Bank trading scandal no effect on French financial system: Sarkozy
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The 4.9 billion euro (7.15 billion dollar) rogue trader scandal at Societe Generale does not affect the "solidity and reliability of France's financial system," President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday.
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Internal controls at Societe Generale "did not work," French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Monday as she delivered a report on the multi-billion dollar rogue trade scandal at the bank.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy rules out pardoning prisoners on Bastille Day, breaking with the past.
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French bank says family problems and mental fragility led its rogue trader to squander â¬4.9bn
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The head of French bank Societe Generale  said in a newspaper interview published on Wednesday that he saw "limited impact" on the profitability of France's banks from the current subprime mortgage crisis.
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The man at the center of a trading scandal at Societe Generale said that his activities could not have gone undetected by the French bank.
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The trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale is not on the run and will be questioned at an appropriate moment, the Paris prosecutors' office said on Saturday.
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President Nicolas  Sarkozy said on Tuesday that France would veto any World Trade  Organization (WTO) agreement that did not satisfy its  requirements on farming.
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A senior adviser to French President  Nicolas Sarkozy said France remained opposed to any hostile bid  for Societe Generale , the French bank hit by a  trading scandal.
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PARIS, Jan. 29 -- The 31-year-old trader accused of causing $7.1 billion in losses at France's Societe Generale bank told police investigators that his financial deals were so big that his bosses had to know about them, according to transcripts published Tuesday on two French Web sites.
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French bank BNP Paribas revealed on Thursday it was stalking crisis-hit Societe Generale, while voices in the European Union were raised against France for warning it would ward off hostile bids.
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A look at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's positions on key issues:
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"We cannot allow a few speculators to bring down the whole international system, borrowing under any conditions they like and buying at any price they want and without knowing who is lending"  French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel called here on Monday for more transparency on international finance markets. via XtraMSN Real Estate
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The French government piled pressure on Societe Generale's chairman Tuesday over multi-billion dollar losses at the bank for which rogue trader Jerome Kerviel was charged.
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France's financial market regulator said Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into French bank Societe Generale, which announced last week that the actions of a rogue trader caused it nearly euro5 billion (US$7 billion) in losses.
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PARIS, Feb. 8 -- A French futures trader was jailed Friday while investigations continued into the billions of dollars in losses he is accused of causing at Societe Generale bank.
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LONDON/SINGAPORE  - France's Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Thursday of a threat to world growth posed by the U.S. home loan crisis but a Bank of Japan policymaker said the recent market turmoil had been overdone.