Big news! Citigroup, a huge bank, almost made two giant mistakes with money! They almost gave a customer way too much money, like billions of dollars! This wasn't because of cryptocurrency, but it shows how important it is for banks to be careful with numbers.
- A bank worker accidentally put a wrong number in a computer, causing a nearly $6 billion mistake.
- This happened because they copied and pasted the wrong information.
- The bank found the mistake and fixed it, but it shows how errors can happen.
Mistake 1 | Almost gave a customer $6 billion |
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Mistake 2 (earlier) | Almost gave a customer $81 trillion (that's a really, really big number!) |
Reason | Mistakes in copying and pasting account numbers. |