Societe Generale SA is hiring 5,500 staff in France this year, according to the Financial Times.
The bank looks like it is making a comeback from last January's rogue trading scandal courtesy of Jerome Kerviel. The scandal cost the bank $7.2 billion, but now even Kerviel has begun the recovering process. He has since been hired by computer consulting firm Lemaire Consultants & Associates. - Maria Woehr
Inside The Deal: Linklaters' Schmidt says how regulators handled Pfizer Inc.'s acquisition of Wyeth is an outlier of how others merger reviews will be conducted.
