https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-...
Recipients of Citigroup Inc.’s $900 million error couldn’t help but mock the bank -- and that could help it get the money back.
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“I feel really bad for the person that fat-fingered a $900 million payment,” a vice president at HPS Investment Partners told another executive the day after the Aug. 11 transfers, according to an excerpt highlighted in court. “Not a great career move.”
https://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/f...
The flash crash had nothing to do with a fat-fingered trade
https://www.latimes.com/nation/ct-british-pou...
The British pound endured one of its biggest falls ever on Friday — with some in the markets blaming trading robots or a fat-fingered typo for sending the currency down a precipitous 6 percent in just a couple of minutes.
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Various reasons have been cited for the drama involving one of the world’s oldest currencies. Some say a trader made a “fat finger” mistake while typing in a market order.