After the fight against climate change, finance discovers a new and significant challenge in preserving biodiversity.

ESG assets are a real challenge for investors around the world. Karim El Hnot, Deputy Head of Investment Banking at Societe Generale Morocco, in charge of Asset Management and Omar Senhaji, Head of Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) Maroc tell us more about the place it occupies in Morocco.

In this article, we consider how asset managers can help their clients meet their responsible investment requirements, by exploring a selection of the key challenges and considerations in this area.

The views expressed and arguments employed herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OECD or its member countries.

The African Exchanges Linkage Project (AELP) has gone live in November 2022 allowing interconnexion between the 7 participating African stock exchanges in South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mauritius, for cross-border trading.*

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...

According to the Chief Executive Officer of Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) in Italy, with the return of volatility, interest rates and inflation, the role of the asset service provider as innovation enabler within the asset management industry takes on even greater importance. “Objectives and development lines do not change: the ability to evolve...

For several years now, asset management companies have sought to diversify their investor targets by looking to new and more open markets than just the clientele of businesses and asset owners.

At the end of October 2022, we celebrated the 14th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper, signed by a certain Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin and the cryptocurrencies that followed its release were designed to serve as a payment method. Their development and their promise of return have distanced them from their primary goal by making them attractive as speculative...

On May 22, 2020, the bill adopted by the French National Assembly for the creation of a single currency in West Africa followed the monetary cooperation agreement signed on December 21, 2019 between France and the Member States of WAEMU* (West African Economic and Monetary Union). This agreement aimed in particular to reform and modernise the functioning of...

Societe Generale, through its subsidiary in the Czech Republic Komercni Banka (KB) is anticipating the monumental succession planning needs of a third of Czech companies who are expected to change ownership in the coming years*. Based on the new law in the Czech Civil Code, KB Private Banking proposes since 2022 a new ‘Trust’ structure in its range of...

Mathieu Maurier, CEO of Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) in Luxembourg, addresses the challenges facing the asset servicing business in Luxembourg. He believes that just as his own teams are conducting many transformational projects, the Luxembourg fund industry needs to rethink its own operational model. To maintain its position as world leader it...