France says SocGen in crisis
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France's economy minister said Societe Generale, reeling from losses blamed on a rogue trader, is a bank in crisis and may need to ditch its chairman.
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The French government will not allow the crisis-hit bank Societe Generale to be the target of a "hostile" takeover bid, Prime Minister Francois Fillon warned on Tuesday.
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"There's still a feeling of total incomprehension"  Societe Generale came under mounting pressure on Friday to give a full account of how a rogue trader managed to dupe his supervisors and run up a $7 billion loss. via Earth Times
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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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France's top bank BNP Paribas is "thinking" about a possible takeover of its rival Societe Generale, rocked by multi-billion-euro rogue trade losses, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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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.
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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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European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet said Sunday that France&#39;s public finances were in &quot;very great difficulty&quot; with the worst public spending to output ratio in the European Union.
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French bank Societe Generale faced tough questions on Friday over how it failed to spot the biggest rogue dealing fraud in history, in which a single young trader triggered a $7 billion loss under the noses of top executives.
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French bank Societe Generale announced Monday the launch of a capital increase of 5.5 billion euros (8.0 billion dollars) as well as an additional 600 million euros in losses due to the subprime crisis.
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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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A failure of internal controls at Societe Generale was partly responsible for the multi-billion-dollar rogue trade scandal at the bank, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Monday.
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The French government switched into crisis mode as efforts intensified to secure the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by Islamic militants demanding that Paris rescind a ban on headscarves in state schools.
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The French bank said that fourth-quarter net profit fell to 1 billion euros ($1.47 billion) due to write-downs of securities affected by the financial markets crisis.
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Societe Generale files a legal complaint against the trader accused of fraud which led to huge losses at the bank.
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Societe Generale faces growing  embarrassment after it emerged the French bank was warned last  year about the suspect activities of Jerome Kerviel and its key  fraud accusation against the 31-year-old trader collapsed.
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Societe Generale , the French  bank hit by a trading scandal, faced further pressure on Monday  with a government report set to criticize its risk control and  as an unrelated money-laundering trial starts.