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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).
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]
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 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.
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 ...
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.
A new subsidiary, the "CFCB-Société Nouvelle", was created in 1965 and on 1 January 1966 took over the CFCB's banking network in mainland France. [ 6 ] : 487 Following the 1966 acquisition of the BUP by the Suez Company , the CFCB-Société Nouvelle merged on 1 January 1967 with other banking operations of the BUP and was renamed Banque de l ...