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- Societe Generale's Fraudster Says He's a Scapegoat
- Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader at France's Societe Generale who manipulated the company's computer system to enter large unauthorized bets under someone else's name that led to $7.7 billion in losses -- the biggest financial fraud in history -- is claiming he's being made into a scapegoat for the company's...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
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- French ex-trader Kerviel faces trial for SocGen scandal
- By Sophie Louet and Estelle Shirbon of Reuters PARIS - Former French trader Jerome Kerviel, blamed by French bank Societe Generale for close to 5 billion euros ($A8.5 billion) in losses, was ordered to stand trial on Monday, his lawyer Olivier Metzner told Reuters. The 32 year-old Kerviel has been...
- News items 2009-08-31
- French court orders release of rogue trader Kerviel: prosecutor
- PARIS AFP — A Paris court on Tuesday ordered the release of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel while investigators probe his role in a multi-billion-euro scandal at Societe Generale, the prosecutor's office said. Kerviel will not be allowed leave the Paris area while the probe into the biggest ever bank...
- Research articles 2008-03-18
- Kerviel Speaks Out: Far from the Typical Rogue Trader Story
- Thomas Kirchner submits: We have been eager for a long time to hear the other side of last year’s mega losses at Société Générale (SCGLY.PK), where a lone trader allegedly gambled away EUR 4.9 billion without anyone realizing it. Having worked at a French bank for a while ourselves,...
- External links 2009-02-09
- Rogue trader named as Jerome Kerviel: Societe Generale source
- PARIS AFP — The trader behind the near five billion euro (7.15 billion dollars) fraud at French bank giant Societe Generale is called Jerome Kerviel, a source at the bank said Thursday. The source said Kerviel, who earned less than 100,000 euros a year, had been with Societe Generale...
- Research articles 2008-01-24
- French court orders release of rogue trader Kerviel: legal source
- PARIS AFP — A Paris court on Tuesday ordered the release of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel while investigators probe his role in a multi-billion-euro scandal at Societe Generale bank, a legal source said. Kerviel will not be allowed leave the Paris region while the probe continues and will have...
- Research articles 2008-03-18
- French rogue trader Kerviel released on bail
- PARIS AFP — Rogue trader Jerome Kerviel was freed on bail Tuesday while French investigators continue their probe into his role in the biggest ever bank trading scam, the prosecutor's office said. The Societe Generale trader must surrender his passport before he can leave La Sante prison and must...
- Research articles 2008-03-18
- Leeson 'thanks' fellow rogue trader Kerviel for profile boost
- HONG KONG AFP — Disgraced banker Nick Leeson, who brought down Britain's oldest bank, on Tuesday joked that the rogue trader who rocked France's Societe Generale had helped revive his profile. Leeson, whose 1.5 billion dollars of failed trading forced the closure of Barings Bank in 1995, said Jerome...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- French trader Kerviel seeks release on bail: legal sources
- PARIS AFP — The French trader charged in a 4.9-billion-euro (7.1-billion-dollar) scandal at Societe Generale bank is seeking release on bail in a request to be examined next week, legal sources said Tuesday. Jerome Kerviel, 31, has been in custody for the last month during an investigation into what...
- Research articles 2008-03-04
- Societe Generale Debacle: Losing Touch Could Mean Losing It All
- More details have emerged in the stunning $7.2 billion trading loss suffered by French bank Societe Generale, incurred at the hands of a low-level trader run amok. As the Wall Street Journal reports, trader Jerome Kerviel had been making surreptitious and high risk moves for at least a year before...
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- French rogue trader released: legal source
- PARIS AFP — A Paris court on Tuesday ordered the release of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel while investigators probe a multi-billion-dollar scandal at Societe Generale bank, a legal source said. The 31-year-old junior trader has been in detention since February 8. Societe Generale has blamed trades made by...
- Research articles 2008-03-18
- French find new hero in rogue trader who nearly broke the bank
- PARIS AFP — Many in France, where suspicion of globalisation and financial markets runs deep, have found a new hero in a young man who subverted the system and allegedly lost his bank five billion euros. For Societe Generale bank, trader Jerome Kerviel is a "crook, fraudster and terrorist"...
- Research articles 2008-01-28
- French rogue trader detained after court hearing: lawyer
- PARIS AFP — French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, whose unauthorised deals at Societe Generale cost the bank billions of euros, was taken into custody Friday after a court hearing in Paris, his lawyer said. The appeals court upheld a plea from the state prosecutor's office that Kerviel should be...
- Research articles 2008-02-08
- French court to decide next week on rogue trader's detention: source
- PARIS AFP — A Paris court will decide next week whether to keep rogue trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars while investigators probe a multi-billion-euro scandal at Societe Generale, a judicial source said Friday. Kerviel, a 31-year-old junior trader, appeared at a closed hearing on Friday to seek his release...
- Research articles 2008-03-14
- French rogue trader implicates co-workers: source
- PARIS AFP — French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel has told investigators that co-workers helped him place hidden trades that led to multi-billion-euro losses for Societe Generale, a judicial source said Monday. The detained 31-year-old trader claims he asked his assistant at the bank to record fictitious market operations, and...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- Societe Generale 'doing just fine', says chairman
- PARIS AFP — Societe Generale chairman Daniel Bouton told a parliament committee hearing on Wednesday that the French bank was "doing just fine" despite a rogue-trading scandal that led to billions of euros in losses. Bouton, who offered twice to resign over the scandal, said the bank had not...
- Research articles 2008-04-09
- SocGen trader's assistant charged with complicity: official
- PARIS AFP — The 24-year-old assistant of French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel has been charged with complicity over the multi-billion-euro losses at Societe Generale, a judicial official said Monday. The Societe Generale employee, named as Thomas Mougard, was charged on Friday with "complicity to introduce false data into a...
- Research articles 2008-08-04
- Farewell to 2008
- Tim Price submits: “A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."-Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas in the film ‘Wall Street’. First, a happy new year to all readers. There was a fitting circularity to 2008, in that...
- External links 2009-01-05
- Societe Generale's Fraudster Says He's a Scapegoat
- Societe Generale's Fraudster Says He's a ScapegoatScapegoat is the wrong descriptorWilliam,Good post. I think scapegoat is the wrong word. Scapegoat implies Mr. Kerviel is being punished for the errors of others. He is being investigated and will likely be punished for what he did. Societe Generale making it easy for...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- How Your Stuff Reveals Your True Self
- It's all too easy to give things away. While talking to executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith I begin at least four sentences with 'but' -- which means I'm discounting what has just been said and revealing a streak of impatience, he says. It's one of those...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
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