French Bank Apologizes Over Fraud
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The rogue futures trader who cost French bank Societe Generale $7.14 billion had been betting on a much larger scale  -  with tens of billions in fraudulent deals, the bank said Friday
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said that a trader had misappropriated computer access codes, falsified documents and employed other methods to cover his tracks.
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Societe Generale unveils an employee's $7.2 billion fraud, and a $3 billion subprime write-down.
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French police were questioning a second trader about whether he knew of trades that led to billions in losses at bank SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, according to a newspaper report.
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(InfoWorld) - WithÂ Internet fraud on the rise, French banks and merchants are not putting in place antifraud technology to catch bad online transactions, an official from France's central bank said Thursday. Some banks are reluctant to put into place stronger mechanisms, such as requiring customers to use one-time passwords, because of high deployment costs as well as the reluctance of customers to use it, said Marc Andries, who works in the non-cash means of payment oversight division for the Bank of France. Paradoxically, the introduction of authentication technology prompts some consumers to question the security of their bank, said Andries, who gave a presentation at Fraud World 2007 in London. Nonetheless, the rise in online banking fraud and card-not-present (CNP) fraud -- in which someone's credit-card details are used for an online transaction without the need for the physical card -- demands a solution, he said. As a result, the Bank of France is in an "intensive dialog" with financial institutions to adopt new security technology, Andries said. The Bank of France will not, however, dictate how banks should strengthen their security or what technology they should use, he said. That is in contrast with the U.S., where the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, which supervises U.S. financial institutions, mandated that banks implement two-factor authentication by the end of 2006. Merchants in France who conduct e-commerce transactions tolerate CNP fraud because e-commerce is soaring, and they can buy insurance to guard against losses, Andries said. "They accept it because it's part of the business," he said. CNP fraud has risen as face-to-face transaction fraud has fallen with the widespread deployment of so-called "chip and pin" technology in Europe, where consumers must enter a four-digit personal identification number in a terminal before completing a transaction. As a result, criminals have turned to CNP fraud, where the credit-card details, obtained through phishing or other scams, are used for e-commerce transactions. But that fraud can be reduced by using systems that use a combination of data to better authenticate the transaction. Security software can check the card's security code -- the three-digit number on the back of the card -- along with part of the customer's post code or house number. Consumers aren't putting much pressure on either banks or merchants since they can contest fraudulent CNP transactions, Andries said. But they don't get off that easy, since "in the end, the losses are paid by the client of the merchant through inflation, and that's not good for the central bank," Andries said.
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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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French bank Societe Generale said Thursday it has uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud Â one of history's biggest Â by a single futures trader who fooled investors and overstepped his authority.
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said that a trader stole computer codes, falsified documents and employed other methods to cover his tracks.
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PARIS, Jan 26 -- The French trader accused of one of the biggest bank frauds ever surfaced Saturday -- in the custody of police, who were questioning him about bad bets that cost France's No. 2 bank billions of euros.
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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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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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The French government demanded a full accounting Friday of how a rogue trader at Societe Generale managed to lose 7.0 billion dollars, as it emerged he gambled on over 73 billion dollars -- more than the bank's current value.
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French bank Societe Generale says it has uncovered a huge fraud by a Paris-based trader, who has been suspended.
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The French bank hit by eleven-figure losses thanks to a rogue employee probably wasn't harmed by poor IT systems, but by poor management of those systems, according to analysts.
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The new chief executive of Citibank Japan apologized at a Parliament committee Tuesday and promised that misled customers will be compensated at its private-banking unit, where regulators have found violations.
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Societe Generale detailed Sunday how a young trader evaded all its controls to bet some $73 billion Â more than the French bank's market worth Â saying he hacked computers and used other "fraudulent methods" to cover his tracks, causing billions of dollars in losses.
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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.