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French bank BNP Paribas has surpassed analyst expectations by reporting a 45 per cent increase in the third quarter net profit thanks to investment banking earnings and after its acquisition of Belgian lender Fortis. The euro-zone's largest banking group...
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French bank Credit Agricole said it had no plans for talks on a merger with rival Societe Generale and insurer Groupama, after Le Monde newspaper reported that Agricole was studying such a deal. "Credit Agricole says it has not engaged Societe Generale...
Société Générale, the French bank, said Tuesday it planned to raise €4.8 billion, or $7.02 billion, in a rights offering to repay government bailout funds and pursue acquisitions. The moves comes just a week after BNP Paribas, the largest bank in France,...
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The bank said it would offer existing shareholders a further two shares for each nine they own, with the new stock priced at a 27% discount. SocGen has received 3.4bn euros of state aid since the end of last year to help it cope with the financial crisis.
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If there’s one key concern bothering the bosses of global banking, it’s liquidity and the battering that the image of the banking industry has taken. Frederic Oudea, who took over as chairman and CEO of Societe Generale last year, believes that the future...
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Jean-Pierre Mustier, the highflying banker who headed Société Génerale SA's investment-banking arm when the French bank was rocked by a trading scandal in 2008, is stepping down after being named in an insider-trading investigation. The inquiry by France's...
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Germany's Commerzbank has made a 809m- euro ($1bn, £716m) loss in the final three months of 2008. Chief executive Martin Blessing said the quarter was "one of the most difficult ever for Commerzbank". The bank said it made write-downs on debt and more...
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Manulife Financial Corp. said Wednesday it had settled a lawsuit against French bank Société Générale over losses from Portus Alternative Asset Management Inc., a failed Canadian hedge fund company. In March of 2007, Manulife sued Société Générale on...
Vietnam's largest partly private bank, Vietcombank, joined other big lenders in cutting loan rates on Friday but analysts doubted this would do much to lift business sentiment in an economy hit by double-digit inflation. Vietcombank is the third bank...
Tags: State Bank of Vietnam, Vietnam Bank, SeABank, government bonds, Societe Generale SA, vietnam banks, Vietcombank
Bouton defends actions in dealing with fraud Societe Generale SA chiefs faced boos and jeers at a shareholders meeting Tuesday while defending the French bank's response to one of the world's largest trading scandals, which caused a massive loss. Chairman...
Tags: Daniel Bouton, Societe Generale SA