At the request of the management company Ofi Invest AM and the insurer Generali France, Societe Generale participated, from April to November 2024, in the projects led by the Banque de France and the European Central Bank (ECB) concerning the use of a wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (wCBDC), i.e. “exploratory” euro cash tokens, for the settlement of...

Manage tech debt to optimise scalable target operating models. How are leading firms approaching retiring legacy systems, adopting emerging tech, data management & governance whilst aligning controls & merging workflows? Franck BONTE, MD & CIO, Societe Generale Securities Services, explains.

Large Language Models and Generative AI are poised to transform the world of post-trade, enabling firms to enhance client interactions and improve productivity. While AI will bring benefits for the industry, issues must be addressed on data quality, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and the risk that vital workplace skills could be lost, as the...

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has been committed to an ambitious digital transformation for several years, with efficiency and client experience as its watchwords, and is now rewarded.

The end of the year is often the time to take stock of the successes and failures of the past months and draw useful conclusions to get back on the right track. Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) organised a Digital Week in December 2023 to share with all our teams the digital transformations under way and the advances achieved in serving our clients....

The digitalisation of the financial sector is more relevant than ever. Tokenisation based on blockchain technologies is accelerating the transformation of our industry. This development has an impact on our sector, and Luxembourg has a role to play in securing its future.

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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...

As a global asset servicer, Societe Generale Securities Services is called on to inter-vene on a number of fronts, including in technology. The B2B Magazin editorial team spoke to Laurent Marochini, Head of Innovation at Societe Generale Securities Services, about the challenges of digital assets and currencies, including regulatory issues.

Long holding centre stage due to work conducted to increase user autonomy, the digital transformation* is now entering a maturity phase, where, far from the “wow” factors of the early days, now the search for long-term value takes precedence and guides the efforts made.

Feedback from the 2023 SAFe Summit, held in Prague on 16 and 17 May. Including technical presentations and client testimonials, the SAFe Summit provides insight into how companies like Societe Generale use frameworks such as SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework) to thrive in a changing world by practising agility. Emmanuel Dumont, Head of the Group Agile Centre...

Sustainable investing has become common practice, however there is not one route to the final portfolio. Asset owners need to navigate not only regulatory requirements and internal KPIs*, but the breadth and depth of data, data providers and diverse approaches by asset managers. Institutional investors must identify those asset managers who master the data...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) was held as every year in January at the famous Swiss ski resort of Davos. Switzerland, the world's most innovative country* according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, is the ideal place to host such a forum. The Davos summit brings together the key decision-makers in the global economy to review the...

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), a major player in fund distribution, is always ready to listen to its institutional investors and asset manager clients and is participating with them in development initiatives using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). For example, a hybrid, innovative and evolutionary model, has been set up between IZNES and SGSS...

Innovation has always been a driving force in the financial sector. The past health crisis has accelerated cycles of innovation and digitalisation by pushing banks to massively adapt and adopt new technologies. The future of the sector promises to be exciting. It will also be linked to societal revolutions and new generations which will be sources of change. ...