In a hyper-competitive world where everyone strives to be the biggest, boldest and most famous, no one covets Jerome Kerviel record-breaking achieveme...
What if Facebook's all-male Board of Directors had chosen a female investment banker to head up their ill-fated IPO? What if the "London Whale" or his male boss had been a woman? What if Enron's bad boys had been girls?
I was an ETF trader at Lehman Brothers, so I had the same job as Kweku Adoboli, the UBS trader arrested recently for concealing $2 billion in losses. And I gotta tell you: it is hard to go rogue in the electronic age.
The Gordon-Gecko-of-France's sentence was pathetically short compared to the 20 years the fictional character played by Michael Douglas was ordered to serve.
The five billion euros man, Jérôme Kerviel, stepped involuntarily out of the shadows yesterday, 12 months after he became the most talked about, and...
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|Posted 05.25.2011|Business
As panic swept European markets on Monday, word spread that a big hedge fund was in trouble and dumping stocks.
Someone was selling, all right -- Soc...
Alleged rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel and his older brother grew up on a quiet cul-de-sac near rocky potato fields. Their mother cut hair in a low-ren...