Societe Generale SA

France's Societe Generale <SOGN.PA> raised its capital ratio on Wednesday, giving its shares a lift despite a profit fall and some parts of its trading business lagging rival banks.

Societe Generale, France's third-largest listed bank, reported a 34.8% drop in quarterly net profit, marked by weakness in its trading and investment banking business.

France's Societe Generale <SOGN.PA> has put its leasing unit in the Nordics up for sale as part of a plan to exit non-strategic businesses and keep capital ratios strong, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Societe Generale PA>, France's third-biggest lender, is to present a new restructuring plan to unions on Sept. 20 that could affect 20 percent of retail banking employees in the country, business magazine Challenges reported on Wednesday.

Shares of Societe Generale <SOGN.PA>, France's third-largest bank by market capitalization, jumped on Thursday after it hit its solvency target a year early, easing investor concerns it would have to raise more capital.

Societe Generale, France's third-largest bank in terms of market capitalization, posted lower second quarter net profits after earnings were impacted by restructuring costs at its corporate and investment banking unit.

The family of the former owners of a Cuban bank seized by Fidel Castro's government nearly six decades ago sued Societe Generale <SOGN.PA> for approximately $792 million, saying the French bank owes damages for circumventing U.S. sanctions against Cuba.

The U.S. Federal Reserve may lower lending rates by a quarter point in July and by the same increment in September on signs of slowing economic growth and risk from the trade conflict between China and the United States, Societe Generale said on Thursday.

Societe Generale has made a number of promotions in its debt capital markets team, with Felix Orsini appointed global head of debt capital markets.

Societe Generale SA's corporate and investment banking unit (CIB) said on Monday it had appointed Patrick Perreault as head of mergers and acquisitions at its corporate finance division in France.

Paris-based Societe Generale said on Thursday it has received banking authorisation from Australia's financial regulator, years after winding down operations in the country.

The latest U.S. and Chinese round of planned tariffs on each other's imports may reduce global economic growth by 0.15% and lower China's gross domestic product by 0.5% and U.S. GDP by 0.25%, Societe Generale's U.S. chief economist said on Monday.

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The Ivorian arm of French bank Societe Generale made a net profit of 42 billion CFA francs ($72 million) in 2018, up 6 percent from 39.62 billion CFA francs in 2017, a company statement in newspaper Fraternite Matin showed on Thursday.

French state-owned investment fund Caisse des Depots, which holds a 2.5 percent stake in Societe Generale, will vote to renew the French bank's Chief Executive Frederic Oudea as board member for another four-year term.

Societe Generale plans to cut 1,600 jobs, mainly at its corporate and investment banking arm, in an attempt to boost profits after a poor performance last year, France's third-largest bank said on Tuesday.

Societe Generale, France's third-largest bank, unveiled on Tuesday a plan to cut 1,600 jobs, mainly at its corporate and investment banking arm, in a bid to buoy profitability after last year's poor performance.

France's Societe Generale plans to cut about 600 jobs at its investment banking unit in Paris and a few hundred more in London and New York, a source at the bank said on Friday.

Societe Generale board said on Monday it will ask shareholders to renew Chief Executive Frederic Oudea for a new four-year term at the next annual assembly to be held on May 21.