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It is registered in downtown Paris and headquartered nearby in La Défense. 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.
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 ...
In 1998, it was privatised again and bought by the Crédit Commercial de France, owned by HSBC. [1] In 2001, online banking was added to the website. [1] In 2008, it was bought by Banque Populaire. [2] It was sold to Crédit du Nord (a member of the Société Générale group) in 2010. Since then, all Credit du Nord agencies in the south of ...
Alain Plessis - Histoire des banques en France (French language) La Fédération Bancaire Française and l’Université de Paris X Nanterre; Véronique Chocron (9 May 2019) - Alors que la Société générale a perdu plus d’un million de clients en six ans, sa filiale Boursorama vise plus de 3 millions de comptes en 2021 le Monde
The Société générale de crédit industriel et commercial was founded on 7 May 1859, mainly on the initiative of banker Armand Donon who was supported by the politically influential Duke of Morny, as a competitor to the Pereire brothers's Crédit Mobilier on the model of successful British depository banks such as the London and Westminster Bank.
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 ...
Crédit Lyonnais was nationalized on 1 January 1946 together with the three other major French depository banks, namely Banque Nationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie, Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris, and Société Générale. It kept expanding abroad in the new context of decolonization. By 1974, it had 1,905 branches and 47,000 employees.
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]