Société Générale
Financial Markets
The leading French provider of financial solutions, the Société Générale group has three main areas of activity.
Retail banking
The Société Générale group has around twenty million French and international customers, including 8.7 million individuals at the end of June 2005.
At French national level, the Group has two major complementary branch networks comprised of Société Générale and Crédit du Nord.
Strengthened by the growth in its Financial services, the Group is deploying worldwide and now covers 34 countries.
Asset management and investor services
Four subsidiaries of the Société Générale group provide all the investment management activities and investor services. Their operations include: asset management, private banking, securities services and online banking.
Amongst the leaders in the sector, the Group is ranked no. 4 for asset management in the euro zone with 411 billion euros of assets under management and no.3 in Europe for custodian operations with 2,155 billion euros at the end of September 2006.
Corporate and investment banking
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, the Société Générale group's corporate finance and investment division, proposes financial solutions to companies, investors and financial institutions.
The capital markets, derivatives and structured finance expertise of its 10,000 employees ensures the Group's competitiveness on a global scale.
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