French move after bank scandal
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France's finance ministry calls for tighter banking controls after the Societe Generale trading scandal.
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The French rogue trader alleged to have cost his bank billions of euros is reported to be in police custody.
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A failure of internal controls at Societe Generale contributed to the bank's multi-billion-dollar rogue trade scandal, France's finance minister said Monday, calling for tougher penalties for breaches of regulations.
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The French bank offered millions of new shares to investors at a fire-sale price Monday, seeking to replace the more than $7 billion it lost in a trading scandal.
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jumped on Friday after a report that fellow French bank Credit Agricole had hired advisers to study a possible approach.
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A financial scandal prompts a resurgence of antipathy to the unrestrained profit motive that President Sarkozy had championed
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The French government is calling for tighter risk-control measures and a broad review of bank rules in response to losses from the trading scandal at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale.
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The door has been opened for a possible return to national politics for former French Prime Minister Alain Juppe. A French appeals court has cut the initial sentence handed down to Juppe for his role in a party financing scandal.
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A Paris court sent French trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars Friday, while the investigation into billions of euros (dollars) of losses he allegedly caused for bank Societe Generale took a new twist with a second employee taken into custody.
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Speculation of a British bid for Societe  Generale, in the face of French opposition to a foreign  takeover, pushed shares in SocGen up sharply on Wednesday  nearly two weeks after it was plunged into a rogue trading  scandal.
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Societe Generale laid out its defense ahead of a high-profile money laundering trial due to begin in Paris on Monday, which could put further pressure on the French bank as it grapples with the effects of a trading scandal.
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France&#39;s interior minister called it &quot;scandalous.&quot; Le Figaro called it ridiculous. But whatever you choose to call it, on Monday, four days after the police at Roissy-Charles
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French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Societe Generale followed market rules when it unwound unauthorized transactions by a rogue trader in a move that cost the bank billions, but urged tighter controls on banks in France.
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A failure of internal controls at Societe Generale was partly responsible for the multi-billion-dollar rogue trade scandal at the bank, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Monday.
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Losses caused by one trader at a French bank aren't t necessarily from an IT failure but perhaps bungled deployment.
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The French commissioner, Jacques Barrot, is facing criticism for failing to disclose a conviction for embezzlement. Mr Barrot, the Transport Commissioner, was given an amnesty for his conviction four years ago.
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Former French prime minister Alain Juppe got a new lease on his political life Wednesday when appeals judges reduced his sentence in a party financing scandal, opening the door for his possible return to office in 2007 elections.