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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 Générale de Belgique (Dutch: Generale Maatschappij van België, lit. ' General Company of Belgium ' ; often referred to in Belgium simply as "Société Générale" or SGB) was an investment bank and, subsequently, an industrial and financial conglomerate in Belgium between 1822 and 2003.
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]
[6]: 462 As a consequence, the former mainland French branches of the Compagnie Algérienne became branches of the respective regional banks of the Crédit du Nord group (itself acquired in 1997 by Société Générale), e.g. the Société Marseillaise de Crédit in Marseille, the Banque Courtois in Bordeaux, or the Banque Nuger in Vichy.
The Société Générale de Banque held 40 percent of all deposits in Belgium. [3]: V The bank subsequently further expanded into retail banking services: its Belgian branch network grew from 328 in 1945 to 640 in 1964 and 1,100 in 1975. [3]: V-VI In 1985, its name was further abbreviated to Générale de Banque (Dutch: Generale Bank). [4]
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 France became Société Marseillaise de Crédit, and the northern agencies of SMC are now Crédit du Nord. The first cash dispenser in France was opened in Marseilles at the head office of SMC in 1968.
Société Générale des Films (est. 1923), producer of movies such as The Passion of Joan of Arc Société générale de financement (est. 1962), later merged into Investissement Québec Société Générale Congolaise des Minérais (Gecomin, est. 1967), later Société Générale des Carrières et des Mines or Gécamines
BRD - Groupe Société Générale SA is a Romanian bank which is based in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in 1923 and is currently the third largest bank by assets (about 10.9 bn €) in Romania. The majority of shares are owned by French Société Générale financial group who holds a stake of 60.17%.