Jérôme Kerviel SocGen's stance in his case, Kerviel met with Pope Francis outside the Vatican on 19 February 2014, and undertook a pilgrimage from Rome to Paris against the "tyranny of the markets". On 8 September 2014, Kerviel was released from Fleury Merogis prison, having served less than five months of detention. He was to begin a job with an IT consultancy firm. Jérôme Kerviel Jérôme Kerviel (; born 1977) is a French trader who was convicted in the 2008 Société Générale trading loss for breach of trust, forgery and unauthorized use of the bank's computers, resulting in losses valued at €4.9
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974 Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974 Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-463) created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to replace the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Exchange Authority, as the independent federal agency responsible for regulating the futures trading industry. The Act made extensive changes in the basic authority of Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, which itself had made extensive changes in the original Grain Futures Act of 1922. (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.). The H.R. 13113 legislation was passed by the 93rd U.S. Congressional session and signed into law by the 38th President of