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28 Jan 2008, 7:26 pm
[JURIST] Alleged French "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel [BBC profile] was released on bail Monday after French judges filed preliminary charges of "breach of trust," "falsifying and using falsified documents," and "breaching IT access codes" against him relating to $73 billion worth of unauthorized trades he made while working for French bank Societe Generale [bank website]. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 6:27 am
  The unwinding of these trades has imperiled the future of Societe Generale, which only weeks earlier was named Risk Magazine's "Equity Derivative House of the Year. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 4:32 am
In a country where the hurly-burly of market capitalism has long been viewed with suspicion, Société Générale was a rare Gallic success story â€â [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 2:37 pm
[JURIST] French authorities on Sunday ordered alleged "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel [BBC backgrounder] to be held for an additional 24 hours while police investigate the $73 billion worth of unauthorized trades Kerviel made while working for the French bank Societe Generale [bank website]. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 11:55 am
This is a cross-post from the Law and Other Things blog, to which also I contribute.Riding the downward tide of the global capital markets, Indian stock prices too tumbled 1,408 points on Monday, January 21, 2008 making investors poorer by $155 billion in a single day. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 1:08 am
Riding the downward tide of the global capital markets, Indian stock prices too tumbled 1,408 points on Monday, January 21, 2008 making investors poorer by $155 billion in a single day. [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 12:14 am
Societe Generale Uncovers $7.14 Billion Fraud The Associated Press French bank Societe Generale said Thursday it has uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud -- one of history's biggest -- by a single futures trader who orchestrated a series of bogus transactions. [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 7:56 am
Update: The Financial Times said that the trader is Jérome Kerviel, a 31-year-old Frenchman who joined Société Générale in 2000. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 4:25 am
Societe Generale, France’s second-biggest bank by market value, will bail out its structured investment vehicle by taking on $4.3 billion of assets to avoid a fire sale. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 3:35 am
Perez Moya v City of New York (9 Misc 3d 332 Sup Ct, Kings County 2005)(Superintendent's knowledge of the residency of child imputed to the City); Polidori v Societe Generale Group., 236 NYLJ 112 (Sup Ct NY County 2006) (Knowledge of sexual harassment will be imputed to employer if supervisor of a sufficiently high level is aware of the harassment), affd, 39 AD3d 404 (1st Dept 2007). [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 4:57 am
Societe Generale, France’s third-largest bank, reported a 6.3 percent gain in fourth-quarter profit on higher consumer lending outside its home market and increased revenue at the investment bank. [read post]
14 Dec 2006, 5:32 am
The billionaire investor George Soros filed a claim with the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday in his bid to overturn an insider-trading conviction surrounding the 1988 purchase of shares in the French bank Societe Generale. [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 12:15 am
Societe Generale Group NEW YORK COUNTYCivil PracticeContract Suit Lacks Personal Jurisdiction; No Continuous, Systematic Business Conduct Alleged Bluman v. [read post]
24 Mar 2005, 12:16 pm
The court ruled that Soros' 1988 purchase of French bank Societe Generale SA [corporate website] stock with knowledge that the bank might be the object of a takeover bid broke insider trading laws. [read post]