Business
1 week ago
Here's a league table of 30 of the biggest trading losses of all time (excluding CDO losses post 2007).
Business
5 months ago
As we are constantly being approached by people looking to gain graduate entry into financial markets firms, we've come up with this directory.
Business
12 months ago
How dumb can you be ? Pretty dumb, it seems.
Business
1 year ago
A couple of years back, we undertook a poll of our readers to find out what they thought were the worst bank mergers of all time.
People & Firms
1 year ago
Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking announces the appointments of Christophe Coutte and David Knott as the new Co-Global Heads of Flow Fixed Income & Currencies business. Both based in London, they will report to the Global Markets management team.
Business
1 year ago
The Financial Times reports that Societe Generale CEO Frederic Oudea has bagged his first bonus since taking the helm in 2008.
Business
1 year ago
Although the Tokyo-based International Bankers Association has issued a statement signed by 16 of the biggest global banks which confirms that they are currently operating a policy of 'business as usual' in Japan, Reuters reports that foreign bankers are fleeing Tokyo 'en masse', after 'fears of a large aftershock and reports of radiation from damaged nuclear power plants' has caused further panic and accelerated the exodus from Japan's capital city.
Business
1 year ago
The New York Times DealBook column reports that a US Federal judge has 'unexpectedly' sent Sergey Aleynikov, the IT programmer found guilty in December of stealing one of the firm's proprietary trading program codes, into jail as a flight risk.
Business
1 year ago
Reuters New York reports that Samarth Agrawal, the former trader at French Bank Societe Generale who was found guilty of stealing a proprietary trading code from the bank in November, has been sentenced to 36 months in prison.