2008 Société Générale trading loss the bank's total market capitalization. Bank officials claim that Kerviel tried to conceal the activity by creating losing trades intentionally so as to offset his early gains. According to the BBC, Kerviel generated €1.4 billion in hidden profits by the end of 2007. His employers say they uncovered unauthorized trading traced to Kerviel on January 19, 2008. The bank then closed out these positions over three days of trading beginning January 21, 2008, a period in which the market was experiencing a large drop in equity indices, and losses attributed are estimated at €4.9 billion. The bank claimed Kerviel "had
T. N. Seema Indian Languages, Mysore and Hague, Netherlands respectively. She has done many research programmes on subjects including anganwadi centres, decentralised planning, gender study manual, N.R.E.G.A. and Self Help Groups (S.H.G.) She was a teacher of Malayalam language and literature in Government Colleges from 1991 to 2008. She married G. Jayaraj on 23 December 1986. She has one daughter. T N Seema is also the Kerala State President and National Vice President AIDWA, and the State Committee Member of CPI(M) in Kerala. Seema was elected to Rajya Sabha in April 2010. As an upper house member, she was in the Standing Committee