SG CIB Awarded Structured Products House of the Year for the Americas and Latin America

NEW YORK, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Structured Products Magazine named Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking ("SG CIB") House of the Year for the Americas and House of the Year for Latin America having "enhanced its presence in the US and Canada, while consolidating its leadership in Latin America."

Structured Products Magazine, an industry publication dedicated to the wholesale market for derivatives-based investment products, stated that SG CIB is "known for its range of offerings across all asset classes...and has provided the kind of innovation and commitment to the financing of the structured products business that makes it a worthy house of the year for the Americas."

Concerning the Latin America award, the publication said, "SG wins this year's Latin America award for coming up with solutions where it was thought none could be found, and for cementing its reputation, throughout Latin America, as the number-one innovator in structured products."

SG CIB's Cross-Asset Solutions group provides investors with one integrated multi-asset market solutions team.  A pooled engineering capability, a specialized trading team and the alignment of sales coverage enable SG CIB to provide clients with customized solutions across all asset classes (equities, commodities, interest rates, currencies, credit, hidden assets, hedge funds, mutual funds, multi-asset / hybrid) with various wrappers.

Societe Generale

Societe Generale is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone. The Group employs 157,000 people worldwide in three key businesses:

• Retail Banking, Specialized Financing & Insurance: Societe Generale serves more than 32 million individual customers worldwide.
• Private Banking, Global Investment Management & Services: Societe Generale is one of the largest banks in the euro-zone in terms of assets under custody (EUR 3,073 billion, December 2009) and under management (EUR 344 billion, December 2009).
• Corporate & Investment Banking: Societe Generale tailors solutions for its clients across sectors by capitalizing on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.

Societe Generale is included in the socially-responsible investment indexes: FTSE4Good and ASPI. In 2010, the title of SAM Sector Mover was awarded to Societe Generale.

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Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking

At the core of Societe Generale's universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with nearly 11, 000 professionals present in 33 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalizing on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.

• For Corporates, Financial Institutions and the public sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimized financing and expert risk management solutions notably in the realm of foreign exchange and rates derivatives.
• For investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated global markets platform delivering access to markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of execution and forward-looking research across asset classes.

www.sgcib.com

Unless governing law provides otherwise, all transactions should be executed through the Societe Generale entity in the investor's home jurisdiction.  In the U.S., certain services are provided by SG Americas Securities, LLC, a member of the NYSE, FINRA and SIPC.

SOURCE Societe Generale