Article: Shy trader didn't fit the mold at Paris bank An ascent from clerk at Societe Generale

Nelson D. Schwartz The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
01-26-2008
Shy trader didn't fit the mold at Paris bank An ascent from clerk at Societe Generale
Byline: Nelson D. Schwartz The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 3
Section: NEWS

PARIS --

On the elite trading floors here, where France's brightest minds devise some of the most complex instruments in global finance, few people noticed Jerome Kerviel.

He was lucky to be there at all. Many of his colleagues had been plucked from the prestigious Grandes Ecoles - the Harvards and MITs of France - and wielded advanced degrees in math or engineering. Kerviel arrived from business school and started out shuffling paper in ...

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