Reporting to Pascal Augé, head of global transaction & payment services, he will be responsible to drive Societe Generale GTB’s development strategy by supporting its client base of corporate and financial institutions in the management of their global relationships.

In his new role, he will have direct supervisory responsibilities for Societe Generale GTB’s four main business lines including corporate cash management, cash clearing/correspondent banking, international trade financing services, and factoring.

Having joined the bank in 1976, Behaghel worked in a number of positions including various overseas jobs in the group’s corporate & investment banking division.

In 1992, he was named as the head of financial engineering before joining Large Corporates division in 1998. In 2009, he became global head of large corporate clients for the retail banking in France division.

Trading in 76 nations globally, Societe Generale has a workforce of more than 154,000 staff and serves 32 million clients on a daily basis.