Barclays Considers Acquiring SocGen’s UK Private Banking Unit LeapRate

February 15, 2024 BY Simon Mugo

Barclays Considers Acquiring SocGen’s UK Private Banking Unit

Societe Generale, with advisory services from Rothschild & Co, has initiated seeking potential buyers through an auction for Kleinwort Hambros, as mentioned by two sources. The French banking conglomerate is also preparing to divest its private banking operations in Switzerland, aligning with its strategy to streamline its business portfolio, the sources added. Kleinwort Hambros, which…

February 06, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Société Générale announces organisational changes at its Paris head office

Forbes reported that January cuts reached an approximate 15-year high as more than 82,000 employees lost their jobs in US-based companies. The media agent attributes these movements to persistent interest rate hikes during 2023. Société Générale’s planned job cuts make up around 5% of the employees at its headquarters and less than 2% of its…

December 14, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Spectrum Markets adds SocGen as a liquidity provider and a market maker offer new financial instruments in Spain and Scandinavia

Nicky Maan, Spectrum Markets CEO, explained: We’ve always said we want to list only those products that are most interesting for European retail investors, focusing on what they are actually going to use, and the new products from Societe Generale certainly fit that mould. Offering more investment options in terms of duration, as well as…

June 29, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Broadridge adds Société Générale to its Distributed Ledger Repo Platform

Vijay Mayadas, President of Capital Markets at Broadridge, added: Société Générale is an innovator in capital markets, and we’re excited to welcome them onto to this award winning DLR platform. Broadridge continues to drive the transformation of repo market infrastructure with the distributed ledger technology repo platform via the utilization of smart contracts to digitize…

September 30, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC orders Societe Generale to pay $1.5 million for reporting violations

The CFTC said: The order also finds that Societe Generale failed to report certain swap valuation data to an SDR accurately. Societe Generale also failed to maintain an adequate supervisory system and failed to perform its supervisory obligations diligently with respect to mid-market mark disclosures. Acting Director of Enforcement Vincent McGonagle, said: This is another…

June 25, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: BDSwiss’ CRO talks about performance and outlook, CME FX Link integrates with Bloomberg

ASIC announced that Societe Generale Securities Australia Pty Ltd (SGSAPL) has met the additional Australian financial services (AFS) licence conditions imposed on the company and they were removed on 3 June 2021. The licence conditions imposed on SGSAPL in June last year required the company to appoint an independent expert to assess and test the…

June 24, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Societe Generale meets additional licence conditions imposed by ASIC

ASIC revealed today that SGSAPL has met the licence conditions’ requirements, including providing attestations from a senior executive and a board member. LeapRate reported last year that the regulator initially imposed these conditions following an investigation conducted by ASIC into reports lodged by SGSAPL concerning securities breaches with “client money”. Client money provisions protect clients…

June 18, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: JPMorgan Chase to buy UK robo-adivser Nutmeg, Fineco's Marco Mottadelli talks with LeapRate

Research published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reveals that 2.3 million adults now have cryptoassets. The number is 1.9 million higher than last year. The research estimates that 78% of people have heard of cryptocurrencies while last year it was 73%. The UK regulator’s analysis shows that as holding crypto has become commonplace, the attitudes toward…

June 14, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Societe Generale and Kyriba team up to launch treasury management solution

Through their new solution, Kyriba and Societe Generale will be offering real-time monitoring of treasury positions and provisional management of liquidity flows, payment automation (remittances), banking delegation and mandate management, enhanced fraud management and multi-bank connectivity and ERP, payment validation workflow management. Edi Poloniato, co-Head Banking Solutions for Kyriba added: We are very proud to…

July 01, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SocGen pleads guilty to client money offences in Australia

Each of the offences carries a maximum penalty of approximately $45,000. These offences are regarded as serious misconduct. The legislation has been put in place to protect investors and enhance the confidence and integrity in Australia’s financial markets. The need for the additional license condition which ASIC placed on SocGen’s Australian branch follows the company’s…

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