Citi has been fined £62m by UK regulators after a “fat finger” trade triggered a flash crash on the European stock market.
UK regulators slapped a combined £62 million ($79 million) fine on Citigroup Wednesday for failures in its trading systems that almost resulted in stocks worth $189 billion being dumped onto European markets.
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