NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking has named Mary Beth Fisher as Managing Director and Head of U.S. Interest Rates Strategy.  As head of rates strategy, Fisher will be responsible for directing U.S. rates strategy and creating the U.S. rates research product for the bank and its clients. 

Fisher's appointment supports the firm's strategy to continue to develop its U.S. fixed income dollar origination, sales and trading platform in order to provide its clients with a fully global capital markets product offering.

Fisher has approximately 15 years of experience in fixed income research.  She joins from BNP Paribas where she was a Senior Strategist, Interest Rates and Government Policy;  has held similar positions at UBS, Bear Stearns and BB&T; and has worked at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC.  She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Duke University and a B.A. from DePauw University.

Based in New York, Fisher reports to the Head of U.S. Research, Stephen Gallagher.

Societe Generale

Societe Generale is one of the largest European financial services groups. Based on a diversified universal banking model, the Group combines financial solidity with a strategy of sustainable growth, and aims to be the reference for relationship banking, recognised on its markets, close to clients, chosen for the quality and commitment of its teams.

Its 160,000 employees based in 77 countries accompany more than 33 million clients throughout the world on a daily basis. Societe Generale' teams offer advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional customers in three core businesses:

• Retail banking in France with the Societe Generale branch network, Credit du Nord and Boursorama
• International retail banking, with a presence in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, in the Mediterranean basin, in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Asia and in the French Overseas Territories
• Corporate and investment banking with a global expertise in investment banking, financing and global markets.

Societe Generale is also a significant player in specialised financing and insurance, private banking, asset management and securities services.

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Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking

At the core of Societe Generale's universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with nearly 12,000 professionals present in 33 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.

• For Corporates, Financial Institutions and public sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimised financing and expert risk management responses notably in the realm of foreign exchange and rates derivatives.
• For investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated global markets platform delivering seamless access to markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of execution and forward looking research across asset classes.

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