BNP talk lifts SocGen as France warns predators
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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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French bank BNP declines to rule out a bid for rival Societe Generale, which is struggling after a trading scandal.
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French bank Societe Generale SA on Tuesday posted a 10.3 percent increase in third-quarter net profit, boosted by higher revenues from international retail banking and a better-than-expected result at its corporate investment banking operations.
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French banking group Societe Generale has reported that second-quarter net profit rose by 37.9 percent, with its finance and investment divisions posting strong growth amid market volatility.
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France's finance ministry calls for tighter banking controls after the Societe Generale trading scandal.
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BNP Paribas confirmed on Thursday that it was studying a possible bid for Societe Generale, as its fellow French bank reeled from rogue trading losses and France warned off would-be foreign bidders.
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The head of French bank Societe Generale   has hired investment banks to advise on the  possibility of a merger with larger domestic rival BNP Paribas  , Les Echos newspaper reported on Friday.
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French bank BNP Paribas is "thinking" about a possible takeover of its rival Societe Generale, rocked by muti-billion-euro rogue trade losses, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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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.
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Societe Generale, the French bank reeling from a rogue trading scandal, launched a rights issue at a steep discount on Monday to bolster its balance sheet.
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French bank Societe Generale said Friday that the rogue trader who cost the bank $7.14 billion had been trading with a far bigger pool Â tens of billions of dollars.
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Stock markets rose further Friday on the growing view that fraud-linked billion-dollar losses at Societe Generale may have contributed to panic-selling earlier this week and bounced the US central bank into a radical rate cut.
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European equity markets were a little higher on Friday as energy stocks rose, offsetting losses for banks, while bid talk helped enliven the session.
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Societe Generale chairman Daniel Bouton defended the bank's management in an interview published Saturday, saying the rogue trader scandal was not the fault of strategic errors.
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Shares in French bank BNP rose in a falling market on Friday after a newspaper report that smaller local rival Societe Generale was mulling a tie-up that would create a combined bank ranking number three in Europe.
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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.