SocGen rights issue seen no deterrent to predators
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A deeply discounted $8 billion rights issue from Societe Generale, seen in part as a bid by the scandal-hit French bank to remain independent, has not convinced analysts that it will deter predators.
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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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Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom said there was no danger of seeing the state lose control over the company, after a lawmaker accused a bank of helping foreigners illegally purchase Gazprom stock, sparking concern among foreign investors here.
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French bank BNP Paribas revealed on Thursday it was stalking crisis-hit Societe Generale, while voices in the European Union were raised against France for warning it would ward off hostile bids.
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The trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale is not on the run and will be questioned at an appropriate moment, the Paris prosecutors' office said on Saturday.
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French bank BNP Paribas revealed Thursday it had its eye on crisis-hit Societe Generale, while voices in the European Union were raised against France for vowing to ward off hostile bids.
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The trader alleged to have cost French Bank Societe Generale 4.9 billion euros in unauthorised financial deals was being questioned in police custody Saturday, a judicial source said.
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The trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud  at French bank Societe Generale  is not on the run and  will be questioned at an appropriate moment, the Paris  prosecutors' office said on Saturday.
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No changes in peace-keeping legislation are on the horizon. According to the security and defence report, released Friday, the Council of State will, however, take the matter into consideration so necessary ...
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Pressure mounted on Societe Generale on Monday as a prosecutor said rogue trader Jerome Kerviel was questioned about his trades in November, and as investors sued the French bank for insider trading.
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France will maintain its ban on Muslim scarves and other signs of religious belief in state schools, ignoring demands by the Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters, government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope said.
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The investment bank has no trouble keeping pace with its peers.
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Business & money: Â· Doubt cast on SocGen claim of single perpetratorÂ· Employee of financial services firm is held
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Hezbollah on Tuesday shrugged off French accusations that it was a terrorist group, without threatening to pull out of an all-party conference in France aimed at easing Lebanon&#39;s political crisis.
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U.S. regulators have not notified  Societe Generale  director Robert Day that they are  investigating the stock sales he made before the French bank  announced billions of dollars in losses by a single trader,  Day's spokesman said on Tuesday.
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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 his trades were not discovered sooner.
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A look at how Societe General's trading scandal unfolded: