PARIS — A French court Tuesday ordered the release of a Societe Generale trader accused of causing billions in losses through rogue trades. Jer...
AP | EMMA VANDORE | Posted 03.12.2008 | Business
PARIS — Investigators searched Societe Generale offices, confiscating records and taking another trader into custody Wednesday as they tried to ...
Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business
In finance, appearances count more than facts and SocGen knew that its bad management of the trading floor was a better crisis to publicize than taking a huge hit from the subprime global meltdown.
AP | PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business
PARIS — A Paris court sent French trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars Friday, while the investigation into billions of euros (dollars) of losses h...
AP | PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business
PARIS — A Paris court sent French trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars Friday, while the investigation into billions of euros (dollars) of losses h...
New York Times | Jenny Anderson | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business
It is easy to dismiss Jérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader at Société Générale, as a fluke. So here is a sobering thought for Wall Street: There ma...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 02.01.2008 | Business
Why is the media obsessed with where Jérôme Kerviel, aka the mad trader, went to school? You can hardly pick up a newspaper account of Kerviel's she...
New York Times | http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/business/worldbusiness/30bank.html?ex=1359435600&en=78aa270f64137b8a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | Posted 01.30.2008 | Business
Senior politicians here increased calls for the resignation of top executives at Société Générale, ahead of the board's regular meeting, scheduled...
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 01.29.2008 | Business
There is no doubt that the unwinding of Kerviel's positions contributed in a big way to Monday's dramatic slump in world stock markets.
Wall Street Journal | DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS and CARRICK MOLLENKAMP | Posted 01.29.2008 | Business
Société Générale's account of how a rogue trader triggered billions of dollars in losses is coming under strain, as it emerges that his risky trad...
Wall Street Journal | JOHN W. MILLER | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business
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...
New York Times | Nicola Clark | Posted 01.27.2008 | Business
The French bank Société Générale, facing persistent questions over how one junior trader could have caused more than $7 billion in losses, acknowl...
New York Times | NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and NICOLA CLARK | Posted 01.26.2008 | 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...
AP | PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD | Posted 01.26.2008 | Business
PARIS — Police on Saturday questioned the young trader blamed for a massive fraud that cost France's Societe Generale bank more than $7 billion,...
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AP | INGRID ROUSSEAU | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business