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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]
The city block of 29, boulevard Haussmann, remodeled by Société Générale between 1906 and 1912 and its registered office since 1915 Atrium of the Siège central de la Société Générale inaugurated in 1912. By 1913, Société Générale had 122,000 shareholders.
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.
In the early 1930s, the bank renamed itself Banque Populaire Industrielle et Commerciale de la Région Est de Paris. In addition to small accounts, the bank also welcomed larger clients such as the Mouchotte brothers (alcohol merchants), Noël (real estate agent), Paul Coche (furniture manufacturer) and the Banque des Travaux publics.
In 2010 the French government's Autorité de la concurrence (the department in charge of regulating competition) fined eleven banks, including La Banque postale, the sum of €384.9 million for colluding to charge unjustified fees on check processing, especially for extra fees charged during the transition from paper check transfer to ...
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.
1822: King William I of the Netherlands establishes in Brussels the Algemeene Nederlandsche Maatschappij ter Befavour van de Volksvlijt, the forerunner of the Société Générale of Belgium (Société Générale) and Generale Bank. 1865: creation of the General Savings and Loan Fund (ASLK / CGER), which will merge with Generale Bank in the 1990s.
In 1926, Conrad Schlumberger, and his brother Marcel Schlumberger, formed Société de Prospection Electrique (SPE) which specialized in oil and coal exploration as well as civil engineering. In March 1931, SPE and Société Géophysique de Recherches Minières (SGRM), both specialists in seismology and magnetometry , merged into La Compagnie ...