French Traderâs Bets Said to Assure an Alarm
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New questions emerged about when JÃ©rÃ´me Kervielâs superiors at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale became aware of the scale of his unauthorized trades.
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The French financial trader at the centre of a massive fraud case gambled around 50bn euros, his employer says.
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Documents suggest that a trader at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale was aware of JÃ©rÃ´me Kervielâs surreptitious trading and that Mr. Kerviel understood the gravity of his actions.
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Jerome Kerviel, the trader blamed by  Societe Generale for heavy losses, had a trading deficit of 2.2  billion euros ($3.2 billion) as early as June last year, an  adviser to his lawyer told Paris Match.
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A second broker suspected of involvement in the Societe Generale affair appeared before French judges Saturday on suspicion of knowing about the multi-billion-euro losses being made by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, a judicial source said.
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In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is accused of making unauthorized bets on stock markets that cost the bank nearly $7.2 billion but may not have netted him a cent.
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PARIS â A transcript of conversations between JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel, the trader whom SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale says cost it nearly 5 billion euros ($7.2 billion), and a broker at one of the bankâs subsidiaries suggests that the second man had an intimate knowledge of Mr. Kervielâs surreptitious trading and that Mr. Kerviel was well aware of the gravity of his actions.
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PARIS/LONDON  - France warned foreign banks on Tuesday not to try to grab control of Societe Generale, as speculation of a takeover approach by rival BNP Paribas drove its shares more than 10 percent higher.
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The man French authorities were questioning was identified as Moussa Bakir, a broker at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©raleâs futures brokerage unit.
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The French government is calling for tighter risk-control measures and a broad review of bank rules in response to losses from the trading scandal at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale.
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LONDON/PARIS  - Societe Generale's shock disclosure of a fraud that lost it $7 billion has left investors wondering about a link between the fiasco and Monday's European stock market rout.
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Societe Generale detailed Sunday how a young trader evaded all its controls to bet some $73 billion Â more than the French bank's market worth Â saying he hacked computers and used other "fraudulent methods" to cover his tracks, causing billions of dollars in losses.
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Societe Generale detailed Sunday how a young trader evaded all its controls to bet some $73 billion -- more than the French bank's market worth -- saying he hacked computers and used other ''fraudulent methods'' to cover his tracks, causing billions of dollars in losses.
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Societe Generale was warned about alleged rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last year, a prosecutor says.
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Societe Generale chairman Daniel Bouton faced increasing pressure from French officials to answer for the rogue trader disaster rocking the bank ahead a meeting Wednesday of its board of directors.
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French police on Friday questioned a share broker over links to rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, whose 4.8 billion euro (7.1 billion dollar) losses nearly brought Societe Generale bank to its knees, justice officials said.
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Exchange officials warned Societe Generale about rogue trader Jerome Kerviel's deals late last year, a Paris prosecutor said, piling pressure on the French bank to explain why his trades were not discovered sooner.