Citigroup mistakenly credits customer account $81 trillion in "near miss", FT reports
Citigroup erroneously credited $81 trillion, instead of $280, to a customer's account and took hours to reverse the transaction, a "near miss" that shows up the bank's operational issues it has sought to fix,
Citi Accidentally Credits Client Account With $81 Trillion: FT
Citigroup Inc. erroneously credited $81 trillion to a customer’s account instead of $280 last April before reversing the transaction hours later, according to the Financial Times.
Citigroup Briefly Makes Customer the Richest Person in History With Mistaken $81 Trillion Transfer
Last year, an employee at Citigroup accidentally initiated a fund transfer to a customer’s account that would have made them the wealthiest person in the history of human existence. The incident, which took place last April,
Citi mistakenly credits $81 trillion to customer’s bank account
(CNN) – Citigroup made a costly error before reversing course. The bank accidentally credited a customer’s account with $81 trillion instead of $280. It quickly reversed the transaction within a few hours. CBS News reports this happened last April.
Citigroup Mistakenly Transfers $81 Trillion to Customer Account
A customer of Citigroup was given a big surprise after it had mistakenly transferred $81 trillion dollars into the customer's
Citi Copy-Paste Error Almost Sent $6 Billion to Wealth Account
Citigroup Inc. almost shifted about $6 billion to a customer’s account by accident after a staffer handling the transfer copied and pasted the account number into a field for the dollar figure.
Citi copy-paste error almost sent $6 billion to a customer’s account by accident
Citigroup nearly transferred $6 billion to a customer by mistake due to a copy-paste error, shortly after another error of $81 trillion. The error was reported to regulators and provoked frustration within the company.
Citigroup Nearly Made $6 Billion Transfer Error Due to Copy-Paste Mistake
Citigroup (NYSE:C) nearly transferred $6 billion to a customers account in its wealth-management division due to a copy-paste error, Bloomberg News reported. The mistake happened when a staff member accidentally pasted
Citigroup Makes (and Then Fixes) an $81 Trillion Mistake
The bank temporarily credited a customer’s account with trillions of dollars, adding to scrutiny of risk management systems ...
Citi’s $81 trillion mixup underscores the risks of manual accounting
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Citigroup Almost Made an $81 Trillion Mistake
Citigroup accidentally moved to transfer $81 trillion to a customer. Yes, trillion. A bank employee mistakenly entered the ...
Citi's latest blunder: an $81 trillion 'inputting error'
No money left the bank, but the "inputting error" came amid CEO Jane Fraser's efforts to convince regulators she's fixing the ...
An $81 Trillion Banking Blunder at Citigroup
Citigroup’s latest $81 trillion blunder is a sad reminder of just how vulnerable even the world’s largest financial players ...
A $280 transfer turns into $81 trillion because of bank error
The Financial Times reports Citigroup was supposed to credit a client’s account with a $280 transfer. Somehow it turned into ...
Citi bungle briefly credits client’s account with $81 trillion — instead of $280
Citigroup credited $81 trillion to a customer’s account, instead of just $280, and took hours to reverse the transaction — an ...
Citigroup’s $81 trillion mistake is a warning ‘that operational risk is still a ticking time bomb in banking,’ expert says
It took three employees and several hours for Citigroup to realize it credited a customer account with $81 trillion instead ...