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Societe Generale Securities Services launches ESG Reporting tool

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched a new service for its clients: the ESG Reporting, a system to gauge investment strategies’ impact on the environment and the society.

22 November 2017

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Banks join forces with energy giants on blockchain-based trading platform

ABN Amro, ING and Societe Generale are joining forces with oil giants BP, Shell and Statoil, as well as several trading houses to build a blockchain-based digital platform for energy commodities trading.

07 November 2017

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SocGen, Mercury Derivatives contract with Trading Technologies

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced it has entered an agreement with Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking to make the TT trading platform globally available to Societe Generale’s institutional trading client base.

18 October 2017

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SocGen appoints Woolley to run new innovation division in UK

Societe Generale is bidding to tap into London's booming fintech sector with the appointment of Anthony Woolley as head of innovation for the UK.

17 October 2017

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Eight banks form joint venture to launch blockchain trade platform

Eight of Europe's largest banks have agreed to set up a joint venture company incorporated in Ireland to manage the roll out of Digital Trade Chain, a shared platform that aims at making domestic and cross-border commerce easier for European companies by harnessing the power of distributed ledger technology.

17 October 2017

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Could PCI DSS provide a guide for safeguarding payments over Swift?

Philippe Lepoutre, deputy head of global transaction and payment services and Thierry Olivier, chief information security officer at SocGen assess Swift's Customer Security Programme (CSP) and how it might evolve in the future to provide a better safety net for interbank payment flows.

09 October 2017

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SocGen launches mobile wallet for African unbanked

YUP is a mobile money solution for accessing a full range of transactional and financial services even without a bank account.

14 September 2017

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Liquidshare DLT joint venture formed by seven-strong finance consortium

A Paris-based consortium of top-rank financial firms are to pool resources in the establishment of a joint venture company that plans to use distributed ledger technology to ease the post-trade processing of SME lending operations.

11 July 2017

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Banking consortium awards Digital Trade Chain contract to IBM

Seven of Europe’s largest banks have selected IBM to build and host a new trade finance platform using Big Blue's Hyperledger Fabric.

27 June 2017

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SocGen combines high touch and electronic execution services

Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) today announces the completion of a programme to combine its execution teams, adapting to increasing client demand for fully integrated electronic and high-touch trading services across asset classes.

23 June 2017

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SocGen extends fintech collaboration mission to Germany

Societe Generale is sending a dedicated team of staffers to collaborate with fintech startups in Germany through a partnership with Berlin-based innovation hub, Factory.

07 June 2017

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SocGen to run internal hackathon with Open Bank Project

The Open Bank Project, leading API solution for banks, has partnered with Societe Generale Group, one of the largest European financial services groups, to hold an internal hackathon focused on Open Banking.

17 May 2017