A routine $280 payment into a customer’s account at Citigroup spiraled into an $81 trillion mistake last April, highlighting significant flaws in the bank’s operational systems. The error, which was corrected within hours,

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,

Citigroup admitted that it mistakenly credited a customer’s account to the tune of $81 trillion () Talk about a short-lived windfall! A banking customer was mistaken

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,

Citigroup nearly credited about $6 billion to a customer’s account in its wealth-management business by accident, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The near-error occurred after a staffer handling the transfer copied and pasted the account number into a field for the dollar figure,

Citigroup, Inc. C accidentally credited a client’s account with $81 trillion when it was supposed to credit only $280. This error could delay the bank’s attempt to influence regulators that it has fixed long-standing operational issues.