Société Générale loss, that same day two credit rating agencies reduced the bank's long term debt ratings: from AA to AA- by Fitch; and from Aa1/B to Aa2/B- by Moody's (B and B- indicate the bank's financial strength ratings). Executives said the trader acted alone and that he may not have benefited directly from the fraudulent deals. The bank announced it will be immediately seeking 5.5 billion euros in financing. On the eve and afternoon of January 25, 2008, Police raided the Paris headquarters of Société Générale and Kerviel's apartment in the western suburb of Neuilly, to seize his computer files. French
Galactic Trader Galactic Trader Galactic Trader is a multiplayer, text-based, space trading video game for the OpenVMS platform. "Galactic Trader" was created in the early 1980s by Stephan Meier. Meier released five major versions, with the final release being 5.33 on February 6, 1992. "Galactic Trader" is a space-based commodities trading game which shares many ideas with the personal computer game "Elite", such as the hostile Thargoid race, player ranks, and the names and descriptions of some ships and equipment. In the most commonly encountered version, 4.55, the player begins as a trader with 200,150 credits, enough to buy a basic trading