A former Societe Generale trader who was fired for unauthorized risky bets has lambasted the French bank for making him a “scapegoat” and failing to take its share of responsibility for missing the trades. Kavish Kataria, who was dismissed from the bank’s Delta One desk last year, said the profits and losses on his trades were reported on a daily basis to superiors on his Hong Kong team as well as those in the Paris head office, while a daily email about the transactions was also sent out. “Instead of taking the responsibility of the lapse in their risk system and not identifying the trades at the right time they ... (full story)