Societe Generale disclosed last week that it had recorded a 45% drop in new accounts in a sign that customers are being scared away by the biggest rogue trading scandal in history. Jerome Kervial

Six months ago the junior trader, was accused of losing almost €5 billion, SoGen; France’s second largest bank said it registered 23k new French accounts in the second quarter. The figure for the same period last year was 45k;

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Across the pond, a Wall Street horror story continues to make waves.

Steven Rattner, Managing Director at Credit Suisse, resigned or got fired earlier this week after having an affair with a married woman whose nutbag husband later launched a global Internet smear campaign. (The contrite Mr. Rattner, who broke no laws and violated no corporate policy, shared his story with the NYT’s Andrew Ross Sorkin.)

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