SG recovers from structured product slaughter but sees smaller corporate boost

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Société Générale’s third quarter investment banking figures showed a sharp improvement from earlier in the year, as the impact of the European dividend cancellations and losses on complex structured products washed out of the numbers. But the French firm’s financing activities, geared more to aircraft and project lending than its rivals, have seen less benefit from booming corporate debt markets.