The Societe Generale branch in Bouc-Bel-Air, near Aix-en-Provence, will open on 2 November. The branch manager, Jennifer Lecourt, explains why this branch opening exemplifies the momentum in the French retail banking network.

Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September, over 3,300 visitors walked the mosaic floors at Societe Generale's central branch, warmly welcomed by the branch's staff. This figure was slightly higher than last year.

And what if your bank could also provide tutoring, gardening and childcare? In order to meet a growing demand from individual customer...

For the Innovation Division, business innovation is first and foremost a question of relationships between human beings. Innovation must be sought by each of us and thus become a common interest.

"Nothing is a strong as team spirit" is the message of the campaign launched by the Group on 19 March 2011. Our business lines are rolling out the campaign with local adaptations in France and abroad.

Listening to customers is Societe Generale's goal and to do so it has installed iPad (1) terminals in its main branches in France, which will allow more than one million of its customers to share their opinion, ask a question or make a suggestion.

Société Générale has entered the privileged circle of international banks that are allowed to carry out local currency operations not only with businesses but also with Chinese individual customers.

True, times have changed. 1964 was a time of sustained and structured growth. The nationalised Société Générale was developing its business and services in a fast-expanding economy. Its network was growing both in France and internationally. Its retail customer deposits reached the same levels a ...

Patrick Le Buffe, head of Africa, the Mediterranean and the French overseas territories for International Retail Banking talks about our businesses and development prospects in Africa.

Our Société Générale retail banking network in France launched a new ad campaign in April 2009...