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Kerviel states his actions were known to his superiors and that the losses were caused by panic selling by the bank. Société Générale's own wrongs were later established by a French jurisdiction, which led the Cour de cassation to cancel the €4.9 billion sanction on Kerviel. [2]
In 1913, Société Générale, by then one of the world's largest banks, decided to expand to the newly established French protectorate in Morocco and opened branches in Casablanca and Tangier. In 1923, it relocated its Moroccan head office in Casablanca from the rue des Consuls to a purpose-built building on the prestigious boulevard Mohammed ...
Société Générale S.A. (French: [sɔsjete ʒeneʁal]), colloquially known in English-speaking countries as SocGen (pronounced [sɔk ʒɛn]), [3] is a French multinational universal bank and financial services company founded in 1864. It is registered in downtown Paris and headquartered nearby in La Défense.
Jérôme Kerviel (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁom kɛʁvjɛl]; born 11 January 1977) is a French rogue trader who was convicted and imprisoned in the 2008 Société Générale trading loss for breach of trust, forgery and unauthorized use of the bank's computers, resulting in losses valued at €4.9 billion.
On 12 February 1991, Société Générale Yugoslav Bank was founded as the first bank with foreign capital to be established in former FR Yugoslavia. The bank was a joint venture between Paris -based Société Générale (75%), and the now defunct Beogradska banka (20%) and Banque Franco-Yougoslave (5%).
Societe Generale Ghana Limited (SG) is a bank that is based in Ghana, previously known as Société Générale - Social Security Bank (SG-SSB). The bank is part of the Société Générale banking group. The bank is based in Accra and its stock is listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. It is a component of the GSE All-Share Index. According to its ...
The Société Générale de Belgique (Dutch: Generale Maatschappij van België, lit. ' General Company of Belgium '; often referred to in Belgium simply as "Société Générale" or SGB) was an investment bank and, subsequently, an industrial and financial conglomerate in Belgium between 1822 and 2003.
Parsons & Whittemore Overseas Co. v. Societe Generale d L'Industrie du Papier (RAKTA), 508 F.2d 969 (1974) is a United States Circuit Court Case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that although US courts can generally decide that arbitral judgments should not be enforced for public policy reasons, that exception should be construed very narrowly.