Trade Finance

Societe Generale signed with ENEL its first Sustainability-Linked Guarantee Agreement for a total amount of EUR 440 million.

Societe Generale has been entrusted to act as sole issuing bank of a 75 million euros green guarantee for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy to be used in the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea

Mota-Engil Africa, part of Mota-Engil Group, is an African Engineering company that signed a binding agreement with the Bugesera Airport Company (Airport Concessionaire), for the construction of the Bugesera International Airport in Rwanda, the largest International Airport of the country.

Within the Innovators 2021 named by Global Finance, Societe Generale stood out thanks to its Green Trade Finance initiative.

In early 2021, we are still emerging from the economic wreckage caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – what are the key financing trends?

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Societe Generale won "Best Commodity Trade Finance Bank" by Global Trade Review in the GTR Leaders in Trade Awards 2020 which recognises the bank's expertise across commodities markets globally.  

Marie-Laure Gastellu, global head of trade finance and services at Societe Generale, speaks to James King about the outlook for supply chain finance in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the steps banks are taking to better serve their clients in a changing world.

Marie-Laure Gastellu, global head of trade finance and services at Societe Generale, discusses the development of green trade finance including efforts to develop globally recognised standards, as well as increasing customer demand for green trade finance solutions.