Breaking the Bank: One Trader, 50 Billion (TV Series 2024-2024)

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Breaking the Bank: One Trader, 50 Billion (2024)

TV-MA Documentary, Crime

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Overview

Jérôme Kerviel – the trader who hid €50 billion in trades at a major international bank – and his former superiors reveal all sides of the scandal.

Frédéric Garson

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Series Cast

Jérôme Kerviel

Self, The trader

4 Episodes
François Hollande

Self, French president

4 Episodes
Patricia Chapelotte

Self, Communication of Kerviel

4 Episodes
Hugues Le Bret

Self, Communication of the bank

4 Episodes
Catherine Lubochinsky

Self, Economist

4 Episodes
Daniel Bouton

Self, Bank chairman

4 Episodes

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Current Season

Miniseries

2024 • 4 Episodes

Season 1 of Breaking the Bank: One Trader, 50 Billion premiered on November 29, 2024.

And Yet, It Governs Us

(1x4, November 29, 2024) Season Finale

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A review by Stanimir Kostadinov

30%

Written by Stanimir Kostadinov on November 27, 2024

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.

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