Global Finance Best FX Provider Awards 2019

19/11/2018

Societe Generale wins Best FX Provider for Corporates, Best FX Provider In Central & Eastern Europe, Best FX Execution Algorithms in the Global Finance Best FX Providers Awards 2019.

 

“Our FX awards honor financial institutions that demonstrate foresight in predicting the direction of the market and acumen in helping clients adapt to currency-market changes.” Joseph D. Giarrapuot, Global Finance publisher and editorial director

BEST FX PROVIDER FOR CORPORATES

Committed to strategic dialogue and long-lasting relationships, our teams accompany corporate clients by offering them specialist sector expertise, market risk advisory, technical excellence and powerful distribution to help them achieve their objectives. We deliver a comprehensive set of FX products and solutions, as well as the full range of cross asset solutions, to meet our client’s investment or hedging needs from tactical optimisation to major strategic risk management.

This is the second year in a row that we win this award.

BEST FX PROVIDER IN CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE

Our unique Central & Eastern European market footprint stems from the combination of:

  • The bank’s leading position as a provider of Emerging Market Products in the CEE region, with a distinguishing offering & presence in CEE 4 (Russia, Poland, Czech Republic & Romania).
  • Strong International Retail Network with a large branch network concentrating on the CEEMEA region with over 3,800 branches and over 60,000 employees, giving the bank unparalleled access to local risk, assets and market liquidity.

This is the ninth consecutive time that we win this award.

BEST FX EXECUTION ALGORITHMS, BEST BANK FX TRADING TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY

As FX liquidity has fragmented across multiple trading venue, FX algorithmic execution is under the spotlight. The key objectives driving the bank’s work on FX execution algorithms are:

  • Minimizing market impacts and transaction costs,
  • Offering high levels of transparency,
  • Enabling clients to take control and directly trade in a wide range of liquidity pools.

BEST FX PROVIDER IN FRANCE, IVORY COAST AND ROMANIA

Based on criteria such as transaction volume, market share, scope of global coverage, customer service, competitive pricing and innovative technologies, the bank is proud to be named: Best FX Provider France, Ivory Coast and Romania.

These awards are strong industry recognitions of the bank’s expertise, hard work put in by our teams, and commitment to continuously innovate and offer best in class solutions to clients. Beyond the products or algorithms themselves, they also highlight the value of the added services that the bank provides to its FX franchise clients, notably tailored advisory and risk management strategies and reporting services.