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11 Dec 2009, 4:08 am
Societe Generale, one of the largest French banks, agreed to pay 676 million euros ($995 million) to Dexia to take control of the stake in consumer lender Credit du Nord it did not already own. [read post]
5 Aug 2009, 4:12 am
Société Générale beat forecasts with second quarter profits as loan quality deteriorated less than expected and its previously ailing investment banking arm came close to breaking even. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 10:25 pm
That Stanford allegedly siphoned approximately $100 million from a bank account with Societe Generale Swiss in late 2008; 3. [read post]
1 Jul 2009, 8:51 am
Laurent Key of Societe Generale told Platts LNG Daily that although the surge in LNG deliveries to the United States has not occurred as many in the industry expected, increased LNG deliveries remain possible as European gas storage inventories fill up. [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 6:50 am
Societe Generale, another big beneficiary, had $16.4 billion in notional value, and $9.5 billion in collateral. [read post]
8 Mar 2009, 6:30 am
In order, left to right and top row to bottom, they are: Morgan Stanley, RBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole, Societe Generale, Barclays, Unicredit, UBS, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Santander, Citigroup, JP Morgan, and HSBC: Update (8 March 2009): A very helpful reader, who chooses anonymity, pointed out within hours of my publishing this that the chart above is seriously misleading. [read post]
26 Dec 2008, 6:10 pm
The problems were compounded by shenanigans in the financial sector - the noted ones occurred, coincidentally, in the beginning and the end of the year - the Societe Generale derivatives trading fraud in January and the Bernard Madoff scandal in December.Although the Asian economies initially appeared immune from the crisis, they eventually became engulfed in it. [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 5:00 am
”(earlier this year, Societe Generale lost $7.1 billion due to a rouge employee investing in derivatives. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 10:41 am
Madoff's firm were so obvious, said one banker with direct knowledge of the case, that Societe Generale" didn't hesitate [to blacklist the firm]. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 9:45 am
(Societe Generale claims they saw it in 2003, this claim goes back 11 years!) [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 5:00 am
”(earlier this year, Societe Generale lost $7.1 billion due to a rouge employee investing in derivatives. [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 2:08 pm
The two banks already jointly own French investment bank Natixis, which raised $4.7bn (£2.9bn) in July to offset billion-dollar write-downs (Dziewolski and Masset advised Natixis on the capital raising as well).Two other large French banks, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, will receive roughly $5.7bn (£3.5bn) in government subsidies. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 2:41 pm
A system in which -- as happened in France this year with Societe Generale -- one bad trader could run up billions in losses and nearly break the bank is a system that isn't fault-tolerant enough. [read post]
6 Oct 2008, 11:15 am
“Societe Generale is the tenth [biggest] company on the CAC 40 and the sixth bank in the euro zone. [read post]
28 Aug 2008, 3:38 am
Fourth, a certain amount of the litigation wave involves companies domiciled (and, most likely, insured) overseas – for example, UBS, Swiss Re, RBS, RBC, Fimalac, Societe Generale, and so on. [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 5:49 pm
Another group of investors that gambled on mergers has folded, as Société Générale closed its New York arbitrage team, Bloomberg News reported. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 6:10 pm
As reported this morning on NPR’s Morning Edition, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal’s Deal Book blog, among other news sources, the firm of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, recently named as lead counsel in a securities class action against French bank Société Générale, has sent a group of lawyers across the pond [...] [read post]
19 Jun 2008, 6:51 am
The NAB board drama in 2004 following the discovery of forex losses must seem like ancient history: I was talking to a journalist recently about Societe Generale and mentioned the NAB events and he'd never heard of it! [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 11:15 am
Société Générale, the French bank, and wealth management company Rockefeller Financial Services announced a global alliance on Tuesday in the private banking sector. [read post]
15 Jun 2008, 12:38 am
An English translation of the "Mission Green" Report (pdf) concerning the fraud committed by Jérôme KERVIEL (JK), Societe Generale trader on the Turbo warrants market within SG's equity derivatives division has been published. [read post]
