NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Societe Generale in the U.S., part of the international financial services group, earned a top score in the 2018 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve LGBT equality.
The CEI rates companies on detailed criteria falling under five broad categories:
- Non-discrimination policies
- Employment benefits
- Demonstrated organizational competency and accountability around LGBTQ diversity and inclusion
- Public commitment to LGBTQ equality
- Responsible citizenship
The top score in the survey officially recognizes Societe Generale as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality in the U.S. and highlights Societe Generale's commitment to promoting team diversity and its gender balance policy at both a group and regional level.
Damian Smith, Chief Diversity Officer for the Americas, said, "This score points to our firm-wide commitment to ensuring that all of our programs, policies, and practices create an environment where all employees regardless of background or experience feel that this is a place where they belong."
Societe Generale in the U.S. offers fully integrated global markets, global finance, and investment banking services as well as alternative asset management via its Lyxor US subsidiary.
Societe Generale
Societe Generale is one of the largest European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial solidity with a strategy of sustainable growth, and aims to be the reference for relationship banking, recognised on its markets, close to clients, chosen for the quality and commitment of its teams.
Societe Generale has been playing a vital role in the economy for 150 years. With more than 145,000 employees, based in 66 countries, we serve on a daily basis 31 million clients throughout the world. Societe Generale's teams offer advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional customers in three core businesses:
- Retail banking in France with the Societe Generale branch network, Credit du Nord and Boursorama, offering a comprehensive range of multi-channel financial services at the leading edge of digital innovation;
- International retail banking, insurance and financial services to corporates with a presence in developing economies and leading specialised businesses;
- Corporate and investment banking, private banking, asset management and securities services, with recognised expertise, top international rankings and integrated solutions.
Societe Generale is currently included in the main sustainability indices: DJSI (World and Europe), FSTE4Good (World and Europe), Euronext Vigeo (World, Europe and Eurozone), Ethibel Sustainability Index (ESI) Excellence Europe, 4 of the STOXX ESG Leaders Indices, MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index.
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Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking
At the core of Societe Generale's diversified and integrated banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a leading player with around 12 000 professionals and a commercial offer in 37 countries, with extensive European coverage and representative offices in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region.
Supporting its clients across various sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank offers bespoke financial solutions combining innovation, advisory services and high execution quality in four areas of expertise: investment banking, financing, market activities and investor services.
- For Corporates, Financial Institutions, Sovereigns and the Public Sector: providing strategic advice (M&A, debt, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as providing capital market access to finance projects and providing hedging solutions especially in foreign exchange and rates.
- For Investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated platform delivering comprehensive access to markets (fixed income, credit, foreign exchange, commodity markets, equity, and derivatives), as well as advice and financial engineering, quality of execution, forward-looking research, and an industry-leading clearing proposition & prime brokerage services.
For more information, you can follow us on twitter @sg_cib or visit our website www.cib.societegenerale.com
SOURCE Societe Generale
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