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Credit Agricole SA, France’s third- largest bank by market value, reported a record fourth-quarter loss after writing down goodwill at its Italian and investment- banking businesses.
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In a locked room on the 33rd floor of Societe Generale SA’s 36-story headquarters in western Paris, members of the bank’s fraud control team peer at their computers, scrutinizing the trades being executed by dealers in eight trading rooms on the floors below.
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BNP Paribas SA, Societe Generale SA and Credit Agricole SA had their credit ratings cut by Moody’s Investors Service, which cited funding constraints and deteriorating economic conditions amid Europe’s debt crisis.
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Societe Generale SA, France’s second- largest bank, reported an 86 percent decline in third-quarter profit as losses on asset sales and a charge related to its own debt outweighed an investment-banking rebound.
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BNP Paribas SA and Societe Generale SA, France’s two largest banks, are trimming about 300 billion euros ($405 billion) off their balance sheets as Europe’s deepening debt crisis threatens to make them too big to save.
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BNP Paribas SA and Societe Generale SA, France’s largest banks, are accelerating cuts in their 1.1 trillion-euro ($1.5 trillion) trading books to avoid going to shareholders or the government for capital.
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Dexia SA’s planned breakup to protect its Belgian depositors and its municipal-lending business in France may leave little value for its shareholders.
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France’s aid to PSA Peugeot Citroen SA’s troubled finance arm brings the state’s backing for the nation’s banks to more than 60 billion euros ($78 billion).
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Belgium and France, wrestling for more than a year over the second rescue of Dexia SA, agreed on a 5.5 billion-euro ($7 billion) recapitalization of the bank and will charge the bank less for its government funding backstops.
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BNP Paribas SA, France’s largest bank, posted a smaller-than-estimated drop in second-quarter profit, helped by an accounting gain, and met its capital- boosting goal earlier than expected.
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