Société Générale

231 results about this entity

Period: 12 Oct 2006 - 03 May 2024

/startups

SocGen launches payment and transaction banking accelerator programme

Societe Generale has launched an accelerator programme for startups working in trade finance cash management, factoring and correspondent banking.

/markets

SocGen signs six-year contract extension with SimCorp

SimCorp, an independent provider of SaaS (Software as a Service) investment management solutions, and Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) today announced an extension to their partnership until 2028 to promote front-to-back solutions dedicated to asset managers.

/wholesale

Societe Generale rolls out Surecomp Imex to Asian operations

Surecomp, a market leader in global trade finance solutions for banks and corporations, today announced that Societe Generale has gone live with the latest version of its IMEX solution for back-office trade finance processing automation across four countries in Asia.

/retail

Societe Generale's Boursorama signs MoU with ING for online banking referrals in France

Following ING's decision to exit the French retail banking market, Societe Generale announces that Boursorama has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ING to offer ING's online banking customers in France the best alternative banking solution, with dedicated customer journey and support conditions.

/markets

LuxSE admits security tokens issued by SocGen

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange has listed its first security tokens registered on a public blockchain.

/cloud

SocGen makes play to be a data-driven bank

Societe Generale is putting its faith in data and AI to help it transition to, and prosper in, the digital age.

/startups

Opensee Big Data analytics platform goes live at SocGen

Opensee, the Paris-based fintech offering financial institutions a real-time self-service analytics platform, has gone live with its big data solution at Societe Generale, one of Europe's leading financial services groups.

/Sibos

Sibos 2021: Swift, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and C3.AI to collaborate on AI platform

On day two of Sibos 2021, representatives from Swift, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and C3.AI took to the virtual stage to explore how collaboration and establishing a community between banks can support the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) at scale.

/people

SocGen to cut 3700 jobs in merger with Credit du Nord

Societe Generale is to create a new French retail bank through a merger with its unit Credit du Nord, leading to 3700 job losses between 2023 and 2025.

/sustainable

SocGen appoints chief sustainability officer

Societe Generale today announced the appointment of Hacina Py as Societe Generale Group’s Chief Sustainability Officer as of 20 October 2021.

/devops

Société Générale to tap into open factoring

Société Générale Factoring, the subsidiary of Société Générale dedicated to factoring, and HPD Lendscape, a leading international secured-lending platform vendor, today announced the successful alignment of the Société Générale Factoring’s sophisticated “open factoring” environment to the latest Lendscape API framework.

/wholesale

SocGen to overhaul global transaction banking business with Temenos

Societe Generale has selected Temenos to modernise the account management and payment systems for its global transaction banking activities in Europe and Asia

/cloud

SocGen and Kyriba co-develop cloud-based treasury management system

Societe Generale has joined forces with Kyriba to develop a new cloud-based treasury management system.

/payments

EBAday 2021: Driving correspondent banking success through wider adoption of instant payments

The shift toward instant payments will undoubtedly provide benefits for consumers, but it is the benefits for institutions and corporates that are likely to revolutionise financial services. However, to reap these benefits financial institutions must navigate the maze of deadlines and coinciding schemes in a proactive manner.

/markets

EIB issues digital bond on public blockchain

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has issued a €100 million two-year bond using public blockchain technology.

/crypto

SocGen issues structured product as security token on public blockchain

Societe Generale has issued the first structured product as a security token directly registered on the Tezos public blockchain.

/sustainable

Defining a truly green trade finance transaction with Societe Generale

Marie-Laure Gastellu, Head of Trade Services, Transaction Banking tells FinextraTV about Societe Generale’s recently launched green trade finance initiative that targets customers active in clean energy or transitioning from a carbon-intensive activity to a sustainable business model. She explains the journey so far, the market issues and opportunities it helps solve and the vision going forward.

/retail

Societe Generale gives all employees the right to work from home for up to two days a week

Societe Generale has reached an agreement with labour unions that introduces the right for all of its 40,000 employees in France to telework an average of two days a week.

/wealth

SocGen Private Bank outsources international back office IT to Azqore

In a constant drive to improve the quality of service and user experience, Societe Generale signs with Azqore, a subsidiary of Indosuez Wealth Management, an agreement related to the execution of back-office operations and a large part of the IT services of Societe Generale Private Banking's international entities.

/retail

French core banking vendor TagPay raises €25 million

TagPay, a core banking provider in which Société Générale holds a minority shareholding, has secured an investment of €25 million from Long Arc Capital to strengthen its sales, product and technical teams and to fund growth.