The Group’s microcredit activities in France meet two types of need: professional microcredit and social microcredit.

The global economic recovery, which began in 2009 and was confirmed in 2010, is set to continue into 2011.

In 1973, when the world economy was facing the effects of the first oil crisis, Societe Generale created Soginnove.

The ending of the crisis in the financial sector is a prerequisite to any sustainable economic recovery.

"As soon as Sanofi told us they were interested in Genzyme, we got ready to move". Interview with Michel Cohen, Senior Banker, SG CIB, Paris.

Periods of crisis generate tensions. The term "currency war" refers to the competitive devaluations prevalent in the 1930s.

Bringing investors and issuers together: that is the main aim of SG CIB's annual Premium Review, which this year offered almost 700 investors the opportunity to meet with 78 corporate companies and to listen to SG CIB research analysts' investment views for the year ahead.

Societe Generale Morocco and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have formed a partnership to support the development of VSEs and SMEs in Morocco. This partnership notably concerns the release of 20 million euros in funding.

“It’s when you can accept the diversity of opinions, of behaviours, if you can accept different genders, if you can have different cultural backgrounds working together, it’s easier to avoid making mistakes.”

Societe Generale has been accredited by the French Government Business Relations Mediation Scheme (Médiation Inter-entreprises) for its Responsible Supplier Relations (Label Relations Fournisseurs Responsables).