ETFs have proliferated across the European markets since the 2000s. Societe Generale Securities Services takes a look back over their recent history, brimming with incontestable achievements, and analyses how to make the difference to meet investors' new needs.

The ECMS (Eurosystem Collateral Management System) has been rescheduled again from 8 April 2024 to 18 November 2024.

With the last phase of EMIR's implementation in September 2022, collateral management by triparty agents for triparty schemes has really reached cruising speed.

Alessandro Cavallari and Steve Gutowski of Societe Generale Securities Services discuss the evolving post-trade landscape, emphasising brokers' need for technological adaptability and strategic partnerships with settlement agents.

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In order to maintain its position as a global leader, the Luxembourg financial centre will have to continue and accelerate its efforts in terms of innovation. Read our interview with Mathieu Maurier and Laurent Marochini, respectively Country Head and Head of Innovation, Societe Generale Securities Services Luxembourg.

Last May, the European Commission adopted the Retail Investment Strategy (RIS), which aims to protect retail investors, help them access European capital markets and provide them with a clear view of the return on their portfolios.

Asset managers' processes must comply with ESMA's recommendations following its supervisory actions on the costs and fees paid by investment funds (2022 report) and the valuation of UCITS and AIF assets (2023 report).

During the last Market Infrastructure Board (MIB) meeting on 27/28 September 2023, the ECMS (Eurosystem Collateral Management System) status and feasibility of the Go Live plan were reviewed.

The French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) published a report on 11 September 2023 entitled "Private equity: state of play and vulnerabilities", in which it describes the growing Private Equity market, at the heart of the economy’s financing, and outlines the risks inherent in this type of investment.

Imagine one day talking to your computer, your car, your home and that they serve you precisely in the way expected. With the advent of super-powered chatbots, the real-time availability of data, our endless imagination and brilliant human brains, that day may not be as far away as you thought. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already around us and is growing...

In response to the AMF's requirements concerning liquidity management tools, Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) provides its asset manager clients with a range of services.

The new European Long-Term Investment Funds regulation (ELTIF 2 or ELTIF review) becomes applicable on 10 January 2024. This updated regulation is welcome by the fund industry. It is expected to create a more attractive framework for long-term investments, to provide more flexibility to Asset Managers and to improve access to retail investors.

The Shareholder Rights Directive II is a European legislation that defines the set of rules intended to strengthen the rights of shareholders of companies listed on regulated markets. In particular, the improvement of the communication process between Issuers and shareholders and the facilitation of the exercise of voting rights in company general meetings,...

Network managers are having to change the way they do business, as the emergence of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and new digital asset classes takes hold. Speaking at The Network Forum (TNF) in Athens in June, Fouad Massabni, Head of ESG Offer at Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) and Laurent Marochini, Head of Innovation at SGSS, outlined...