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A recent 50-year deal between Georgetown University and the global energy company ENGIE is designed to reduce the University’s energy use by at least 35 percent within the next ten years.

Head US economist for Societe Generale Stephen Gallagher says a rise in transportation related prices is mostly responsible for the recent surge in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). While U.S. CPI increased 4.9% year-over-year through May 2021, when you strip out transportation, CPI ex-transportation is at 1.7% year-over-year.

As the mainstreaming of climate and clean energy, sustainable and ESG has created more opportunities, SG’s Canadian energy clients are finding a broader array of projects to apply their expertise.

Stephen Gallagher, Societe Generale’s chief US economist, thinks that the high levels of goods purchases will soon drop back to historical trend levels. He illustrates this with the example of people no longer going to the gym during the pandemic (service expense) and instead buying exercise equipment (goods) to use at home.

The Franco-Chilean Chamber of Commerce recently held their "Trophées RSE 2021," recognizing the Corporate Social Responsibility (or RSE in French) efforts of Societe Generale and ALD in Chile.

The call for corporate America to respond to our national social conversation has grown immeasurably louder in 2020 and is already breaking new ground in 2021. Last year saw corporations scramble to respond to a raft of social emergencies, whether the distress caused by Covid-19, the anguish of the racial justice conversation, or the stark reality of...

In the run-up to President Biden’s emphatic executive orders on Inauguration Day, the climate conversation had rightly grown louder across corporate America – even quarterly earnings presentations suddenly feature more ESG slides placed earlier in investor decks. This is a conversation that sorely needs to happen, and for which we also need to gain a much...

As 2019 gets rolling amid a backdrop of rebounding equity markets and continued geo-political sturm und drang we thought it would be a good time to ask Societe Generale’s head of U.S. Equity Capital Markets David Getzler what he expects to see impacting U.S. stock issuance in the year ahead.

Data availability in legacy financial institutions is unnecessarily complicated and time consuming. Why is it so much easier to find public domain information as compared to internal corporate information?

Simon Letort – Chief Digital Officer & Head of Innovation, Societe Generale Americas

Neeraj Hegde, a human and quantitative trading architect at Societe Generale in New York took a few minutes to talk about Artificial Intelligence, explain how technologists are using it to augment securities trading …and to let us know if we should expect robots to replace traders any time soon.