Charles Milhaud (left), chairman of France’s Caisse Nationale des Caisses d’Epargne bank, and Philippe Dupont, CEO of French banks Natixis and Banque Populaire, leave the Elysee Palace after meeting France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy and banking and insurance chiefs in Paris in this October 6 file photo. The supervisory board of the Caisse d’Epargne met yesterday after the discovery of a 600-million euro (US$807.8 million) trading loss.—Xinhua/Reuters