Pressure piles on SocGen over 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 supervisors and run up a $7 billion loss.
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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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French bank Societe Generale loses billions of dollars through fraud by one of its Paris-based traders.
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PARIS, Feb. 8 -- A French futures trader was jailed Friday while investigations continued into the billions of dollars in losses he is accused of causing at Societe Generale bank.
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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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Societe Generale is in crisis, France's economy minister said on Tuesday of the bank hit by losses piled up by a rogue trader, questions over its leadership, takeover speculation and a falling stock price.
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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.
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, the French bank that earned the respect of it rivals, is now embarrassed by a rogue trader.
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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 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 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.
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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¦
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Exchange officials questioned deals by Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel in November 2007, the Paris prosecutor said on Monday, adding to pressure on the French bank to explain how the trader almost brought it down.
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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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Exchange officials warned Societe Generale about rogue trader Jerome Kerviel's deals late last year, a Paris prosecutor said, piling pressure on the French bank to explain why the trades were not discovered earlier.
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French investigators have questioned several executives at Societe Generale as part of a probe into the futures trader that the bank has blamed for billions of euros (dollars) in losses, a judicial official said Sunday.
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French bank Societe Generale , at the centre of a huge trading scandal, began investigating trades executed by junior trader Jerome Kerviel months before his unauthorized activities were exposed in January, the Financial Times reported.