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  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    SocGen chief Frédéric Oudéa to step down after 15-year tenure

    Europe’s longest-serving bank boss to leave French lender in May 2023 after navigating multiple crises

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Market bubbles
    Happy Monday!

    Market bellyaches from SocGen’s Albert Edwards and Citi’s Robert Buckland

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    SocGen says Ukraine war to hit cost of risk

    French bank that was one of the most exposed western financial groups to Russia reports 16.6% increase in revenues

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Singapore deal allows SocGen bankers to flee Hong Kong

    French bank declares ‘business emergency’ to work around Chinese territory’s Covid curbs

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    LexRosbank PAO
    Société Générale/Rosbank: selling out to an oligarch of last resort Premium content

    Vladimir Potanin will be able to negotiate the purchase of the Russian bank at a bargain price

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    SocGen to exit Russia with sale of Rosbank to oligarch

    French bank strikes deal with Vladimir Potanin’s Interros Capital

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    FT live news
    Live news updates from April 11: US and Kyiv warn that Russia is preparing for new offensive in Donbas, Musk declines to join Twitter board
  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Banks and Russia: there is no easy way out

    Western executives have limited ways to exit: sell up, wind down or pass the business to the state

  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    SocGen braces for potential hit to Russian business after record profits last year

    French lender is preparing for ‘all kinds of scenarios’ but talks of leaving region are ‘premature’, says chief

  • Saturday, 29 January, 2022
    News in-depthEuropean banks
    Banks betting on Russia face a new test of their appetite

    Société Générale and UniCredit are among European lenders that have persevered with the Russian market

  • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    ECB warns European lenders on Russia sanctions risk

    Central bank takes action as US threatens ‘massive consequences’ if Moscow invades Ukraine

  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    Lex
    Société Générale/LeasePlan: European banks see a road to profits in car leasing Premium content

    The deal offers an attractive way to bring in higher priced lending during a time of low interest rates

  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    Société Générale makes €4.9bn bet on car leasing boom

    French bank’s ALD arm strikes deal to buy rival LeasePlan

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    SocGen’s investment bank recovery boosts profits

    French bank beats analyst expectations as equity trading rebounds and provisions fall

  • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
    SocGen reports best first-half performance in 5 years

    Paris-based bank’s €1.4bn second-quarter net income is 68% ahead of analysts’ forecasts

  • Monday, 10 May, 2021
    Lex
    Société Générale: Frédéric Oudéa targets new ‘normative’ Premium content

    The French lender is not alone among European banks in benefiting from a mood shift

  • Monday, 10 May, 2021
    Société Générale to boost corporate banking after trading pain

    French lender shifts focus of investment arm towards finance and advice

  • Thursday, 6 May, 2021
    SocGen to allow staff to work from home three days a week after crisis

    French bank’s pledge comes as first-quarter profits rebound after recovery in equities business

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    SocGen falls to first full-year loss in decades as pandemic takes toll

    Fourth-quarter results at French bank show signs of recovery

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    News in-depthEuropean banks
    Europe’s bank bosses under pressure

    Shake-up at region’s top lenders leads to questions over how long replacements will last

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Due Diligence
    London calling: the post-Brexit future for Europe’s financial capital Premium content

    While the City’s swagger may have diminished, dire predictions have not come to pass

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    LexEuropean banks
    Société Générale: branch line Premium content

    Customers and unionists will need careful management in the shift to remote banking

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    SocGen to shut 600 French branches as customers move online

    Lender to combine main retail network with subsidiary Crédit du Nord in move to cut €450m in costs

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Members only: more on the top ranks of European banks Premium content

    Elite jobs are notoriously inaccessible to newcomers — Cerberus’s failed Deutsche coup being the latest example

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    SocGen swings back to profit as equity trading rebounds

    French bank pushes regulators to allow it to resume dividend payments

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