No surprise here: The Insider Richard
================================================================================== http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3242996.ece Jerome Kerviel named in €5bn bank trading fraud Jerome Kerviel has been named as the Societe Generale rogue trader who allegedly lost the bank €4.9bn in a huge scandal The French bank Société Générale stunned financial markets today by revealing that it had been the victim of a near-€5 billion (£3.7 billion) rogue trading fraud, one of the world's largest and four times the size of the cover-up by Nick Leeson, the man who sank Barings. The bank declined to identify the trader, but he has been named as Jérôme Kerviel, a 31-year-old options trader. "He is not here and we do not know when he will be back," said a colleague who answered his line at the bank's trading room in La Défense, the business district west of Paris. .... _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
