2008 Société Générale trading loss the bank. Kerviel joined the middle offices in the bank Société Générale in the summer of 2000, working in its compliance department. In 2005 he was promoted to the bank's Delta One products team in Paris where he was a junior trader. Société Générale’s Delta One business includes program trading, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), swaps, index and quantitative trading. Bank officials claim that throughout 2007, Kerviel had been trading profitably in anticipation of falling market prices; however, they have accused him of exceeding his authority to engage in unauthorized trades totaling as much as €49.9 billion, a figure far higher than
Rogue Traders (TV programme) footage is then shown of what occurred afterwards with the trader, which include interviews with customers who had dealing with the trader and who decided to come forth on to the programme about their experience, and with investigators (mainly from Trading Standards) who investigated the trader, and found enough evidence to prosecute them for unethical, aggressive and illegal business conducts. For the latter, where the trader's trial took place, is mentioned by the host, who also states the sentence the trader received as a direct result. On 2 August 2008, a six-part spin-off show was launched called "Rogue Restaurants", where