SocGen backs chairman after rogue trading scandal
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Societe Generale CEO Daniel Bouton won fresh support from the board on Wednesday, as the bank set up a special committee under a former car executive to probe the world's biggest rogue trading scandal.
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Societe Generale  Chairman  Daniel Bouton told a newspaper the French bank would overcome  its "shock" at having discovered an alleged $7 billion euro  (10.3 billion pound) internal fraud.
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Societe Generale has uncovered a fraud by one of its traders which will have a 4.9-billion-euro ($7.16 billion) negative impact on the group, France's second-largest listed bank said on Thursday.
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Could Societe Generale's $7.2 billion loss at the hands of a rogue employee have been prevented?
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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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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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France's economy minister said Societe Generale, reeling from losses blamed on a rogue trader, is in crisis and may need to ditch its chairman.
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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 rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, whose unauthorised deals at Societe Generale cost the bank billions of euros, was taken into custody Friday after a court hearing in Paris, his lawyer 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.
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The board of French bank Societe Generale met Wednesday with its top executive under intense pressure over the loss of $7.09 billion blamed on a rogue trader.
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Scandal-hit French bank Societe Generale opened its own inquiry on Wednesday into how it suffered history's biggest rogue trader loss, but resisted heavy pressure to sack its chairman and CEO.
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Federal prosecutors are looking for  U.S. ties to French bank Societe Generale's  trading  scandal, for example transactions that went through a U.S.  broker, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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France stepped up efforts to restore confidence in the banking system as Societe Generale faced tough questions on Friday over why it failed to prevent the biggest financial dealing scandal in history.
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The biggest rogue trader scandal in history hit Societe Generale on Thursday as the French bank accused a junior employee of a fraud costing $7 billion.
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Senior French politicians stepped up calls for top managers at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale to resign over a rogue traderâs deals that cost the bank more than $7 billion.
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Societe Generale said Sunday that a rogue trader suspected of incurring massive losses at the French bank held positions worth about 50 billion euros (73 billion dollars) when he was uncovered.