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France: +33 (0)1 53 43 87 00 (9am - 6pm)
Luxembourg: +352 47 93 11 1 (8:30am - 5:30pm)
Monaco: +377 97 97 58 00 (9/12am - 2/5pm)
Switzerland: Geneva +41 22 819 02 02
& Zurich +41 44 218 56 11 (8:30am - 5:30pm)

You would like to contact us about the protection of your personal data?

Please contact the Data Protection Officer of Societe Generale Private Banking France by sending an email to the following address: protectiondesdonnees@societegenerale.fr.

Please contact the Data Protection Officer of Societe Generale Luxembourg by sending an email to the following address: lux.dpooffice@socgen.com.

For customers residing in Italy, please contact BDO, the external provider in charge of Data Protection, by sending an email to the following address: lux.dpooffice-branch-IT@socgen.com

Please contact the Data Protection Officer of Societe Generale Private Banking Monaco by sending an email to the following address: list.mon-privmonaco-dpo@socgen.com

Please contact the Data Protection Officer of Societe Generale Private Banking Switzerland by sending an email to the following address : ch-dataprotection@socgen.com

You need to make a claim?

Societe Generale Private Banking aims to provide you with the best possible quality of service. However, difficulties may sometimes arise in the operation of your account or in the use of the services made available to you.

Your private banker  is your privileged contact to receive and process your claim.

 If you disagree with or do not get a response from your advisor, you can send your claim to the direction  of Societe Generale Private Banking France by email to the following address: FR-SGPB-Relations-Clients@socgen.com or by mail to: 

Société Générale Private Banking France
29 boulevard Haussmann CS 614
75421 Paris Cedex 9

Societe Generale Private Banking France undertakes to acknowledge receipt of your claim within 10 (ten) working days from the date it is sent and to provide you with a response within 2 (two) months from the same date. If we are unable to meet this 2 (two) month deadline, you will be informed by letter.

In the event of disagreement with the bank  or of a lack of response from us within 2 (two) months of sending your first written claim, or within 15 (fifteen) working days for a claim about a payment service, you may refer the matter free of charge, depending on the nature of your claim, to:  

 

The Consumer Ombudsman at the FBF

The Consumer Ombudsman at the Fédération Bancaire Française (FBF – French Banking Federation) is competent for disputes relating to services provided and contracts concluded in the field of banking operations (e.g. management of deposit accounts, credit operations, payment services etc.), investment services, financial instruments and savings products, as well as the marketing of insurance contracts.

The FBF Ombudsman will reply directly to you within 90 (ninety) days from the date on which she/he receives all the documents on which the request is based. In the event of a complex dispute, this period may be extended. The FBF Ombudsman will formulate a reasoned position and submit it to both parties for approval.

The FBF Ombudsman can be contacted on the following website: www.lemediateur.fbf.fr or by mail at:

Le Médiateur de la Fédération Bancaire Française
CS 151
75422 Paris CEDEX 09

 

The Ombudsman of the AMF

The Ombudsman of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF - French Financial Markets Authority) is also competent for disputes relating to investment services, financial instruments and financial savings products.

For this type of dispute, as a consumer customer, you have therefore a choice between the FBF Ombudsman and the AMF Ombudsman. Once you have chosen one of these two ombudsmen, you can no longer refer the same dispute to the other ombudsman.

The AMF Ombudsman can be contacted on the AMF website: www.amf-france.org/fr/le-mediateur or by mail at:

Médiateur de l'AMF, Autorité des Marchés Financiers
17 place de la Bourse
75082 PARIS CEDEX 02
FRANCE


The Insurance Ombudsman

The Insurance Ombudsman is competent for disputes concerning the subscription, application or interpretation of insurance contracts.

The Insurance Ombudsman can be contacted using the contact details that must be mentioned in your insurance contract.

To ensure that your requests are handled effectively, any claim addressed to Societe Generale Luxembourg should be sent to:

Private banking Claims department
11, Avenue Emile Reuter
L-2420 Luxembourg

Or by email to clienteleprivee.sglux@socgen.com and for customers residing in Italy at societegenerale@unapec.it

The Bank will acknowledge your request within 10 working days and provide a response to your claim within 30 working days of receipt. If your request requires additional processing time (e.g. if it involves complex research), the Bank will inform you of this situation within the same 30-working day timeframe.

In the event that the response you receive does not meet your expectations, we suggest the following:

Initially, you may wish to contact the Societe Generale Luxembourg Division responsible for handling claims, at the following address:

Corporate Secretariat of Societe Generale Luxembourg
11, Avenue Emile Reuter
L-2420 Luxembourg

If the response from the Division responsible for claims does not resolve the claim, you may wish to contact Societe Generale Luxembourg's supervisory authority, the “Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier”/“CSSF” (Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Commission):

By mail: 283, Route d’Arlon L-1150 Luxembourg
By email:
direction@cssf.lu

Any claim addressed to Societe Generale Private Banking Monaco should be sent by e-mail to the following address: servicequalite.privmonaco@socgen.com or by mail to our dedicated department: 

Societe Generale Private Banking Monaco
Middle Office – Service Réclamation 
11 avenue de Grande Bretagne
98000 Monaco

The Bank will acknowledge your request within 2 working days after receipt and provide a response to your claim within a maximum of 30 working days of receipt. If your request requires additional processing time (e.g. if it involves complex researches…), the Bank will inform you of this situation within the same 30-working day timeframe. 

In the event that the response you receive does not meet your expectations, we suggest to contact the Societe Generale Private Banking Direction that handles the claims by mail at the following address: 

Societe Generale Private Banking Monaco
Secrétariat Général
11 avenue de Grande Bretagne 
98000 Monaco

Any claim addressed to the Bank can be sent by email to:

sgpb-reclamations.ch@socgen.com
 

Clients may also contact the Swiss Banking Ombudsman: 

www.bankingombudsman.ch

 

"1 Woman, 1 Passion" podcasts - Episode#2: Sidonie Mérieux, Co-Founder of HeR Values

Valérie Bokobza:  Hello everyone. I am Valérie Bokobza, Head of Development at Societe Generale Private Banking and I am delighted to present a new episode of "1 woman, 1 passion". Our goal is to share the journey of an inspiring woman who is moving the lines. Today I am hosting Sidonie Mérieux. Hello Sidonie.

Sidonie Mérieux: Hello Valérie.

Valérie Bokobza: You are co-founder of HeR Value, a recruitment firm based in Lyon, the main mission of which is to participate in the feminization of boards of directors. After a successful career as a communications consultant to CAC40(1) executives, you learned lessons about board governance and the under-representation of women. In search of change, you decided to make it a fight with the advent of the Copé-Zimmermann law in France, in 2011. You are also committed to helping young people in the suburbs of Lyon, always with the same passion for a more egalitarian world. How do you go from managing a communications group to becoming an entrepreneur in human relations?

 

Sidonie Mérieux: Hello Valérie, thank you for welcoming me, I am delighted to be here. My background is quite simple: I had the chance to work at Image 7, in corporate communication, and I realized at that time - so it was about twenty years ago - the importance of the boards of directors, because I heard that many decisions were submitted to the vote of the boards of directors… So their composition caught my attention. And at that time, obviously, there were a lot of men, a lot of CEOs, sitting on boards. And actually, in 2011, there was this Copé-Zimmermann law(2) in France, which, as you mentioned, imposed a 40% quota for women, at the beginning for listed companies, and which was extended to non-listed companies that meet criteria of turnover and employees. I saw in this legislative opportunity a market opportunity. So the decision was very quick: I said to myself that there was something to be done, there was something professional to be done about this transformation and this feminization of the boards of directors. And so very quickly, I created HeR Value with an approach based on the expertise, the competence of women, more than on their gender, by trying to accompany the presidents in the audit of their board of directors, to finally tell me what expertise and experience might be missing around the table. And I'm working hard to identify these female talents to complement all these talents.

Valérie Bokobza: So, concretely, with HeR Value, how do you support women executives to position themselves in the board of directors and what does this change for companies?

Sidonie Médieux: In 2011, when I created HeR Value, I quickly had clients asking me to identify female profiles, and of course, I identified women with very high-level profiles in companies who agreed to take on these new roles. And then I came up against a lot of questions from them about what a board of directors was, how it worked, what this collegial body was, what its codes were, what posture one should have in a board of directors... So I quickly turned to EM Lyon(3), which was my former school, and we co-created together a pedagogical support program, both on academic issues, and then of course, on feedback, by bringing in many witnesses for this training. To date, we have trained 390 women, 53% of whom are now independent directors.

Valérie Bokobza: You yourself are a member of the board of several associations that promote the integration of the younger generation in sensitive neighborhoods. What really motivates you in this commitment?

Sidonie Mérieux: I was lucky enough to come across a magnificent association called Sport dans la Ville (“Sport in the City”), which promotes the integration of young people through sport. It was an environment that I did not know, that I discovered, and I met young people who did not necessarily have the codes of the company, who did not necessarily have a very good image of the company either, but who had a lot of energy, a lot of desire. So I wanted to get involved with them. And it's true that, when I discovered this whole ecosystem around professional integration and education for people who didn't necessarily have the opportunity that I had, I wanted to get involved. So I got involved with Sport dans la Ville. I am also on the board of the Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon’s soccer club) foundation, I participated in the Sycomore foundation, and I am also lucky enough to be part of the Societe Generale foundation (Fondation Société Générale C'est Vous l'Avenir(4)).

Valérie Bokobza: What advice would you have liked to have been given earlier in your career?

Sidonie Mérieux: To perhaps trust myself more; because I try to follow my intuitions. And when I had an idea, to dig into it and to tell myself that it is the right one, so to try to be pugnacious in my actions. In other words, to listen to myself, and also to listen to others, because we all have in our entourage people who accompany us with kindness and who are very good mentors. To know how to listen to them, it is very important.

Valérie Bokobza: Very well. Societe Generale Private Banking thanks you, Sidonie, for your participation. And thank you to the listeners. See you soon for the next episode of "1 woman, 1 passion".

Sidonie Mérieux: Thank you Valérie.


(1) Main stock market index of the Paris Stock Exchange, composed of 40 French stocks representing all sectors of activity, selected from the 100 French companies with the highest trading volumes. (Source: https://www.economie.gouv.fr/facileco/cac-40)

(2) French Law: Law no. 2011-103 of January 27, 2011 on the balanced representation of women and men on boards of directors and supervisory boards and on professional equality: Loi de 2011 : votre entreprise est-elle concernée ? – Ministère chargé de l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes, de la diversité et de l'égalité des chances (egalite-femmes-hommes.gouv.fr)

(3) EM Lyon, now "emlyon business school", a business and management school in Lyon, France.

(4) To find out more about the Société Générale C'est Vous l'Avenir Foundation: LANCEMENT DE LA FONDATION SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE C’EST VOUS L’AVENIR POUR SOUTENIR LES JEUNES - Société Générale (societegenerale.com)

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Valérie Bokobza Responsable des conseils en investissement Société Générale Private Banking France