Jérôme Kerviel bank a profit of US$2 billion as of 2007. Managers for Société Générale have described some of the means Kerviel employed to avoid the bank's internal controls and escape detection. Its Executive Chairman Daniel Bouton describes the pattern as like "a mutating virus" in which hundreds of thousands of trades were hidden behind offsetting faked hedge trades. Officials say Kerviel was careful to close the trades in just two or three days, just before the trades' timed controls would trigger notice from the bank's internal control system, and Kerviel would then shift those older positions to newly initiated trades. City
Rogue Trader (role-playing game) Rogue Trader (role-playing game) Rogue Trader is a role-playing game published in 2009 that uses the "Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay" system. In "Rogue Trader" (2009), the player characters are important members of ship crews in interstellar trade and exploration, often encountering xenos. In "Rogue Trader", players take the role of a Rogue Trader and their crew as they operate outside the stellar and legal boundaries of the Imperium. The book provides, among other things, rules for interplanetary commerce and spaceship operation, travel, combat, and customization. In "Rogue Trader", one player typically takes the Rogue Trader career path, representing a ship captain