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Christophe Roux, Head of metals, mining and industries EMEA at Societe Generale, explores the challenges facing Europe's steel industry as it moves toward decarbonisation, in an article published in “Mining Technology” on October 25, 2024.

Treasurers know what they want for their cross-border payments: seamless interoperability and liquidity management. This, however, is becoming harder to achieve amid geopolitical uncertainty and proliferating sanctions and compliance obligations. Add to that real-time operations, ISO 20022 standardisation and instant cross-border payments, it is easy to see...

3 Questions to Paul Taylor, Global Head of Maritime Industries, GLBA

The Telecom Media Technology (TMT) sector finds itself at a pivotal juncture, grappling with substantial sustainability challenges.

To improve the operational efficiency of cross-border payments, payment service providers can count on several initiatives, notably Market initiatives, while remaining vigilant regarding symmetries or asymmetries of situations and of access within geographical areas.

In 2020, the G20 countries defined goals to improve cross-border payments by 2027. Four years after that first step, the priorities have now been clearly established… as have the hurdles that need to be overcome.

On September 26, Société Générale hosted its 10th Global Markets Conference in London, attended by around 350 finance professionals from 22 countries. The conference provided a platform for discussions on the latest innovations and updates in the fields of Macro, Quant, and Derivatives through a combination of keynote speeches, panel discussions, and...

Banking institutions have huge quantities of data in their hands, and it is in their interest to use this data to improve their efficiency and quality of service – provided they preserve another of their assets: trust. The cross-border payments sector, for which the implementation of the ISO 20022 standard will facilitate the structuring and exchanging of...

Since the boom in 2020, global Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) investments that embed ESG criteria have gone through some bumpy years – particularly in 2023. Macroeconomic events such as the energy price shock in Europe, interest rate hikes, and even political elections, have had a profound impact on ESG investing.