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Société Générale is France's third largest bank by total assets after BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole. [4] It is also the sixth largest bank in Europe and the world's eighteenth. [4] It is considered to be a systemically important bank by the Financial Stability Board.
Société Marseillaise de Crédit, Marseille; Crédit du Nord itself in the rest of France; Gilbert Dupont, a stock brokerage firm; Crédit du Nord is fully owned by Société Générale. Crédit du Nord specialises on professionals and small business. It serves about 1.5 million customers in more than 700 stores (2006).
In 1999, BNP and Société Générale fought a complex battle on the stock market, with Société Générale bidding for Paribas and BNP bidding for Société Générale and counter-bidding for Paribas. BNP's bid for Société Générale failed, while its bid for Paribas succeeded leading to a merger of BNP and Paribas one year later on 23 May ...
The Crédit Mobilier (French pronunciation: [kʁedi mɔbilje]; officially the Société Générale du Crédit Mobilier [sɔsjete ʒeneʁal dy kʁedi mɔbilje], lit. ' general company for movable [collateral-backed] credit ' ) was a French banking company created in 1852 by the Pereire brothers , and one of the world’s most significant and ...
Societe Generale de Banque au Liban S.A.L. (SGBL), (Arabic: بنك سوسيتيه جنرال في لبنان, founded in 1953), is a Lebanese bank, and a subsidiary of SGBL Group, [1] and offers banking services in the Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan), the Gulf (United Arab Emirates) and Europe (Cyprus, France and Monaco). [2]
François Pérol was the architect of the creation of Groupe BPCE, which he subsequently led for nearly a decade. Before moving to the Tours Duo in 2022, Groupe BPCE and Natixis were headquartered respectively on 50 and 30, Avenue Pierre-Mendès-France [] in Paris, flanked on both ends by office buildings of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations.
Christian Noyer, governor of the Bank of France, has described Kerviel as a "computer genius"; [8] however, sources within Société Générale described Kerviel as "not a star". [13] Kerviel earned a bonus of €60,000 on top of a €74,000 salary in 2006, considered modest compared to the salaries paid to traders in the financial markets. He ...
Société générale des transports maritimes (est. 1865), later part of Chargeurs; Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS, est. 1878), later SGS S.A. Société Générale des Chemins de Fer Economiques (est. 1880 in France), later Chemins de fer et transport automobile; Société Générale de Touage et de Remorquage (est. 1898), later Touax