The Société Générale Group stands for team spirit, innovation and responsibility. Thanks to the boundless commitment of its employees, the group managed to become one of the leading banks of the eurozone. Founded in 1864 in France, the bank successfully expanded. Nowadays, Société Générale counts more than 148,000 highly motivated employees from 122 different nations who are working in 76 countries all over the world. In order to maintain a clean and efficient structure besides the difficulties that arise due to its enormous size, the bank separated its activities into three main pillars:
The first pillar, retail customer business in the French domestic market, provides about eleven million clients with innovative financial services.
The international retail customer and financial services business, the second pillar, is being represented by 72,000 employees who accompany more than 28 million clients in 64 countries on a daily basis.
Finally, the third pillar, Global Banking and Investor Solutions (GBIS), focuses on the needs of corporates, financial institutions, the public sector, family offices and high net-worth individuals and embraces numerous areas of the investment banking field. In some of these areas, most notably derivatives and structured products, the Société Générale Group even attained to become the worldwide leader. In order to maintain this position, GBIS is physically present on a global level with an overall amount of 20,000 employees and establishments in 52 different countries in Europe, the Middle East, North and South America as well as Asia. Advantageously, this presence comes hand in hand with a valuable proximity to all relevant markets. This provides a thorough and at the same time detailed overview over these markets from which, ultimately, also the clients of Société Générale profit strongly.