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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Exchange officials warned Societe Generale about Jerome Kerviel's deals late last year, a Paris prosecutor said, piling pressure on the French bank to explain how his rogue trades were not uncovered earlier.
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France's Societe Generale says fraud was hidden using "sophisticated and varied techniques."
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Europe is rapidly becoming a dirty word in French politics as fears grow that France&#39;s influence in the European Union is waning.
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Societe Generale faces growing  embarrassment after it emerged the French bank was warned last  year about the suspect activities of Jerome Kerviel and its key  fraud accusation against the 31-year-old trader collapsed.
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France's finance minister said he would use a visit to Berlin on Thursday to iron out "misunderstandings" over his interventions to protect French companies, which have irked German politicians and business leaders.
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Societe Generale, the French bank reeling  from a rogue trading scandal, launched a rights issue at a  steep discount on Monday, aiming to raise 5.5 billion euros  ($7.97 billion) to bolster its balance sheet.
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French transport commissioner Jacques Barrot is under pressure to explain to MEPs why he did not mention his involvement in a French political party funding 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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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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Societe Generale was warned about alleged rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last year, a prosecutor says.
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French bank Societe Generale disclosed one of the biggest alleged frauds in financial history on Thursday, adding to a wave of gloom surrounding world markets battered by credit market losses.
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French bank Societe Generale faced tough questions on Friday over how it failed to spot the biggest dealing scandal in history in which a lone trader triggered a $7 billion loss under the noses of top executives.
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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.
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A look at how Societe General's trading scandal unfolded:
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The French government piled pressure Tuesday on Societe Generale chairman Daniel Bouton over the handling of unauthorised deals by a junior trader which ended in 7.1 billion dollars of losses.
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French investigators were set to question accused rogue trader Jerome Kerviel for a third day Monday before deciding whether to release or place him under formal investigation over an alleged seven-billion-dollar fraud at Societe Generale.