The FINANCIAL -- According to Dow Jones, the top five U.S. broker-dealer banks have a combined $23 billion (EUR15.7 billion) in uncollateralised exposures to AAA counterparties, part of which is with monoline bond insurers that have been weakened by the sub-prime mortgage

The FINANCIAL -- Societe Generale said on January 27 that a trader who evaded all its controls to bet $73.5 billion — more than the French bank's market worth — on European markets hacked computers and "combined several fraudulent methods" to cover