Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

Société Générale’s Business Continuity Plan consists in defining adequate organizational structures, procedures and resources to enable each Société Générale entity to deal with natural/accidental disasters or acts of wilful damage – the aim being to protect their staff, assets and key activities and ensure the continuation of services and resumption of normal business.
Set up in 2003 and integrated within the Operating Risk Department in 2007, the department in charge of the Business Continuity Plan is responsible for:
  • Proposing an overall Group policy
  • Managing the Group's BCP function
  • Defining applicable methodologies. The group directive outlines the basic principles governing BCPs and defines the roles and responsibilities of the different persons involved in these plans.
  • Disseminating best practices
  • Coordinating and harmonizing the business continuity plans of the different divisions and corporate departments
  • Defining and managing the Group's crisis function
  • Ensure proper coordination of Group overall crisis management as well as its implementation within the different branches and central departments, in the event of transverse crisis scenarii
The crisis management function was separated from the BCP function in January 2007 in order to better take into account this specific issue within the Group and to roll out the appropriate structures and tools.