Pressure piles on SocGen over trading scandal
217911
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.
476197
Federal prosecutors are looking for U.S. ties to French bank Societe Generale's  trading scandal, for example transactions that went through a U.S. broker, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
194577
PARIS, Jan. 25 -- French political figures, shareholders and bank customers on Friday voiced growing criticism and skepticism of banking giant Societe Generale's explanations of one of the largest financial scams in history.
718349
The trader at the centre of a massive trading scandal reportedly says Societe Generale must have known of his risk taking.
19570
The junior trader blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at French bank Societe Generale faced a second day of questioning on Sunday by finance police, who said he was cooperating with their inquiry.
397495
Will the SEC get in on the act? SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale may face a US inquiry on its handling of the rogue trader scandal that cost the company â¬4.9bn ($7.2bn).â¦
424758
Societe Generale (SocGen) , hit by massive losses it blamed on rogue trades, braced for fresh criticism on Tuesday after a government report highlighted major failings in its risk controls.
52434
Societe Generale chairman Daniel Bouton faced increasing pressure from French officials to answer for the rogue trader disaster rocking the bank ahead a meeting Wednesday of its board of directors.
649385
Federal prosecutors are looking for  U.S. ties to French bank Societe Generale's  trading  scandal, for example transactions that went through a U.S.  broker, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
43900
French bank Societe Generale defended its handling of the world's biggest trading scandal on Sunday, but admitted its risk systems had failed to detect a 50-billion-euro ($73.3 billion) market bet by a lone trader.
352927
Scandal-hit French bank Societe Generale opened its own inquiry on Wednesday into how it suffered history's biggest rogue trader loss, but resisted heavy pressure to sack its chairman and CEO.
644802
French police widened an investigation into a trading scandal at Societe Generale  as a court prepared to rule on Friday whether Jerome Kerviel, the trader blamed for huge losses, should be held in custody.
59796
France's finance ministry calls for tighter banking controls after the Societe Generale trading scandal.
622824
The board of Societe Generale pored over the fate of its chairman on Wednesday, torn between political pressure to dump him over a trading scandal and the need to close ranks against potential predator BNP Paribas.
751536
The French government piled pressure on Societe Generale's chairman Tuesday over multi-billion dollar losses at the bank for which rogue trader Jerome Kerviel was charged.
22860
Police on Saturday questioned the young trader blamed for a massive fraud that cost France's Societe Generale bank more than $7 billion, as the country's president accused global financial institutions of having "gone haywire" and urged common sense.
507660
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.