Marktperspektiven

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Sustainable finance, innovation and Brexit present a number of opportunities for Luxembourg’s fund industry. According to Mathieu Maurier, Country Head of Societe Generale Securities Services in Luxembourg, we can seize these opportunities by taking a collaborative approach and being receptive to change.

This time last year we were only just beginning to understand the true scale of the global pandemic and I think that few of us would have expected to still be living in some form of lockdown a year later. Undoubtedly many of us have experienced some difficult personal situations but, for the investment industry, the period has been surprisingly benign.

Morocco officially launched its property investment mutual funds (OPCIs) on 11 June 2019 at a conference organised by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Low interest rates and distorted equity prices in developed markets are forcing institutional investors to re-think their portfolio exposures. As a result, some investors are starting to seek out alpha opportunities in emerging and frontier markets.

For the first time in history, the Romanian capital market has been included since September 21, 2020 in the Emerging Markets indices, according to the classification of the global index provider FTSE Russell.

Richard Roger, Head of the Issuer Services business line at Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), presents his perspective on the current challenges with regards to the organisation of General Meetings of Shareholders.

Over the last few months, pandemic posed severe challenges to the financial sector and the securities niche could not be an exception. On the one hand, intermediaries have had to rely increasingly on technology, realizing investments to strengthen the digital channel and extract value from data.

SGSS Tunisia – which was established as the result of a collaboration between the global SGSS business line and Societe Generale's subsidiary in Tunisia, UIB – offers custody services to domestic and international clients.

Während des Lockdowns im Mai und Juni 2020 hat SGSS eine Umfrage bei einer repräsentativen Stichprobe von Vertretern der europäischen Investmentbranche durchgeführt.

The Indian investment professionals remain fairly confident that the future of the Indian financial markets look bright in the longer run.

The implementation of a single currency in Western Africa only seems a matter of time. But some hurdles still need to be taken to achieve the goal of an open and united economic environment encompassing infrastructures, taxes and jurisdictions.

In September 2018, Euroclear entered into initial discussions with the Paris Stock Exchange on the "transparency initiative" project.

Since their definition in 2009 and their revision in 2012, the implementation of the European Market Standards for Corporate Actions Processing has been a long road full of obstacles for the entire securities industry in Europe.