This Bank CEO Is Learning to Code

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Societe Generale CEO Frederic Oudea Oudea speaks to Bloomberg’s Ed Robinson from the Web Summit in Lisbon.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Edward Robinson and Fabio Benedetti Valentini

November 7, 2017 at 4:09 PM UTC

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Frederic Oudea is doing everything he can to keep up with the technological changes roiling the European banking industry. The chief executive officer of Societe Generale SA has collaborated with fintech startups, backed accelerator programs to nurture innovation, and invested heavily in its French mobile-banking unit as well as in hundreds of apps.

Now he’s even taken up writing software code himself.