Jean-Pierre Mustier

摘要

Every bank has certain tenets that characterise its corporate culture. As such, SG Corporate and Investment Banking (SG CIB), the investment banking arm of French group Societe Generale, could be summed up by its belief in a focused business model, the cultivation of an entrepreneurial spirit and what the bank calls a "profitable growth strategy". In recent years, this triumvirate has served the bank pretty well. In Q1 2004, SG CIB generated EUD 329m net income (up 14.6% on Q4 2003) and a return on equity (ROE) of 36.3% (up from 31.7% in Q4 last year). Its contribution to group profit has risen from 36% in 1999 to 43% last year, while its share of group risk weighted assets has declined from 41 % to 30% over the same period.