Sustainable investing has become common practice, however there is not one route to the final portfolio. Asset owners need to navigate not only regulatory requirements and internal KPIs*, but the breadth and depth of data, data providers and diverse approaches by asset managers. Institutional investors must identify those asset managers who master the data...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) was held as every year in January at the famous Swiss ski resort of Davos. Switzerland, the world's most innovative country* according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, is the ideal place to host such a forum. The Davos summit brings together the key decision-makers in the global economy to review the...

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), a major player in fund distribution, is always ready to listen to its institutional investors and asset manager clients and is participating with them in development initiatives using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). For example, a hybrid, innovative and evolutionary model, has been set up between IZNES and SGSS...

Innovation has always been a driving force in the financial sector. The past health crisis has accelerated cycles of innovation and digitalisation by pushing banks to massively adapt and adopt new technologies. The future of the sector promises to be exciting. It will also be linked to societal revolutions and new generations which will be sources of change. ...

The ability to adapt has decided the advent of the human being. A winning characteristic also for organisations: having passed the test of mandatory full remote, companies find themselves imagining the working world of the third millennium, between smart working, employee well-being, renovated offices and solid operational management. All the while building a...

A look back at AM Tech Day and the exciting and thought-provoking discussions that took place.

The Network Forum Annual Meeting took place in London on 13-14 June 2022. Our Societe Generale experts participated to this event, which gathered the custody and post-trade industry together for two days of panel discussions and networking sessions. Alessandro Cavallari, the new Head of International Sales, Societe Generale Securities Services, attended the...

A combination of blockchain and monitoring technologies allow new types of highly automated instruments such as sustainability-linked debt instruments to be issued.

Initially considered an epiphenomenon by asset management professionals, cryptocurrencies are now attracting 293 million users worldwide*, including a growing number of private and institutional investors.

While there has been increasing institutional interest in digital assets, such as Bitcoin, some hesitancy in adopting this new asset class remains. A significant contribution to this hesitancy stems from concerns about compatibility with ESG goals. This article takes a look at the seemingly paradoxical role crypto assets play in pursuing ESG goals.

Tron (1982), The Lawnmower Man (1992), The Matrix (1999) and now the Metaverse: the fascination for the digitisation of bodies and minds is not new.

Cryptocurrencies have experienced massive gains generating strong interest in related companies. We explored the current mining landscape to understand what factors drive the value of crypto miners and arrived at a two-fold conclusion: mining efficiency and the quantity of mined assets on the balance sheet make up only part of the total value; factors such as...

In this early part of 2022, we are spotting an uptick that AI is no longer just part of innovation but about core business transformation. To unleash the impact of cognitive solutions through transformational enterprise-grade initiatives, businesses are reaffirming their interest and their main blocker: AI Adoption.

Blockchain, the technology that gave rise to cryptocurrency, is often seen as one of the greatest innovations of the 21st century.

Behind the glowing or acerbic newspaper headlines, technical terms and a lot of noise lies a revolution that is still poorly understood by the general public.