Societe Generale

Daniel Bouton, Societe Generale Chairman, To Resign Over Criticism

AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business


PARIS — Societe Generale chairman Daniel Bouton said Wednesday he will resign from the French bank, saying repeated attacks on him were a threat...

AIG, Toxic Assets and the Call to Personal Sacrifice

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business


Raymond J. Learsy

If there has ever been an example of "sow and ye shall reap" gone awry, it is the madcap stripping of the national treasure by those who have brought us to the edge of the cliff.

Jerome Kerviel, Alleged Rogue Trader, Got "Orgasmic Pleasure" From Playing The Market

The Independent | John Lichfield | Posted 02.23.2009 | World


The five billion euros man, Jérôme Kerviel, stepped involuntarily out of the shadows yesterday, 12 months after he became the most talked about, and...

Jerome Kerviel, Societe General Scammer: I Lost My Sense Of Reality

AP | PIERRE ANTOINE SOUCHARD | Posted 02.22.2009 | Business


PARIS — French judges questioned former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel and his former boss Thursday in possibly his last hearing in the ...

Madoff Just the Start of Post-Bubble Scandals

Diane Francis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business


Diane Francis

The $50-billion fraud, allegedly perpetrated by New York's Bernie Madoff, is a predictable outcome following the collapse of a speculative bubble. Big bubbles attract bigger crooks.

Russian Bank Loses $10 Million In Rogue Trade

New York Times | Andrew E. Kramer | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business


MOSCOW -- An equities trader at Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank, lost the company about $10 million by placing unauthorized bets on the...

Societe General Explains $7 Billion Fraud: Bad Management

AP | EMMA VANDORE | Posted 05.31.2008 | Business


PARIS — Investigators at Societe Generale SA say they suspect former futures trader Jerome Kerviel was helped by an assistant to cover up massiv...

Societe Generale Chief To Step Aside

New York Times | NICOLA CLARK | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business


Société Générale, the French bank that was rocked by a multibillion-dollar rogue trading scandal, said late Thursday that Daniel Bouton would step...

Court Frees Jailed SocGen Trader

AP | INGRID ROUSSEAU | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


PARIS — A French court Tuesday ordered the release of a Societe Generale trader accused of causing billions in losses through rogue trades. Jer...

Another SocGen Trader Taken Into Custody

AP | EMMA VANDORE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


PARIS — Investigators searched Societe Generale offices, confiscating records and taking another trader into custody Wednesday as they tried to ...

French Court Places Trader in Detention

AP | PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


PARIS — A Paris court sent French trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars Friday, while the investigation into billions of euros (dollars) of losses h...

Traders' High: How Wall Street Gets Carried Away

New York Times | Jenny Anderson | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

French Minister Says Controls Failed

AP | EMMANUEL GEORGES-PICOT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


PARIS — Controls at French banking icon Societe Generale missed or ignored suspicious activity by a trader whose dealings led to about $7 billio...

SocGen Seeks Scrapegoat For $7.1 Billion Scandal

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 03.28.2008 | Business


Senior politicians here increased calls for the resignation of top executives at Société Générale, ahead of the board's regular meeting, scheduled...

Who the $*ck is Jerome Kerviel?

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Eben Esterhuizen

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.

Hometown Boys: Tiny French Ville Drawn Into Scandal

Wall Street Journal | JOHN W. MILLER | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 Details Emerge About Massive Bank Fraud

New York Times | Nicola Clark | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The French bank Société Générale, facing persistent questions over how one junior trader could have caused more than $7 billion in losses, acknowl...

Societe Generale's Sales May Have Incited Market Plunge

New York Times | NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and NICOLA CLARK | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Rogue Trader Held in French Bank Scandal

AP | PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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,...

Societe Generale Apologizes Over Fraud

AP | EMMA VANDORE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


PARIS — The rogue futures trader who allegedly cost French bank Societe Generale $7.14 billion had been betting on an even larger scale _ with t...

French Trader Single-Handedly Orchestrated $7.14 Billion Fraud

AP | EMMA VANDORE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


PARIS — In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is a...

Vivendi Secures $5 Billion Loan

Variety | David Hayhurst | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Vivendi has secured a Euros 3.5 billion ($5.08 billion) loan to back its acquisition of controlling stakes in U.S.-based vidgame maker Activision and ...