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As in all manners of life and business, the global Covid-19 pandemic has had a serious effect on banking technology transformation. Distributed ledgers, already slowly riding the downward slope of the hype cycle after a meteoric rise earlier in the decade, haven’t been immune. Many banks still see promise, but firms have directed their fintech budgets toward...

Societe Generale Chairman Lorenzo Bini Smaghi and SG Group Chief Economist Michala Marcussen were among the key participants in this year’s SUERF conference, held virtually on October 14th. SUERF’s line up of prominent central bankers, academics and financial industry leaders makes it one of the year’s most distinguished forums for discussing global economic...

The Business Roundtable continues to make ESG-friendly pronouncements. In 2020 alone, they have announced actions in support of Covid-19 relief, a special committee for racial equity and justice, and a call for a more regimented response to climate change.

During a recent multi-bank forum on climate change hosted by Societe Generale Americas, Roberto Simon, Head of Societe Generale Americas Natural Resources, pointed to several areas of technological advancement in the energy industry that are helping the industry in the fight against carbon emissions.

The Covid-19 global pandemic has upended the way the world lives, works, and orders its priorities. More than six months into the pandemic, however, we in the United States are being reminded that climate change hasn’t gone away but is actually accelerating.

Karl Pettersen was recently appointed Chief Sustainability Officer for Societe Generale in the Americas. In his new role, Karl aims to promote a client-centric and pragmatic approach to Sustainability for our clients in the region. We asked Karl a few questions about his new position.

Even before the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was clear that new communications infrastructure would be crucial to the evolution of the American economy going forward.

Public-private partnerships (P3) have been an attractive option in infrastructure financing for decades, and in recent years it has become a preferred choice to develop sustainability projects as well — for reasons of operating efficiency and, often, because of newly introduced Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) targets or requirements.

At the beginning of the year we had a conversation with David Getzler, Head of Equity Capital Markets for Societe Generale Americas, and asked him to look ahead and tell us what trends and dynamics the equity capital markets might experience over the coming year. Looking back, this was an impossible task given the impact the Covid pandemic has had on the...