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Mikhail Vnuchkov

28.02.2025

Citigroup mistakenly credits client account $81 trillion — Citigroup misfires with $81 trillion credit to client account

Citigroup Inc. mistakenly credited $81 trillion to a customer’s account last April — a far cry from the intended $280 — exposing ongoing operational vulnerabilities at the bank.

Although the error was quickly reversed with no funds leaving the bank, the incident drew attention from U.S. regulators. The mistake went undetected by both the payments employee who processed the transaction and a second official assigned to verify it, reports Financial Times.

It was only after an hour and a half that a third employee spotted the discrepancy. The issue was eventually corrected several hours later. Citigroup disclosed the incident — classified as a "near miss" — to the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

Recurrent Operational Weaknesses

Despite Citi’s assurance that its “detective controls” effectively identified and corrected the error without impact on the bank or client, the incident underscores broader operational concerns. According to an internal report cited by FT, Citi experienced 10 near-miss incidents involving sums of $1 billion or more in 2023, a slight improvement from 13 such cases the previous year.

These operational lapses come as Citi struggles to address regulatory issues around risk management and data governance. The bank has faced significant penalties, including a $136 million fine last July for insufficient progress in resolving these matters and a $400 million fine in 2020 for similar failures.

Citi’s Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason acknowledged last month the need for increased investment in compliance infrastructure, particularly in data management and regulatory reporting. “We saw the need to invest more in the transformation on data, on technology, on improving the quality of the information coming out of our regulatory reporting,” Mason said.

Reminder, AI infrastructure provider Together AI has raised $305 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst and Saudi Arabia’s Prosperity7 Ventures, bringing the company’s valuation to $3.3 billion.

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