FT: The Bank had to credited to the customer for $ 280 – the account was taken to the account with $ 81,000 billion

American Last year, Citigroup transferred $ 81,000 billion (about $ 78,000 billion) to the customer’s account last year, with the intention of sending only $ 280.

The error is reported by the British Magazine Financial Times on the basis of anonymous sources. The magazine has also seen an internal report related to the bank’s error.

Incorrect wire transfer took place in April last year. It was not noticed by a bank clerk or another officer who was responsible for checking the events until the bank transfer was completed the next banking day.

The error was noticed only by the third bank worker when he drew attention to the problem in the bank’s account balance. He noticed an incorrect bank transfer one and a half hours after it was implemented.

The payment was finally canceled several hours later, the sources tell FT.

Citigroup Report the event to the US Central Bank and the Banking Authorities in the country.

According to the bank, it was a feed error and the error was due to a backup system with a difficult interface. One of the strangers of the system is that several zeros have been pre -filled in the sum field of wire transfers. They should be removed before starting to make wire transfers.

The bank said it would seek to continue working to eliminate manual processes and increase automation.

According to the bank, the event had no effect on it or the customer.

Citigroupille According to a bank report, a total of ten similar “near -kept” errors occurred last year, where it was finally able to recover the assets that had been transferred in the wrong bank transfer.

The following year the corresponding figure was 13. In these wire transfer, funds were mistakenly transferred to each more than $ 1 billion.

US banks do not have to report near miss errors to the authorities of the country, so there is no comprehensive information about their extent. According to FT, error transfers of more than a billion dollars are unusual.