
1 Season
4 Episode
Breaking the Bank: One Trader, 50 Billion - Season 1 Episode 1 Just One Man
On January 24, 2008, French bank Société Générale announces a sudden loss of €4.9 billion, leading to an investigation of trader Jérôme Kerviel.
- Year: 2024
- Country: France
- Genre: Documentary, Crime
- Studio: Max
- Keyword: france, banker, interview, based on true story, portrait, legal battle, media coverage, trader, bank fraud, expert opinion, media & politics, finance trading, financial fraud
- Director:
- Cast: Jérôme Kerviel
On January 24, 2008, Société Générale, one of the largest French banks, caused an earthquake by announcing a loss of 4.9 billion euros, linked to fraud by one of its traders, then unknown. From the initial shock to the media-judicial saga that followed, the series "Kerviel: a trader, 50 billion" retraces in 4 episodes of 45 minutes the key events of this story that has become a symbol of the excesses of finance.