ESG/CSR

As climate pressures intensify, environmental infrastructure and mitigation banking emerge as important enablers to protect and preserve biodiversity. Societe Generale’s participation in Naturion’s financing highlights how mitigation banking can help channel capital toward nature-based solutions with measurable environmental impact.

As global trade undergoes one of its biggest transformations in decades, transaction banking has become a strategic priority rather than a back-office function. In response, Andreea Parneci and Florence Escaffre, co-deputy heads of Global Transaction & Payment Services, outline how to deliver the real-time visibility, seamless global coverage and solutions...

Welcome to this new whitepaper, in which we bring together four of today’s most pressing topics for corporate treasurers. All are connected, in the midst of ongoing global trading uncertainty, by the urgency with which each must be tackled, whether in risk mitigation or in the leveraging of opportunity.

As demand for net-zero strategies grows, nature-based carbon credits are gaining traction—supported by innovative financing and a rapidly expanding voluntary market. Chestnut Carbon (“Chestnut”), a leader in the nature-based carbon removal sector, exemplifies the growth and potential of the market. Societe Generale participated as Lender in the development of...

Societe Generale recently launched a Sustainable GTB Framework to better support clients in their energy transition, particularly in assessing and monitoring the environmental and social impact of their day-to-day transactions. With ongoing regulation and evolving standards, what are the challenges companies are facing? What is their role in this energy...

Societe Generale recently launched a Sustainable GTB Framework to better support clients in their energy transition, particularly in assessing and monitoring the environmental and social impact of their day-to-day transactions. With ongoing regulation and evolving standards, what are the challenges companies are facing? What is their role in this energy...

Corporate treasurers are at the tiller as they help their company navigate the increasing ESG challenges. While global standardisation around ESG is still a work in progress, a recent innovative framework developed by Societe Generale can help to increase transparency and credibility in this space.

Societe Generale named Best International Trade Finance Provider by Global Finance, for the Western Europe region as well as in Algeria, France, Romania and Senegal.

In light of the acceleration of climate change, the financial services industry has a crucial role to play in addressing the climate crisis and financing the transition to a low-carbon economy.