The European Union's (EU) plan to ban the production and sale of new combustion vehicles from 2035 in favour of electric vehicles means the building of more electric charging stations. In Germany, to meet this need, the Federal Ministry of Digitalization and Transport initiated a nationwide tender in 2021 to launch "Deutschlandnetz", a programme to develop...

According to the European Environment Agency*, the transport sector is responsible for nearly a quarter of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Chinese have a saying, 'A peaceful life has nothing to do with the passage of time'.

On 19th January 2024, Societe Generale and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, signed a Collaboration Framework Agreement to accelerate their support for sustainable finance projects.

Following a correction in valuations during 2023, investors are turning cautiously optimistic about Australian real estate again and refocusing on the sector’s structural growth, which is being underpinned by heavy investment into higher environmental standards.

Societe Generale is awarded “Best Investment Bank in Sustainable Financing” by Global Finance, for the third year in a row.

The Asset Triple A Sustainable Finance Awards recognises institutions and corporates’ collective efforts in promoting sustainable finance amidst the changing market environment, supporting the region’s green transition and social development.

As an historical leading aviation bank, Societe Generale, together with independent nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and four other leading aviation banks, supported the development of the Pegasus Guidelines, a first-of-its-kind framework to enable banks to measure and disclose their aviation lending portfolios’ emissions in a consistent and...

Luis Vaz Pinto, Deputy Global Head of Corporate Finance & Global Head of ECM at Societe Generale, takes us through his views on the challenges facing the financial industry in 2024.

Societe Generale continues its stellar performance in the structured products industry, after dominating several categories at the Structured Retail Products (SRP) Europe Awards. We were recognised as:

With the "Solar Pack" offer, Societe Generale supports its corporate and institutional clients in the energy transition of the African continent.

By Paul Taylor, Global Head, Maritime Industries, Societe Generale, and Elodie Tarby, Strategic & Capital Advisory, Maritime Industries, Societe Generale, from the recent Societe Generale webinar entitled “Decarbonising the Maritime Sector”, where experts reported the progress being made and the focus of finance on greener ships.

In the first section entitled “Faster, further and stronger with ISO 20022: the keys to a successful migration”, Societe Generale experts shared their experiences and offered their best advice to financial players still having to make the big leap into the promising realm of ISO 20022. In this second part, our experts discuss the current state of payments...

After many years of patient development, the ISO 20022 payments standard is gaining ground and revolutionising the world of payments and reporting, particularly for correspondent banking and cash management activities. ISO 20022 is a global standard designed for the exchange of computerised data in financial transactions. It aims to streamline the...

History can tell us a lot about how markets perform in the wake of monetary easing. In anticipation of rate cuts in the U.S., we talked with Solomon Tadesse, Head of North American Quant Equity Research at Societe Generale Americas, about how expected rate cuts from the Fed will impact US markets.