Dealing room
Our dealing room is one of the largest in Luxembourg
Pioneer and avant-gardists for more than 25 years, our dealing floor teams in Luxembourg and Paris provide a network of around forty experts ensuring access to financial markets from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
With engineering expertise, it operates in an open architecture and heavily leverages the skills of the Societe Generale group, a leader in multi-asset class structuring and trading.
Our dealing room designs and executes investment, hedging and financing solutions for you.
Depending on your investor profile and your level of requirement, you can access a wide range of services that add value to your market experience by combining execution flexibility and trading experience.
Prime Market Access
Access to the dealing room for Private Banking clients
Are you dynamic in your investments and involved in your daily investment decisions? Seeking tactical information and technical assistance to execute your orders?
Our team of specialists supports and advises you on a daily basis. Our goal: to open the doors of a true dealing floor to you.
From opening European markets to closing U.S. markets, our team of Prime Market Access experts provides direct access to the dealing room to family offices and the most sophisticated Private Banking clients. Cross-Assets, Prime Market Access* offers the ability to trade any time. We provide risk and portfolio monitoring, allowing you to leverage, and advise you on all asset classes.
EXECUTION
- Strategic positioning of the platform within the dealing room: live ordering and easy transmission.
- Societe Generale works in open architecture with a wide range of counterparties giving you access to a large offer, more liquidity and competitive prices.
- “Smart Execution”: optimisation of operations, limitation of market impacts, choice of counterparty.
MONITORING
To meet your expectations and enable you to maximize your leverage, Prime Market Access experts monitor and analyse your positions.
- Continuous risk monitoring: real-time simulation of portfolio trades and movements, stress tests.
- Rigorous tracking of portfolio securities: customised reporting, tracking of market levels and implementation of customised alerts.
- Real-time market monitoring: sending daily market commentary, session summaries and micro & macro news updates.
ADVICE
Our team assists you in optimising your positions and sends you daily targeted information according to your needs.
- Technical analysis of all types of underlying products via services such as SG Markets.
- Tactical advice: Trade Ideas on structured and over-the-counter products, arbitration and restructuring proposals.
Discover our Prime Market Access leaflet.
Jonathan McKenzie, Head of Prime Market Access Team invites you to the heart of our dealing room in this video.
* The Prime Market Access service is intended for clients classified as Professionals under MIFID regulations.
Direct Market Access
Our execution service for wealth managers
You are an asset manager, and for you, speed and efficiency are the key factors in executing your clients’ orders?
Our goal: to offer you direct, fast and efficient access to our dealing room.
Societe Generale Private Banking’s Direct Market Access service is dedicated to you. Six market operators connected to the markets, continuously reachable by phone, email and Bloomberg© are at your service from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., every working day and national holidays.
Consistent and optimised quality in executing your orders
The Direct Market Access team executes your orders across all asset classes and provides you with risk and portfolio monitoring while maximising your leverage.
The Direct Market Access service, through its open architecture structure, offers you access to a broad range of liquidity and competitive prices.
Thanks to its strategic position in the dealing room, Direct Market Access make it easy to receive and transmit orders directly. The Direct Market Access service operates only in the Reception and Transmission of Orders (RTO) and is not authorised to provide investment advice.
Discover our Direct Market Access leaflet.
Dealing Desk
Access to global markets across a wide range of financial products
Our teams offer access to all global markets on a very wide range of financial products, both listed and OTC, to its clients (asset management professionals: private bankers, third-party managers, investment funds, insurance companies, family offices) through dedicated connectivity via Fix Protocol, access to the Cross Dealing tool, chat, mail and telephone on a continuous schedule from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
- 15 dealers dedicated to executing your transactions on:
- equities,
- ETFs,
- listed derivatives (Futures and Options),
- bonds (government, SSA, Corporates, Convertible),
- ECP,
- forex,
- Structured Products and
- OTC Vanilla and Exotics (FX, Shares and Commodities).
- 5 Middle Officers dedicated to the support and proper liquidation of operations.
- 1 open architecture via 110 Brokers and counterparties worldwide.
- Annual number of transactions: 150,000 for a nominal of €200bn.
Two models, adaptable to client needs, are available to best meet your requirements
AGENT MODEL
It allows execution to be outsourced while maintaining the relationship between the client and the counterparty. In this model:
- Societe Generale Luxembourg acts transparently with your broker network.
- Regular client exchanges.
Together we build a network of brokers with an annual minimum review.
PRINCIPAL MODEL
It enables you to benefit from Societe Generale Luxembourg brokers’ network. You rely on Societe Generale Luxembourg’s architecture and broker oversight, with quarterly reviews.
These two models offer:
- the best execution (no proprietary trading, algos trading, program trading, block access, access to primary markets, open architecture enabling the best execution);
- cost reduction (RFQ ETF live with the main market makers to obtain zero brokerage fees);
- a focus on your core business (customised report for monitoring activity and better execution, CSA/RPA account to reduce the inconvenience of managing the cost of research, delegation of EMIR reporting).
Our automation process, aimed at providing fast access and connectivity with limited manual intervention (No Touch - Low Touch) reduces latency and operational risk.
The strict application of Societe Generale Luxembourg’s best execution policy by a team of senior dealers and a network of counterparties gives you access to all liquidity pools. Tracking through best execution reports and, if necessary, details by transaction. You can trade in custody or out-of-custody execution with post-trade monitoring through matching tools and support for trade settlement.
More than just an execution table
For over 15 years, Societe Generale Luxembourg has developed unique expertise in wide range of products.
OTC Derivatives
Enabling you to invest in foreign exchange markets as well as derivatives with stocks, indices, forex, commodities and interest rates as underlying assets. Numerous derivatives products and strategies are available, such as Dual Currency Deposits or more innovative products that optimise the purchase and sale of underlying assets according to market conditions (accumulator products, TARF -target forward-, etc.)
Structured Products
Supported by open architecture and market experts, Societe Generale Luxembourg combines know-how, professionalism and innovation dynamics to be the trusted partner of its clients defining customised solutions adapted to their specific objectives (expected returns, frequency of cash flows, investment horizon, themes, diversification of underlying assets, etc.)
We offer a wide variety of structured products suitable for the most demanding investors.
ESG Expertise
Enabling you to obtain proposals for alternatives to your investments.
WITH OUR MODELS:
YOU REDUCE COSTS
With I-Deal you can vary your costs:
• Onboarding costs (only if the project is complex)
• Fixed execution costs (EUR/trade) or variables (bps/nominal)
You reduce the risk of CSDR penalties.
YOU REMAIN IN CONTROL
You retain control over your strategy and organisation:
• You remain masters of the relationship with your brokers.
• We provide KPIs, audit trails, etc.
YOU ARE SAFE AND SECURE
We provide you with a robust platform that complies with Societe Generale group regulations and standards.
We regularly test against cyber-attacks and upgrade our tools to ensure they meet the highest security standards.
YOU COMPLY WITH REGULATIONS
As a European regulated bank, we assist you in the MIFID II, EMIR and MAD/MAR regulations, and in the production of best execution, best selection reports, etc.
Innovation, expertise and risk management
Responsiveness and innovation at the heart of our priorities
Our technical expertise and knowledge of the financial markets drive us to constantly seek new strategies and new products in close collaboration with our teams of bankers, managers and investment advisors, to serve our clients.
Innovation & Technologies
From the dealing room, our teams of experts work every day on advanced technologies such as blockchain or artificial intelligence to design value-added processes and applications for our clients.
Risk tracking and valuation calculations
Our teams of specialists and quantitative analysts are constantly designing and adapting their calculation and retrieval tools to ensure fair and independent valuations on a wide range of OTC and structured products and to offer our clients ever more efficient portfolio tracking methods.
The robustness of our computational tools developed in house led to the creation of the Quasars service (QUant AS A Remote Service), offering different calculations such as Counter Valuations, Sensitivities, Backtesting or Stress Testing on all types of products, including OTC and Structured.
Regulation watchs
Our business can only operate in strict compliance with the various regulations. Our dedicated support team monitors all regulatory developments and ensures their correct application in coordination with the various dealing room teams and the Bank’s Risk and Control departments.
Find out more about Societe Generale group’s global Markets solution here.