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Still hungry for details on the man of the moment? Step right this way, sir.

As an appetiser, we’d recommend a visit to the Wall Street Weather blog, which looks at business through the prism of astrology.

Here we learn, courtesy of Deborah, that:

Jerome Kerviel was born January 11, 1977*. Although questioned by the bank over the weekend, he appears to have disappeared. Transiting Jupiter was conjoining Kerviel’s natal Mars last Friday, exposing his actions. Kerviel was born with the Sun in Capricorn in harmony with Jupiter in Taurus. This describes Kerviel as having huge ambitions to rise to the top in a banking career. Like SocGen, Kerviel has a strong Saturn/Neptune alignment, making it easy for him to set up fictious trades within the bank’s boundaries. Kerviel’s Mercury conjoins his Mars. He can act impulsively, trapping himself in his own web of deceit. With Mercury challenging Pluto, a lot of calculated thought went into how he would hide his transactions. So far the evidence appears that Kerviel did not act to personally profit from his actions, and I would concur with this.

And poor old Ben Bernanke. It turns out he made the error of cutting rates at the time of a Void Moon - not an opportune moment for making important decisions as “you usually don’t have all the facts and the results may not manifest in the way you intended.”

Something more substantial for your main? The Deal offers as today’s special the CV of Jerome Kerviel for your perusal.

KERVIEL Jerome
Jeromekerviel@hotmail.com

OBJECTIVE Reach a position as a retail listed derivative products trader, managing a volatility and Delta One book

EDUCATION
MASTERS in Finance (Organisation and Control of financial makets)
University of Lyon, September 2000

Bachelor Degree in Finance
University of Nantes, 1996 1999

WORK EXPERIENCE

Societe Generale S.A., Paris, France
Trader and Market Maker for Delta One Products
March 2004 - Today
Trading : Market making of Listed Delta One products
Including open end and closed end Turbos (Single Stocks, Index, Forex and Rate Futures), ETFs and secondary market for Certificates
ETFs structuration - Management of the collateral with Lyxor Asset Management
Development of managing tools (Excel VBA macro)
New Underlyings Study to develop the product range
Participation to the specification for the implementation of turbos to the Clickoptions platform

Societe Generale S.A., Paris, France
Trader Assistant - Basket Trading and Delta One Products
August 2002 - February 2004
Valuation and Risk Analysis explanation for Basket Trading (Single
Arbitrage book) and Delta One Products
Strategies Backtestings
Short positions hedge
Process automation and managing tools development

Societe Generale S.A., Paris, France
Middle Office - Referential Team
August 2000 - July 2002
Products modeling
Process automation
Excel macro Development for the exotic Desk
Participation to the single referential project

ACTIVITIES
Judo - 8 years practice - Trainer for children
Sailing

SKILLS
English : working language
Microsoft Office Packge - Visual Basic
Licensed for EUREX, XETRA, EURONEXT