Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
PARIS , Nov 10 (Reuters) - The planned trial of Jerome Kerviel over huge trading losses at French bank Societe Generale SA in 2008 is back on after he lost an appeal to delay the case, Kerviel's legal team said on Tuesday.
The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
moneyscience: Last week Jerome Kerviel, the “rogue trader”accused of losing Societe Generale €5bn,...
Webcastr (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
It was one of the biggest rogue trading scandals in banking history. The Jerome Kerviel affair rocked the world of finance last year. Now the story has inspired a stage production which is playing in Nice in the south of France.
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
France's highest appeal court has dismissed former trader Jérôme Kerviel's bid to delay his trial over massive trading losses at French lender Société Générale, which the bank says were due to unauthorised deals carried out by the then junior trader.
Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | yesterday
... won instant fame for painlessly separating bankers from their money. Unlike the last hero, Jérôme Kerviel, who lost five billion euros trading for Société Générale, Musulin seemed to have got to keep the cash. The inevitable have drawn two or three thousand fans and T-shirts are on sale on the net. "The World is Yours: Tony Best Driver 2009" says one page that has been drawing a steady flow....
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... of profits. It's enough to see the spectacular turnaround at the bank where the brilliant Kerviel traded: In three months, Société générale went from a loss of 278 million euros in the first quarter to a profit of 309 million in the second. BNP Paribas, now become the largest European bank after its swallowing of the Belgian Fortis, is announcing a profit of over 3.1 billion euros for the...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... what "risky" behaviour is? There are obvious examples – Nick Leeson at Barings and Jérôme Kerviel at Société Générale. But what about the Rumsfeldian "unknown unknowns"?Perhaps the main accusation levelled at bankers is the massive exposure by trading in complex products such as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs).When the underlying assets in these products fell in value – including...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... what "risky" behaviour is? There are obvious examples – Nick Leeson at Barings and Jérôme Kerviel at Société Générale. But what about the Rumsfeldian "unknown unknowns"?Perhaps the main accusation levelled at bankers is the massive exposure by trading in complex products such as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs).When the underlying assets in these products fell in value – including...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... cash. Read the whole thing > Join the conversation about this story » See Also: SocGen's Kerviel Is Back SocGen Rogue Trader Loses $7B, Beats Wall Street
CEOWORLD Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... Video Conferencing Software and application sharing Tools for small biz! Frederic Oudea vs Jerome Kerviel, In brief Societe Generale
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
SocGen, which was also hit last year by €5 billion of losses racked up by the allegedly unauthorised trading of Jerome Kerviel, will use €3.4 billion of the proceeds to buy back the €1.7 billion in preference shares the French state took in May and another €1.7 billion in special securities it bought in December last year.
CEOWORLD Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... French bank BNP Paribas looking for acquisitions in the coming quarters Frederic Oudea vs Jerome Kerviel, In brief Societe Generale Frederic Oudea CEO Societe Generale gone crazy: to look at acquisitions
The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Last week Jerome Kerviel, the "rogue trader"accused of losing Societe Generale €5bn, was interviewed on French TV -
