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Financial Institutions' Risk Management Systems Are Challenged by Corporate Culture and Human Nature Risk management, or maybe the lack of it, already has become the story of the year in financial services.   |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
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Kerviel Says He Was 'Moronic' and Innocent Societe Generale had many chances to stop Kerviel, but that may not protect him from a guilty verdict. The former SocGen trader argues that his superiors encouraged him and looked the other way. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2011
Cliff D'Arcy |
Rogue Trader Loses UBS $2 Billion Switzerland's banking giant admits to an unauthorized loss of nearly 1.3 billion pounds! |
Wall Street & Technology
February 19, 2008
Larry Tabb |
Societe Generale-Type Fraud Could Happen Again The scary thing is, what happened at Societe Generale could happen at virtually every bank and brokerage firm. So how was the fraud committed, and what can we learn from it? |
Wall Street & Technology
February 12, 2008
Melanie Rodier |
Societe Generale Fraud: A Timeline of Events Read on for a timeline of the events in mid-January 2008 that lead to the discovery of Jerome Kerviel's fraudulent activities at Societe Generale. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 11, 2008
Melanie Rodier |
Is the Risk Manager to Blame for the Subprime Crisis and the Societe Generale Scandal? In the aftermath of the credit crisis and the Societe Generale scandal, the spotlight has fallen on the risk manager. But should we really be pointing the finger at this crucial, but often unpopular, figure? |
Bank Technology News
April 1, 2008
Anthony Malakian |
Internal Controls Need To Be Tightened Robert Jones, author of the whitepaper, "When Bad Things Happen to Good Banks," speaks with Bank Technology News about how banks can better manage their internal controls and technology initiatives to avoid being the next big blow up. |
BusinessWeek
May 6, 2010
Carol Matlack |
Societe Generale Tries to Stage a Comeback The French bank just announced its best quarter in two years, but it's still burdened by toxic assets. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Randall Dodd |
Playing with Fire Firms across the spectrum of emerging markets entered into exotic derivative contracts that caused massive losses |
Wall Street & Technology
May 29, 2008
Melanie Rodier |
The Need for Holistic Fraud Management Recent incidents prove that firms must take a holistic approach to risk management in order to effectively detect and prevent fraud. |
Bank Technology News
August 2010
Chris Kentouris |
Tech that Could Have Caught SocGen's Rogue One way to stop a rogue traders in their tracks involves monitoring unexplained changes in an individual's behavior or from the controlled norm by analyzing the emails, other digital communications and electronic records for their content as well as their broader context. |
BusinessWeek
October 15, 2009
David Henry |
Banks: Pain Now, Profits Tomorrow By recognizing loan losses preemptively, companies are setting the stage for better earnings next year. |
Bank Technology News
June 1, 2008
Rebecca Sausner |
SocGen Loss Lights a Fire Under Execs Financial services firms around the globe are now scrambling to examine their employee fraud detection processes and practices, and turning to the handful of tech vendors in the space to bring them up to speed. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Kamil et al. |
A Hedge, Not a Bet Latin American companies used new techniques to protect against currency swings. But a few used them to gamble -- and they lost big. |
The Motley Fool
March 15, 2011
Cliff D'Arcy |
Revisiting the 1995 Kobe Earthquake Just 16 years ago, Japan dealt with a tragic earthquake that caused mass casualties and crippled the economy. What can we learn from the country's response back then? |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
Carol Matlack |
A French Bank Hits The Road Societe Generale is fast becoming a European consumer-banking power. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Schmidt & Brush |
Will Currency Derivatives Get a Pass on Oversight? Banks want them exempted. Geithner is caught between bankers and regulators on how much oversight to give currency derivatives. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Pallavi Gogoi |
Back to the Futures in Chicago The Windy City's currency market, left for dead, is thriving again. |
InternetNews
July 18, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
FBI: Online Crime Losses Down, Attacks Up A new study from the FBI and the Computer Security Institute cites a dramatic drop in average losses from cybercrime, but a rise in web site incidents and unauthorized access incidents. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 24, 2006 |
Get Yer Red-Hot Derivatives Here! The derivatives market is heating up, and IT spending on derivatives management will experience a steady increase over the next four years, according to a new study. |
U.S. Banker
May 2002 |
Sumitomo Settlement Could Be An Ill Omen Considering the size of the fraud on Sumitomo Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. seems to have gotten off cheap... |
Entrepreneur
July 2003
Scott Bernard Nelson |
Can't Win for Losing A mutual fund tax quirk limits your capital losses. |
CFO
June 1, 2005 |
Throwing In the Towel Outback's CFO is mad as hell... A rogue trader's new job... CFOs on the move... |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2005 |
Investing in Rising Losses Should companies reporting increased losses per share be avoided? If you're nervous about a company with losses or increasing losses, then steer clear. Or study the company closely to see why it's losing money. |
BusinessWeek
May 28, 2007
Frederik Balfour |
Can China Defuse Its Stock Market? Index futures might create stability, but Beijing fears they could prick the bubble. |
U.S. Banker
July 2006
Michael Dumiak |
For Victims of ID Fraud, Losses are Not the Same Age, income and ethnicity factor into who is most vulnerable to identity fraud. The demographics of ID fraud are a call to action for institutions to analyze the trends closely so they can better educate customers. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2011
Isac Simon |
Oil Companies Rocked by Violent Derivative Exposure These contracts have seemingly altered the bottom lines of mid-cap oil stocks, but do they really affect companies' performance? |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2011
Selena Maranjian |
How to Profit From Losses Offset your taxable gains and wipe out lots of taxes. |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
U.S. Banker
February 2006 |
ID Theft Insurance: Community Banks Seek To Protect Themselves Banks are taking out new insurance policies to protect themselves against the financial losses stemming from identity fraud. |
Reason
February 2004
Callahan & Kaza |
In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth. |
U.S. Banker
July 2005
Holly Sraeel |
Want to Make a CEO Wince? Talk About Fraud. When bankers refer to fraud in public, it often comes off as if the theft does not involve a human being. Behind the financial losses and data breaches are people-on both sides of the problem. |
The Motley Fool
September 4, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Another Reason Not to Day Trade Day traders, don't try to pull a fast one on the IRS. |
