2008 Société Générale trading loss 2008 Société Générale trading loss In January 2008, the bank Société Générale lost approximately €4.9 billion closing out positions over three days of trading beginning January 21, 2008, a period in which the market was experiencing a large drop in equity indices. The bank states these positions were fraudulent transactions created by Jérôme Kerviel, a trader with the company. The police stated they lacked evidence to charge him with fraud and charged him with breach of trust and illegally accessing computers. Kerviel states his actions were known to his superiors and that the losses were caused by panic selling by
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