SocGen reels from record $7 billion rogue trader fraud
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A "massive fraud" by a junior rogue trader has punched a $7 billion hole in the finances of French bank Societe Generale, leaving its credibility in tatters and forcing it to get emergency cash.
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France's financial market regulator said Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into French bank Societe Generale, which announced last week that the actions of a rogue trader caused it nearly euro5 billion (US$7 billion) in losses.
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A rogue trader who cost France's Societe Generale bank more than $7 billion by making bad stock market bets had been gambling on a much larger scale, officials said Â tens of billions of dollars of the bank's money.
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PARIS, Feb. 4 -- French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde gave Societe Generale a mild rebuke Monday in a report that largely backs up the bank's account of how it lost $7.1 billion last month in the largest trading scandal in banking history.
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French banking giant Societe Generale said Thursday a single trader who fooled his bosses carried out a massive 4.9 billion euro (7.15 billion dollar) fraud -- one of the biggest in financial history.
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FSA warns City on risks The French software developer turned rogue trader who cost French bank SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale an estimated â¬4.9bn ($7.2bn) used co-workers' access codes to set up fraudulent transactions.â¦
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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.
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The trader accused of making fraudulent transactions that cost Societe Generale &#8364;4.9 billion ($7.2 billion) hacked computers and used "several techniques of fraud," the French banking giant says.
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French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Monday that Societe Generale, hit by $7 billion in losses from rogue trades, was under no pressure to merge with another bank as its shares plunged.
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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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Investigators were expected to question the trader in connection with a massive fraud at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale.
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A junior computer whiz at French bank Societe Generale was accused of racking up a $7 billion loss in bad bets on stocks in the biggest trading scandal in banking history.
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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.
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French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Monday that Societe Generale, hit by $7 billion in losses from rogue trades, was not under any pressure to merge with another bank.
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A rogue trader who cost France's Societe Generale bank more than $7 billion by making bad stock market bets was taken into custody on Saturday for questioning, judicial officials said.
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Societe Generale has uncovered a fraud by one of its traders which will have a 4.9-billion-euro ($7.16 billion) negative impact on the group, France's second-largest listed bank said on Thursday.
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French bank Societe Generale has lost $10bn, the bulk of which was lost through fraud by a trader.