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...didn't say anything about our trades, did you? Otherwise you're dead meat.' Jerome Kerviel, rogue Société Générale trader, talking with a broker in an Oct. 11 online chat about risky trades that are believed to have cost the bank $7.2 billion...
...didn't say anything about our trades, did you? Otherwise you're dead meat.' JEROME KERVIEL, rogue Société Générale trader, talking with a broker in an Oct. 11 online chat about risky trades that are believed to have cost the bank $7.2 billion...
...January 23rd, nobody had heard of Jérôme Kerviel. He was just another junior trader at France’s second largest bank, Société Générale. A day later, his name headlined nearly every major financial daily across the globe. Although his desk was limited to about $180 million in positions, Kerviel had forged passwords, faked control e-mails, and fabricated hedges in order to go well beyond the limit. He had learned all the necessary control tricks to pull off this feat during his time at the bank?...
...Today, several voices have called for more regulation of investment banks like Société Générale. Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School, French Socialist leader Segoléne Royal cited the Kerviel case as an example of why a sort of global regulatory central bank is needed. Royal may be right: Regulation, like good risk management, may help curb moral hazard. But this is just part of the solution...
...level trader at the French bank, Société Générale, was arrested the other day for allegedly orchestrating a $7 billion fraud. Do you see things in these kinds of stories that are painfully familiar...