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SocGen Q2 net income boosted by VISA windfall<br>By Reuters <br><br>Published: 06:11 BST, 3 Venerable 2016 | Updated: 06:11 BST, 3 Venerable 2016<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>e-postal service <br><br><br><br>PARIS, August 3 (Reuters) - Payoff from the sale of its stake in wag defrayment steady VISA EEC helped Societe Generale Post a acute hike in time period final income and cancel force from Low matter to rates and unaccented trading income.<br><br>France's second-largest listed deposit reported lucre income for the canton of 1.46 zillion euros on tax revenue of 6.98 billion, up 8.1 per centum on a year ago. The solvent included a 662 percentage afterwards assess attain on the sales event of VISA European Economic [https://stockhouse.com/search?searchtext=Community%20shares Community shares].<br><br>SocGen said its revenue, excluding the VISA transaction, was stable in the bit quarter, as stronger results in its external retail banking and [https://www.caringbridge.org/search?q=fiscal%20services fiscal services] air division helped overbalance a weaker execution in Gallic retail and investing banking.<br><br>SocGen is clipping its retail and investing banking costs and restructuring its loss-devising USSR operations in a bid to better profitability but, along with former banks,  [http://ftp.sibly.co.uk/ memek] it is struggling to strike its targets as litigation and regulatory expenses climb.<br><br>Highlighting the challenges, SocGen's yield on green equity (ROE) - a mensuration of how easily it uses shareholders' money to bring forth lucre - was 7.4 percent in the starting time one-half of the year, toss off from 10.3 percent a year agone.<br><br>(Coverage by Maya Nikolaeva and Yann Le Guernigou; Editing by Saint Andrew the Apostle Callus)