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Société Générale
Bank acquirer
France€56.5bnMarket cap · as of 1 Jun 2026 · societegenerale.com
- Revenue
- €27.3bnnet banking income (FY2025) · as of 2025-12
- Employees
- 110,384(headcount, Societe Generale Group, at 31 December 2025)
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Website
- societegenerale.com
What it does
Global universal bank; payments and card services for retail and corporate clients.
Terminals under its own name · 2
Deals
- Sep 2022·acquired PayXpert — Société Générale signed an agreement on 30 Sep 2022 to buy a majority stake in PayXpert, a fintech that lets retail and online merchants accept card, mobile and QR payments in store and remotely. It was registered as the controlling shareholder of PayXpert Services Ltd on 3 Aug 2023; no price was published.
- May 2019·sold OTP Bank — OTP Bank signed on 3 May 2019 to buy 99.73% of SKB Banka, Slovenia's fourth largest bank, from Société Générale, and the financial closure was completed on 13 December 2019. It was OTP's first bank in Slovenia; no price was published in OTP's announcements.
- Feb 2019·sold OTP Bank — Crnogorska komercijalna banka, OTP's Montenegrin subsidiary, signed on 28 February 2019 to buy 90.56% of Societe Generale banka Montenegro, and the financial closure was completed on 16 July 2019. No price was published in OTP's announcements.
- Dec 2018·sold OTP Bank — OTP Bank signed on 20 December 2018 to buy 100% of Societe Generale Banka Srbija, Serbia's fourth largest bank, and the financial closure was completed on 24 September 2019. No price was published in OTP's announcements.
- Aug 2018·sold OTP Bank — DSK Bank, OTP's Bulgarian subsidiary, signed on 1 August 2018 to buy 99.74% of Societe Generale Expressbank, Bulgaria's seventh largest bank, and the financial closure was completed on 15 January 2019. No price was published in OTP's announcements.
- Dec 2016·sold OTP Bank — OTP banka Hrvatska signed an agreement on 20 December 2016 to buy 100% of Splitska banka, Croatia's fifth largest bank, from Société Générale, and the financial closure was completed on 2 May 2017. No price was published in OTP's announcements.
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