.