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Could Billion Dollar Bank Scandal Happen Again? It's Happened Before.

Jerome Kerviel, the rogue French trader who allegedly lost billions for one of the world's largest banks, is reportedly now talking to French authorities at a police station in Paris. Kerviel single-handedly broke Societe General earlier this week by making bad stock market bets at a loss of $7.14 billion, and gambling tens of billions of dollars more of the bank's money, according to officials. Since news broke of the financial scandal, which helped send the banking sector into a tailspin on... Full Story
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