Being a shareholder

Societe Generale provides practical information and educational resources to help individual shareholders better understand share ownership, the different ways of holding shares, taxation and financial markets.

Ways of holding Societe Generale shares

Societe Generale shares may be held in three different ways:

• bearer shares: your shares are held and managed by the bank or financial institution of your choice. This is the most common way of holding shares.
• administered registered shares:  your shares are held and managed by your bank or financial institution, while also being registered with Societe Generale. This enables Societe Generale to identify you as a shareholder and send you shareholder information, including documents relating to the Annual General Meeting; 
• pure registered shares: your shares are registered directly in your name with Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), which manages Societe Generale's registered shareholding service. Your shares and personal details are recorded in Societe Generale's shareholder register.

Find out more about acquiring shares in pure registered form with the Registered shareholder guide.

Contact us

By email: relations@actionnaires-societegenerale.com

By phone from France: 0 800 850 820

By phone from abroad: +33 1 42 14 52 16

Our department is solely dedicated to communications with Societe Generale's individual shareholders and does not have access to customer accounts or records. For any enquiries relating to a securities account, dividends, Sharinbox or employee shareholding plans, please contact the Nomilia Client Service Centre directly at +33 (0)2 51 85 67 89. For information in English, please select option 2.