Societe Generale

230 results about this entity

Period: 12 Oct 2006 - 22 Jan 2025

Crédit Agricole joins French bank-run e-payments service

Paylib, a PayPal-style online payment system set up last year by French banks, is extending its reach thanks to the addition of Crédit Agricole as a member and a deal with MasterCard that will let people use the service abroad.

Societe Generale Securities Services extends T2S direct connectivity commitment

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), a leading custodian in the European market, has announced its intention to widen the scope of its implementation of direct connectivity to the Target-2 Securities (T2S) platform.

SGSS launches outsourced wealth management platform in UK

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched a fully integrated Wealth and Investment Management outsourcing solution for the UK.

Swift signs major banks to KYC Registry

Interbank messaging network Swift has recruited a group of major banks to help develop its centralised KYC utility for the collection and distribution of standard information required by banks as part of their due diligence processes.

Deutsche Bank bans chat rooms as Europe takes banks to task over rate rigging

On the day it was fined EUR725 million by the EU for rate rigging, Deutsche Bank has confirmed that it has banned traders from using chat rooms, which have proved a fruitful hunting ground for regulators sniffing out market manipulation.

Swift signs first Asian bank to 3SKey

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) has become the first Asian bank to adopt 3SKey, the multi-bank digital identity service for corporate treasury authentication developed by financial messaging network Swift.

French banks team on e-payments service

BNP Paribas, Société Générale and La Banque Postale have joined forces to launch a PayPal-style online payment system called Paylib.

ICE calls in banks for Euronext IPO

IntercontinentalExchange has called in three banks to help float the European equity operations of Nyse Euronext, according to Reuters.

SocGen begins national commercial roll out of mobile NFC

After years of pilot trials and road tests, French bank Société Générale is set to launch its first national commercial application of NFC-based mobile payments.

SocGen private bank completes two-year project to migrate core banking system to the cloud

Luxembourg private bank Société Générale Bank & Trust has completed a two-year project to migrate its core banking system, comprising ten million lines of code, to a cloud computing architecture.

Chase and la Caixa top mobile banking study; HSBC bottom of the pile

Chase has topped Forrester Research's mobile banking rankings, with Spain's la Caixa proving Europe's top dog and HSBC trailing badly at the bottom of the table.

SocGen considers outsourcing 400 back office jobs - Reuters

French bank Societe Generale is pondering outsourcing around 400 corporate and investment back office jobs to Accenture, according to Reuters.