Deutsche Bank made a huge mistake
Germany’s biggest lender, Deutsche Bank, accidentally sent $6bn to a client after entering the wrong numbers (June 2014)… According to the report a junior member […]
Artikel von Stefan Neuner
Boy, New York Stock Exchange escalated quickly
In just 20 minutes the New York Stock Exchange had witnessed it’s biggest stock plunge in decades. It was 6 May 2010, when the index […]
Actually I’m not even mad at AOL and Time Warners. That’s amazing
The landscape of mergers and acquisitions is littered with business flops, some catastrophic, highly visible disasters that were often hugely hyped before their eventual doom. […]
A Japanese stockbroker immediately regrets his decision
Japan avoided the biggest of all „fat finger“ meltdowns on Wednesday when an unidentified large stockbroker managed to cancel rogue trades worth more than ￡380bn. […]
You Maniacs! You blew human society up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Zuerst fürchteten wir die Tiere, die die Erde mit uns teilten. Dann, als unsere Macht wuchs, betrachteten wir sie als unseren Besitz, über den wir […]
What Associated Press got here is a failure to communicate
Yesterday, the Twitter feed of the Associated Press told us that Barack Obama had been injured in an explosion at the White House. The tweet […]
If a trader needs a friend, he gets a dog
Untersucht wurden Kooperationsbereitschaft und Egoismus von 28 Profi-Tradern. Die Probanden mussten Computersimulationen durchspielen und sich Intelligenztests unterziehen. Das Ergebnis übertraf die Erwartungen des Teams um […]
Who knows? Maybe you will survive a German Blackout
Die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines langandauernden und das Gebiet mehrerer Bundesländer betreffenden Stromausfalls mag gering sein. Träte dieser Fall aber ein, kämen die dadurch ausgelösten Folgen einer […]
LEHMAN.DECLARES.BANKRUPTCY!
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, succumbed to the subprime mortgage crisis it helped create in the biggest bankruptcy filing in history. […]
What? Fat-Finger-Error?
A Lehman Brothers trader keyed in £300m instead of £3m at the end of business on Monday and the FTSE100 lost 130 points, or a […]