Citigroup mistakenly credited a customer's account with $81 trillion last year when it meant to send just $280. The payment, which took place last April, was missed by two employees but caught 90 minutes after it was posted,

Citigroup mistakenly credited a customer's account $81 trillion instead of $280 in April 2024, and multiple employees missed the mistake until it was caught by a third.

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 credited a client’s account with $81tn when it meant to send only $280, an error that could hinder the bank’s attempt to persuade regulators that it has fixed long-standing operational issues.

The customer was only meant to receive $280, but Citi instead credited their account with $81 trillion last April — which not only dramatically exceeds Citigroup’s market valuation of $150 billion, according to The New York Times,

A customer of Citigroup was given a big surprise after it had mistakenly transferred $81 trillion dollars into the customer's

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 narrowly avoided what could have been one of the largest banking blunders in history after it mistakenly credited a client’s account with $81 trillion instead of the intended $280. The Financial Times reported that the error was detected only after two employees overlooked it,

Citigroup (C) mistakenly credited $81 trillion to a customer’s account last year and took hours to reverse the transaction, The Financial Times reports. The bank was supposed to credit just $280.