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The Société générale de financement (SGF) was a holding company owned by the Government of Quebec. Its mission was to attract investment to Quebec by investing in other companies. Another mission was to promote new small businesses. In December 2010, Bill 123 that planned the merger of the SGF into Investissement Québec received royal assent.
Société Générale S.A. (French: [sɔsjete ʒeneʁal]), colloquially known in English-speaking countries as SocGen (pronounced [sɔk ʒɛn]), [3] is a French multinational universal bank and financial services company founded in 1864. It is registered in downtown Paris and headquartered nearby in La Défense.
The Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (French pronunciation: [sɔsjete də devlɔpmɑ̃ dez‿ɑ̃tʁəpʁiz kyltyʁɛl], Society for the Development of Cultural Enterprises, abbr. SODEC) is a Quebec government agency founded in 1983 under the name of Société Générale du Cinéma du Québec (General Society of Cinema of Quebec, SGCQ). [1]
In 1913, Société Générale, by then one of the world's largest banks, decided to expand to the newly established French protectorate in Morocco and opened branches in Casablanca and Tangier. In 1923, it relocated its Moroccan head office in Casablanca from the rue des Consuls to a purpose-built building on the prestigious boulevard Mohammed ...
SGS (formerly Société Générale de Surveillance (French for General Society of Surveillance)) is a Swiss multinational company headquartered in Geneva, which provides inspection, verification, testing and certification services. Its 99,600 employees operate a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories worldwide. [2]
While its legal headquarters remains in Lévis, most of the executive management, including the CEO, is based in Montreal. [3] As of 2017, Desjardins Group consists of 293 local credit unions operating 1,032 points of service and serving more than seven million members and clients, mostly in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. [4]
The Montreal Climate Exchange or MCeX was started as a joint venture between the Montreal Exchange and the now-defunct Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). It trades futures contracts on greenhouse gases. Established on July 12, 2006, and launched on May 30, 2008, MCeX is the first regulated environmental market in Canada.
Kerviel states his actions were known to his superiors and that the losses were caused by panic selling by the bank. Société Générale's own wrongs were later established by a French jurisdiction, which led the Cour de cassation to cancel the €4.9 billion sanction on Kerviel. [2]