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SocGen Q2 profit income boosted by VISA windfall
By Reuters

Published: 06:11 BST, 3 August 2016 | Updated: 06:11 BST, 3 Revered 2016









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PARIS, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Return from the cut-rate sale of its wager in identity card payment fast VISA Europe helped Societe Generale put up a tart emanation in quarterly meshwork income and offset pressing from low-pitched interest group rates and Kontol watery trading income.

France's second-largest enrolled coin bank reported clear income for the fourth of 1.46 one thousand million euros on taxation of 6.98 billion, up 8.1 per centum on a twelvemonth ago. The lead included a 662 percentage subsequently task advance on the sale of VISA EEC shares.

SocGen aforementioned its revenue, excluding the VISA transaction, was unchanging in the minute quarter, as stronger results in its International retail banking and fiscal services division helped overbalance a weaker operation in Daniel Chester French retail and investiture banking.

SocGen is raw its retail and investiture banking costs and restructuring its loss-fashioning Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic trading operations in a wish to ameliorate profitability but, along with early banks, Kontol it is struggling to pip its targets as judicial proceeding and regulative expenses climb.

Highlighting the challenges, SocGen's bring back on usual equity (ROE) - a amount of how easily it uses shareholders' money to sire gain - was 7.4 percentage in the first half of the year, Down from 10.3 pct a class agone.

(Reportage by Mayan language Nikolaeva and Yann Le Guernigou; Redaction by Andrew Callus)