SocGen reels from record $7 billion rogue trader fraud
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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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A failure of internal controls at Societe Generale contributed to the bank's multi-billion-dollar rogue trade scandal, France's finance minister said Monday, calling for tougher penalties for breaches of regulations.
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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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Financial police in Paris were to question a trader who cost Franceâs SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale more than $7 billion, judicial officials said.
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The day that SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel, a rogue trader, had cost it billions, it announced a large subprime-related write-down.
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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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France's Societe Generale says fraud was hidden using "sophisticated and varied techniques."
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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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Global stocks posted fresh gains on  Friday, shrugging off an astounding $7 billion fraud at French  bank Societe Generale, while commodities rallied as a U.S. tax  stimulus package helped ease recession fears.
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Police have taken into custody the trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale, a judicial source said on Saturday.
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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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Police raided Friday the Paris headquarters of Societe Generale, which is accusing a rogue trader of losing more than 7.0 billion dollars (4.9 billion euros), the French banking giant 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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PARIS, Jan. 27 -- French bank Societe Generale said Sunday that the junior trader accused of perpetrating one of the largest banking scandals in history stole computer access codes and created fraudulent e-mails to bet more than the bank's entire market worth on risky investments.
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â¢ 2008: French bank Societe Generale uncovers an alleged $7.14 billion fraud by a futures trader who fooled investors and overstepped his authority.
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The trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale is not on the run and will be questioned by police at an appropriate moment, the Paris prosecutors' office said on Saturday.
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The French bank said that the fraud had been committed by a trader in charge of hedging on European index futures.