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...

Secondo l’amministratore delegato, con il ritorno di volatilità, tassi e inflazione assume ancora più rilevanza il ruolo dell’asset servicer provider come abilitatore dell’innovazione nell’industria del risparmio. “Obiettivi e linee di sviluppo non cambiano: fondamentale la capacità di evolvere insieme ai clienti”, afferma.

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...

Between 1 January 2021 and 30 October 2021*, the market capitalisation of cryptocurrencies tripled. That's when Bitcoin surpassed the famous $60,000 threshold. Unfortunately, the first eight months of 2022 wiped out this dramatic rise. The recent "incident" on the Terra Luna stablecoin, and even the difficulties of certain players in the ecosystem, have...

In 2021, private equity investment reached a record level in Morocco, in terms of both fund raising and the growing number of companies receiving investment.

New operational systems are available to multi-expertise or specialised asset managers to cope with the growth of private markets.

A Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) is a company formed to raise capital via an IPO to fund the acquisition of one or several targets in specific sectors. It is a powerful financing tool that allows investors to co-invest “publicly”, side-by-side with one or several sponsors. A SPAC has a life span of roughly 2 years. After this time, if successful...

At a time when international investors are looking for attractive risk/return and decorrelation, the Central African Economic and Monetary Union, or CEMAC (in French), offers high bond yields, a fixed exchange rate against the euro and a specific asset class. Are these arguments sufficient to attract international asset managers?

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...

We are coming to the end of this 2nd Token magazine dedicated to digital assets, and we hope that everyone was able to find the answers to the questions initially asked by Laurent Marochini in his introduction: has there been a real level of maturity in our industry to be able to manage digital assets end-to-end as a new asset class, as well as equities,...

The Non-Performing Exposure (NPE) Italian market remains the largest and the most active in Europe*, generating interesting investment opportunities for institutional investors who are active in alternative investments and private markets.