Our CSR vision

Responsible risk management: a prerequisite in any relationship of trust with stakeholders
The environmental and social risks to which our activities are exposed must be constantly taken into account. Operating risk must be managed with the utmost care and with high-performance tools. Société Générale's culture of rigor, control and transparency is built on five key components:
  • A corporate governance policy that ensures business practices evolve in line with requirements
  • Risk management and internal controls that are constantly reviewed and enhanced
  • Sophisticated compliance structures and strong ethics
  • The highest quality standards,
  • A culture of innovation and implication
Conscious of the importance of its image and reputation in guaranteeing its future, Société Générale Group advocates a maximum of transparency in all communications and exchanges with its different partners.
Placing CSR at the heart of its businesses:
  • By ensuring social and environmental concerns are fully integrated in all financing and investment activities. Société Générale's businesses lines define their own policy in this respect, one that is tailored to their particular activities and to the extent of the risks incurred. For certain financing linked to specific assets or transactions, the entities concerned must carry out the necessary due diligence and request the relevant certificates from their customers
  • By promoting responsible economic development, notably through the definition of policies, products and services that contribute directly or indirectly to the protection of the environment or to social development, in response to the growing concerns of customers and to the opportunities offered by the market
Our own human and social responsibility means…
1 - A human resources policy based upon:
  • making diversity a core priority in recruitment,
  • developing employee skills and potential in order match their professional careers with their personal goals,
  • ensuring remuneration factors in individual and collective performance.
2 – An environmental policy that takes its inspiration from the best practices within the profession and any relevant practices within those sectors more deeply implicated in the protection of the environment. Through this policy, the Group's aim is to optimize the use of natural and energy resources (paper consumption and use of recycled paper, choice of electronic equipment, waste management, etc.), and to encourage the same level of respect for the environment amongst its employees. Moreover, Société Générale is also committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 11% per occupant between 2008 and 2012 and to achieving carbon neutrality via gradual voluntary offsetting. 3 – Supplier relations that are based on trust and that encourage environmentally-friendly practices.