Societe Generale Appoints Timothy Gee as Head of Equities Execution Services for the Americas

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking announces the appointment of Timothy Gee as Managing Director, Americas Head of Equities Execution Services. In this newly created role, Mr. Gee will be responsible for coordinating the bank's equities distribution and trading business in the Americas, which includes sales-trading, program trading, quantitative electronic services and equity swaps and indexation products.

Mr. Gee will be based in New York reporting to Thomas Droumenq, Head of Global Equity Flow in New York and to Francois Banneville, Global Head of Execution Services.

Mr. Gee joins from UBS where he was most recently Head of Distribution for the U.S. Equity Trading Products and Co-Head of Global Electronic Trading. Prior to UBS he spent 12 years at Morgan Stanley in Cash Equities and Derivatives.

This appointment further demonstrates the bank's commitment to developing its Global Equities platform in order to provide superior service and innovative solutions to institutional customers worldwide.

With access to one of the largest liquidity pools in Global Equities (including #1 market share on Euronext), Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking 's Global Equity Flow division offers global coverage across 65 markets, comprehensive liquidity solutions, advanced algorithms and an integrated execution product, encompassing equities, ETFs and derivatives.

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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, Specialised Financing & Insurance: Societe Generale serves 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 3,246 billion, March 2010) and under management (EUR 164 billion excluding Amundi, March 2010).
• Corporate & Investment Banking: Societe Generale tailors solutions for its clients across sectors by capitalising 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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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 capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.

• For Corporates, Financial Institutions and 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, optimised financing and expert risk management responses 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 seamless 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.

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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