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Just delayed or cancelled outright? The recession forecast by so many for 2023 has stubbornly failed to arrive, begging the question of whether the world’s central banks are managing to engineer a soft landing, or whether the global economy will still contract, only later than forecast?

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.

Talk about headwinds: the paradox of the aviation sector is that few industries have worked so hard to reduce their environmental impact and yet have so much left to do.

We are going through a massive transformation in the way we produce and use energy.

President Emmanuel Macron took the fight for maritime decarbonisation to the G7 Summit in Biarritz on August 24-26 after an audience at the Elysee Palace with senior members of the maritime industry.

Cash management remains a crucial part of banking as well as a home to technological innovation. Whether it is the completion of a multitude of transactions or the choice of a myriad of currencies, Societe Generale continues to stand at the vanguard of development in this plain but crucial operation.

Discover how Technology & Media telecoms sector is rapidly transforming.

The future’s bright, it’s green! Aware of the environmental consequences of transporting 90% of the world’s cargo by sea, the banks that finance many of those ships are staging a common intervention.

Sustainability and Positive Impact is of acute importance worldwide.