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"Black Monday" Triggered By Rogue Trader in France ?

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"Jerome Kerviel, 31, was the trader responsible, the Paris- based bank said today. Societe Generale plans to raise 5.5 billion euros from shareholders after the loss and subprime- related writedowns depleted capital. The Bank of France, the country's banking regulator, is investigating the alleged fraud." - Bloomberg

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Just heard this outside ...."didn't you hear the news last night ?"

The employee, who moved to the trading floor from the back office in 2006, helped with the investigations throughout the weekend, said Mustier, who didn't identify the trader and said he doesn't know where he is now.

The trader didn't enrich himself from the fraudulent trades, which began in early 2007, and his motivations are unclear, Bouton said at the press conference.

'Breached' Controls

He ''breached five levels of controls,'' Christian Noyer, the governor of the Bank of France, said at a press conference today. He described the trader as ''a computer genius'' and said he was told he was ''on the run.''

Could this be the explanation for monday's crash ?

 

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??? by Tony Forest on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 4:30:13 AM
typo by Tony Forest on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 4:33:39 AM
??? by Tony Forest on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 8:05:21 AM
If you follow Chaos Theory... by waldopaper on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:14:48 AM
??????? by reasonableperson on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 4:06:25 PM
my thoughts exactly by Patrick Henry on Friday, Jan 25, 2008 at 6:56:11 PM
????? by Tony Forest on Saturday, Jan 26, 2008 at 4:59:08 AM
Interesting by reasonableperson on Saturday, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:47:10 PM