SocGen chairman's fate in balance as board meets
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The board of Societe Generale met on Wednesday to decide the fate of its chairman after rogue trading losses as fellow French bank BNP Paribas ducked questions on whether it would bid for its wounded rival.
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Speculation of a British bid for Societe Generale, in the face of French opposition to a foreign takeover, pushed shares in SocGen up sharply on Wednesday nearly two weeks after it was plunged into a rogue trading scandal.
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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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Societe Generale came under mounting pressure on Friday to give a full account of how a rogue trader managed to dupe his bosses and run up a $7 billion loss -- while his family said he had been made a scapegoat.
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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.
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Lazard's board was meeting in Paris on  Tuesday to consider a share sale that could end more than 150  years of private ownership at the largest remaining independent  investment bank and buy out its founding families.
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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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Lazard was readying itself for a tense board meeting to decide the future of the company yesterday as in-fighting put a planned flotation at risk.
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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 was expected to decide on Wednesday whether to ditch its chairman in the wake of rogue trading losses, with the future of France's second-biggest listed bank at stake as the government warned off predators.
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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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France's top bank BNP Paribas is "thinking" about a possible takeover of its rival Societe Generale, rocked by multi-billion-euro rogue trade losses, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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The trader alleged to have cost French Bank Societe General 4.9 billion euros in unauthorised financial deals was being questioned in police custody Saturday, a judicial source said.
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The junior trader blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at French bank Societe Generale faced a second day of questioning by finance police on Sunday.
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The man at the center of a trading scandal at Societe Generale said that his activities could not have gone undetected by the French bank.
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French bank Societe Generale described Sunday how one of its traders allegedly carried out a $7.2 billion (&#8364;4.9 billion) fraud, how the loss came to light and what it is doing to ensure such a case does not recur.
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French police were set Sunday to continue questioning accused rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, who investigators said wants to explain his role in the seven billion dollar loss at Societe Generale.