France tries to calm jitters on SocGen scandal
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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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Societe Generale laid out its defense ahead of a high-profile money laundering trial due to begin in Paris on Monday, which could put further pressure on the French bank as it grapples with the effects of 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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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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Business & money: Â· Doubt cast on SocGen claim of single perpetratorÂ· Employee of financial services firm is held
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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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"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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France warned rival banks on Tuesday not to try to grab control of Societe Generale as it reels from losses blamed on a rogue trader, but shares in the bank spiked higher on takeover speculation.
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French bank Societe Generale has admitted  that a gap in control systems allowed a junior trader to take a  $73 billion losing bet on European share prices, but defended  its handling of the world's biggest trading scandal.
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PARIS - In an attempt to ease tensions in the Ivory Coast, France has opted not to point the finger of blame at President Laurent Gbagbo for the violence that has roiled the country in the past week.
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Pressure mounted on Societe Generale on Monday as a prosecutor said rogue trader Jerome Kerviel was questioned about his trades in November, and as investors sued the French bank for insider trading.
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"I'm worried about the growing attacks that France is deploying against its European allies, against the Germans, the Luxembourgers, against all of the European countries."  France faces thinly concealed and growing frustration from Paris' European partners, irked at President Nicolas Sarkozy's strident position towards EU spending limits and attacks on the ECB. via Raw Story
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France's Societe Generale says fraud was hidden using "sophisticated and varied techniques."
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French bank Societe Generale SA hopes to raise nearly $8 billion in a heavily discounted rights issue launched Monday, designed to fill a gap in funds blamed on a massive trading scandal.
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PARIS -- Some internal controls at Societe Generale failed or were not heeded before the banking giant suffered billions in losses precipitated by a rogue trader, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Monday.
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Business & money: French desperate to keep bank out of foreign hands
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Speculation of a British bid for Societe Generale, in the face of French opposition to a foreign takeover, pushed shares in SocGen up sharply on Wednesday nearly two weeks after it was plunged into a rogue trading scandal.