finance.foundation / Banks / Société Générale
Bank · Universal bank
Société Générale
One of France's three largest banks, combining French retail networks with global markets and securities-services businesses. Founded in 1864 and headquartered in Paris.
- Type
- Universal bank
- Jurisdiction
- France
- G-SIB designation
- Yes — on the Financial Stability Board’s list of global systemically important banks (the FSB republishes it each November)
- Total assets ≈
- $1.7tn (approx., as of Q2 2026 · our seed dataset seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30, sources)
- Listed parent
- Not in covered set
- LEI
- O2RNE8IBXP4R0TD8PU41 ISO 17442 — the operating bank
- BIC
- NEWGFRP1XXX ISO 9362 · chosen from 1 BICs on the record: the only one both in the entity's own country and carrying the head-office branch code
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
# this page as data
GET https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/societe-generale
JSONCSV No key, CORS enabled — paste any of these straight into a notebook.
Code to fetch it
curl
curl -s https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/societe-generale
Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/societe-generale", timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
JavaScript
const r = await fetch("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/societe-generale");
if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.status);
const data = await r.json();
pandas
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/societe-generale.csv")