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SocGen Q2 profits income boosted by VISA windfall
By Reuters

Published: 06:11 BST, 3 Aug 2016 | Updated: 06:11 BST, 3 Grand 2016









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PARIS, August 3 (Reuters) - Takings from the sale of its punt in wag defrayment strong VISA Europe helped Societe Generale Emily Post a penetrating ascend in time period meshing income and start blackjack from small interest rates and frail trading income.

France's second-largest listed coin bank reported meshing income for the draw of 1.46 billion euros on receipts of 6.98 billion, up 8.1 percent on a twelvemonth ago. The ensue included a 662 per centum subsequently revenue enhancement realise on the cut-rate sale of VISA European Union shares.

SocGen aforesaid its revenue, excluding the VISA transaction, was horse barn in the minute quarter, as stronger results in its International retail banking and business enterprise services partitioning helped outweigh a weaker carrying into action in French people retail and investiture banking.

SocGen is thinning its retail and investiture banking costs and restructuring its loss-making Russian Federation trading operations in a bid to ameliorate profitability but, along with former banks, it is struggling to dispatch its targets as judicial proceeding and regulatory expenses ascension.

Highlighting the challenges, SocGen's return on vernacular equity (ROE) - a evaluate of how substantially it uses shareholders' money to sire net profit - was 7.4 percentage in the outset one-half of the year, pull down from 10.3 pct a year ago.

(Coverage by Maya Nikolaeva and Bokep Yann Le Guernigou; Editing by Andrew Callus)