Société Générale S.A. (French: [sɔsjete ʒeneʁal]), colloquially known in English-speaking countries as SocGen (pronounced [sɔk ʒɛn]), [3] is a French multinational universal bank and financial services company founded in 1864. It is registered in downtown Paris and headquartered nearby in La Défense. Société Générale is France's third largest bank by total assets after BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole. [4] It is also the sixth largest bank in Europe and the world's eighteenth ... Societe Generale , one of Europe's leading financial services groups and a major player in the economy for over 150 years, supports 26 million clients every day with 119,000 staff in 62 countries. The Societe Generale group’s activities: complementary businesses integrating ESG offers for all its clients. Societe Generale made its advent in India in 1978, with the establishment of a Representative Office in Delhi. Societe Generale opened its first full-fledged banking branch in Mumbai in 1985 following the closure of the Representative Office, and opened a second branch in Delhi, in 1993.
