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Societe Generale Canada has been recognized as one of Montreal's Top Employers for the second consecutive year. This prestigious recognition highlights leading Greater Montreal employers that offer exceptional places to work.

Societe Generale’s Prime Services unit’s most recent poll of global investors, conducted in the final quarter of 2023, surveyed pensions, endowments, funds of funds and other institutional investors about their hedge fund allocation priorities over the next year. Nearly 370 investment firms globally contributed their investment preferences.

Urban development project electrifying public transportation serves as a model for cities in Latin America.

The last couple of years have been choppy ones for the equity capital markets, reflecting economic uncertainties, market volatility and geopolitical instability. As we head into an election year, things are sure to remain interesting for financial markets, so we asked SG America’s Head of Equity Capital Markets David Getzler what he sees unfolding over the...

Will the US economy achieve that much talked about soft landing in 2024? As we begin the new year, we asked Chief US Economist and Head of Research Stephen Gallagher this and what else is on his radar - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Copper mining can’t operate without fresh water. Lots of it, in fact, is needed in the smelting process and other stages of production. And this can cause a strain on groundwater supplies, especially if the copper mines are located in bone-dry regions, and where there are communities relying on the same water for their daily lives. Notwithstanding, copper is...

Limiting the emissions on university campuses across the US will be key to reaching net zero goals by 2050.

Sugarcane is the largest crop in the world by production quantity, totaling nearly 2 billion tons every year and accounting for most of the sugar produced globally.

The speed at which individuals can access the internet from their homes has grown rapidly since the days of dial-up, with fiberoptic cables now able to deliver data into homes at a rate of nearly 70% the speed of light. Despite these advances in technology and a multitude of providers, the U.S. still has a low degree of competition in high-speed broadband when...

As part of Societe Generale’s annual Quant Conference held earlier this month, Benjamin Hoff, Societe Generale’s new Global Head of Commodities Research, took center stage with Greg Sharenow – a Managing Director at the giant US asset manager PIMCO - to discuss some of the important commodity related topics on the minds of institutional investors.

As the world continues to push towards clean energy alternatives, finding efficient ways to store electricity is increasingly vital.

Societe Generale Canada has been recognized as one of Montreal's Top Employers of 2023. This prestigious recognition highlights Greater Montreal employers in their respective industries that offer exceptional places to work.

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Big builders of data centers are responding to climate change by both decarbonizing with new and upgraded facilities, and ensuring power is used as efficiently as possible. Some new data center facilities rely almost entirely on renewable energy. Designs for new data centers seek to achieve Power Utilization Efficiency (“PUE”) better (lower) than industry...

Company looks to deploy $50 billion of capital to develop, construct, and operate facilities in the United States, Chile, Uruguay and Australia that will produce approximately 150,000 barrels of carbon-neutral eFuels daily and decarbonize more than 5 million vehicles.

Viewpoint by Larry Williamson, Head of Healthcare investment banking at Societe Generale Americas.

Societe Generale Americas appoints Luiz Sainz, Head of Latin America, and Beatriz Lacaz, Country Head of Brazil

At a recent SG virtual client conference, Societe Generale’s Head of Commodity Research Michael Haigh sat down with Sara Menker, CEO of GRO Intelligence, the innovative company she founded that amasses commodities data and uses machine learning to better understand the world’s agricultural trends. The discussion was illuminating on the dynamics behind...

Societe Generale’s survey reveals growing ESG importance for capital allocators

Societe Generale was active bookrunner and joint sustainability structuring advisor of first-ever sustainability linked sovereign bond.

The $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Infrastructure bill) that was signed into law on November 15th, 2021, is intended to “make long overdue improvements for our nation’s ports, airports, rail, and roads, and grow the economy sustainably.” For Societe Generale, the approval of this massive agenda means a once in a lifetime opportunity to put...

David Getzler, head of Equity Capital Markets for Societe Generale Americas, looks back at a fascinating year in Equity new issue markets in 2021, and offers his thoughts on what we might expect in 2022.

As part of its Paris Agreement commitments, India said it would produce 100 GW of solar energy by 2022 and has an overall goal for renewable energy production of 450 GW by 2030.

A few years ago, Societe Generale made a series of strategic investments in its Agency Execution Services business in the U.S. The bank further enhanced its algorithmic trading platform – called Nova - in ways that proved prophetic while serving clients through the pandemic. In the following Q&A, we asked Kevin Sweeney, Head of Cross-Asset Trading and...

It could be argued that leading pension plans have become harbingers for the world’s institutional investors. Keenly attuned to changing mandates, pensions across North America are asking different questions of their investment banking partners in 2021. That reflects shifting priorities—particularly towards ESG and sustainability, but also towards allocative...

To make commodity investment work in an ESG-centered world, one needs to see the whole picture