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25 Feb 2011, 9:41 am by Chad Bray
A former Societe Generale trader set to be sentenced next week in the theft of the French bank’s code for its high-frequency trading business should receive up to eight years in prison, prosecutors said in court papers late Thursday. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 12:38 am by Kevin LaCroix
Judge Batts did not conclude, as did Southern District of New York Judge Richard Berman in the Societe Generale case that under Morrison even ADR transactions on a U.S. exchange are outside the ambit of the ’34 Act (about which refer here). [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 8:32 am by admin
  Albert Edwards from Societe Generale said the OECD’s leading indicators are signaling a “downturn” for Asia’s big five (Japan, Korea, China, India, and Indonesia). [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 3:30 am
As Federal District Court Justice Sweet noted, citing Dailey v Societe Generale, 108 F.3d 451, an employee who has been subject to discriminatory discharge is required to mitigate his damages.In Greenway v Buffalo Hilton Hotel, 143 F.3d 47, the Second Circuit explained that this duty means that the discharged employee ‘must use reasonable diligence in finding other suitable employment,’ which need not be comparable to [his] previous positions.Since the employer charged… [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 11:11 am
The first, you'll recall, was the recent conviction on November 24th of Samarth Agrawal for the same type of theft from Societe Generale. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 9:47 am by Christine Hurt
  According to Andrew Kirtzman's book on Madoff, neither Societe Generale or Credit Suisse would invest with Madoff's international arm because of concerns with his description of his methodology. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 7:35 am
”TCW, a unit of Societe Generale, in January accused Gundlach and several former employees who joined DoubleLine of breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition and misappropriation of confidential information and demanded more than $200 million in damages. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 7:39 am
BusinessWeek is reporting that former Societe Generale SA trader Samarth Agrawal was found guilty of stealing trade secrets related to the bank’s high-speed computer trading software.A federal court jury in New York today delivered the verdict at the end of a two-week trial. [read post]
21 Nov 2010, 11:35 pm by White Collar Crime Prof Blogger
Ratcliffe, Houston Chronicle, Testimony ends in DeLay's money-laundering trial FBI Press Release, Former Societe Generale Trader Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Stealing High-Frequency... [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 6:51 am
We're practicing law at the same time we're trying to find information for you regarding this fascinating criminal trial of Samarth Agrawal in Manhattan. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 11:42 am
We've been blogging about the ongoing criminal trial of Samarth Agrawal for a good while: http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/2010/11/societe-generale-trade-secrets-trial.html.And we wondered - if the potential new employer of the Defendant is going to testify that he showed THEM a version of what he had copied from Societe Generale in terms of active high-frequency trading code, then what is the defense? [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 2:58 am by By CHRIS V. NICHOLSON
Jerome Kerviel, the former trader who got a prison sentence and fine for making trades without Societe Generale's permission, discussed the affair with Der Spiegel. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 10:54 pm
Bloomberg is reporting that opening statements have been made in the trade secrets theft trial of former Societe Generale employee Samarth Agrawal. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 7:01 am
Attorney Daniel Levy told the judge that Agrawal was believed to have printed out between 500 to 1,000 pages from Societe Generale’s computers. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 3:30 am by By DEALBOOK
Societe Generale, the second-largest French bank after BNP Paribas, on Wednesday posted a quarterly net income of 900 million euros driven by gains in retail banking and its structured finance desk. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 5:22 pm
Reuters is reporting that prosecutors have asked United States District Court Judge Jed Rakoff to seal trial exhibits from the public, close the court to the public when the evidence addresses the nature of the bank's trade secrets, and seal certain transcripts.This is the prosecution of Samarth Agrawal, who worked with the high-frequency trade group at Societe Generale, which uses a multimillion-dollar computer system to perform sophisticated securities trading within… [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 1:33 am by By CHRIS V. NICHOLSON
Societe Generale's head of communications, Caroline Guillaumin, told French radio on Thursday that making Jerome Kerviel pay the 4.9 billion euro fine decided Tuesday by a French court was "out of the question. [read post]