SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE: SG’s equity derivatives business has bounced back from l’affaire Kerviel with new controls in place and a renaissance of its legendary inventiveness
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Sometimes kings lose their crowns. But sometimes they win them back again. That might sound like a rambling pronouncement from ex-footballer and sometime philosopher Eric Cantona but actually it’s a good way of summing up the recent history of another great French institution, Société Générale.