Australia

Societe Generale is honoured to have been named Best Sustainable Bank – Australia International at the FinanceAsia Awards 2025, which recognises Asia's top banks, brokers, and rating agencies that have delivered positive outcomes for their clients.

The boom in Australian property prices is well-known. But while most of the attention has focused on residential house prices, which rose 25% last year, an equally compelling story has been unfolding in commercial real estate. And though many analysts expect a sharp drop in the residential sector over the next two years in response to rising interest rates, we...

Societe Generale has bold plans for developing niche areas in the Australian securitisation market, including equipment, SME and consumer lending. The bank’s Hong Kong-based head of asset-backed products, APAC, Florence Coeroli, and Sydney-based head of asset-backed products, Australia, Arkady Lippa, discuss the strategy and product solutions.

Beryl Solar Farm helps deliver Sydney’s new fully automated train services in 2019