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For Reeling SocGen, the Taxman Cometh

Rogue trader won big in '07, and the bank could owe a bundle

(Newser) - As if the $7.17 billion Societe Generale lost at the hands of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel wasn’t enough pain for the French banking giant, it’s now looking at losing another chunk of change—this time to the taxman, reports the Wall Street Journal. Investigators say Kerviel earned...

Pressure on for SocGen Heads to Roll

Bank finally calls in auditors to probe $7B scandal

(Newser) - Independent auditors have been called in to examine events leading up to Société Générale's $7 billion trading scandal—and the jobs of some top executives are on the line, reports the Financial Times. The bank's head of corporate and investment banking will have to answer tough questions...

Breakup Rumors Swirl Around SocGen
Breakup Rumors Swirl Around SocGen
Jan 29, 2008 12:11 PM CST

Breakup Rumors Swirl Around SocGen

Fraud-plagued French bank may be too big for single bidder

(Newser) - Wounded Société Générale is looking more and more like a takeover target, prompting France's prime minister to jump into the fray today and say the government would defend the country's second-largest bank against hostile raids, the Wall Street Journal reports. With a $7.1 billion loss from...

Bank Was Warned About Rogue Trader
Bank Was Warned About Rogue Trader
Jan 29, 2008 3:19 AM CST

Bank Was Warned About Rogue Trader

Prosecutor says Kerviel was after a big bonus with mammoth trades

(Newser) - The Eurex stock exchange alerted Société Générale to positions held by Jérôme Kerviel months before the bank discovered his staggering $7 billion fraud, the Independent reports. Kerviel produced fake documents to justify his actions to the bank and was motivated by a drive to impress...

SocGen Trader Charged, Faces 7 Years

Kerviel didn't siphon off a cent, wanted to be 'a stand-out trader'

(Newser) - Jérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader who cost France's third-largest bank over $7 billion, was charged with attempted fraud by French authorities today, Bloomberg reports. Abuse of trust, the most serious of four charges, carries a potential 7-year sentence and $1.5-million fine. Police want him kept in custody,...

From Rogue Trader to Left-Wing Hero
From Rogue Trader to Left-Wing Hero
Jan 27, 2008 7:48 AM CST

From Rogue Trader to Left-Wing Hero

SocGen worker defended by family, strangers, Communists

(Newser) - For a man who nearly sank one of the largest and most venerable banks in France, rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel has certainly won a lot of support, writes the Observer. In a country that remains weary of so-called "Anglo-Saxon" business models, the Société Générale...

Rogue Trader in Police Custody
Rogue Trader in Police Custody
Jan 26, 2008 9:37 AM CST

Rogue Trader in Police Custody

Acquaintances paint portrait of Jérôme Kerviel as traumatized, desperate

(Newser) - Rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel is in the custody of French police today, the BBC reports, being held for questioning on the fraudulent trading scheme that cost Société Générale $7 billion. Police searched his flat in an upscale Paris neighborhood yesterday, leaving with a number of...

From Clerk to Rogue Trader to Facebook Laughingstock

SocGen fraudster's woes include poking

(Newser) - You don’t need a fancy education to lose $7.2 billion and become an Internet laughingstock. In the clubby world of French banking, Société Générale traders are usually the Gallic equivalent of Ivy League MBAs, but Jérôme Kerviel, a lowly biz school grad, worked...

Did SocGen Crash the Markets and Dupe the Fed?

Massive sell-offs might have exacerbated Monday's losses

(Newser) - When Société Générale execs uncovered the scale of rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel's fraud last weekend, they had no choice but to unwind his positions. And while they did warn French regulators, SocGen kept the Monday sell-off under wraps, to avoid even bigger losses than the...

'Rogue Trader' Identified, But Still on Loose

'Malicious' 31-year-old massively defrauded SocGen, did not benefit

(Newser) - Jérôme Kerviel, a trader at Société Générale, is the man who lost the French bank $7.2 billion in fraudulent trades, using an "intimate and malicious" knowledge of bank procedure to cover his tracks, the Wall Street Journal reports. The 31-year-old Kerviel got no...

SocGen Fraud Dominates Davos Talks
SocGen Fraud Dominates Davos Talks
Jan 24, 2008 12:43 PM CST

SocGen Fraud Dominates Davos Talks

Forum delegates worry about effects on trust in financial sector

(Newser) - The revelation of enormous fraud by a rogue trader at Société Générale pushed other issues aside today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, CNBC reports. A panel on sovereign wealth funds turned into an impromptu discussion on repercussions of the $7.3 billion cover-up. The...

SocGen Fraud: How Did One Man Lose $7B?

Low-level trader went past remit, covered up losses with fake trades

(Newser) - Société Générale has not named the trader responsible for the largest bank fraud in history—which caused the bank to announce a $7.16 billion writedown today—but the Telegraph reports that his responsibilities were modest. He took out "plain vanilla" futures on the European equities...

SocGen Admits Biggest Ever Bank Fraud of $7.3B

Finance world reacts with disbelief at scale of deception

(Newser) - One of the world's largest banks has admitted epic-scale fraud by a rogue trader that has led to $7.3 billion in losses. French banking group Société Générale had to issue nearly $8 billion in emergency shares after the announcement of "serious" illegal activity by an...

Even the Real Economy Isn't This Bad
Even the Real Economy Isn't This Bad
Jan 23, 2008 12:18 PM CST

Even the Real Economy Isn't This Bad

'Second Life' bank shutdown causes all-too-real investor run

(Newser) - The subprime crisis has nothing on the economic implosion hitting Second Life’s virtual economy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Linden Labs has shut down most of the banks in its online game, cutting users off from real-life cash they'd invested. That caused a very real bank run, with avatars...

Bad Credit? Buy a Piece of Someone Else's

Company boosts scores by adding names to paid-off loans

(Newser) - Americans struggling with bad credit records may have a new route to a better score: For as little as $1,199, a San Diego company is offering the chance for customers to add their names to already-paid-off loans in order to boost their rating, the Los Angeles Times reports. The...

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