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Title	Forgotten IT chores may have led to bank meltdown
Type	News
Source	IDG News Service 02/04/2008
Summary	The losses caused by one trader at the French bank Société Générale don't necessarily point to a failure of its IT systems but perhaps bungled deployment. continue

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