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E-VAC Magnets, the North American subsidiary of Vacuumschmelze (VAC), is constructing a permanent magnets manufacturing facility in South Carolina to help boost US supply of EV infrastructure. Societe Generale acted as Mandated Lead Arranger and Hedge Provider in the $335m Project Financing for this first of its kind permanent magnets manufacturing plant in...

Solar energy is the fastest-growing form of clean electricity in the US. The government instituted billions in incentives for US-manufactured solar hardware via the Inflation Reduction Act. Trina Solar, a global leader in solar photovoltaics, developing its first US manufacturing facility in Wilmer, Texas.

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

At the utterance of the acronym C-PACE, and almost certainly if you combine it with another, ABS, eyes are apt to glaze over, minds to wander. But these less widely known terms are behind a swell of new investments in U.S. real estate to fund commercial building improvements that are bringing tangible positive environmental and social change to people’s lives.

The combination of inflation rising across the globe to levels not seen in decades, choppy equity and credit markets, and geopolitical tensions has made 2022 a difficult environment for investors to navigate and has created considerable uncertainty about the future. Against this backdrop, Societe Generale’s Capital Consulting team recently conducted a global...

Societe Generale is one of the founding members of a climate-aligned finance framework to support aviation industry decarbonization. The Bank is part of a group of six global lenders committed to developing a climate-aligned finance agreement dedicated to the aviation sector.

Jonathan Weinberger, Societe Generale’s Head of Debt Capital Markets for the Americas, recently joined a panel of experts on ‘green’ finance at Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance conference to discuss this growing and meaningful area of finance and what it offers both investors and issuers . Following the conference, we took the opportunity to ask Jonathan a few...